How I Finally Made Money With Affiliate Marketing
About a month ago, I decided to get serious about learning to how to make money with affiliate marketing. I mean, I had made a dollar or two off of Amazon and the like, but I was not having any success breaking through.
I have been reading a few books, scouring the interwebs for articles, trawling the forums… learned a lot, but I just could not seem to put it all together. Then yesterday, for the first time, I understood. I found a step by step action plan that made sense, that would not cost me a fortune, that I could implement within minutes, that I could start doing right now. Let me explain:
A friend recommended a book about making money on Craigslist. She said that this guy uses Craigslist to drive traffic and make money and that it was worth a read. Honestly I was about to tune her out when she mentioned that he did a lot of it with affiliate programs and that was why she was recommending it to me.
Long story short; I bought the eBook, read through it in about an hour. He goes into detail on about 8 ways to make money using Craigslist; combining it with affiliate programs, using it to build your list, how to drive large amounts of traffic to your website and others. I was skeptical, but decided to try just one of them (the simplest, naturally) and see what happened. That was at 8:00 pm last night; this morning I am $37 dollars richer as a result. And that was one technique, applied in a half-assed fashion, just as a test.
Maybe you want to know how to make money in affiliate marketing, maybe you need to build a mailing list of buyers, heck, maybe you just need some extra money. In any event, I highly recommend you check out The Craigslist Profits Guide. It only costs $17 (He claims he will raise the price later, but I do not know if that is just a marketing gimmick; I will say it would have been worth it at twice the price).
The strategies he tells you about are simple, straightforward and not “spammy”; most of them cost nothing at all to implement. This is NOT some huge text filled with fluff; rather, it is about 45 pages of pure how-to information.
I have read about 40 eBooks this year and this is the first one I have ever recommended to my readers; I feel that strongly about it. As I said, it only costs $17 (less than I spent on my last meal at a restaurant) and is a pure bargain at that price.
He has a page set up with more information, a copy of the table of contents and so on, along with gobs of testimonials. Click here to read more about it and get your copy today!
Category: Internet Marketing, Resources, Selling Online 14 comments »
September 27th, 2007 at 2:18 am
Hi Hugh
Amazon pays peanuts indeed (for all the work you’ll have to do in fact – in all the months I’m trying to promote the books I read on my blog I still haven’t managed to earn enough for my first ever voucher!
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But, last month me and my friend from The Blog-Studio made $88.00 in one day through one affiliation program – typepad.
And more is on its way from this month’s workshop and next month’s workshop – but that’s not all, ’strangers’ who find our workshop blog create typepad accounts through our links.
We feel very clever at the moment, for being affiliated with the software we use ourselves and promote to our neo-bloggers for the right reasons: it’s simple
Karin H. (Keep It Simple Sweetheart, specailly in business)
September 27th, 2007 at 6:33 am
I took the bait and got the e-book. It’s a quick read and probably worth the $17. Not sure I’d pay much for it in its current state.
I submitted one of my affiliates to craigslist, so far no clicks, but it could be my ad, product, market or all three.
I like the introduction to this new market. Lately, I’ve been discouraged with internet-marketing. Maybe I’ll see some progress using this approach.
September 27th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
That sounds like a pretty good deal if you can actually make the money back in such a short period of time. I have always been intrigued by affiliate programs such as that, but never really knew how to maximize the profits.
September 28th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
yes. amazon.com pays little if your readers are not really the type who read books.
@perros
you just have to learn from the experts. that’s what I do. I observe how they do the marketing… follow some steps from them.. do it in a more “myself” approach while applying what I’ve learn. then tada! payment!
September 28th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
I’ve gone for bust on affiliate marketing as well, so maybe I’ll check out this book.
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:33 am
forgive the intrusion, I stumbled across your blog searching for affiliate information, and I must say, that ebook sounds intruding, especially if it can do a nice turnaround like you said…..*off to buy the book*
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:06 am
yeah I’m about to start up affiliate marketing from one of my sites and can’t wait to see how it effects the bottom line.
October 4th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Craigslist helped us find one of our most productive employees. It’s a great service. I just hope it doesn’t get too spammy.
October 17th, 2007 at 10:28 am
I tried the link, but the page doesn’t seem to exist? Has the page gone, or moved? I’m really interested in the ebook…
October 17th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Dan-
OOOPS! We have been moving some things around. It should be working now.
Thanks for stopping by!
November 1st, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Link to the book didn’t work…could someone repost?
November 15th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
hmm this is very interested. i never thought of combining craigslist with online site money making. well right now i dont have any affiliates. but I can see how this would work. I dont know if the book is really worth it, i’ll think about it, but seems like craigslist is pretty straightfoward, i think i can figure it out
November 29th, 2007 at 4:19 am
Wow, sounds very interesting indeed. I will definitely give it a shot!!
Thanks!
January 28th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Hm. I found you through another friend’s Stumble Upon account, and I have never heard of affiliate marketing. Clicked through to all the links but none worked… repost links? I’m off to wiki now!