Making Money With the HUGE World of Affiliate Products

One of my favorite ways of making money, in the whole entire WORLD is with Affiliate products or affiliate marketing.

This basically means that you sign up with any vendor or product provider, you get your own unique Affiliate ID, and you start marketing and advertising.

The best thing about this whole process is that usually with affiliate programs, all the production and administration has been taken care of for you… even the merchant processing and payments are all taken care of.

All you need to worry about is simply the marketing aspect of it all.

But before I get into the marketing part, let me FULLY explain all the different affiliate programs that are available to you.

The very obvious ones are sites like ClickBank.com, CJ.com, and even sites like Amazon and Target have their own affiliate programs.

But all of the sites above are based on a one time sale, one time commission sort of deal. (I’ll tell you how you can leverage your business so that it DOESN’T end up as a one time commission kind of thing.. but more on that later)

Another form of affiliate marketing that is VERY powerful and even MORE profitable than sites like ClickBank and Amazon is…. Network Marketing or Multi Level Marketing.

NOW WAIT A SEC BEFORE YOU START ROLLING YOUR EYES TO THE BACK OF YOUR HEAD AND CLOSING THIS ARTICLE. Lol

I know what everyone thinks about MLM or Network Marketing… it’s a scam, you can’t make any money from it, all the people who are already involved are cheaters and scammers and blah blah blah.

Ok we got all that… but let’s take a step back and actually analyze the MLM business model.

Just like any other affiliate program, you get access to a product that has been researched thoroughly and is available for you to sell to the consumer public.

And just like other affiliate programs, the production, administration and payroll has been taken care of FOR you.

So what’s the big problem that many people have with MLM? I think it’s one of two things…

1. SOME MLM’s require that you make some sort of initial start up investment to get access to the products and your affiliate ID.
2. The idea of building a downline of distributors reminds a lot of people of the ol’ “Pyramid Scheme” sort of thing.

Two VERY legitimate concerns… BUT I don’t think they’re enough to hold someone back from pursuing a potentially profitable business.

You see, it really doesn’t matter where you get the product from.

I’ve sent people to ClickBank.com that have made THOUSANDS from it, and I’ve sent people there who didn’t make a single penny.

I’ve referred people to MLM who have made MILLIONS from their businesses, and I’ve seen people who LOST money.

And the whole distributor thing is NO WHERE NEAR a pyramid scheme type of model. In Network Marketing, in order for you to make any sort of passive income, your distributors need to be making money too.

You don’t get paid when you sign someone up… you could recruit thousands upon thousands of distributors but if none of them are making any money, then you aren’t either.

Now I’m not here to sell you on any particular Affiliate website or MLM company… not at all.

At the end of the day, the product or the company that is providing the product has absolutely NOTHING to do with whether or not you will make any money… that part is up to you and you only.

And as I’ve said before, it’s all about marketing. If you know how to correctly market the products that you’ve been given access to, then you’ll make money… it’s really that simple.

And lucky for you, that’s the purpose for this entire blog. To show you how to set up a marketing system that will do all the dirty work FOR you.

A great place to start would be the Marketing & Sales Pipeline.

And make sure to subscribe to this blog because I’ll be posting a LOT more on the subject of marketing in future posts.

But again, none of it will matter if YOU don’t use the information that I give you.

Alright, until next time… stay cool.

Arman V.

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Doing Correct Market Research. Finding Profitable Niches.

Alright in this video, I’m going to cover some very important facts to keep in mind when picking a niche market.

The first thing I’m going to talk about are the four “Super” Niches that exist in the marketplace. These niches are ALWAYS hot, and there is ALWAYS demand in them… no matter what the economy is doing, or what the banks are doing, these four niches are ALWAYS selling.

1. More Money
2. Health/Wellness
3. Sex/Relationships
4. Hobbies/Special Interests

I’ll give very specific examples of all of them in the video.

And I’m also going to share with you a very effective strategy that I’ve used to launch several brand new products that “hit the ground running”… so to speak.

