How To Do Affiliate Marketing For The Penniless AffiliateMoney is tight. You think you would like to do pay per click marketing. Maybe you could conquer a niche and start making the kind of money that the super affiliates tease you with in those incessant emails that pour into your mail box every morning. So what do you do?
I was asking myself that very question when into my email box came an announcement from someone whose newsletter I had been on for a quite some time. But unlike those other pesky affiliate marketers, this one rarely sent me anything. Which was kind of odd because he was one of the most widely respected and well-known super affiliates of our time. His name is Jeremy Palmer, and he was getting ready to launch something that would become known as the Black Ink Project.
Jeremy had acquired his fame back in 2005 when he published an ebook entitled High Performance Affiliate Marketing, which he now makes available for free. In the book he detailed pretty much everything he knew about how to do profitable pay per click marketing. Those things that had garnered him a Commission Junction Horizon Award for Innovation in 2005, and more than a million dollars in annual affiliate income. His book sold more than 5000 copies.
But then he began to sour on the whole idea of dealing with info products. The industry, it seemed to him, was awash in false promises and unrealistic marketing copy that brainwashed aspiring affiliates and pretty much guaranteed they would be doomed to failure.
So he took a break from dealing with affiliates on any large scale, and went away to perform some experiments on a handful of affiliates that he could mentor one-on-one. Could it be possible, he wondered, to teach what he knew how to do so well to others who wanted to gain that same level of success with PPC strategies? It didn't work with ebooks, he'd found. Very few of his ebook customers ever went on to do anything with their newfound knowledge. He was sure that a more hands-on method of teaching was required.
My Black Ink Project Review is a summary of what it was that he eventually came up with.
As for those few lucky students that Jeremy took under his wing - well, 4 out of the 5 he mentored went on to earn more than $10,000/month with their PPC-based affiliate marketing efforts. One went on (with his business partner) to earn a stellar $4,000,000 dollars over the next two years. You can watch a video from this same affiliate on my site. Clearly the hands-on approach was a great deal more effective than even Jeremy had thought possible.
So when that email from him arrived in my email box that morning, it was to announce that he was accepting an initial 2000 members to partake in a course that would take affiliates from a standing still position to one where they were operating in the black. That is to say, they would have profitable campaigns.
The course proved to be highly instructive, and got the thumbs up all-round. But again, Jeremy wasn't entirely satisfied. So he ran a second version of the program, in which he allowed his audience to see every single thing that he normally did to launch a new campaign. Everything from selecting the niche, to keyword research, site planning and building, and the final setting up of PPC campaigns, complete with often overlooked ad-tracking to maximize profits. This course later became known as Black Ink 2.0
For affiliates operating on a shoestring budget, the Black Ink Project will show you how to set up your own profitable affiliate review site from scratch, and spend the least amount of money possible to do it. I even have software which builds these affiliate review sites for you, which I give away to course participants. You can learn more about that in my Black Ink Project Review
Stephen Carter is a web developer and internet marketer. His Black Ink Project critique page at http://www.blackinkprojectreview.com/ is an attempt to let other know about an excellent affiliate marketing course that can benefit every affiliate.
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