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Affiliate Marketing Success and other Stories

Did you miss me? :-)

I haven’t posted on this blog in a while. Not because nothing was going on… au contraire… too much was/is going on.

I don’t know about you, but just like no one is a prophet in their own land… you are never going to be able to see the value of your stuff like other people do.

Even if you think a lot about yourself, familiarity breeds contempt, and your work is going to be “just what you do”, even if it is/would be of tremendous value to others.

This is why I value what has happened in the past 2 weeks.

You may not know, but the bulk of my income comes from marketing affiliate products.

One of the things I have been marketing, ever since I first started to use it some 2 years ago, is the Healing Codes package, a unique energy product where you use your innate energies to heal the cause of disease… I had a cancerous growth fall off my right arm after a few days of using The Codes… so I am a believer.

I signed up to be an affiliate. I made a few sales here and there, but every month I learned a little bit more about marketing, google adwords, etc. and every time I learned something, I immediately put it into practice with the Healing Codes affiliate program. I watched a webinar 5 months ago, and the rest happened:

The past 4 months the commission, grew $400 every month. Why always 400? Beats me. So I have gotten accustomed to the income, they paid directly to my checking account… until the 8th of this month, when, instead or the money, I got an email telling me that my affiliate status was withdrawn and I wasn’t even going to get my last commission.

Why, you would ask. The answer came right in the email: I violated the affiliate agreement: I did not get my ads reviewed by the 3 people assigned to review marketing material… But the email said, my violation was that I used the product name in my advertising… hmmm. How am I supposed to sell something I can’t name?

I made a quick calculation, and saw that I lost $35K just in the first year (calculating the growth trend also). They lost 140K net, for the first year. Interesting. I wonder if they have heard of the expression: “Do you want to be right, or do you want to be rich? Choose!”

Anyway, let’s see what I have learned from this incident that is worth for you to read:

1. Before you invest so much time and energy into marketing a product, check if the company really wants you to market their product, or secretly they hope that you will share with everyone, but they will buy from the company directly, cutting you out of the loop.
2. The processes I employed to go from zero to substantial income could help a lot of people out there… so maybe I should find a way to tell people. If I had had a roadmap like that two years ago, I could have started to make money much sooner, and that would have been worth for me to buy. I forgot to say that I used exclusively PPC advertising, my return on my investments was consistently 10-fold, i.e. with a $3500 a year budget I could turn a 31,300 dollar profit. And some of my keywords ran at $5 a click. Which means: this market is competitive, baby.
3. It will be interesting to watch how the Boomerang Principle will play out.
4. I’d love to train an army of affiliates for the Healing Codes company… if I could do it, anyone can do it.

Another thing that happened since I last wrote, is that I did my first “Craft Your Public Persona” presentation. It needs more work, but I am over the hump. I have worked with a client today, who was praising the knowledge he gleaned from our session, and that felt really good.

I am just wondering how to reach all the people who would be interested in that: coaches, consultants, bloggers, marketers, realtors… anyone, who makes a living selling themselves first, an product second. Everyone, who need repeat clients, repeat sales, etc. Everyone, who needs to influence people. Any ideas? If so, please write a comment. I would appreciate it.

And a 3rd thing: I have built a small video sharing site on blogging but you can put the topic in a search box and it finds videos for you… really great… want to check it out? It is at http://www.mavencentral.com/videos

That’s it for now. Please give me your ideas about how to reach my target audience, and if you have any idea what to do with my lost affiliate position story, so that it can make a difference for others.

So long.

The Role of Info Product Creation in Creating Passive Income

If you make money, you belong to one of these categories of moneymakers:

1. You trade your time for money. You have a job. Your income has a limit, because the amount of hours and the amount of money customarily paid per hour is limited. This is true if you are a cleaning lady, if you are a dentist, or if you are a movie star… (which shows that the limit can be high, but it is a limit nevertheless). You trade your life for money…
2. You are self-employed: see #1. it is still a job…. How do you know it? If you are not working (sick, vacation, work on something else), you don’t earn money.
3. You own a business but it needs you… it may not have a limit, but you still trade your life for money. See #1 and #2
4. You own a business, and you set it up such, that it sporadically, if ever, needs you, or your time, or your expertise. Unlimited income, and your life is yours.
5. You made money earlier, and now your money is working for you. The problem: did you trade your life for that seed capital?

As you see, #4 is the most desirable way to make money: you can have your cake and eat it too.

Now, if you are like most of the readers of this blog, you are a coach, consultant, trainer, or a combination of these.

What is the fastest and most reliable way to be in the position of #4 for you?

Well, if you are like me, you have a lot of knowledge, you have been tested by having clients as a coach, consultant, of speaker. Which, in business terms, means: you have knowledge that other people want.

So for you, the best way to create a business, or a part of a business that makes money even when you sleep, sick, or on vacation, is to create a passive income source: work once, and get paid, over, and over, and over, and over.

Your product should be an information product.

OK, you say, that’s easy… And it may very well be! But creating a product will not automatically mean sales, and therefore passive income. You need a Marketing Machine, that you throw the information product in one end, and money comes out on the other, day in-day out.

This sounds like magic, and in a way it is.

Lots of people teach how to do this, but most people still fail. There is only one product that I have tried that teaches this well, at a modest price, and does an exceptional job at holding your hand while you walk “the yellow brick road” to success, and that is the Info Product Dashboard. See the little video below about one principle no one will teach you quite like this way… but it works, it is true, and if you miss it, you are doomed to fail.

I have bought it, and I recommend it. It’s about 80 bucks, and it can be the missing piece of this puzzle for you. Go and get it!
To your success,
Sophie

PS: go and get the dashboard: Info Product Dashboard

Information Product Creation Made Easy…

I don’t know about you, but information products are both easy and difficult to create.

And for some… it borders the impossible. Even with a close supervision they will go somewhere where the sun doesn’t shine…

For those of us that are willing and able to follow step by step proven processes (I recommend you do that)  there is always the Info Product Dashboard, an online step by step walk you through it, walk with you method…

Check it out. I bought it and I love it. 

More about it after the coaching call that I must interrupt this message for :-)

The Most Important Principle in Marketing (You Miss It… and You Are a Poor Marketer)

In the next post I’ll elaborate on it… Now I have to run, I have a teleconference I am leading in 10 minutes… Back shortly. Watch the video.