Affiliate Marketing – The SMART Way

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• 1 Internet Business Blogger // Apr 4, 2009 at 10:23 pm

  Chris this is great news. I am a big buyer of your stuff and when I saw the idea of prebuilt affiliate sites I just kind of cringed, good for the first guy but terrible for the second guy. As long as the site is editable though it would be a great resource I think.

  any thought of creating any of these products in WordPress though? That way adding future content to the feeder site or expanding it to a full blown authority site would be as easy as adding content.

• 2 PPC Conversion Tracking Blog // Apr 4, 2009 at 10:28 pm

  Wow.. absolutely awesome… can’t wait to check out these pre made affiliate sites… I wonder though how these can be made as unique as possible for each buyer since they will be available to everyone who comes to the store to buy.

  On that note… what traffic methods would be ideal to use for these content sites? Organic rankings? PPC?

  Can’t wait indeed. Good job!

• 3 Nick // Apr 4, 2009 at 10:28 pm

  Huge fan. Rock on!

• 4 Hiroko // Apr 4, 2009 at 10:30 pm

  Pre-built affiliate content sites, it’s just great!Yes, exactly! you are absolutely right. I found this review membership site, http://www.nichereviewtemplates.com/. It looks really great, but the problem is I don’t want to promote some of the review products. It’s like a wait and see if anything I feel like promoting and keep paying the fee! That’s what I don’t want to do. You know exactly what marketers want.

• 5 Tony // Apr 4, 2009 at 10:37 pm

  What a good idea!!!
  I never thought much of PLR articles and building sites around them, sticking Adsense on and sitting back and waiting..and waiting…

• 6 Ray // Apr 4, 2009 at 10:40 pm

  The Pre-built affiliate content sites looks interesting.

  I checked the “review search engine”.
  Hmpf, it does not extract reviews, it looks much like a simple query on google. The idea sounds really great, but the tool needs to do more than just a google query that everybody can do.
  Jonathan Leger has created a great tool (Instant Article Wizard) that extract contents from the web. I think that’s the way to go. Something similar to that, specialized on product reviews, would be a 5 stars product.

• 7 Social Media Consultant // Apr 4, 2009 at 10:48 pm

  Yeah Chris, this is a wonderful news from you! But for your “Pre-built affiliate content sites”, hope that you can make it a limited edition, so that the market will not be flooded with the same template or whatsoever.

  Or you could build a variation of ” Pre-built affiliate content sites”. That would be wonderful then.

  As for your “Confessions of a Lazy Super-Affiliate: Vol. II” is it continued where you left off from part 1?

  I’m eargerly looking forward in your products!

• 8 Norman // Apr 4, 2009 at 10:52 pm

  For the prebuilt sites, will we be able to modify them to at least make them look different? Can we add Adsense to these sites? They look similar in concept to the Pro2 System or Profitmart.

• 9 Leonard Greenhall // Apr 4, 2009 at 11:09 pm

  Thanks for good teaching and info – still not makeing money yet but your advice “work smart” beats working hard – which I have done (worked hard) for two years without a real breakthough
  total income about $200 total spend about $4000
  total hours about 6 a day each day of the week

  All that I have learned is not a waste as I was a total newbie and very ill informed about everything

  I can stick it out but I will try smarter ways from now

  Regards Lennie G

• 10 Donald // Apr 4, 2009 at 11:16 pm

  Chris, it sounds like you’re going to have a busy year!

  Your search engine is simply great but I hope that you are not going to let too many people know about.

  I like the idea of an affiliate content sites store and especially the fact that it will not run on the standard membership model. Over the years I have paid for a large number of PLR memberships and I have a hard disk full of c*** which I will never use – the price I had to pay to get the relatively few PLR packages I actually wanted.

  I also like the idea of you “Six months to six figures” course which I am sure will be a winner.

  BTW – will customers who already own the Lazy Affiliate get a free or discounted upgrade to Vol II?

  Many thanks

  Don

• 11 Theresa Mayhew // Apr 4, 2009 at 11:20 pm

  Hi Chris,
  This will take the guess work out of the equation and leave us without any excuses for not succeeding.

