Behold. I am showing you the money. My monthly earnings from DealDotCom. Impressive no? Not surprising as even an eager buyer as myself wouldn’t be caught dead buying the crap that has been offered of late on the site. True, affiliate marketing is more than simply putting up a banner and hoping for the best, as that is about all I have done with DDC on Lost Ball. But then again with the daily changes of this type of product selling it’s not like you can write an article on the product being offered today, do the submission dance to GoArticles, Propeller and EzineArticles, and expect it to matter tomorrow. Adwords? Nah. I’d rather go straight to the affiliate program than through DDC if I was deciding on wasting money with that. I guess I could write a daily pretend review on a blog indicating the product offering as the newest in sliced bread but I’m too lazy and, dare I say, honest, to do that. So here you go. Banner advertising at it’s mediocre.
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Mike Perry // Jan 30, 2008 at 10:40 am
Perhaps I’m missing something but if you “wouldn’t be caught dead buying the crap that has been offered of late on the site” then why are you promoting it?
Surely you can’t succeed with anything unless you believe in it (the products).
Good luck!
Mike.
Splork // Jan 30, 2008 at 1:13 pm
DDC is a round robin offering of products. It changes everyday. For the last month there are very few items I would have purchased, much less expect anyone else to purchase. I am not, and have not promoted any given product from DDC (the nature of “deal a day” makes that difficult). I am simply offering a spot on my website for DDC sponsored products in the event they have value for someone reading this blog. DDC promotes the product. I simply provide space on my website for that to happen.
And I’m pretty sure I can succeed selling products and not believe in them. Whether I care about it or not is irrelevant if the person buying the product digs it. I don’t believe in Crocs a bit yet I have been able to make a few affiliate sales selling those plastic foot holders. I’m also not a believer in women wearing clothes but they sure seem to keep buying them on my women’s clothing blog.
The lack of people purchasing the items that have been available in the last month on DDC sort of makes my point that there have not been much worthwhile to buy. Last month? Different story all together.
Reader #6 // Jan 30, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Hi Mike,
Splork can’t follow the advice of ‘only promote products you believe in’ because there aren’t enough of them to fill up the side bar
In fact I think even dealdotcom who believe in every product ever made will be running a bit short of ideas soon.
But I’m sure there will be a slew of mind control spin offs shortly - mind slayer, mind spy, push button mind control, the mind jerk, mind control on crack, mind killer, mind control project X, mind elite….
mark ling // Jan 30, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Why don’t you remove that deal.com ad (seeing as it isn’t profiting for you) and replace it with a promotion for your own private label rights reviews website. See how that fares.
regards,
Mark
mark ling // Jan 30, 2008 at 5:36 pm
or better yet, link to a squeeze page on that site and set up a newsletter series.
Splork // Jan 30, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Hey Mark. Excellent idea. I just suck at the whole newsletter thing. And I’m not sure what I would write about constantly concerning that site.
Reddiance // Jan 31, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Hey, I bought something from your link. It’s software to record and put audio on your website. It’s really great and works well. It was on special for $5.00
Splork // Jan 31, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Thanks Reddiance. Tre cool.
mark // Jan 31, 2008 at 10:09 pm
You’ve got to be kidding me? YOU don’t know how to write? Looks like you’ve been writing for quite some time.
I can’t believe you’re giving up so fast, you’ve hardly even scratched the surface. No wonder you always struggle with this online stuff, you never give it a full chance.
You’ll never get anywhere if you keep on giving up 50% of the way through projects. Or by only looking for magic bullets.
All you need to do is review a different PLR product in each newsletter. PLR junkies will love it, you’ll probably wind up enjoying writing it once you get in the swing of it (and see the money come in).
regards,
Mark
mark // Jan 31, 2008 at 10:12 pm
your newsletter only have to be similar to what you write on your PLR site already. Just add in a “Dear firstname” field at the top, and a signature at the bottom and introduce the newsletter each time and you’re away. You can use the content you’ve already got in there as articles if you want, as a quick way to start.
No excluses man.
Splork // Feb 1, 2008 at 8:12 am
Ouch. That spanking hurt. I haven’t given up at all, it’s more of being lazy and not seeing the value of doing a newsletter for any site. I’ll have to, and should, take your word for it and give it a go and will probably be damn glad I did in a few months time.
Thanks for the help. I just have to get on it.
mark ling // Feb 7, 2008 at 6:28 am
Are you kidding? You can’t see the value in a newsletter?
Imagine if someone who regularly purchases private label rights articles/ebook memberships, signs up to your list. Every once in a while, they purchase a membership through one of the recommendations in one of your newsletters. You then earn recurring commissions from each of those sales, while they find a valuable resource that they were looking for.
Now that’s just one person. Imagine having 1000+ subscribers?
Then you’re getting somewhere. I’d guess that every subscriber in the PLR article niche will probably be worth $15 to you over the course of a year. That’s great value. Just make sure you keep providing value to them.
regards,
Mark
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