Could you give us a brief background of yourself and your websites
The first website which I started, it was a free portal, which has free email for people. I had an interest toward just having a website where I can have some opt-in through email. So, I had quite a few people maybe a 100 to 150. 200 about 1998.
It became interesting, so I had a lot of communication with people. So I felt that this email can have some advantage to me.
But I didn't realize that I could make money out of it. So, what happened is that I keep on reading on Internet, how to do businesses, and I lost a lot of money trying to make business. Bought a lot of books and a lot of software tools, whatever; and lot of MLM... you know those programs.
Unfortunately, I was losing a lot of money, but at the same time I give myself a little hope, I think that if others could do it, why can't I do anything? I might get at least something. I tried, and I got a couple of moneys when I joined ClickBank. I got maybe few hundred dollars, and sometimes $50, but it was just an excitement, you know? It encouraged me to continue with the business.
But at the same time, I kept on spending a lot more money, because I needed to get more information of how to do it properly, because I was losing a lot of money in just advertising more than anything, and buying books.
I want something that can teach me how to start and how to run that business properly without using a lot of money and a lot of my time. I kept on reading those things, and found out that some of the programs that I buy, they are very useful, they helped me a lot.
Some of them were just really repeated, you know? But fortunately I learned that when you have an opt-in mailing list, it's an advantage. Without an opt-in mailing list. if I have a website that, I don't have a good sales letter, I can advertise that site through the search engines or whatever, but I lose the people by few seconds when they are with my website, they usually go away.
I was thinking, is there any way to bring these people back? So,
I went to purchasing an autoresponder, and from there I started to do a lot of advertising of affiliate programs and all that.
Why did you decide that affiliate programs were a good way to make money?
Well the problem is, I don't have enough time for myself to develop e-books. Well, I have enough experience in computers. I was a senior programmer in Oracle and Java and all these things. I can write a lot of scripts that can sell, but thing is time; I am busy all the time and there is no dedicated time to do programming of software... this is my area, you know. My area is programming and if I start programming, I can make a lot of money with this, but the problem is time.
So I thought I should go to easier parties like information products... products on my programs, or go and join some affiliate programs where I can just easily get money and split whatever.
I found out that affiliate program is much better; I just go there and just grab a link and with the ClickBank ID and just try promote it with my own good letter for emails, which is the grabbing sort of letter. And I give them a sort of advice, because usually, when you send people emails, they usually feel like it's lots of hype, and you want to sell us and you try to promote in a way, you buy that product or something, you try to think more about that product.
And you see if it's useful, and you just mention that after, what you feel about that program. And you leave them themselves, they'll... especially when you have an opt-in list, usually people, they have already trusted you, they usually buy from you... and this is what I go with it.
So, how much do you make now as just a ClickBank Affiliate?
From ClickBank... you know, the funny thing is, it's not a stable thing. When the niche is new, usually people grab it from anywhere they go; and when it gets a little older it's already being spread everywhere.
So it's just like $2,000 a week, sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less depending on that.
There is one point, one point is that the product being offered free by others as a bonus, this also creates a lot of problems that you... if you try to promote something that everyone is receiving for free, you lose money. So you have to run and find another one, which is then even newer.
So, what you got to use here, there is a software called - actually, I have it in my computer -- it's called Affiliates Alert. This program actually, it helps me to know what are the products that are available there that are more sold and, you know... so I go and grab it fast and try to introduce it to the market, try to run, but usually I find people already started, but at least better do something than sit on it.
So, affiliate program means that you have to run and be at least one of the fast people to represent that kind of a program.
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Secondly, if people try to sell the products very cheap, the problem is, even though the information is very genuine, you will ask yourself, why is it so cheap? They don't sell much when it's too cheap; I mean, you don't sell much when it's too expensive unless you have very strong sales letter or very strong background, already been known and all these things. So, you have to know the pricing.
There is a lot of things, there is a lot of games about it. And trust comes only when you know, when you start playing around with it; then you know what to do. Not changing it, just you have to always pick it. And not just put it there and run away, like people say, "oh, doing less work and you get a lot of money in your ugly thing". No, there is nothing like that.
You have to keep on checking; you have to put a lot of links, you know, they call them tracking links. Where you know there is a lot of click there, and why they clicked a lot and they didn't purchase, and then is there anything I should tune in this, better sales letter, or is it something to do with the information that I put there, or whatever. Or the product is already going free everywhere, you know, you have to pick all the time.
So, it's not saying that affiliate program is just, put a link and go away. No, you have to also go for Pay per Click, you know, like Google and whatever. So, this is what I do actually.
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