  Brilliant!
  Theresa

• 12 Rick Macaulay // Apr 4, 2009 at 11:33 pm

  Hi Chris,

  I hope you offer the special like you did at the begining with the first VIP releases! It saved me a ton of money…

• 13 Joe Watson // Apr 5, 2009 at 12:57 am

  I agree with the comment about WordPress (latest version) as lots of marketers are now using WordPress as their main platform for promotion.

  Very little HTML knowledge (if any) is required. Sites are easy to maintain and make any changes. Easy to set up and make posts etc. etc.

  Don’t forget us Chris!

  Joe

• 14 Jeremy Hier // Apr 5, 2009 at 1:20 am

  Sounds great Chris looking forward to it.
  The most important information to know
  is what is converting and selling.

  Suggestion could you create a variety of conduit templates so everyone is not looking the same.

  Just saw you will have auto responder messages,
  that’s really cool.

• 15 Jeremy Hier // Apr 5, 2009 at 1:23 am

  Also Chris…

  Dam man, your really rockin and rolling creating your own products, way to go. =)

  I think you would do well doing a seminar.

• 16 Cheow // Apr 5, 2009 at 1:42 am

  Hi Chris,

  Good stuffs you have for us in 2009. Particularly looking forward to pre-built affiliate content site and confessions vol 2.

  CHeow

• 17 Anthony // Apr 5, 2009 at 1:43 am

  What about the kitchen sink? LOL

• 18 John // Apr 5, 2009 at 1:45 am

  Chris,

  One thing I’d really like is an authority site plan, particularly the specifics of the link building plan. It seems for the most part people focus on what can be done for cheap or free, but I’d love a blueprint for building a major authority site. I have started doing this, buying high PR links etc and I am nervous about whether or not I am being wise in my approach. How much to spend, how many links to add each day/week, where to buy them and those sort of things. Something like that would be great, but everything you have planned sounds great as well. Always a pleasure to get your email blasts. A very rare thing in IM.

• 19 Alex // Apr 5, 2009 at 2:28 am

  Good stuff Chris, you´re going to be really busy with all this. I hope you don´t forget the VIP reports that are still on the list?

• 20 aspiring affiliate // Apr 5, 2009 at 3:33 am

  Great stuff Chris. Am especially looking forwards to the 6 months to 6 igures things you are working on!

• 21 Comprehensive // Apr 5, 2009 at 4:52 am

  Good ideas Chris! To what extent will the pre-built affiliate content sites will be customisable? (Look & Feel as well as content and adding unlimited pages). Is there some way in which these sites can alert the owner of links that become redundant? Will there be ‘how-to’ instructions for uploading and publishing? Are these HTML-based (as you advocate in ‘Conduit Marketing) or WordPress or other? Any sites planned in the burgeoning LOHAS area? Affordable pricing? – like most of your products? Will the owner have full rights of resale? Well…, I’ll leave the bulk of my questions for later
  Thanks!

• 22 Guitarmasters // Apr 5, 2009 at 5:13 am

  Great stuff! Thanks!

• 23 Gewdton // Apr 5, 2009 at 6:11 am

  Hmm, now that I noticed it, from the front page, and from John’s post…

  Anyone that read the current post by Chris, watch what Chris did. Especially that link to the UBPRF or Conduit Search Engine, whatever I should call it?

  Watch what’s he doing right now, and what he is planning in the future.

  Chris is “scaling things up” to his lazymarketer site.

  It is a real live, real-time, in front of our eyes, example of Chris going to turning thelazymarketer.com into a full-fledge authority site.

  The link to the simple awesome tool for looking reviews and feedbacks, Conduit Search Engine, might attract lots of traffic, like the Google keyword tool, WordTracker, etc. (Btw, just it use about an hour ago to look for a product, literally cut my time in half searching for reviews!)

  The refining of the salesletter for the Confession of a Lazy Super-Affiliate (with a video… and finally a opt-in! Obviously, Chris stuffs is so great, people are probably searching high and low and wonder why the hell Chris doesn’t have a opt-in in his front page until you bought one of his product!)

  And his future plan of creating a e-store for conduit builders, a 6-month course for newbies, two more useful tools for us affiliates (aka. Google keyword tool), and finally the whole she-bang, COFSLA vol.2 which probably is the big motherload of the meaning of life or the bible?:O

  Well, at least this is what I think… from just my observation.

