Affiliate Programs

[BizLoanz4u]

Are you a memeber of any affiliate program(s) to generate additional income?

Have you found the affiliate program(s) to work well for you and if so, how much additional annual income did it produce for you?

[Kevin Lee]

Hi Michele,

I'm only a part of Amazon.com & .ca's affiliate program and can say that it doesn't generate any revenue for me (or anyone else I know for that matter). In fact, the only time I really get any purchases is when someone I know deliberately buys something through my site or if I buy something myself.

I feel that if someone wants to buy a book or something else from Amazon, they'll just type in "www.amazon.com" in their web browser rather than clicking through a link or going to my site or anyone else's first.

[mphcoach]

I'm in the process of setting up a number of websites to generate ongoing income streams. I am aware that it takes time to build traffic and monetize the sites.

That's OK with me, I fit the support for the sites between other work and outsource some of the work to maintain them (mostly article writing).

Currently, I make around $200 a month from Adsense and $100 a month from other sources, such as direct Affiliate links and Clickbank products. Since April the sources of income combined are around $2,500 and growing.

Hope that helps.

Regards

Martin
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[TheAnonymousMan]

I'm in the process of setting up a number of websites to generate ongoing income streams. I am aware that it takes time to build traffic and monetize the sites.

That's OK with me, I fit the support for the sites between other work and outsource some of the work to maintain them (mostly article writing).

Currently, I make around $200 a month from Adsense and $100 a month from other sources, such as direct Affiliate links and Clickbank products. Since April the sources of income combined are around $2,500 and growing.

How awesome is that? I'm just about to start on my own adventures of generating affiliate income and at least it's realistic to expect some sort of income for your hard work! Thanks for the info Martin, it's useful to know!

Kevin, sorry to say that when I purchase off Amazon I go straight to the website, however if I purchase anything in the future I'll be sure to use your affiliate link.

[Kevin Lee]

Kevin, sorry to say that when I purchase off Amazon I go straight to the website, however if I purchase anything in the future I'll be sure to use your affiliate link.

Thanks for the offer TheAnonymousMan , but I find that Amazon's affiliate program is quite ineffective unless you have a ton of users buying big ticketed items on a regular basis. I mean, you only get 4% if you can't ship more than 6 items during a month.

See their Performance Fee Structure here:
http://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/ ... _join_menu

Perhaps joining an eBay affiliate program would be more profitable?

[Takuya]

My goal is 2008 is to always have four figure a month going but this year, I found out it's how often I promote programs during a month.

But then again, if I don't reach 'every month' goal in 2008, it will reach for sure in 2009.

My list of subscribers are growing each and everyday and it's set to be worth $1 a month per subscriber every month.

Some month yielded less but some months yielded over $2 per subscriber so it just depends in estimating, using annual figures.

Regards,

Takuya

[RussellWebb]

I've been sitting on the fence with affiliate marketing for two years now. In 2008 I'll be jumping in 'belly flop style'... eeeehhhaaa! It probably won't be a graceful entrance but what the heck. I'll be learning.

All goofing aside, I expect to launch at least 3 sites that will be affiliate related next year. Then keep adding to the mix. The goal is to create passive income streams -ala Martin style- and just take it slow.

The key is to make it as automated as possible - I don't want to be spending 60 hours a week on affiliate marketing... I'll probably start with Rosalind Gardner because her business model looks solid and she's not slaving away to make a living. She's a smart cookie too...

I will set up an amazon affiliate acct - you should too Anonymous man - and make all of your purchases at amazon through your aff links... eventually they will send you a check when you've got enough $$$, think of it as a 4% discount redeemable at a later date

[mphcoach]

I got a $22 credit from Amazon just the other week!

There is a whole internet marketing business model around Amazon, which seeps into higher ticket items, using the books to improve your membership level I think.

So, you really can make a living out of Amazon - just not my thing, that's all.

Regards

Martin
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[litekepr]

If you're going to get serious about being an affiliate, I highly recommend http://www.affiliateprograms.com/community/forums/. I used to be a moderator there and the input was invaluable. If you see a post by Lou Fabiano - definitely pay attention. He does incredibly well in the affiliate market. They have the forums, a website packed with great info, a newsletter etc.