If you implement these strategies BEFORE you actual start creating a product and a website and such… you’ll find out whether or not the product idea that you have is even worth following.

It’ll save you hundreds of hours of labor and thousands of dollars of wasted advertising money… you can thank me later.

Make sure to leave me a comment to tell me what you thought.

Talk to you soon,

Arman

Why Info Products Are Perfect For a Recession

The common thinking amongst many ‘entrepreneurs’ seems to be that a recession is a bad time to go into business.

The opposite is true, actually. A recession is the perfect time to go into business. Everything is discounted and your competition is most likely too discouraged from the recession to really do anything. So this means that it’s the perfect time for someone like you and me to go into business.

Now if you don’t have the $100,000’s to invest in a traditional business, don’t worry… there’s still a lot of hope for you. In fact, when I started out in business, I didn’t have any money to throw at my business either. My starting budget was somewhere around $50 per month and I was still able to build a very successful business from my home.

Now the biggest question that pops up in many people’s heads is, “If I don’t have to invest a lot of money up front, then what am I going to actually sell? Where do I get my product from?”

And the answer to that is very simple. You create an information product from scratch… for free.

First thing you’ve got to do is figure what market you want to go after. And to save you some time, here are the biggest niches that are ‘always hot’. If you want to create a product, find some kind of subcategory in the following niches and go after it in a way that you’ll seem unique in the eyes of your prospects:

• The More Money Niche - Basically anything about how to make more money.
• The Health/Fitness Niche - This is probably the biggest one out there. There are literally hundreds, maybe thousands, of new weight loss products coming out every day… and that’s because people who buy one weight loss book are going to buy another 15 by the end of the year.
• The Sex/Relationships Niche - Pretty self explanatory, no?
• Hobbies - I.E. Golf, Fishing, Bowling, Martial Arts, etc.

One thing you should know about market selection. It’s a GOOD idea to go after the niches that have a lot of competition in them. Why? Because that way you already know that people are spending money in that niche. Now all you have to do is make  yourself just a little bit better than the person at the bottom of the Top 10 list of competitors your market. Then you keep going until you’re just a little bit better than the guy in spot #1 and now you’ve taken over the marketplace.

As for the actual product creation…

You can do it in one of three different formats.

1. PDF - You can type up an entire book inside of Microsoft Word and turn it into a PDF file using any free software online. Then you sell the actual PDF file as your product.
2. Audio - For about $40, you can get a good voice recorder or microphone and you can record your information product. This would either be you going through an outline that you created, or you can interview someone or have someone interview you. Then you would sell the MP3 as your product.
3. Video - For about $150, you can get a video camera and basically follow the same steps as if you were creating an audio product. You can also get Camtasia studio and create your videos that way… simply create a powerpoint presentation and record yourself going through it.

The way I create my products, I combine all of the above formats together. Since your prospects have different learning styles, you will be satisfying them all if you use all the different formats.

Now I know I said you wouldn’t need to invest much into this and now I’m mentioning something about coughing up $150 for a video camera… but think about it for a sec. $150 is nothing compared to what you would have to pay if you were going to sell any type of physical product.

For $150 investment, and some of your time, you can create a product that will literally pay for itself within a month MAX… and will potentially even give you a full time income from home. And that’s only if you’re going to create a video product and if you don’t already have a video camera.

You could just create a PDF product and it won’t cost you a DIME to make. And you can sell if for pure profits after that.

And once you’ve got your upfront product - also called a Self Liquidating Offer - you can now create more backend products. So if someone buys the first one for $47, then you offer them the second one for $67… and if they buy the second one, then you offer the third one for $197. So from ONE customer, you just made $311… and it probably cost you about $27 to get that customer.

And the beautiful thing about this whole deal is, using the Internet you can reach out to BILLIONS of people all around the world and market your product to them. It’s so EASY to make money from home (I’m talking about six and seven figures here) once you’ve got all the technicalities figured out.

And now you know how to create your very own product from literally nothing.

You can go here if you want to learn more information on how you can make more money from home and turn yourself into the next Recession Millionaire.