  By the way, this will be a great 2009 with all the good stuffs. Great post, Chris!:)

  Also, Chris, you know where’s the FORUM at? I wonder where it could be?;)

• 24 Easy Video // Apr 5, 2009 at 6:16 am

  Hi Chris
  Sounds like a very interesting new year.
  The pre built sites look very good indeed.
  I am of the same opinion as Internet Business Blogger – if its possible to have them in WordPress – That would definitely be a boon for adding more content.

• 25 barb // Apr 5, 2009 at 8:22 am

  I’ll be the first one to sign up for 6 months to 6 Figures — would love to see that program offered as an online class where participants had the ability to Mastermind with other classmates throughout the process … but perhaps you’ve already thought of that …

• 26 charles // Apr 5, 2009 at 8:22 am

  I thought the product finder would be improved if you could choose the number of results to display (maybe its there and I missed it).

• 27 Leo S. // Apr 5, 2009 at 8:22 am

  Wow!! ‘You only live twice’ was the well-known movie-title. But I think you really must have two lives, coming up with so much impressive stuff.
  So…eh.. take care and keep going!

  Leo

• 28 Corky // Apr 5, 2009 at 8:28 am

  ALL this in one post? Holy Cow! It’s not like you are conserving trees here. This is about 12 posts for a normal blog. When you’ve got something to say, you say it.
  What a novel approach! Thanks!

  I’m sure we will all stay tuned.
  Corky

• 29 Top SEO Consultant // Apr 5, 2009 at 9:11 am

  You did it again Chris,
  I love this custom search engine. I’ve bookmarked it and plan on using it alot!
  Abe SEOman

• 30 Social Networking Sites // Apr 5, 2009 at 9:25 am

  Having purchased some of your previous products I know that you deliver. I’m looking forward to your new stuff.

• 31 Misfit // Apr 5, 2009 at 9:42 am

  Great stuff Chris.

  Keep it coming!

• 32 Ricardo // Apr 5, 2009 at 10:44 am

  Hi Chris:

  This is just to say “thank you” for your new free search engine. You could have sold it as a membership! Quite original and impressive. Thank you.

• 33 Nursery Decoration // Apr 5, 2009 at 12:25 pm

  Chris
  Loved your ideas! I agree with post # 7 though, I hope that you are going to make the pre built affiliate sites a limited edition. I’m looking forward to your 6 figures income in 6 months course. I have an advice for you in that topic: you are going to need a forum my friend.Believe me , it’s much easier to answer all the questions that is going to invade your helpdesk if you do just once at the forum. I know by my own experience because I’m one of the moderators at the NB forum.
  Think that your search engine reviews tool is very cool…thanks for sharing.
  A second edition for The Lazy Affiliate Marketer? WOW!
  Do I need to say that I’m a big fan of yours, too?
  Wonderful 2009 for you and your family!
  Best regards,
  Cindy

• 34 Horse Betting System // Apr 5, 2009 at 12:33 pm

  Can’t wait to start using the content review site for my conduit sites. Talk about a HUGE timesaver! Thanks, Chris. Awesome work as always.

• 35 John // Apr 5, 2009 at 12:35 pm

  Hi Chris
  This new Ho To search tool…is the significance for us to easily find sites that we can use for testimonials on our own sites?

  Are there other ways you envision us using this tool?

  Thanks
  John

• 36 Tried & Tested? // Apr 5, 2009 at 2:07 pm

  Hi Chris, I checked out the search engine link and pretty much agree with Ray’s (post #6) views on the subject.
  With regard to the pre-built sites, I’ve kind-of been there. JP Schoeffel’s Niches In A Box provides ‘packages’, actually websites, that you can choose from, with a new one every month. The trouble is that while editable, that process is hugely time-consuming, not to mention, it’s yet another unique system to learn. All this has been done before, so why re-invent the wheel – if you are going to sell sites, or components that will make up a silo-type-site, then use X-Site Pro. Lot’s of people have it, many don’t use it, but it provides a very good framework for such an activity (I’ll be going through all my sites and changing many of them soon).
  Damn, perhaps I’ve just given away a new product idea..

