I’ve been so behind schedule ever since I came back from the Warrior Event seminar in Austin. I have a ton of blog posts outlining a bunch of the stuff I learned… just be patient.
I’ve “only” put together 8 1/2 sales letters and recorded two e-classes. An e-class with me is approximately 30 daily episodes, each episode is about five minutes.
I make it a point to handle a finite number of projects at one time. Absolute maximum is four. The number I want is one. I usually end up working on about two projects at a time.
The problem when you promote stuff as an affiliate: you are the same as everyone else!
Why not add some of your own stuff as a bonus — check out script number 7 of Top Secret PHP to learn how to modify OTHER people’s pages and add your own affiliate bonuses.
I bought Kevin Riley’s Recipe for Post Product Launch and was so impressed with it, I put together a PowerPoint presentation and recorded a Camtasia video of me dictating it.
When you buy that product through my affiliate link, I add you to an autoresponder and send you another five minute episode every day for a month.
It appears as if I’m putting 20-30 minutes a day into the class, recording the video, uploading it, sending out the e-mail message… when really, I recorded all the videos in a couple of hours and wrote all the daily follow-up messages in under an hour.
Think about recording PowerPoint videos the next time you promote an affiliate product.
People hate work and like having things laid out for them. It’s easier to watch a little bit of video every day then try to crack a book… that’s too much like school… yuck, I’m having nightmares already!
Just make a separate slide for each page to keep things simple. Make three bullet points for each slide summarizing the main points. Print out the entire book out on your printer.
Record your video and read the text word for word. When you have something of your own to add, just wing it.
When you’re done with each page, pause the recording and see how long you’ve recorded. If you’re close to five minutes, save the video and start a new one.
Why five minutes? Because Camtasia allows you to save to MP3 audio and those will be your CD tracks.
That’s right, you just added even MORE value to your own customized affiliate product because you have the daily videos people can watch every day… and you’ve given them audios so they can burn them to a CD or to their iPod.
I’ve done this with one affiliate product and one product I bought rights to.
You could produce the video into a DVD as well if you felt like it.
I know many of you are resisting me here. But think about this… don’t you want to be considered an expert in your niche? Every time you see someone speak on stage at a seminar… either live or when you watch it on a DVD… do you wish that was you presenting?
There is also that added bonus that after you read an entire book allowed, you become an expert on that subject. You know it backwards and forwards. If someone asks about a subtopic in that book, you could explain EVERYTHING!
This is how you will get to to that point. Not just by creating the video products but by getting lots of practice in, being an instructor.
I know you would rather host a seminar, charge $1000 per seat and get 50 attendees and make $50K in a weekend than launch a lousy $27 e-book and try to make that same amount of money over the course of a few years.
Am I right?
What do you personally do to differentiate yourself as an affiliate? Do you offer personal consultation? Bonus products? Daily videos? Something else I haven’t thought of? Please, share with me… I need the usual ten comments.
p.s. If you want those videos, check out:
www.PostProductLaunch.com
DON’T purchase from that site just to see how I roll the videos out. I have no what I’m doing. I really suck.
Only check out that product if you’re interested in grabbing new affiliates AFTER your product is initially launched, you want to know how to properly host your own seminars, turn customers into promoters, blah blah blah… 🙂
