Work at home on the Internet: internet marketing and affiliate program help.
Back issues here Issue 227 | July 8th 2002

Letter from Phil

sticking to a regular schedule when you're on vacation is impossible. I'd planned on spending 2 hours a day doing all the things an internet marketer has to do:

- answering emails and dealing with clients/customers.

- doing research for my newsletter.

- working on new projects.

- building more affiliate mini sites.

but things aren't quite working out that way. I can't even spend half an hour a day...there's just no time. We're site-seeing all day and drinking Pastis until midnight every evening.

But guess what?

My online income hasn't dropped, even though I've done hardly any work for weeks now.

Here's why: income from affiliate programs continues to pour in. And it can for you too if you put some work into setting things up.

Every day I receive emails saying "you've made a sale" or a variation on that.

Let's break it down into the three areas that bring in affiliate sales...residual payments, 2nd tier sales, and automated sales from mini sites.

Residual:

Many "member only" sites charge members a monthly fee, and pay their affiliates a percentage of that fee. So you sign up a customer once...and get paid monthly.

The one's I like best are Terry Deans Net Breakthrough's site. You can just sign up as an affiliate, but I really recommend you look at joining because it's the most useful private member site around. I've been a paying member since the start, and particularly love the advertising results section....saves me a fortune on buying ads in ezines that Terry has tested and found lacking.

Another great one is Corey Rudl's Secrets To Their Success member only site which is offering a free trial if you want to take a look inside.

It's updated each month with 2 very detailed interviews with work-from-home Internet success stories. Interviews which detail exactly how people are making their money and how you can use the same techniques to generate a substantial online income of your own. The people featured seem be to ordinary hard working people, like you and me, but they're making big online incomes in excess of $100,000 to $600,000 online every year. Like I said
most of them do it working from home. On Corey's site they discuss just what you can do to copy their success. You get the exact strategies they have used to generate incomes, and you'll find your head spinning with income generating ideas.

I'm sure you'll love this site. The professional, very in-depth interviews are fascinating, and you'll pick up heaps of tips to help you boost your sales.

I'm also a paying member of Buying Web Businesses, which is more specialized but incredibly useful if you're interested in developing your online presence by buying web sites as going concerns.

The 4th one, and it's really hot, is Lee Benson's Internet Secrets site. I haven't really done much to promote this site, so my income from it comes from 2nd tier sales...which leads me into the next section.

2nd-tier:

Many affiliate programs are two-tier. This means that you make money when you make a direct sale, but you also make a further commission when new affiliates you introduce to the program make a sale.

Some people, like Allan Gardyne from the excellent Associate Programs site, make a considerable income from 2nd tier sales. (but Allan also stresses the importance of not relying on 2nd tier sales, and says that, by far, the bulk of his income comes from his own referrals.)

Sadly, most of us don't, so never get too excited about the 2nd tier commissions. However, while I've been on vacation in France the income from my second tier sales have easily paid for all the travel and wine and cheeses I've enjoyed

(food and drink here is very cheap and delicious. I'm about to sit
down for lunch at my in-laws country house with a stunning red
wine, and a selection of 7 cheeses with lovely crusty bread...not
to mention the great company).

In fact, while I said don't get too excited about 2nd tier sales,
they've been bringing in around 10 times more than I've been
spending each day....so you've got to love this Internet lifestyle :)

The 2 tier affiliate program that performs best for me is The
Dropship Source Directory. It's an excellent, easy to sell, product
that pays $7 on the 2nd tier. So if you sign up for the affiliate
program, build a mini site around it, or promote it through advertising, I'll be paid $7 every time you make a sale (and you'll get something like $25 a sale). My "sub-affiliates" make sales every day.

It's a product well worth promoting, and it's a long term winner to build your online business around. I love it, and it's got enormous potential for future growth.

Another one that does well, and has for a long time, is Ken Evoy's Sitesell program.

I'm a long time fan of Ken's, and, in fact, the other week I had lunch in Yorkshire with Joe Robson, author of Make Your Words Sell which is one of the books published by Ken's Sitesell.

(Joe is probably better known as the owner of The Newbie Club ...which is also an affiliate program well worth promoting )

Another 2 tier program with great products to promote is Dr. Neil Shearing's Scam Free Zone, which includes the best selling Internet Success BluePrint, and The Internet Success Spider.

If you'd like to listen to Neil telling everything he knows about internet success, and promoting affiliate programs, there's a 4 hour audio, and transcript, called Super Affiliate Secrets Exposed. It's fascinating stuff...and I'm not just saying that because he mentions me having a cup of tea with him :)

Mini Sites:

Well, as you know, I'm a big fan of mini sites, and these last few weeks have really brought it home to me that they work.

You can read all about mini sites in my book, of course.

While I've been traveling between Australia, England, and France
these last few weeks, my string of affiliate mini sites have pulled in sale after sale...and I've done nothing to help them along.

I don't want to pretend that things could go on this way forever.

They couldn't. There's still work to be done. Sites need updating. Bids on the pay-per-click search engines need checking and updating. Adverts need to be bought and tracked. Search engine optimizing needs to be done. Research into new products and affiliate programs needs doing. Ebooks are piling up waiting to be reviewed. Complicated emails are waiting to be answered.
Domain names need renewing.

The list goes on and on....

But, for a while, this famed "internet lifestyle" really does work.

PS. If you still haven't read my book Mini Site Profits perhaps
you should. It's been in Allan Gardyne's Top 10 Affiliate Programs
List for quite a while now. Here's a link to his review.

Or you can order Mini Site Profits directly at
http://www.minisiteprofits.net