An Affiliate Marketer from the Ground Up

I’ve always used the free keyword tools like Google’s, WordTracker’s and a couple of others. I finally decided to invest in a good program that has everything you need for keyword researching and finding niche markets. I bought Micro Niche Finder. I’ve posted about it before here, and I love it. It does about everything you need done to find a good, low competitive niche, and to do the research. It even goes out and checks on domains using your main keyword. It even finds Adword ads (and the cost of the keyword), and affiliate programs, including ClickBank products. I can’t enough good things about it.

Well, I was looking around on the Warrior Forum, and I kept seeing posts about a program called Market Samurai. Of course I have to have a look at it. It’s an awesome piece of work. Technically it’s still in beta, but it already does a lot. I just bought it like 2 days ago and I still haven’t used all the features of it. There are about 3 modules that haven’t been implemented yet, but it has an auto-update function and I’ve already received one update. According to other users, there some problems initially, but the developers are working hard to tackle all the problems, and it sounds as though it’s going to be the premier product of it’s type.

There is no affiliate program, as far as I know. So I’m not making anything by recommending this product, but I think eventually nearly every online marketer will be using it. I would go download the free trial, I’m sure you’ll want it after seeing it in action. Some might think it’s a little pricey at $149, but I think it’s totally worth it as is. With all the other added features that are coming it’s going to be a steal at that price. I didn’t see it when it was like a third of that price so I paid the full price. You should check it out now in case they decide to raise the price again.

Update: If you’re considering Market Samurai, there’s an issue with using it with dial-up Internet access at the momoent. You might wanna wait for a couple of weeks before you download the free trial. When it’s right though it is going to be awesome.

Having a head somewhat like a piece of Granite (hard). I never thought I’d be writing an article about setting goals. Mainly because, after reading about ellefenty eight thousand articles about setting goals, I always thought, ‘why waste your time doing that crap, I know what I need to be doing, I don’t need it written down’…WRONG!.

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As much as I hear things sometimes, I still seem to have to do things my own way. I guess that’s why I’m in the poor financial situation I am. I did some reading before starting my PPC endeavors, but I didn’t take everything as seriously as I should have. I kept reading…’research your keywords, track your keywords, know how do bid your keywords, get good records of what the results of each campaign are, good and bad’.

Here I sit with only $56 dollars in revenue, from over $300 dollars spent in advertising. How much did I use the things that I read, from the experienced guys that have been doing this ? NONE!! That’s not a good answer. I guess maybe I did store a little bit of what I read, as I did watch things a little closer this last campaign. It ‘only’ cost me $26.48 to make $26.00. Now I’m not a business major, but I think that maybe I’m still a little upside down on that deal.

The point of this postis, go seek out the creditable informatiom, study it, remember it, write it down if you need to. The most important thing is, USE IT!! If you’re still reading this, then you’re probably in the same boat as me, a complete beginner. Hopefully however, you’ve ran across this before you’ve lost as much as I have. I’ve paused my campaigns, and they’re going to stay that way until I regroup and start things going in a different direction, up.

I’ll post again here when I have more results, good or bad. Hopefully it’ll be good news, because I’m starting to get a little down on this Affiliate Marketing thing.

Until Next Time, Thanks for Reading,

Jeff