Mega Champ

This is my first update regarding mine affiliate marketing Journey. My target was to make atleast 2 sales in first month. But i fell one short and was able to make only one sale. That’s understandable as I was neck deep in studying on how things go around in Affiliate Marketing and didn’t got much time to put some of the learnings into play. But this month is seriously unforgivable, this month I have to atleast 10 sales with 1 from past month.

So, 11 sales in total, thats my minimum for this month.

Some statistics for June:

Offers Promoted : 3 excluding one Lead offer
Money Spent On Advertising : 60$ all on media buying, no ppc marketing involved.
Total Sales Made : 1
Money Earned : $80
Total Profit : $20

Well I am not at all impressed with the results and have to gear up for this month and to have some good amount of sales to increase the profits.

Why I am sharing the details, well if you(reader) are also new to affiliate marketing, join me in the journey we can help each other to grow. And if you (reader) are already a established affiliate marketer I would really appreciate, if some tips and tricks of the trade can shared .

UPDATE : No more earnings updates until I have something to show some respectful amount

As mentioned earlier its my first stint of affiliate marketing and I have been reading a lot and I mean a “LOT”. And believe me when i say, people are doing all kinds of crazy stuff to get more sales, more clicks, traffic.

The line between black hat,white hat, grey hat is kind of thin here. I won’t be naming anyone but one thing is sure, it is little difficult to compete with these guys. Its not like you won’t be successful even after doing all your hard work, you certainly will but it will take “TIME” cos seriously, as you are going by the book of rules.

Book of rules will stand for the usual stuff like if you want to promote a offer then :
1. Choose a niche you want to work on.
2. Prepare Landing pages
3.Write articles,submit to article directories and wait for them to get accepted.
4. Do some PPC marketing
5. Find some long tail keywords for your niche and try to capitalize on that.
6. Wait for results to pour in.

The dark side

1.Choose around 100 niche
2. Buy a vps server.
3. Scrape everything related to your niche from websites, feeds and what not, store it in database.
4. Modify the content here and there with a script obviously like replacing some common used words with their synonyms.
5. Put the offers in the content you are promoting.
6. Run a script and set up 100’s of wordpress blogs for eah keyword in your niche with the content stored in database you earlier scraped.
7. And let the money flow

So, what do we understand from this is that, results will be instant in the “dark side” steps and probably you will have to wait for results in the white hat techniques.

Well which side to choose??? In my personal opinion, you should do a mix of both, some white some dark and see what works for you. And also it depends on upto which extent you are ready to go to have success in affiliate marketing.

Well its my strategy, might not appeal to all. If you are into affiliate marketing and specially a newbie in that like me, you will notice that each n every niche your pick up is already filled to its core. Which “SHOULD” make you think how will I earn money in between all these super affiliates who are churning out thousands dollar sales in one day and completely taken over affiliate marketing.

To be honest I myself have to figure it out YET. The only way I came up with is rather difficult to figure that out. I took 2 of the most difficult niche to work on.  Both niches are extremely saturated and utterly competitive.

So, I am putting all my efforts into both to make money. The learning from here is that, if I am able to make “some” monye in these 2 niches, I will be able to compete better in other niches which are not that crowded.

Its all part of learning the Affiliate marketing world and my way of dealing with it .

One thing i have learned from my almost 3 weeks of affiliate marketing experience is that you can win in this game if you automate your stuff as much as possible. Manual work in affiliate marketing means loss of profits. So automate or outsource you can and concentrate only on getting some good niches for your self.

I will be glad to share all I did in automation, when it actually starts working for me as well, otherwise I will look like a douche bag about sharing stuff which I didn’t even test.

As I have been sharing earlier that my first stint with Affiliate marketing is going on and its little/very tough to crack that first sale. Its been a week and I got around 100 clicks from 40,000 AD impressions or so. Well that beings said, nobody out of those 100 clicks bought any stuff or not even signed for anything, other wise I would have got a lead. So, I really wonder how these PPC guys make money, its gives a impressions that if you don’t begin with a decent ad campaign, making a mark in affiliate marketing can be tough.

Anyways friends my battle goes on, my target is to get atleast 2 sales in my fist ever month of affiliate marketing and till now signs are not that good but still I have 3 weeks left and plenty of work can be done in the meantime.

Affiliate marketing pays good but what if you had your own products to market. And people promote your products to earn affiliate incomes. Making a “Good and Useful” product can do wonders for you in terms of financial growth.

More info on this topic can be found in the below video Yaro Starak from www.entrepreneurs-journey.com shows how you can grow your income by making your own products. Its a very good watch.

I mean really, if you are complete newbie in the affiliate marketing like me, i can share one important tip “Patience”. Leads and sales will come but its really hard to predict when. So, if you are used to check your adsense account everyday and see good clicks, dollars then you may find your very first affiliate marketing experience little odd/uneasy.

Atleast i find it that way, and i am trying hard to keep my cool and not to leave my confidence. So, i decided to work hard little more rather than getting down with these no sales experience, will give it my best shot. My targets are atleast 2 sales in this my very first month. Will share my updates of experience, btw i am using advertisers from cj .

Here is a pretty inspirational video of super affiliate Jonathan Volk , who talks about he grew his affiliate marketing business from few dollars month to staggering $300,000 per month.

Also please check out the blog of Jonathan Volk at JonathanVolk.com and also of the interviewers are super cool guys from tracking202.com