Affiliate "Project X"

Yesterday evening I actually parted with some money and bought an e-book called Affiliate “Project X”. Anyone who knows me (and who reads this blog) knows that I'm pretty skeptical about many of the products that get promoted, especially when I see a whole bunch of Internet marketers (I'm subscribed to so many lists now I've lost track…) flogging them. Still, this one piqued my interest and since it was sold through ClickBank and was less than $100 (it was $77 when I bought it) I figured it was worth a try. (In case you don't know, any product bought through ClickBank can be returned within 8 weeks for a full refund. See the ClickBank refund policy for the details.) The only other e-book I remember purchasing lately was Jim and Dallas Edwards' Turn Words Into Traffic, which is an excellent introduction (and fairly cheap at $39) on how to generate traffic via article writing.

Anyhow, it will be a few days before I can do a formal review of it on GeekAffiliate, but here are my initial thoughts on this book.

Affiliate “Project X” describes a set of systems for making money as a ClickBank affiliate. The book itself is sold through ClickBank, which is good, otherwise I wouldn't have touched it with a ten foot pole. It's 50 pages long. Unlike many e-books I've seen, this book uses a normal font with a normal amount of whitespace on each page, so those 50 pages are actually fairly dense with information.

The bulk of the book describes 6 systems (the author calls them “methods”) for making money via ClickBank:

1. The “Leech”: The Art of the Pre-Sell
2. The Affiliate Diary
3. The “Workhorse” Method
4. Thief In The Night
5. Copy the Best Part 2
6. The “Opportunist” Method

It wouldn't be fair for me to describe more about each method, but the instructions the author provides are very detailed. He provides tips on choosing the right ClickBank products (successful affiliates continuously promote many products), what traps to avoid, and breaks each method down into concrete steps. Only one of the methods requires the use of another product (Brad Callen's Keyword Elite), but you'll need to spend some money on AdWords (to get targeted traffic) if you want to make money quickly with most of these methods. (But some of them can be done completely for free, with only time and effort on your part required.)

Note that this e-book does assume you know something about Internet marketing. It talks about using autoresponders for follow-ups, for example, but doesn't tell you how to actually set up the autoresponder. Nor does it walk you through the mechanics of setting up a “squeeze” page. It does provide some tips on cloaking affiliate links (primarily to make it easier to sell a product) and how to track which methods are generating which sales.

The author claims to have tested each method with a dozen “newbies” over a three-week period:

By the last week of September, the results were starting. Of the 12, fully half were making $100 or more per day in net profit using the Project X strategies. Four of the remaining six were making $50 per day, and the final two did not invest the time required to make it work (although they both still earned over $200 in less than two weeks).

— excerpt from Affiliate “Project X”

Note that the author never claims that this kind of income will happen without any work, just as I never claim you can make AdSense money without work. I like that — no matter what you do, your potential earnings are directly related to how much time and effort you're willing to commit to your project. Everyone should brand that on their forehead (in reverse) so that they see it whenever they look at themselves in a mirror.

Although I do make a bit of money via affiliate selling, the bulk of my attention has been focused on AdSense. This book may just be the kick in the behind I need to ramp up the affiliate side of things. Diversity of income is good, after all. This is one of the few e-books about Internet marketing that I can heartily recommend. I know not everyone reading this is interested in affiliate marketing, but it's worth a look if you are.

Sponsored Link: Well, go get your copy of Affiliate “Project X” now!

Eric Giguere is the contextual advertising expert who wrote Make Easy Money with Google and Uncommon AdSense. If you like this posting, why not link to his blog or bookmark it as one of your favorites?

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