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Lately there have been lots of discussions going on about the negative and positive points of being a Clickbank’s affiliate and/or publisher. I have been an affiliate for seven months now and never really thought about publishing my own product… Well I thought of it but I didn’t actually do anything about it. And today it hit me! Here is my Clickbank Screen Shot for the month of May 2008:

As you can see, sales go up and down… I am earning almost $3000 every 2 weeks from this account, but it’s been like this for the last 4 months. Nothing surprising here - I need to move on, need to make more. This isn’t even about the money but about the challenge, I can’t believe that everything ends at this level - I have to prove to myself that I can do much better than that! So I started looking for some new products to promote - then I said to myself: “Heck, if I am going to put lots of effort into promoting someone else’s product, why don’t I create my own product and invest the effort into finding affiliates?

So this is what I am going to do. I am currently working on 2 different products; a NON-IM related e-book, and IM related video course! The e-book is ready to be published, I just need to come up with a great sales page - which actually seems the hardest to me, and the video course will be ready in few weeks, just before my trip to Europe. I will keep you updated!

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Here is an amusing post. I found this posted on Wealthy Affiliate Forum by Jay, however it seems to be an original post from Super Affiliate Mindset blog. Enjoy!

1.Don’t stick with one affiliate marketing strategy for very long. Once you’ve tried something for a month with no results try something else. Keep jumping around constantly : SEO, PPC, facebook, article marketing, etc.

2.Check your sales stats every 5 minutes, and be sure to agonize about it. If this doesn’t COMPLETELY distract you and suck up all your emotional energy, then get one of those tool bars or alert programs that shows you or beeps every time you have a sale.

3.Bid on the most obvious and competitive keywords in your market, then spend 75% of your day checking your ad position for your main one or two keywords vs your competitors.

4.Take that last tip to the next level - constantly check if someone is ripping of your website by continually checking the Google search results for those one or 2 keywords your making sales on. If you find someone copying your site, make a federal case out of it, contact Google, your affiliate manager, and everyone you know to complain about it. Be sure to get REALLY emotional about it.

5. Here’s a big one : spend 80% of your time bitching and complaining on affiliate forums. If you’re at a loss for ideas, here some popular things to bitch about : Google slaps, why your stats are not showing a sale for the last 2 hours, my favorite : how you think the affiliate network your working with is secretly stealing sales from you. Recommend forum : WickedFire.com

6.When you’re REALLY out of things to bitch about on forums start making personal attacks against big name affiliates in the industry. If you’re not sure which affiliates to shamelessly attack, here’s some popular targets : myself, Shoemoney, John Chow.

7.Do ZERO market research before launching an affiliate offer, just pick out something that looks good and start promoting it.

8.Spend all your time buying expensive information products and ebooks on how to do affiliate marketing. Go through these products and learn everything you can, then sit on your butt. Whatever you do DON’T take immediate action on what you’ve learned. Keep waiting for the right time to get started.

9.Have the firm belief that they only reason super affiliates are making big money is because they have some special backdoor deal with merchants, or because they have AMAZING account history so they can buy keywords for 0.20/click that would cost you $1/click.

10.Anytime there’s a slight discrepancy between your Google conversion tracking and your actually affiliate sales - let’s say conversion tracking show more sales - make a federal case out of it. Contact your affiliate manager and Google, absolutely demand you get credit for those 2 sales you “lost”. Make sure to spend several hours (minimum) REALLY agonizing about this, and how the world just isn’t fair.

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Okay okay, no hype there. This is a screen shot from an old Clickbank account of mine… I used that account only when I started Internet Marketing back in 2007… I wrote few articles and then decided to start from scratch - so I created new CB account, picked different products and write new articles… Whatever products are being sold through the account you see - were promoted more than 6 months ago and I still make sales now and than, isn’t that cool?

So here is the moral of the story:

Many people bash article marketing (bum marketing) saying it’s time consuming and doesn’t pay at all… well 5 old articles bring me an extra 100-200$ every month… How bad is that? When you do a week of work at your regular job, do they still pay you for that week for the next 6 month? nope… So, even BUM Marketing is a big part of your online business - don’t forget about it and keep on typing

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So it all started back in 2007… actually if you want to know more - check out my website at www.extra-paycheck.com - nothing but the truth there… Well actually when I started my Internet Marketing venture - I did not need a simple extra paycheck - I need it enough money to pay my bills.

It was tough at first. I had no idea what to do and where to start. I had no spare budget to invest in advertising such as PPC or Paid Banners… So I had to do it the hard way - also known as Bum Marketing.

I picked a few products off of Clickbank, then I made a few blogs and started typing articles like a mad man. To be honest - my first articles sucked big time. It just happens that English is my fifth language - and I am not that good at it. Sure, I can keep a conversation but there is no way I could type up a fancy sales page or a great quality article - but it didn’t bother me at all… I though - I keep pn writing and one day I will make a sale, in the end I wasn’t spending any money on it and since I was already wasting my time on youtube - I might as well do something more productive…

I still remember the feeling when I found that first 19$ in my clickbank account on October 23rd - just 8 days after I started BUM MARKETING around. This gave me enough motivation to continue… I made almost $500 that month - all pure profit!

Well… I am making more than 500$ at this point, but I will talk about it later

Alex