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Re: I agree, with a twist...
Posted By: Alex from Extra-Paycheck In Response To: Re: I agree, with a twist... (Bob E.)
Date: Sunday, March 16, 2008, at 12:55 p.m.(pst)
Bob E!
You got me ;) Everything you said is pretty much what my course is about... there are some other little techniques (mostly TRAFFIC GETTING) and there are more details to it. And yes I do promote WA... but as mentioned earlier I never PUSH it...
Now about being an affiliate marketer? My sales page is 100% authentic and it is my life story... I started affiliate marketing on October 15th 2007 with no knowledge at all... I made $500 my first month. Then 1500$... now I am at $3500 for the first 2 weeks of March - I anyone has doubts - I will be adding a video to my page soon, where you could clearly see me browsing through MY Clickbank account.
However, my point is that I did not start making money from day 1. And it took me over 6 months to slowly but surely get to the point of making over $5000 a month. There is no such thing as OVERNIGHT success and riches. Internet Marketing is just like any other business - it takes research, lots of effort and more importantly, it takes time to grow.
Now about shifting from Affiliate to Publisher;
I think being a publishers secures a much more stable income - especially when your product is successful.That's about it for today,
To Our Success,
Alex
>> Glad to see you taking the stance you are taking (at least right now),
>> Maw.>> Fact is, most likely Alex's site or "opportunity" isn't a
>> scam. I haven't signed up for his newsletter (nor do I care to right now)
>> but from a quick glance at his sales page I bet I already know exactly
>> what he's going to tell me in his e-course because there are many other
>> marketers that have free affiliate marketing email or online courses just
>> like his (Travis at bum marketing is one of them). The following is most
>> likely what you'll learn about (most likely very basically) in Alex's
>> e-course...>> 1. Sign up for clickbank as an affiliate marketer.
>> 2. Find niche products on clickbank that sell well, (according to
>> clickbank's stats).>> 3. Drive traffic to your clickbank affiliate links for that product by
>> using blog marketing, article marketing, and/or social marketing
>> techniques (and/or even perhaps using PPC ads).>> 3a. Possibly even send your traffic to your own landing page to
>> "pre-sell" your prospects instead of sending them directly to
>> the clickbank merchant's sales page right away.>> 4. Watch the sales and affiliate commissions roll in.
>> 5. Repeat steps 2-4 as much as you want to and even start looking into
>> other products and affiliate channels like paydotcom, commission junction,
>> link share, etc.>> 6. Sign up for a Wealthy Affiliate membership (using his own affiliate
>> link) somewhere along the way to learn more about affiliate marketing
>> tactics and techniques that can make you more money as an affiliate
>> marketer.>> There is no scam in this, not in the process or the course. It's just
>> basic affiliate marketing information can could bank on if you do things
>> right.>> There is also nothing wrong with an affiliate marketer looking to
>> shift his main focus from becoming a publisher of affiliate marketing
>> how-to information. Not a scam at all.>> The only real question here is, is Alex really a successful affiliate
>> marketer who is now trying to become a publisher or did he read one of
>> those other free affiliate marketing courses, write his own, and now uses
>> the "fake it till you make it" technique that many wannabe
>> internet/affiliate marketers try to use?>> Well, I don't know the answer to that, but I can tell you that looking
>> at those checks on his site that they really do look like real clickbank
>> checks because I've gotten a couple of 'em myself in the past.>> But whatever the case may be, it doesn't cost you anything but your
>> time. He isn't charging your for anything. He will most likely try to sell
>> you something through an affiliate link (to be expected since he is an
>> affiliate marketer, right?), but that in no way tags him as a scammer. If
>> he's going to give you information you can profit form or at least start
>> you out on the road to profits, then he's due some kind of compensation
>> for that.>> I didn't read most of this thread yet but if there is anyone in this
>> thread calling Alex a scammer or anything of the like at this point with
>> no proof or even no knowledge of affiliate marketing, I do hope you
>> rescind your statements (for the time being) as you cannot be taken
>> seriously in the future, at least not by me (and I'm sure I'm not very
>> unique in that respect in this world or on this forum so there has to be
>> many others that take my stance).>> Bob E.
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