The latest software that my friends have all jumped on is called Niche Devil and it is created by a well known hilarious internet marketer named Victor Franqui.

By the way, when I say friends that’s not completely true as most of them don’t have a clue who the heck I am, but I do devour their blogs every time they write a new post since they have so much good information about making money online.

I was first alerted to Niche Devil when my favourite marketer Griz posted it on his blog and since whenever Griz posts ANYTHING on his make money blog I’m there in a flash.

Then I went over and checked out the sales page and video’s that Vic had put up about his new software. The video shows how he creates a complete eBay affiliate store online within 36 seconds (or something crazy like that). Heck I can’t even login to HubPages within 36 seconds so that’s impressive.

Now on the face value of it, it seems a pretty neat little script and I can definitely see its potential. It’s kinda like BANS (Build a Niche Store) on steroids. The advantage it has over BANS is that it creates lots of content on the site rather than just eBay ads which should please the big G since they love content.

Believe me, I was tempted at first.

But here is the reason I’m not buying it.

It has nothing to do with the cost or whether it could make me money or not. And it has nothing to do whether I think it’s a good script or not – heck I have no idea, I’ve not actually used it – it could make you millions within a week for all I know.

No, the reason why I’m not buying Niche Devil is because I don’t have the time to commit to it. A program like this needs time to set up AT LEAST 100 websites – probably more. Another of my favourite marketer’s, Ben from Make Money with SEO plans on making 1,000 Niche Devil sites. Yes, 1,000 !! I know. Ben is a cyber robot from another planet – I’m sure of this.

I have no doubt he’ll make money. Just as I have no doubt that if you commit to 100+ sites you’ll probably make money as well.

But this isn’t for me right now. I’m too busy with other projects.

So if I’m not buying it, then what on earth is the point of this post – I haven’t even included any affiliate links to Niche Devil (I know – what sort of internet marketer am I?).

Well my main purpose of this post to let my regular readers know it’s ok not to jump on the latest guru product for whatever reason and that’s ok.
Just because you follow someone and admire their marketing strategies and even follow some of their ideas doesn’t mean you should try and become a clone of them. You should be trying out things yourself and learning as you go. Buy products if they make sense to you and your business plan, but skip them if you can’t find the time to commit to them (because most products or eBooks DO require action and commitment for them to be successful).

Like I said, I have no idea if Niche Devil is good or not, that’s not the point. I don’t have the time to commit to it in my current business plan so I’m not buying it. That’s it really.

Peace
Tracey

Last Christmas period (October to December) I made over $10,000 profit from the Amazon Affiliate Program. That was with just 10 small websites and very little work. Which is why I love being an Amazon affiliate it’s very easy to make money with.

A lot of people avoid using Amazon to make money online because of the small commission levels (why promote a $20 book for around $1 commission when you can promote a ClickBank product and make $40 per sale).

Of course I do promote both, Amazon and ClickBank, but I actually feel it’s far easier to make money promoting Amazon products simply because physical products are much more in demand than ebooks.

So let’s go over how I made so much money in such a short period of time. First of all, I used the techniques outlined in Info Product Killer (which is an awesome ebook) so they weren’t entirely my ideas, and at the time I did have an Adwords campaign running as well (although I only had a very small budget).

I only ran the Adwords campaign over Christmas and since then (in the last six months) I’ve still been making a consistent $500 to $800 per month commission from Amazon and I’ve barely touched any of the sites or promoted them in any way since then.

So how can you do the same? How can you make money as an Amazon affiliate?

First you will need an Amazon affiliate account (duh!), so if you haven’t already got one then head over and apply. They usually take up to a week to approve you so sit tight and be patient.

Once they approve you, you’ll be able to start promoting their products.

Some people will tell you to only choose high cost products like TV’s, but to be honest I’ll promote anything that’s hot – one of my best selling items this month was a $15 book. It may only pay me around $1 each time someone buys it, but I’m selling around 10 to 20 of these a day. It all adds up.

And of course, you also get an Amazon affiliate commission with anything else your customer decides to put into their shopping cart, so I often get credit for items I wasn’t even promoting!

Choosing A Product to Promote

The best and easiest way to choose a product to promote is to keep your eyes and ears open to hot trends. Anything that is being advertised on television is a perfect thing to promote online. I like to watch The View or Oprah to see what products or books the guests are flogging and create a website around that.

Or you can think seasonally, people buy coats and scarfs in Winter and pool supplies in Summer.

You can also take the easy option out and go right to Amazon itself and check out the bestselling items in each of their categories.