• 37 Emma // Apr 5, 2009 at 6:39 pm

  Hi Chris,

  I love the idea of 6 figures in 6 months. Daily action plans sound fantastic!

  I tried the new review search engine, and whilst I like that it only gives “downloads” and “yahoo answers” results, I think there is a flaw. These days the majority of answers on Yahoo Answers are from affiliates flogging the product with their link. So it won’t give you any honest reviews (unless they are negative) in my opinion.

  It would be better if the review search engine searched product forums. (not sure if that’s possible).

• 38 admin // Apr 5, 2009 at 6:43 pm

  Hey guys & gals – thanks for all the comments and feedback – much appreciated.

  I’ll try and cover the majority of the questions raised here…

  Purpose of the Product Review Search Engine:
  ————————————-

  The whole point of this is to instantly dig up UNBIASED, non-affiliated content pertaining to a product.

  This comes in handy for several reasons, ranging from simply seeing if a product is legit to citing reviews or creating “snippets” for use with your own reviews.

  At any rate, if nothing else it just simply shows you what the customers in the niche have really experienced – in their own words.

  (Hint: Pay special attention to the positive comments. They reveal what makes the market excited, which you can then incorporate into your own offers and promos.)

  In other words, it saves you TIME because you’re not filtering through one affiliate site after the next.

  Pre-Made Affiliate Sites:
  ——————————

  The idea here is to make it easier to simply “get started” as an affiliate going into any market. The smart affiliates will realize that pre-built content is a GREAT shortcut because:

  * The offers & followups are pre-created, saving HOURS of time

  * The content can simply be re-written or used as an easy reference point to create UNIQUE content. (Perfect for outsourcing as well)

  * The products being profiled & reviewed are pre-researched. Again, saving you tons of time.

  It’s a major shortcut.

  We will also have measures in place to prevent over-saturation.

  Remaining VIP Reports:
  —————————–

  Of course these will still be released. I’m bundling the linking reports together into one. Everyone who purchased Confessions gets that one for free, btw.

  And I’m bundling the “life lessons” and Google-proofing report into one as well, to avoid redundancy. No sense in selling re-hash when you can just say it once.

  Confessions Vol 2 and the 6 Month Program
  —————————–

  The emphasis for these is two core elements:

  1. Revealing actual processes
  2. Making it simple to ENACT

  Masterminding may be a part of it, but most membership sites seem to have inactive forums – or congregational cluelessness. I would rather deliver unmuddled info and then perhaps have webinars or coaching options to clarify things with solid, fact-based information.

  Hope that helps clear a few things up

  Cheers

  -Chris

• 39 admin // Apr 5, 2009 at 6:46 pm

  @Emma,

  It doesn’t just search Yahoo Answers or download sites.

  It searches over 2000 different sites. Mostly forums, actually (over 97% are forums)

  Your results will vary greatly from one product to the next.

  Search for several kinds of products and you’ll see this clearly.

  Cheers,

  -Chris

• 40 Stephen // Apr 5, 2009 at 9:49 pm

  This is really awesome, Chris. I’m very glad I stumbled on to you in the Warrior Forum about a year ago.

  I have unsubscribed from almost all the GURUs because of an incestuous sharing of email lists that means you get 15 offers for every single new launch. And they are coming 2 every week, it seems.

  But your emails, Chris, ALWAYS get through, because, like others have pointed out here, you deliver VALUE.

  Are the Affiliate packages you will be creating be like the weight-loss upsell you recently did with the Conduit webinar?

  Thanks a bunch!

  Stephen

• 41 admin // Apr 5, 2009 at 9:59 pm

  Hi Stephen,

  Similar, yes. They will vary greatly depending on the topic, since each market has a different sort of “tone” and approach that works best.

  And I forgot to mention that there will be blog support for these as well.

  Thanks

  -Chris

• 42 Max // Apr 6, 2009 at 5:23 am

  Chris

  Will you also be offering any kind of non-themed ‘universal’ template-sets?

