So after 3 or so weeks of seeing no success and being $300 down, I decided to join AffPlaybook, (Join through this link for $20 Off for life discount), as I was looking for some coaching and some specific pointers to help me succeed in this business. The forum is all about affiliate marketing and has so many success stories and case studies that you realize it’s just a matter of time till you experience some sales.

I spent some time just reading like crazy, compiled a bunch of ideas and jumped straight in with PPV marketing. I saw my first 3 sales the very next day and was so excited! So what did I do right this time?

1) I joined a place where experienced people making $100,000s spent time and effort in providing you with detailed advice on your forum threads.

2) I TOOK the advice I got and implemented it on a large scale. I’ve always been one to take large amounts of action and so when I was told to set up a campaign and start a follow along I set up 3.

I spent my first $ in paid affiliate marketing on the 21st of July 2013. It’s been about 8 weeks since then and I’ve come a long way. I thought I’d go over my progress and how I’ve evolved over the weeks to where I am at now.

I started off just reading a crap load of information. I’ve saved all the good articles here and i recommend anyone new to the industry to read them. Especially the articles under ‘Beginner Information/Articles’.

My First Attempt

After a good two weeks of reading, like I said, I took action on 21st July. I made a crappy website promoting an Amazon product, (Drawing Tablets), where I wrote some tips on how to use it with a few recommendations. Here is the website I made. At first glance it doesn’t look too bad but when you’re trying to make money off it there are many problems that one can see.

1) The ‘Call to Action’ is unclear. You need to make it very clear what you want a visitor to do. If I wanted a visitor to just read the information and go away then this website serves its purpose but I wanted the visitor to BUY something and you need to direct them to do so. A better approach would have been to compare the products and actually have a ‘tick list’ to what features each tablet has and which one is best. Also to have a big ‘buy now’ button somewhere at the top and bottom.

Here’s a quick affiliate marketing guide for those who want to know what affiliate marketing is and how it works. This time I’ve tried to make it more pictorial. This series will be mostly aimed at PPV affiliate marketing. I’ve made $1,000’s via this method but you can pretty much make money through any Affiliate Marketing Method.

In a nutshell an ‘affiliate marketer’ promotes products and services of other companies or ‘merchant’s and receives a commission in return once a sale/lead is made’. Basically an online, ‘commission/performance based’ salesman.

This works as follows…,

Traffic Source+ Affiliate Network + Sale = Commission

Traffic Source

I’m sure some of the below companies will look VERY familiar. These companies allow you to make ‘ad units’, which they will then display all around the world for you. you are charged for every person that clicks your ad, hence the term ‘pay-per-click’ affiliate marketing.

This should walk you through ‘rotating landing pages’. This is done when you want to automatically rotate the pages your viewers see. After you accumulate a large amount of data, you can then determine which page works best, scrap the others and test more against the winner. This is called split-testing and can change the affiliate game once learned.

There are 4 parties involved in this, (My example)

– Tracking Software: (I use Prosper202, which is Free)
– My/Your Domain: (Where I will upload and point to the Landing Pages)
– Affiliate Network: (I use MaxBounty most of the time)
– Traffic Source: (I’m currently using LeadImpact)

SETTING UP PROSPER

You’ll be using the tabs in Prosper202 highlighted in red below.