Once you have a list of potential items to promote then it’s time to do some keyword research. Ideally you are looking for something that has at least 1000 search per month and less than 250,000 competing sites. Keyword research only works if the product has been around for a while though, if it’s brand new (I like to promote new products because no-one else has jumped on them yet and you have virtually no competition) then your keyword research won’t help because there will be no stats available yet.

If you’d like to test a few products before you decide to build a website then start a free hub or blog and see what converts for you.

Next use the product name in your domain name (or hub name if you hubbing) only if the company allows it – some companies don’t care, other’s are very sensitive about it. That will give you the best search engine juice.

Write a review mentioning the product a few times and put a big picture on the page and of course links to buy the product at Amazon.

That’s how easy it is.

You should start to see some sales as soon as your websites / hubs get indexed and traffic.

Of course, if you serious about making money as an Amazon Affiliate I really recommend that you get Info Product Killer as well. It worked great for me.

So you’ve decided that you want to be an internet marketer – that’s great. But what product are you going to use to market online so you can earn an affiliate commission?

Choosing a product to promote can often be more difficult than you think because as marketers we have so much choice. Not only can we make money from promoting digital products such as eBooks and software, but also physical products from eBay or Amazon, or even your own product that you’ve written.

So I thought I’d take you through how I choose a product to promote.

Rarely do I choose the latest ClickBank Must Have Gonna Make You Rich eBook. I just don’t believe in most of them and I get sick of seeing the same old hype ‘no work required’ ‘make a million this week’ claims that in any other industry could get you sued.

Yes I know what you are going to say because I have a product on ClickBank myself, but I actually don’t recommend that product to newbies who email me because I think you do need a bit of internet marketing knowledge to really get the most out of using eBay classified ads.

In fact in the last six months, there is only one ClickBank product that I’ve purchased that I absolutely loved and that was Info Product Killer because it made me over $10,000 over Christmas last year and I plan on using the same strategies again this Christmas as well. (I kept a diary of my progress using IPK over at Info Product Killer Review – if you want to read about my results last Christmas).

Ok, so how do I choose a product to market?

It could be any number of ways. Sometimes I watch those late night infomercials to see what products they are marketing (they use the same principles that we do online – presell, customer testimonials, call to action).

Or I might be flicking through a magazine and notice a new product that catches my attention so I’ll do a search online to see if they have an affiliate program.

I also check Google Hot Trends, eBay Pulse and Amazon Best Sellers to see which products are hot at the moment as well.

Or sometimes I just set up a niche blog and write articles and slap up some Adsense and earn money that way.

Currently I’m growing my Adsense earnings as I learn more and more about SEO and plan on creating a lovely bit of passive income from it in the future.

With more and more people trying to make money online it’s hard to know what is real and what isn’t when it comes to online products and services. Even when you try and find a review for a product or eBook that you are considering buying most of the reviews that you’ll read are bogus reviews written by affiliates looking to cash in on a popular product. They’ve probably never even read or used the product that they are promoting so have no real knowledge of whether it’s a legit way to make money online.

One such item that many big ‘affiliates’ are promoting is called Site Build It (SBI) or SiteSell or something. Perhaps you’ve heard of it? To be honest I don’t know much about it apart from what appears on the sales page (which I’m not going to publish here because that isn’t the purpose of this post), but it doesn’t sound like something I’d ever be interested in.

It’s targeted to absolute beginners and claims to help you get started building your online empire with hosting, marketing and building your site for you for a modest fee of $300 (yikes!).

This brings me back to the purpose of this post. If perhaps you were new to online marketing and you tried and do a search on Site Build It Review you’d find hundreds of affiliates all trying to pimp the product with their so called reviews. By the way – that link there will take you to a review of a woman named Lis who thinks Site Build It is a scam and justifies her opinions very well.

She was so sick of all the fake reviews on Site Build It that she decided to write her opinion about it and, oh boy, what ensued was name calling and bashing left, right and center (read all the comments – they are hilarious).

Then of course I listened to Vic from Blogger Unleashed’s take on the whole debacle with a video that had me in stitches as he talks about the Site Build It Noobs and why they are not making any money (it does have graphic language so be prepared for that).

All this started from someone trying to write her own honest review about a product that many other affiliates are promoting.

An honest review of an online marketing product? Wow – what is our industry coming to? LOL

Over the last few weeks I have been writing a few posts about how to get started affiliate marketing.  They’ve proved so popular that I’ve compiled them into a report so that you can download and read this handy guide anytime you like.

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