Oh how things have changed. Today being a successful affiliate marketer is not an easy job. We need huge lists and massive traffic just to make a few sales. List Building and driving traffic to our sites has also become a lot harder to accomplish. Even if we do manage to develop a big list and a great website with lots of traffic there's still no guarantee we will make a dime. In general affiliate marketing has become a hard nut to crack.

To be successful on today's Internet you need to have an edge. You need a way to rise above the ordinary. Doing what everyone else is doing doesn't work. Everyone else is making a buck here and there if they are lucky. Do you want to be like them? I know I don't. I want to be one of the few that actually makes big money. I like money. I like the things money brings me. Maybe money can't buy happiness but I'll tell you this... I'm a whole lot happier with it than I was without it. Getting into the big money isn't really all that hard. All you need is an edge. That one thing that separates you from everyone else. For me that edge manifested itself in the form of video. Video has changed my whole outlook on how to market effectively. Everything I knew before including all my secret little tricks pale in comparison to what using video has done for me.

Video builds lists, video drives traffic and video makes sales.

Video marketing is certainly nothing new. We have all seen countless infomercials on late night television. Do you think those infomercials sell product? Do you think they drive traffic to websites? You bet they do. Now I'm not suggesting you run out and have an infomercial professionally created to sell your affiliate product. Few, if any of us could afford to do that. But, if we could... Do you think we could sell our product? Let's face it. Quite a few of the affiliate products available today are a lot better than some of the things we see advertised on television.

I truly believe I could take one of my better affiliate products, have a infomercial professionally produced, slap it on late night television and make a killing.

We might not be able to hit television with an infomercial. But, we can certainly hit the Internet with one and we don't need a huge budget to do it. We can create our own Internet infomercial sitting at our computer. Almost everyone has a video camera or a friend that has one. With a video camera and some readily available video editing software you could be the next Internet infomercial star. You could also be the next Internet infomercial millionaire.

Creating a homemade infomercial is not a hard thing to do. Sure, it takes a bit of learning and experimenting but the rewards are plentiful. By incorporating video I have seen my opt-ins and sales increase by more that 400%.

Once you have your Internet infomercial created getting it seen is fairly easy. Just upload it to Google video, You Tube and countless other video and social networking sites. A well-produced homemade Internet infomercial will spread across the Internet like wildfire. Its Viral Marketing at it's finest. There are also some fantastic fringe benefits once your infomercial is out there. Search engines absolutely love those high ranking video sites and spider them constantly. So, if you want to increase your opt-ins and sales and get some great back links and a high search engine PR...

Get out your video camera , brush the dust off of it and get busy.

To Your Wealth,

Guy Simmons