The Extreme Newbie Buddy System

You don’t have to go into the affiliate marketing business with a partner; although for my sister, Karen and me it has turned out to be the perfect business venture. You will definitely benefit from having a few buddies, throughout the process. Karen and I each bring different talents and skill sets to the table, which works well, especially during the stressful times. Of course, you can do this alone, but our experience has proven that a helping hand here-and-there is a good thing.

Our greatest business asset, outside of each other, was our decision to share the learning curves in this experience with two other newbies. We began with a weekly, one-hour conference call to learn each stop of the process together, sharing tips, resources and lessons learned. We chose to use Affilo Blueprint 2.0 as our primary training tool, so each week we had tasks to complete, which kept us moving forward.

Along the way, each member of our team found resources and information to share that enhanced our learning experience. Together we’ve made these recent newbie discoveries we want to share with you:

You can build your own affiliate website or hire a contractor to do the work or purchase a pre-built website.

• If you buy a pre-built website, your purchase generally includes the domain name, a number of articles about your niche, an opt-in box and products to monetize the site.

• Buyer Beware: Find out if the seller will take care of replacing the their affiliate links with yours, i.e., your Click Bank name, so that subsequent sales from visitors to the site are properly credited to you. You don’t want to buy a website that’s set up to pay someone else. Many sellers will also take care of minimal installation of the site, for a small additional fee; some will even coach you through establishing your first affiliate marketing site. Just figure out exactly what you’re getting.

You can write your own content, hire a freelance writer online or purchase private label rights (PLR) articles that target your specific niche/topic.

• PLR content is written by someone and available for fee or free for you to edit, rewrite and claim as your own. We recommend changing the title and make word changes and text edits. Some PLR vendors require that you change an article by 30% or more.  Be sure to check the list of rights you get with a PLR purchase and always do spell and grammar checks before you publish.

Continue to grow your buddy list as needed. The goal of building a network of relationships is to help you sustain and grow your affiliate marketing business, whether it consists of one site or a hundred. Some good ways to network include:

• Join a group like Warriors Forum. It’s an amazing place to get quick answers to questions, referrals for various resources to help you build your business and those must-have tips and tricks.

• Learn about the tools and resources you need to maintain and market your site. Take the time to learn how to use these tools. Your learning curve will lead to profits down the road.

The point is that just like building a house, you don’t have to do everything yourself. This is the true key to your ultimate success. So hang in there, Extreme Newbies. There’s light – and income – at the end of the tunnel.

Thirty Day Challenge – What Every Affiliate Newbie Needs

If you want to learn affiliate marketing or any kind of Internet marketing for that matter, there’s an amazing resource out there for you right now! It’s veteran Internet marketer Ed Dales’s little darling – the Thirty Day Challenge. It’s a comprehensive 30 day video training program on the basics of marketing on the web.

Offered only once a year, this great program (we’re taking it) started on August 1st. Now you may be thinking that you’re too late to join in. Not. You can pick up where the program is now and play catch-up as you go along to the end of the month. Or start watching the “30DC” videos on YouTube and go along at your pace.

Whatever you do, jump on this opportunity. Ed and team have done a phenomenal job assembling lessons, tools, resources and even motivational tips that every newbie affiliate marketer can benefit from.  Oh – and I forgot to mention that you can subscribe to the videos and transcripts on iTunes. For you iPhone lovers like me – 30DC is available for you phone too!

The Must-Have Super Affiliate Handbook

So, you’re an extreme newbie wanting to make money online as an affiliate marketer, are you? Even if you’re just getting started, like us, you probably have already noticed how much information there is out there about affiliate marketing and how overwhelming it can be? Do you wish there was just one book – one handy reference source with all the basics to get you up and running? Well there is – the Super Affiliate Handbook and we have it in our hot little hands!  And yes, the links here are our very own affiliate link.

The Super Affiliate Handbook was written by veteran affiliate marketer, Rosalind “Ros” Gardiner. She’s a legendary “super affiliate” which means for us extreme newbies that she consistently makes a boatload of money (try $400 000 and that was a few years ago). Ros’s Super Affiliate Handbook has everything you need to go from rank amateur to super affiliate money making machine in no time flat.

What Sets it Apart

Let’s be candid here – we visited Amazon.com and there are plenty of books there and other e-books online that deal with the subject of Internet marketing and, specifically, affiliate marketing.  But our basic research shows (we bought a few of those other books) that the Super Affiliate Handbook really goes into detail, and gives you step-by-step instructions that you can follow easily (that’s a biggie for us) and replicate.

What Ros has done in her book is create a road map to Internet and affiliate marketing success. Instead of broad generalities, and rough ideas, Ros delivers concise instructions and detailed information. We like the fact that she takes you from conceptualizing to strategies on setting up your site and monetizing it.  The Super Affiliate Handbook even gives you a detailed breakdown of how to track your results (hopefully that means “success” at some point in the near future).  Ros makes it easy for anyone to build a firm foundation for becoming an accomplished affiliate.

What it Covers

In the Super Affiliate Handbook,” Ros includes:

•    Determining whether you have what it takes to make it in the very competitive world of affiliate marketing (take note extreme newbies – everyone successful affiliate started from the beginning).
•    How to brainstorm your business, and create a business plan.
•    Software recommendations – but not just any software – the same software she uses herself for her mega earning affiliate sites.
•    Information on how to find the best, biggest earning affiliate products.
•    Everything you ever wanted to know about how to market affiliate products.

This is just a small sampling from what is probably one of the most comprehensive affiliate marketing guides out there today. Whether you are already an affiliate, looking to improve your game or whether you’re an extreme newbie who’s never sold anything online, the Super Affiliate Handbook is a must-have, detailed reference guide. If you want to join the legions of people making money online and you want to succeed fast, we suggest you get your hands on this book – quick by clicking on the green button at the top of this article.