My Journey To Become A Super Affiliate

Recently, there has been a few good tools that’s out in the market for all PPC marketers to use. And the best things of all is that its totally free for all to use. There must be a reason behind why they are giving out all these tools free for everyone. Must have some backend profits to be made. But heck.. who cares if its free. Must make the best use out of it. Here goes:

1) Wordze Google Trend - Free Tool by Wordze to provide you with all the keyword searches under Google from Jan 2008 and have more then 119,200 keyword now and its increasing every single day. Allows to find out what are the popular keywords that’s being searched around the world so that you can identify what products to sell to the hunger market.

2) Offer Vault - This tool was previously only offered to members of Affiliate Radar but the owner has thus decided to let everyone have it for free. This tool is used to find affiliate offers from 25 affiliate networks. This will allow you to find the highest paid offer for the same campaigns and offers so that you can give yourself a instant payout on your earnings!

Why Free? I suppose the owner wants you to sign up for those networks that you have not signed up for and earned the referral commission for signing under his link. Instant residual income for him for the rest of his life as long as his referral remains an affiliate marketer.

3) Tracking202 Beta - Software that’s way better that affiliate radar and gives you detailed report of how have your keywords converted. How many clicks, how many conversion etc. Provides graphs and charts for your report. If you think affiliate radar is too expensive for you, US$97/month, go ahead and give tracking202 a shot. I have just signed up for the account and will be trying it out soon.

Why Free? There have been rumors saying that the owner actually has your keyword list for your campaigns as well as your landing page, he can easily steal your keyword list away and start his own campaigns and start profiting from your hardwork. Even though the owner claims he will not do that, but who knows. My advise is that if you are not a big time affiliate marketer like Amit from SuperAffiliateMindset or Paul from UberAffiliate , then it really doesn’t matter to you. No harming risking your keyword lists that’s might lose you money for something that’s worth at least US$97/month.

4) Efficient PPC - Works better then SpeedPPC, Cheaper then SpeedPPC. This tool is not free. It cost US$99 and US$19 every month. If not you can opt for a one time payment of US$347 and use the tool for as long as you are an affiliate marketer. Help you churns out campaigns faster then anything. Help you create templates situation for Yahoo and MSN for the campaigns you created for Google so that you can do your campaign once, and test it in all 3 search engine. Wonderful tool to help you save tons of time.

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We all know that online marketing can make you money. People all know that you can make a lot of money driving traffic through Google Adwords Advertising program. However, do you know what you are doing? There are obviously some companies that are throwing away hundreds or even thousands of dollars to Google and not making anything in return. Here’s one fine example that i come across and i would like to share this with all of you here.

I was googleing for the keyword Pay Per View Formula. This is actually a Internet Marketing term and guess what came up for the sponsored listing?

Click on the picture to see the enlarged version of the screenshot. This guy advertising for baby diapers obviously do not know what he is doing. I think he is trying to advertise for the keyword baby milk formula and when you search for the keyword formula under broad keyword, any search that has keyword formula in it will appear in the search listing.

Therefore, when advertising on Google Adwords, be careful when using the broad keyword function as it will bring you unwanted clicks and cause you to lose money for nothing.

When using Google Adwords, be sure to use the negative keyword function as well to filter off any unwanted search that you can think of. Do your research well before attempting to set up any campaigns.

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Not long ago, Paul from UberAffiliate.com recommended using the Plum Card from American Express that allows you to have a special 2% cash back on all business transaction. This means that you are actually already making money even if you break even on your campaigns. So the more you spend, the more you actually earned!

What if you are based in Singapore? The Plum Card is only offered in USA and not in Singapore. So what card is the best card for CPA Marketing?

In Singapore, we are exposed to exchange rate loses and from my calculation, for every US$1000 that you spend on your credit card, you are actually losing about SGD$30 on exchange rate lost and this results in a even smaller profit margin for you and if you are just breaking even, you are actually losing money. There is actually no credit card available online that can charge you in USD so that you can pay in USD and avoid the exchange rate lost.

