People are getting really frustrated with all these random clickbank sales patterns. People seem to from making $200 per day, to literally $0 per day. Why is this that case?

Well, there can be a lot of reasons for this, and the economy is certainly one of them. But I personally don’t like to spend too much on the “why.” You see, the “why” is something we can’t usually control:

* Bad economy
* People leaving for holidays
* A niche becoming over saturated

There are probably a ton of reasons WHY patterns are so random. I think it’s more important to look at things you can control. Most non-successful affiliates sit around and wait for something to happen.

I know this because I used to be one of them. You need to literally be a go-getter. You need to be fierce. You need to say – ok OBVIOUSLY, what I was doing isn’t working, so what can I now do differently to jump start my income once again.

It’s a lot like weight loss. I’m talking about this because I’m in the fitness niche, own a well-read blog, and have gone through my own personaltransformation.

On the first week, you lose 5 pounds. Second week, you lose 3 pounds. And then you keep losing 1-2 pounds each week, consistently. Then all of a sudden, you hit a plateau.

The one who fails will be the one who keeps doing the same thing expecting different results (i.e. breaking through a plateau). The one who succeeds is the one who completely changes his approach and pushes himself into a new level of fitness (or marketing, in our case).

That’s how it works in EVERY endeavor that your pursue. So stop complaining and start working!

I been getting a few questions through the Digital Point Clickbank forum. Here’s one that came in this morning:

Just wondering, are you making good money with adwords ppc ? you mentioned you made 1 sale. Is that good? May I know how do you choose your keyword and any tips for adword

Here was my response:

Not that difficult ****. People make a big deal out of nothing.

All I do is go to the google keyword tool, put in a keyword that relates to my product, then grab all the 50-200 keywords that they suggest and put it into my list.

I make a few ad groups and see what happens. Start with 10 and every day, slowly get rid of the worst performing one untilyou’re left with just 3.

This is when you start testing out the actual ads.

Also, make sure you use the demographic feature. I cut down on the number of countries I was targeting to 13 because that is where i recieved my sales from.

I also made sure that only people between the ages of 25 – 50 clicked on my ads. No one else has money.

The sale I made was good, becuase I only spend $2. I’ve made mistakes and spent $20 to make one sale for a product that gives me $20 commissions. I’ve either broke evven or lost money.

This time, I sold a product that give me $8.90 commssion, so my profit was $7.90. Don’t always go for the high paying products.

Hope this helps.

So I published a whole bunch of articles on Ezine yesterday, July 3rd. I woke up this morning and notice that one of them had 26 click backs to my site. I usually get around 4-6 hits back to my site. I’m sure that’s the average for most people.

I’ve been getting really high click backs lately, at least 10 for most articles. I noticed a few very important things:

- The title needs to be simple, with the keyword as the base of the title. Don’t make anything too flashy, or too common. If there’s 4000 other articles with the same title, chances are your article won’t rank too well.

- The body needs to be personalized. Don’t regurgitate the same BS as every other article. Don’t give out too much information either. The one’s that that have a higher click rate focus more on results and benefits than actual advice.

- Make sure you have a call to action. Just don’t say, “To find out more, click here.” Say something like, “Now it’s time to reveal to you guys how I achieved some great results…”

I’m sure these pointers are nothing new, but I noticed a ton of questions about Ezine articles, so I’d thought I’d share these quick tips.

Here’s the truth though – despite the great traffic I’m getting from ezine, not many have converted, especially with the particular article I’m talking about with 20 something click backs within a few hours.

This could mean that my landing pages suck, or that ezine articles just don’t work as well as email marketing. At the end of the day, it’s the people that trust you, who’ll buy from you.

One thing I have achieved though. Remember I said I couldn’t get sales Monday thru Thursday? Well, I’ve gotten at least one sale each day this week except Wednesday. So at least that’s a good thing.

UPDATE: I just spent yesterday changing the link back to ALL of my ezine articles (all 90 of them) to point straight to my opt-in page. At this point, I’m convinced that the Ezine to Landing Page concept of “bum marketing” is not my time. So far, I’ve made ONE sale from bum marketing. All others come from my email list.