  I’m currently trying to locate a set of web 2.0 style pre-built generic page-templates suitable for List Building + Pre-Sell, that include:

  Index Page, Combined Thank You / OTO Page, Ts & Cs Page, Earnings Disclaimer Page, Privacy Page, White Listing Tips Page, Download Page,
  Resources Page, Un-populated Article Pages

  I know I could build myself (or go to elance and commission one) but the ability to instantly purchase a decent set of ready made, interlinked pages like this would be great.

  Don’t suppose you know where I could grab such a set right now do you?

  Max

• 43 Zander Boon // Apr 6, 2009 at 6:33 am

  Hi Chris,

  Search Tool:
  Yep, great, as long as the general public don’t get their hands on it! There must be at least a few “civilians” out there who also get pi**ed off about finding nothing but heavily loaded affiate “review” sites.

  Affiliate review sites:
  Probably a good idea, but personally I find throwing together some HTML and images less time consuming than 20 pages of “rewrite the content and BOOM” . Having said that, the opt-in and autoresponder stuff could be useful.

  Cheers
  Zander

• 44 Linda // Apr 6, 2009 at 4:48 pm

  Count me in on 6 months to 6 figures. Please price it for installment payments – thanks.

• 45 Andres // Apr 6, 2009 at 7:04 pm

  I want the prebuilt content sites with autoresponder sequences as soon as possible, in markets with a lot of lifetime value….

  

• 46 admin // Apr 7, 2009 at 2:22 pm

  Hi Zander,

  Aside from the outsourcing option (of rewriting), the biggest thing is that the sites will be lean, professional and optimized for conversions.

  I’ve reviewed and critiqued countless affiliate sites from clients, and the biggest common denominator of the producing sites – aside from traffic – is the appearance of authority.

  If a site looks like it’s a hard-sell, then it won’t be believable.

  If it looks like a thrown-together amateur hack job of a site, then similarly, the site won’t be “believed” or taken seriously.

  Simple is fine (all my sites are “simple”), but hack-jobs won’t cut it.

  This is a big problem for a LOT of beginner affiliates.

  And the primary reason for launching this initiative.

  Thanks!

  -Chris

• 47 StevieA // Apr 8, 2009 at 5:29 pm

  Chris-

  If I am hearing you right, you are going to offer a 6-month course on learning and developing the conduit method. And, we will be able to buy an ‘already made’ site that we would add our
  information into.

  Is that what we can look forward to?

  I read your ‘Confessions of a Lazy Super Affiliate’ and I got it! I just have not had the
  time to take it on.

  I am so excited about this. Thank you.

• 48 admin // Apr 8, 2009 at 6:30 pm

  Hi Stevie

  The 6-month course covers a full range of topics. Not just the conduit method. The conduit method is just one facet of the whole picture.

  The course will cover the gamut of running an affiliate BUSINESS. Not just siphoning traffic and testing markets.

  The ready-made sites will be explained in more detail as time progresses. I’m ironing out the wrinkles as we speak.

  -Chris

• 49 Ciara // Apr 9, 2009 at 11:28 am

  Hi Chris,

  Can’t wait for the 6 month program. Just a couple of questions on this;

  How are you going to structure this – will the whole course be available up front so people can go at their own pace or do you plan to release modules monthly?
  Also, could you give us an idea of when this will kick off?

  Thanks,
  Ciara

• 50 admin // Apr 9, 2009 at 11:48 am

  Hi Ciara,

  I think weekly instructions and lessons will be more effective than a one-time “dump” of information.

  However, I may have an up-front payment option for those who don’t want to go the monthly recurring route, which would then potentially give them access to all of the information immediately.

  Working on this one as fast as possible…

  I don’t have a definite launch date (yet).

  Thanks

  -Chris

• 51 Wim // Apr 9, 2009 at 1:03 pm

  Hi Chris,

  I am a big fan and bought most of your products. When do you think you can deliver the first templates?

  Cheers and keep up the good work.

• 52 admin // Apr 9, 2009 at 1:29 pm

  Hi Wim

  Thanks for the comment

  The first few sites are coming together and I’ll do an initial launch shortly at a discount for my customers.

  Cheers

  -Chris

• 53 TheInfoMaven // Apr 9, 2009 at 8:54 pm

  Hey Chris,

  I would LOVE a report that covers media buying, if you have any thoughts on that.

• 54 Wim // Apr 9, 2009 at 11:47 pm

  ok, thank you Chris.