However, Standard Chartered Bank has this plan that allows you to open up a USD account and issue you with a Debit Card that allows you to do all your transaction in USD. This way, you wont lose out on the exchange rate. But but but, you must first qualify to be in their priority banking category which means you must have at least SGD$100,000 deposited with them. You can check out more of this card here.

http://www.standardchartered.com.sg/cb/pb/usd_high.html

However, if you do not have SGD$100,000 like me, ha then you can opt for a cheaper option which is the CitiBank Divided Platinum card which offers cashback of up to 5% for some transactions but for business transactions, the cash back is only 0.5%. But hey, this is better then nothing. Meaning for every US$1000 that you spend, you actually get back SGD$7.05 and reduce your exchange rate lost to SGD$23.

Check out the CitiBank Dividend Card here

That’s about all that i have researched so far, if there are some other cards that gives you a better offer, please let me know by giving your comments so that we all can benefit and cut our exchange rate lost.

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What can be the most amazing thing to happen on your Internet Business?

Of cos, making money online is amazing. Making tons of money is even more amazing. Quitting your job and to work full time on your Internet Business is even even more amazing. Attaining financial freedom through your passion, hardwork and determination in your Internet Business is even even even more amazing.

However, there is one thing that’s the most amazing part about an Internet Business. See your buddy get started on the Internet. Seeing your buddy starting to pick up Internet Marketing.

Recently, my friend Roxas, just got started on Internet and he got his first blog started in just a few weeks! He’s a business IT student in my university and i suppose that’s why he was able to pick things up so quickly.

Roxas definitely has some nice business ideas on his head about how he’s going to attempt to make some real money online. And if you are a newbie, be sure to check out his post and follow what he does as he updates his blog.

He even has this header graphics which i think is damn beautiful and i’m very jealous! Look at my header graphics and you’ll know why i’m jealous. haha.. He promises to teach me photoshop one day when i’m free.

Guys, if you are free.. check out www.RoxasOnline.com

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I know this is not new and i’m not new to this either. However, this is definitely new to my blog! haha

I have used this tool on my previous blogs but i clean forgotten about this nice neat tool until i happen to chanced upon it again.  This tool is call feedburner.

Don’t want to come over to my blog only to see that i have not updated my blog? then this tool is for you!

I have just added this tool from feedburner whereby you can subscribe to my blog feeds and whenever i make a new blog post, you’ll be informed via email to come and read my blog post. You can even read it on your email without coming to my blog. Read it on your email and decide if you want to pop over and drop me a comment or just to say hi.

Go ahead. subscribe to my feedburner via the link to the right of my blog under the subscribe to my feed. I currently only have one subscriber and help me to increase the figures! It’ll benefit you too and save you a large amount of time!

I am currently subscribed to a lot of super affilaites’ blog via feedburner as well so that i do not miss out any post that they had made.

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I still remember last year June when i was sitting at a Internet Marketing conference called the World Internet Summit at Singapore Expo. In that seminar, there were world class internet marketer earnings millions and millions of dollars every year on the internet. Stephen Pierce even did a live demo of how he can earned $100,000 in just 48 hours and have the money donated to a charity organization.

I was defnitely an eye opener. That’s was when i made a promise myself to make a full time income online and never have to work for anyone else in my life. Glad to say that i have found my own formula and slowly working towards my goals and my dreams.

Recently, just recently, Tom Hua and Brett McFall just released a report called The Simple Truth where they revealed the 7 Secrets of why people are not earning money online and how you can avoid them.

Knowing that people do not like to give their email to be part of other people’s list, i uploaded my copy and i’m gonna let you download it for free. (i’m nice ain’t i)

Go grab your copy now and read it. ( Its not for people earning 5 figure on the internet) I have not reached 5 figure yet and that’s why i downloaded my copy and read it. ha

http://www.ivan-ong.com/download/thesimpletruth.pdf

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Realised i hasn’t blog about options trading for a long long time. Today i am going to reveal to you my strategy to trading and how you can use it to profit from the stock market consistently. Listen up,

Shorting Naked Put

Do you know what that terms mean? Shorting naked put is actually a strategy widely known by traders and its a really simple strategy.