So the goal is to get 100 sign ups per day to my opt in list. That’s 100 potential customers DAILY. If I get around 10-20 (lets say, 15 per day) sign ups right now. That’s 105 per week. I get around 5-10 sales (lets say, 7 sales) per week

105 sign ups per week = 7 sales per week
105 sign ups PER DAY = 7 sales PER DAY

Most of my sign ups were coming from PPC, so I’m guessing ezine articles will have more qualified leads. I think this is the fast track method to seeing double zero daily commissions.

The biggest mistak you’re making with affiliate marketing is that you’re not selling products you’re interested in.

If YOU won’t buy the products, then how do you expect someone else to purchase them?

My expertise is home fitness. I’ve been training at home for years. I started a blog, built up a community, and now that community trusts me enough to buy from me.

So for all those that are struggling with this, start a blog today. Get yourself a hosting servcise and domain name. Install wordpress, choose a nice theme, and start blogging.

By the way, blogging has the best SEO. I barely do anything and I rank high in the search engines.

It takes time, but what doesn’t? If you want a good, steady, long-term source of income, then blogging is the way to go.

Check out my blog for ideas on product promotions, writing, and layout: http://shahtraining.com/

What I’m saying is that there are so many beginners going into niche’s they have no idea about. Once you know what to do, then yes, you’ll probably be succesfull with anything. But shorten the learning curve my talking about products and niche’s you’re familiar with.

But keep in mind that Affiliate Marketing is a Slow process. Stay in it long enough, and you WILL be successfull.

I’ve been talking a lot about email marketing since I joined this forum. Frank Kern just put out a great video about how you can use email marketing to make affiliate sales. Check it out here: http://masscontrolsite.com/blog/?p=52

I’m going to start using some of these techniques which hopefully result in a better click through rate.

You guys should try to get on Frank Kern’s mailing list. Even though he does a lot of product promotions, his free videos are worth it.

So I’ve had a site up for a while, and it’s just been this month that I decide to focus primarily on Affiliate Marketing.

Here’s the screenshot of my earning so far. As you can see, I tend to get my best sales on the weekends:

I think it has a lot to do with my target market – busy professionals. I do a ton of email marketing and so these professionals probably only check their personal email on the weekends.

The strategy I been using is very simple:

1. Use PPC AND Article Marketing to Generate Traffice to Opt-In List Landing Page
2. Write Blog Post designed to Get People to Purchase Product

Two simple steps and I’ve already doubled my earnings. My goal for next week is to break past $400 using this strategy.

The only thing is, as most of you have noticed, I tend to get 0 sales between Monday and Thursday (Except for Today, but I think that was a spillover from SUNDAY.

Here are the products that I’m selling right now:  turbulence training, gladiator body workout, naked commando system, meltdown kettlebell training, superior dumbbell workout, average joe workout, and workout without weights. So that’s 7 products, and I have 10 products featured on my site. 3 are not selling…yet.

I’ve seen a few sales that are not from my email list - so I just GUESS and say that they’re from either SEO or Article Marketing.

I think Article Marketing works, but just going crazy and writing random articles is point less and boring. I’ve been paying close attention to what headlines work, what kind of copy works, and what kind of call to action works.

I’ve been writing less articles lately. But higher quality. An article I wrote last week has already recieved 35 click thrus. My highest ever was 25 for an article that’s been up for months.

HOWEVER, I did not get any sales for the product I’m selling. That could mean that the copy on my website sucks. I’ll fix it and see what happens.

Bum marketing may be great, but not many people can sit there, put their brain to the side, and just write random junk. I’d rather write 3-4 articles that have 30 click thrus each and results in 3-4 sales per day rather than 20-30 articles with 3 click thrus per day resulting in 3-4 sales per day.

When you crunch the numbers and add in time, you realize you’re doing a lot of useless work for nothing. No one ever measures time. Time is just as, if not more important than money.

traffic does not necessarily equal sales. We know that. I’ll be doing some analysis on the past few weeks – how, where, what resulted in sales. The goal is to make at least on sale on monday through thursday. I’ll share my findings with all of you.