My question about Affiliates is: In your experience, do you seem to do better as an affiliate marketer if you have a niche and experience as well as a mailing list? To me that seems obvious. I'll bet there are many out there that were sold the "promise" that "all you need to do is be a pure affiliate and BAM! the money just comes rolling in... Yet here you are a very experienced marketer who is know as "the PHP expert" - and I suspect that you do alright with affiliates related to your area of experience, rather than unrelated items. For example I would bet that if you were to put up links to "gourmet lobster shipped fresh to your home" - you would get less traffic than say a "great little javascript" because the second item is more related to your personal niche.

So "perceived" niche is very important in affiliate marketing, would you agree? Thanks.

David T. McKee

I've been very reluctant to get into affiliate marketing, but the more I read about the topic, the less resistant I am to the idea. You make it sound easy and profitable. Thanks for adding to my research and sharing your knowledge.

Best wishes,

Terry L. Gillis

It sucks I won't be there at this seminar but hopefully I'll catch the next one.

Pfffffff.

Ha. Robert? Never.

Looking forward to meeting you at the Affiliate Incubator

You'll hear a lot about various affiliate strategies at the event but one of my all time favorites is using an affiliate promotion to generate leads for your own products.

For example, you could easily include a bonus that quickly leads to additional back-end sales. Perhaps it's an intro product, "Module 1" of an 8 module course or better yet, a seminar ticket where you could sell additional products or services.

My business partner Russell Brunson has used this strategy for years with great success.

Another thing that affiliate marketing provides is market research. If you are thinking about creating another product why not test the responsiveness of your list with a similar affiliate product.

If they respond well - create the new product. If not, you just saved yourself a lot of work.

Anyway, once again great stuff Robert and looking forward to meeting you.

Take care.

Stu

Anyways, I heard you were THE php marketer guy so I subscribed in a heartbeat.. No pressure =P

Robert -
Have I not read far enough into the huge package I got from you? Isn't there a method for achieving this somewhere among all that information?

That's the second script in Sonic PHP chapter 1. All you have to do is redirect if there is a "hop" in the URL...

<?php
if (isset($_GET["hop"])) {
   // Set this to your front page URL
   header("Location:http://www.example.com");
}
?>

I still wish someone would create a script that hides the end-result of a CB link. That same old ?hop=affname that follows the final link stinx, I want the CB affurl to end up with the index page but still track me... am I making sense?

Donna -
That makes perfect sense and I've always puzzled over that one too.

Robert -
Have I not read far enough into the huge package I got from you? Isn't there a method for achieving this somewhere among all that information?

Is it that you have to use a frameset on your own site, and if so, doesn't that method have a lot of dangers lurking around its corner?

Mitch

Weldone! Your honesty and sincerity is what help you made those sale. Many affiliates and so call gurus lies just to get the commission and end up losing in a BIG way! The day you deviate from your honesty and sincerity that is the beginning of an end.

I hope you learn new things and get value for money with the Affiliate Incubator seminar.

Looking forward to hear how it went.

Thanks & Regards for the honest post,

Sam Odiaka
http://www.oraifite.com

I already use the domain for an affurl tactic, and it's pretty sweet if it's a top-seller. When Hodgkinson came out with his solution for a really cool membership site script I grabbed up instant-member.com as quickly as I could.

I also agree with your recommends tip - it makes a much more attractive link.

I still wish someone would create a script that hides the end-result of a CB link. That same old ?hop=affname that follows the final link stinx, I want the CB affurl to end up with the index page but still track me... am I making sense?

Thanks for a great post as always,

Donna