• 55 Best Host // Apr 11, 2009 at 2:55 pm

  Chris- I love your stuff. After subscribing to every list I could find when I started, I have now cut down to two lists: yours and one other. Looks look like a non-lazy 2009 for you.

  Two things that I wish I knew more about but don’t yet are creating membership sites and link cloaking. The membership site appeals to me because of the consistent income that can be built.

  I have found some of the sales letters from the so-called gurus on the subject, but they are either too expensive or just don’t move me to buy. If you wrote it, I would buy it in a heartbeat .

  As for link cloaking, I have no idea what to believe and what not to. I think some of my clicks to CB are not getting tracked properly. Not being too terribly technical, I don’t know what precautions I really need to take and which I don’t.

  Keep up the great work!

• 56 William // Apr 11, 2009 at 2:58 pm

  Hi Chris,

  Thanks for the affiliate sites and for the fact that its not a membership. Buying what I want when is easier than yet another subscription – just cancled loads

  I hope these in could be provided in wp blog form for its flexibity.

  I’ll go test out the reviews search tool now

  Happy Easter

  William

• 57 TheInfoMaven // Apr 13, 2009 at 3:37 am

  Chris,

  I am ACHING for that 6-months to six figures report. Just ACHING.

  Any ETA?

• 58 Tracy Sutherland // Apr 13, 2009 at 7:15 pm

  Dear Chris,

  I was just wondering how far-off in the not so
  distant future will your Six Months to Six Figures Income course be available?

• 59 admin // Apr 14, 2009 at 12:50 am

  @ Best Host – thanks for letting me know, I may cover those topics in the future. Have you looked at Amember.com for the membership sites? That’s pretty standard…

  Also, there’s the autoresponder model, like JD Brown’s Membernaire.com…

  @ William – there will be blog support.

  @ InfoMaven & Tracy – It’s in progress but it will be in a few months, and not weeks.

  Thanks!

  -Chris

• 60 Consumer Products Overview // Apr 14, 2009 at 10:06 am

  Chris,

  Your stuff is always spot-on…simple and to the point and you always over deliver. You lay the pieces out there and leave it to us to put them together or take what you have learned as a base for building a real honest to goodness business. I’m not quite there yet and I had almost given up multiple times but I’m glad that I didn’t. Your words have given me so many “light bulb” moments….I just wish I could get over that hump and make it full time with my business…but I know that with perserverence and time I will. I have literally come along in leaps and bounds since I started following your advice…I still suck at article writing but to tell you the truth, I think that part of my roadblock is inside my head…but I’m working on that.

  Thanks for everything and I’ll let you know as things progress.

  Cheers!

• 61 Joe // Apr 14, 2009 at 5:59 pm

  Just gotta say i brought ya conduits ebook – best few dollars i ever spent on an ebook. i rarely buy now coz i dont trust any gurus. i hate the im market…dirty, nasty clickbank ppl… im still on all there lists just incase i miss one little trick.

  but… this email caught my eye..from one of your affiliates… and it sounds like somethin im already starting to do.. i just didnt know why and the ins and outs…

  your book put the missing peices together really simply in a few page ebook.

  im from uk so im gonna be doing that crap ova there.. so dont sell any more to uk ppl cheers haha

• 62 andrew zubriczky // Apr 15, 2009 at 8:41 am

  Hi, Chris,

  I am an independent research scholar and I have been following you through your sales letters for the past few months. Firstly, your copy is always fresh, honest and direct. It’s actually refreshing to read. Having read thousands, you really do STAND OUT from the crowd.

  Great ideas produce great results when acted upon! I can see only great things in your future Chris. Your setting new standards. Keep up the great work!

  andrewzubriczky@yahoo.ca

• 63 Product Review - 4 Sites | work from home data entry jobs // Apr 20, 2009 at 2:56 pm

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• 64 Island Bill // May 4, 2009 at 12:26 pm

  Hello Chris,

  You’ve got us all excited about your plans and products for 2009, so how about an update on where you stand (estimated launch dates, cost, etc.). Lots of us will be jumping on the pre-built affiliate conduit sites as soon as available.

  Throw us a bone here!!

  Bill

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