Shri

PS - I just remember, he posts as "the professor"

[OmnivoreInk]

So, you really can make a living out of Amazon - just not my thing, that's all.

Regards

Martin
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I've been an Amazon associate for several years, and I've never done very well out of them. I'm lucky to get $22 a year, let alone a quarter - especially now that they've moved to monthly payments, and so reset your percentage to 4% at the first of every month. (Used to be, once you'd had enough purchases, you'd be at 5% or more for the rest of the quarter, but I guess they found themselves sending out too much money... Annoys me no end.

Of course, there's an Advantage program for authors/publishers. The small-press publisher I used to work for many years ago used them...but she mae more money selling out of her own catalog and they had lots of red-tape rules so she never liked using them.

I've done 100% better with Google Adsense. Heck, $300% better!

[mphcoach]

I think this is around having a book based site to get into the advantage program and then using your position there to sell higher ticket items which bring in better levels of cash

Especially if you build a strongly SEO'd and good traffic site (often maybe through clever use of multi-word keywords/keyword phrases and articles set to them - thus giving good, free high Google positioning).

I think...

Regards

Martin

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[Takuya]

Believe it or not, I make many sales every month from reviews I conduct and post on my blog.

I believe people Google about a product online and end up landing on my blogs where I give unbiased reviews about something I am writing.

I know this happens because random sale occurs even though I am not promoting anything to my list.

This happens a lot with internet marketing products whenever there is a launch.... I hesitate spending money on something then I buy and review and I post the review on my blog and if it's a timely issue, I have made like 3 sales in one week all from different buyers and all I did was I did 'digg' on my post.

Interesting huh.

Regards,

Takuya

[BizLoanz4u]

I too have not had any luck thus far with Amazon, but then again my site is only 4 months old). I will check into the few mentioned other affilliate programs, anyone have any other suggestions?

Also, I heard that in your website, you shouldn't be a part of too many affiliate programs because search engines don't like it, but I have heard others say that is all their website has (they joined multiple programs) and they make good money from it. Now of course my website isn't about affiliate programs, but another 2 - 3 streams of revenue could be nice.

Any feedback on what I heard?

[OmnivoreInk]

I will check into the few mentioned other affilliate programs, anyone have any other suggestions?

Rather than using an affiliate (other than Google Ad Sense, which works well,at least for me) , why not write pamphlets or How to Books of your own, and sell them on your site. Then, when you get a purchase, *you* get the full purchase price, not just a small percentage, which is what you get as an affiliate...

[mphcoach]

I have a page on one of my websites that gets the most hits of all. It's no wonder as for the 4-word phrase, it is top of the Google rankings (without much effort from me, I hasten to add, except for standard SEO rules - I've only posted articles with the keywords in the page title since I noticed how much traffic it was gettingb from the logs).

So, I thought, this would be cool to write an e-book about, but I don't have the time (or that detailed an expertise), nor was there anything on Clickbank, because I would definitely have gone with a 50% affiliate deal.

So I thought I'd check out the PLR sites and buy something cheaply (these are often as low as 99c for the whole shebang).

Couldn't find one.

I checked with Google more and found a couple of people selling e-books, or tips books, but both didn't have affiliate programs. They were pretty low profile too.

So I chose page 10 of Google (at random) and amazingly found a guy who gives away a free PLR book (50+ pages) if you sign up to his newsletter, with the exact title I wanted. It didn't look a much visited site either - so competition will be limited.

The book is Master Resale Rights, but he's encouraging people to use it as a basis (it's even in Word format!) and, although it comes with free graphics, he will design a new one for you at a 75% discount off his normal rate ($20)!

I also bought the couple of available e-books (total cost was less than $10, 'for research') and will spend some of my Christmas leisure time tweaking the book, maybe up to 60 pages with some additional tips and my own spin.

Yes, I'll need to set up a domain for a sales page and link it to my Clickbank account, but I intend to keep this short as I want it to be a useful, yet impulse buy (and build my 'list'.

Hopefully, by mid January, I will have another e-book at a pick-up price and take advantage of all that traffic!

Hope this helps

Regards

Martin
http://www.Coaching-Businesses-To-Success.com