Make Your First $2000 with Affiliate Offers and Craigslist Marketing
Posted on : 04-11-2007 | By : Dave | In : Make Money Online
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DayJobNuker (love that name) has an interesting post about making money through affiliate offers and Craigslist marketing. I like the post because he goes step by step with practical tips.
Basically, this post is about how he made his first $2000 without incurring any expenses. He made the $2000 in 3 1/2 months. I’ll go through the steps I found interesting and add commentary.
In step one, he says to choose an affiliate product. He recommends Commission Junction and Clickbank. He makes a great point in this step: Don’t sell make money online products unless you’ve actually made money. The niche is too saturated. The other niches are much easier to make a profit because those audiences don’t know about affiliate marketing. They won’t realize that you’re using affiliate links.
He says step one is one of the hardest steps because you don’t know if the product will sell well. So, you may have to go through a couple products before you find one that sells well.
In step two, he advises on using Wordpress.com or Blogger to set up a free site. These two free services are great places to build a website for free. Yes, having your own domain is better, but if you’re just starting out, use Wordpress.com or Blogger to build a site quickly. (Update: Wordpress.com does not allow affiliate links. Thanks, Unusual Suspect. I should’ve done more research. Sorry.)
In step three, he advises on using a generic site name. He says not to use a personal site name like “BobsSite” because people will find it weird that you’re selling stuff on a personal site. Instead, use a neutral name like “reviewcentral” or “reviewzone”.
Step five is all about creating the landing page. For the landing page content, he uses parts of the sales page of the affiliate product. This is a great idea for beginners, so they can set up a landing page quickly. Look at the sales page and copy and paste the best parts. Of course, feel free to edit. For example, I like to rewrite the text to lessen the hype. Many sales page content seem to have too much hype.
In step six, DayJobNuker talks about traffic. His method of choice: Craigslist marketing. He has a simple system. He creates a short Craigslist ad. Next, he makes 5 variations of the ad and posts each variation in five different Craigslist cities. Then, using multiple email accounts, he takes the variations and posts them in 5 more cities.
DayJobNuker’s step by step guide is simple and well-written. Learn more by reading the full post, How I Made My First $2,000 In Affiliate Marketing – A Step By Step Guide.
Hat Tip: Earners Blog
I started out reading with some interest, but stopped at #2. It’s hard to take seriously the recommendations of someone who doesn’t know that wordpress.com blogs cannot be monetized. You can have your account closed down permanently for doing so. From the Wordpress FAQ:
“Adsense, Yahoo, Chitika and other ads are not permitted to be added by users. Adverts that may be inserted when using an external blogging program will be blocked.
“Sponsored / paid posts including PayPerPost and ReviewMe are not permitted.
“Sponsored / paid links are not permitted.
“Affiliate and pay-per-click links such as Usercash and Clickbank are not permitted.
“Text ads are not permitted.”
And it certainly affects your own credibility when you promote uninformed recommendations.
I had found the article from Day Job Nuker over the weekend and found it to be a good article for those interested in the business of affiliate marketing. Believe it or not, there are those of us who would like to make a business of affiliate marketing but find advice mainly from people who want to sell something to you.
This blog is about Net Business. Business is about making money, and the net part means online. Running a business online. I don’t see how you can say this article isn’t on topic.
Now, I do think just rehashing the article wasn’t the best way to go; atleast give some insight on what the original author wrote, add to it, knock holes in it, anything. Like I said earlier, I read the original over the weekend and your article, while drawing attention to the article, adds nothing to it. What’s your opinion on what the article says?
Dee,
I’ve been and am still a subscriber of this site. Whilst the information above may be junk or bland to others, it’s new to me nevertheless. Afterall, one can never stop learning as far as the things on the net are concerned.
Nevertheless, any form of criticism from the other readers should be appreciated as a wake up call. It’s better that they voice out than quietly leave :D
Anyway, I am ALWAYS sceptical about these money making in double quick time ideas. Otherwise, we would all be rich and can go to retirement early. LOL!
What’s your test with it?
http://seoandpaid.blogspot.com
Don’t be disheartened, Dee. I have written posts on my blog and later looked back at them and known I can do better. Accepting the fact that you aren’t always going to produce work as good as you can is just part of the blogging process!
- Martin Reed
Thanks for the encouraging words :)
Dee, I’m glad that you took the comments in the spirit that they were given, at least I can speak for mine. I like to read your posts because I find them fresh and original. There’s so much regurgitated stuff out in the blog world even from the “big” bloggers that I got a little frustrated when I saw a rehash of someone else’s post on Net Business Blog, which is one of my favorites. I look forward to reading original stuff from you!
Thanks for responding!
You’re welcome.
Thanks for sticking around. And I’m glad to know that Net Business Blog is one of your favorite blogs.
I’m a subscriber and the only reason i did so, was because i looked over many posts on the blog, and found alot of good stuff. Otherwise i would not have.
Keep on trucking Dee, we all have good days and bad days.
Thanks!
I agree that you said that make money online products are saturated, furthermore there are loads of scams and schemes which doesn’t work..
And I’m also a happy publisher for commission junction i think that they have loads of good affiliates but sometimes it just boils me that they don’t let me apply to become and affiliate for a specific advertisers.. like yahoo web hosting..
I’ve been doing Craigslist marketing long enough to know that you need to stay away from public blog hosting services. Also, the days of direct linking from your Craigslist ads is getting VERY tough. You are looking at registering your own .com’s if you want to link directly from your ads. The best approach would be use an autoresponder in conjunction with your ads.
I may have never found this information in the search engines if you didn’t mention it on your blog. (that whole keyword thing)
People comment on others content if it appeals to them, that is what the internet is for sharing information. Keep blogging don’t give up!