When you are entering a market for the first time, want to quickly make money online, want to start your first business or website online or want to enter a market without your own information product, a great alternative is to quickly enter a market by selecting an affiliate product and promoting it from your own website.
Even then, your objective should be to build your own presence, content, subscriber list and customer list even though you are still referring sales to someone else’s product in return for a commission on each sale.
So how should you get started?
I figured I could start a few Clickbank sites and add a few articles per week, just incase my main site i’m doing doesn’t take off.
Ok, I’ve read every thread on article syndication, list building and choosing the right product etc. In fact, I kinda know what to do but i’m not 100% sure, so if anyone could tell me this is right i’d be very grateful.
1 – Pick your niche and product. A simple way to pick your market for information products (we’ll talk about setting up affiliate sites for retail items like Amazon in a future post), is to head over to Clickbank.com and seek out a product that is listed among the first few pages of any category (the products are ordered by popularity) You will find niches as varied as hemroids, yeast infection treatments to overcoming fear of public speaking and stress management.Â
2. Keyword research. Any way you slice it, keyword research is important – do it early whether SEO, advertising or syndication. The reason is that certain keywords that draw people to your content pre-dispose them to buying what you have to offer versus other keywords that they may enjoy reading about but do not directly bring in people related to your product.
For example, if you have an ebook about Bluegrass music, you write an article about music in general that gets tons of synidication and reviews may bring you next to no traffic and make you no sales because of how tight your niche is.
One of the most important things that we must learn as part of IM is how to match a product’s positioning/USP with keywords that attract those people who have a high desire for your product and not just to read the article.  We have a full video course on keyword research and how to apply it to your business inside InfoMarketer’sZone
3. Get your domain. You ideally want a keyword rich (or at least related) domain name which will serve as a website for your blog/landing pages
4. Install and setup your WordPress blog which you will use to both generate and display content as well as your landing pages that will serve to collect opt-in’s as well as convert readers to clicks through to the sales page for the product you are promoting. We have several shortcuts and optimizations that will make a big difference to the success of your blogs and webpages inside InfoMarketer’sZone for those of you who want to seriously ramp up your online marketing.
5. Begin daily blog posts around your keyword to start getting some initial SEO attention and traffic. You can make some of these posts quick 3-4 paragraph tips, personal experiences, opinions or even reference to other news or articles online where other posts you want to make a little longer and more informative.Â
6. Produce or package information into a 5-10 page report, 4-7 part email course or short video (choose the format that is simplest for you) to give away as an incentive to opt-ing in to your list…this will be the basis for your list building efforts and allow you to market the ebook via email. In order to do this you also want to setup your autoresponder account - you will find the autoresponder service we have been using for nearly 6-years as well as our other most-trusted services here.Â
7. You want to write up two specific landing pages for your blog (these will be entered as Pages rather than blog Posts as the intent is to have them static landing pages to convert your readers into subscribers and customers
a) Landing page 1 is the page you send your traffic to for opt-in – here you offer them the incentive discussed in step 6 using an opt-in form from your autoresponder to collect their email information and deliver (via email) where they can download their incentive
b) Landing page 2 is the page where you pre-sell the ebook you are referring. This can be a review page, a short benefits page, a testimonial page or an article with your affiliate link back to the product page for the ebook so you get credited with sales as your customers click through.Â
From here, your main activity is around ongoing content generation – you can add articles, guest blog posts, forum posting and social network posts to further expand both your syndication potential as well as create backlinks for SEO purposes which will all result in more traffic, more action and more profits.