Shorting means selling and what i do in trading is actually selling naked put options.

Why Selling Put Options Literally Increases Your Chance Of Winning by 75%?

• You win when the stock market goes up.
• You win when the stock market goes sideway.
• If case you are all wrong in your prediction, you still win when the stock market drops, but not yet reached your strike price.
• You will only lose when the stock market drops below your strike price.

Does that ratio makes your chances of profiting to 75%?

Right now, with 75% chance of winning, the winning strategy to increase your chance of profiting to 99% comes in when you have to decide what strike price you have to sell your options for in order for the stock market to not reach your strike price.

Risk Of Losing

• Your only risk of losing is greed.
• You want more profit margin and thus violate the rules.
• The stock market crash because of another 9/11 incident.
• Corrective measures were not done properly when market is going against you.
• You fear losing.

These are your risks of losing. However, with proper trading discipline, all these can easily be avoided.

What have i not covered? There seems just too much to talk about. I’ll stop now and continue with part 2 the next time round.

Cheers!

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Just read a post by Amit from SuperAffiliateMindset.com that he shared with his readers some time back last year. Here’s what he wrote in a interview with another super affiliate Felix. Its a bit long but i strongly urge you to read this post…

Conversation with Felix:

I asked Felix how you deal with the following scenario:

You promote a new affiliate offer, get it profitable and strong. It’s making a killing, you optimize & expand it as much as you can, and then let it run on autopilot.

Everything is going fine the first couple of months, then you start to see a slight decline in sale and profits.

Okay, no big deal, probably just a slow month, right?

Then after 6 months of your campaign running on autopilot you realized that your profits have drop by 25%, 40%, or more. Sound familiar?

Felix said that you will see this steady decline in profit overtime in virtually every market you’re in! The fact is that there’s more competition entering in every niche, bid prices are going up. Also, ppc affiliates, and other advertisers are getting savvier and savvier.

Overtime this game will get more challenging NOT less.

So what’s the solution?

With his years of experience and expertise in affiliate marketing, here’s what Felix had to say: You need to accept the fact that profit margins will become thinner and thinner, and overcome this by launching affiliate offers at a faster rate.

Today you may be able to make a fortune with 4-5 solid & build up affiliate offers, 3 years from now you’re probably going to need 10-12 strong offers going to make the same net profit.

The bottom line is if you don’t launch affiliate offers FASTER than your existing affiliate offers are losing profitability, you’re in trouble.

Before you panic, here’s steps you can take to assure long term profitability of your business:

1. For most of you out there you’ve BARELY touched the surface of the niches you’re currently in. If this is the case, you need to get busy optimizing and expanding your current campaigns. Split test your landing pages, do keyword research, test new adcopy, etc, etc. The more optimized and build up your campaigns are, the more long term & stable your profits will be.
2. If you’re already having great success with affiliate marketing you need to start thinking about how you’re going to build a team and turn your one man show into a real company. With a team you’ll be able to launch, optimize, and build up more affiliate offers, at a faster rate. This way your companies bottom line continues to grow, even as your profit margins continue to shrink and more competition enters your markets.

Remember the average business in America has a profit margin of about 10%, expect that to be the case with affiliate marketing 5 years down the road from today.
Are you prepared for the future of affiliate marketing?

This is the exact same problem that i am facing now. Stronger competition from all over the world. Trying to have a share of the pie in this CPA industry. As suggested by Felix, the only way to beat these competitors is to have solid strong campaigns all running at auto-pilot in order to generate the same income you did a while ago.

So what’s the solution? You have to be fast in getting all these campaigns up. You have to be fast in optimising your campaigns for maximum ROI. You have to be fast in eliminating keywords that are losing you money.

