In this short guide, I am going to tell you a little about my experiences in affiliate marketing. I dont have the big house and sports car to show you, as I am not there yet. However I do make a comfortable living working the hours that suit me from my own home. It took a lot of time and dedication, but it was worth it.



After my first 10 days in clickbank's system, I had made $480. How was this achieved? You can see nothing happened for the first few days until I started marketing it. I made those results by selling similar products to which I already to the same target market I had captured (via an opt-in mailing list). You need to know your target market and their spending patterns, along with where they are in the product cycle. You need to go to your wealthy affiliate account to help you select the top product, as they have a better clickbank tool than clickbank itself. While the figures are nowhere near as impressive as many I have seen, they are my first week, and with a limited target audience! Getting the picture?

A key part of this is building newsletter lists from your existing sites. These are all opt-in and I highly recommend using aweber to manage all aspects of managing your newsletter, from creating the sign up form script, to providing follow up emails and email broadcast functionality. This list is really your key revenue creator. If you can get people into the site via SEO, you can create repeat sales opportunities. If I send a newsletter to 100 people and make $200, what would a list of 50,000 get me? $100,000! Does it seem fantastical? I assure you it is not.

With the wealthy affiliate site, free hosting is now available for 3 domains, along with a package called 'siterubix' which is a site building tool. It doesn't get much easier than this. Everything you need to know about what to build, the tools to build, and to host in one location.

Here is a twist on generating content that you probably don't know. You can have the site content automatically update itself, using self-growing-websites technology. This pulls relevant content from article directories and RSS Feeds, along with your own content, and gradually adds it to your site in an organic way, so it looks to the search engines that it was a human, not a script that created this.

Along with your site, build a useful service. Give people a good reason to visit. You can then have subscribers, paying you monthly. Maybe you can coach people at something, or create an alerts service. Focus on what you are good at and enjoy doing. then hire a programmer and make a good tool for it - a centerpiece for your site.