THE NAME OF THE GAME IS AFFILIATE MARKETING


I hate to admit it, but I’m not the hardest working person in the world. Even though I worked for 12 hours sometimes, I didn’t do it with pleasure and I certainly wasn’t too productive.

So I hate to say it, but the truth of the matter is -- I am a little lazy.

And this is probably the reason why I got so attached to affiliate marketing.

If you’re not familiar with it, the concept of affiliate marketing is based on you finding other people’s products or services and promoting them for a hefty commission.

Some products even pay you 75% of the sale.

That seemed weird to me at first, because I was thinking: “Wait… if these people worked so hard on creating their products and sales pages, why are they giving away affiliates 75% when the only thing affiliates do is drive traffic?”

At first, it didn’t make much sense to me. I was a little skeptical, but then I realized that it kind of made sense.

The product creators, or in other words, the vendors, compete for affiliates.

The truth is, there aren’t too many good affiliates out there. So product vendors want to do everything they can to get affiliates to promote their product instead of their competitor’s products.

This is one of those unfair situations where someone does all the work and then you just come in and make most of the money.

Fortunately, in this case we are in the privileged position.
Affiliates have the advantage and this is why affiliate marketing is such a great thing to be involved in.

It doesn’t take much to be successful.

Here’s how this affiliate marketing model works:

•                 Select a product to promote

•                 Drive traffic to the product’s salespage

•                 Earn commissions and make money

However, this model is become more and more unsustainable.

The reason for that is because traffic is getting more expensive by the hour and it’s getting harder for old school affiliate marketers to turn a profit.

In order for them to turn a profit, they need to make more from their commission checks than they’re spending on their advertising.

If they fail to do that, their campaign fails. And they have to try it again and again until they create such a great campaign, that it pulls in sales straight away.

The truth is, yours truly is not really a marketing wizard.

As much as I wish I were, I am just not.

I’m a regular person who’s never taken one single class on marketing.

However, I am able to consistently make more money than these experienced affiliate marketers. Month after month, I make much more than I spend.

So, how is that possible?

It’s all about my business model…

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