Another super affiliate, Jonathan Volk , said that if you are not throwing up at least 5 campaigns a day, then you ain’t really serious in your internet business yet. Look at how fast people are moving nowadays. Scary? Yeah, it is.. But this is just part of the game.

Another factor to building a long term business not at the mercy of the search engines is to have a solid foundations of website that are build for the long term. I’m not saying fanciful and have all sorts of animation flying around. But at least, it must have all the requirements needed to make your website Google friendly. If you can pleased Google, you definitely have pleased Yahoo and MSN.

I reckon that to be able to lead a lifestyle of the super affiliate and make affiliate marketing my main source of income, i have to look long term instead of just trying to aim for quick bucks.

Last night, i redo my timetable for my school to insert in time slots for me to concentrate solely on my internet business and i would like to post it here for everyone to see as well as to remind myself of the commitment and goals that i have set for myself. Added in a 10 hour /week slot in my timetable. This should be the minimum amount of time spent per week working on my campaigns. Am planning to get some software like EfficientPPC and PPCRiches to help me launched my campaigns faster and better.

Time to get serious on building a long term business. I’m sick of looking at super affiliates’ profit and go wow…

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Mindset is really very important when it comes to doing any business. With the correct mindset, no obstacles are big enough to block you or stop you from succeeding.  In the course of starting your business. I’m sure a lot obstacles will surfaced and stop you from succeeding. If not, the whole world will be successful already isn’t it. But what separates the successful and the unsuccessful is only about what they know or do not know. But its about their mindset. About what they really want. About how much they want to achieve success.

After 2 months of doing CPA, i had my first bump on my head. My commission dipped. Campaigns that were earning me big bucks last month suddenly became non-profitable. I had not done anything to my campaigns but it just went down. All the way down.

I think this month i’m only on track to nett 1k+

Discouraged? Yes… Disappointed? Yes… Planning to give up? Hell NO…

So what’s my plan now?

• Revise what has happen to my campaigns and make changes to it.
• Find out what i have not done properly and correct it.
• Revise my methods of launching a campaign and start launching them again.
• Create websites that are more google friendly so that i won’t have any problems in the long run.
• I should start working out my timetable to mange between my school work, my internet business and my girlfriend. Gotta start forcing myself and get out of my comfort zone soon man..

Keep your goals in mind. Because that’s the most important factor to success… Remember why you need to succeed and you will… My short term goal now is to earn enough money to bring my girlfriend for a holiday during our school holidays coming up in May/June and where i go depends on how much i can earned within this few months.  I have to pull up my socks and start bucking up..

PS: I just got my commission check from Primary Ads for Dec 2007. Gonna be my last check from them. After that i’ll be on wire transfer for payment.

Work towards there! You’ll be there soon.

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Apparently Yahoo’s screwing around with all the Internet Marketer around now. They recently just changed their way of indexing and crawling their website and now they are taking years to approve ads. My ads are pending for a few days now and this has greatly affected my commissions this month.

Hopefully they get this cleared up soon and start approving everyone’s ads. I suppose now is the time for me to explore further into the Big G for traffic as i have not touched on Google at all ever since i got started with CPA.

The Big G is definitely is a tougher search engine to tackle but i suppose its only a matter of time before i move onto the Big G. Wanted to make sure i was earning at least 500/day before i go into Google but i guess its time now.

Time to dig up all my books on Adwords and start digesting them these few days.

Btw, you know that Jeremy Palmar is giving away his 148 page ebook on High Performance Affiliate Marketing? If you don’t know who Jeremy is, then you ain’t well informed in the Affiliate marketing world. His is the founder of PPC Classroon and earns around $1.4million last year. There’s definitely something you can learn from him.

Go grab your copy now. You don’t even have to opt in if you don’t want to. But i would recommend you to opt in as he gives valuable information like its free! Here’s the link:

http://www.quityourdayjob.com/hpam2007/ 

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