Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Affiliate Marketing - Newbie Success Story
My Affiliate Marketing Success Story...
Ok, I'll make this short and sweet. I definitely have the "entrpreneurial bug", so to speak. My wife can bear witness to all of the ideas I continually had to make it big as an entrepreneur. Seldom, however did I actually implement any of my "big plans". The few times I did actually follow through with my business ideas, they either ended being failures or very mild successes.
January, 2006
I had a working knowledge of affiliate marketing, but I didn't think serious, full time income was attainable from it. One day, while browsing the web, I stumbled upon ewealth.com. Ewealth is a forum dedicated to affiliate marketing. I had visited and even participated in other "internet marketing" forums in the past, but something shocked me about this forum.
What "shocked" me about this forum? Well...I saw some posts made by internet marketing beginners (a.k.a. newbies) looking for help getting started with affiliate marketing. To my amazement, I saw experienced marketers actually responding to their questions with easy to understand, yet specific answers.
If Ewealth is the first forum you come across in your quest for affiliate marketing knowledge, you won't be able to appreciate what I'm saying. So let me explain to you a little more. Several affiliate forums I've seen are plagued with posts that answer questions vaguely, then direct an individual to "buy xyz ebook" to get a full answer to their question. To me that's not much better than all of the spam in my yahoo bulk email inbox.
July, 2006
After soaking up tons of valuable information on Ewealth, I noticed one particular member of Ewealth to have a sincere inclination to help new affiliate marketers. His Ewealth nickname is "Travis24". I personally emailed him and asked him which Google Adwords ebook he recommended. He advised me that "Beating Adwords" was his top choice.
I had some extra money in my Paypal account, so I immediately purchased "Beating Adwords". After reading through the entire 80+ pages of the ebook & taking notes while I did so, I felt 90% ready to start using Adwords for PPC for affiliate marketing.
I used the basic review style templates provided in "Beating Adwords" to build my first landing pages. I edited them in Microsoft Frontpage. I then purchased a domain name and hosting at Godaddy.com.
Not only did I buy Beating Adwords, but I also joined WealthyAffiliate.com. The authors of Beating Adwords, Kyle and Carson, are also the owners of WealtyAffiliate.com. Now what I'm about to say is not hype. Trust me, I can't stand hype (like Rich Jerk hype, Project X hype, etc.). Here it is:
WealthyAffiliate.com is the best money I've EVER spent on my affiliate marketing education. Beating Adwords is great, but it's only an ebook. What is Wealthyaffiliate, then?
Technically, it's a membership site. $29 per month is the fee. WealthyAffiliate is loaded with tools & resources to assist affiliate marketers. In fact many of the keyword tools do the same thing as "Keyword Elite", a popular keyword tool among affiliates.
However, I don't continually pay my monthly dues at WealthyAffiliate because of any type of research tools.
What do I love the most about it then? It's 2 things, actually.
1. Private Coaching from Kyle and Carson: Need an experienced, successful marketer that you can trust to view your landing page? Or even overlook your adwords campaign? WealthyAffiliate delivers.
2. The Members Forum: This forum contains more dynamic, detailed, plain English information on affiliate marketing than any other resource I have ever seen. Period. Experienced affiliates (not just Kyle and Carson) eagerly answer questions posted by aspiring affiliate marketers.
Conclusion.
I'm now making close to $ 200 profit daily with what I've learned in a few short months. Had I joined WealthyAffiliate earlier, I'm I could have wrote this blog months ago.
Want to check out WealthyAffiliate for yourself? Click Here and you won't regret it.
-Matt
