Another tip I recently got was to focus on just 2 or 3 great affiliates (product/services) that provide PPC or PPAction, not PPSale as too many affiliates links on my site would dilute my commission (income) from each and PPSale was too hard of a conversion to do for a newbie. What do you think about that?

Thanks again,

RPM Millionaire
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Great article. As the old saying goes the only way to eat an elephant is one mouthful at a time.

The only way to really understand how to make money from an online business is to break it down into the number of visitors, conversion rates and income per sale.

I wrote a very detailed article, which is too long to paste in here, about what you need to do to earn $60,000 a year from a website with several revenue streams. I hope that you and your readers find it useful.

http://www.subhub.com/articles/how-to-start-a-recession-proof-online-business

Thanks again for your clear thinking
Miles

(1) Build a list. Send that traffic to YOUR site, before sending them to your merchant, and attempt to capture their email address by providing something of value. You then have a further opportunity to sell to that visitor.

(2) Backend products. If you have built a list, then you have a chance to sell additional products, which can significantly raise the amount of money you can earn. (This is how some pay-per-click advertisers seem to be paying such high rates – they make their profits on the backend sales, selling to their existing customer base.)

(3) Resale rights. You can acquire resale rights to some products (such as my report), sell it and keep ALL of the profits after the initial license has been paid for.

This gives you a lot more control, since when you sell the product, they are YOUR customers… and you can sell them more stuff at a later date, just as with building a list.

Hope that helps!

Best,

Paul Hancox | 10PercentConversion.com

In general, any numbers that are out there are helpful as indicator, but none of them should be taken as the absolute and inevitable truth that will apply to your case.

Numbers are also helpful for comparison within a specific subject, if the numbers were not skewed and do not exclude major factors that are relevant. Lesson from that: Look closely who is providing the numbers and think about why they would publish them. What is their benefit from doing so? If their benefit is aligned with your interests, you probably can trust them more as if that is not the case.

The EPC numbers within a network for example is benefitial for you and the network who provides you with that figure, especially if the networks revenue is depending on how much commission affiliates generate.

Ajith, I would recommend joining CJ, Linkshare and Shareasale and apply to a bunch of programs. You can see by their EPC how well they perform for affiliates. This number can be off, but a fairly good indicator. Build several niche sites or blogs, place the appropriate affiliate banners, and start writing merchant reviews and product reviews. The more pages of content you produce the more likely you will start seeing organic traffic and therefore click-throughs to merchants…

everything goes, that’s why are all the different programs out there.

One guy makes a killing on promoting 99 cents tunes on iTunes.com, only making pennies in commission for every sale (but making tons of them every day) and others get people to buy a diamond for a couple thousand dollars and make hundreds of dollars in commission with a single sale.

I don’t know how to promote either of those effectively, even if my life would depend on it. That is also the reason why I do not promote those kind of offers actively.

This is where it comes into play what you are good at to promote, where you have the most and best ideas and the abilities to get those ideas from theory into reality.

Not everybody is good at everything. It is always easier to start with something where you already know a good amount about or where you are really interested in, personally.

You might be able to do stuff effectively for other niches down the road, stuff where you don’t care about and/or know only very little about, but for that it is necessary to compensate those shortcomings with a lot of skills and experience.

This is something that you don’t have, when you start out = Nothing is there to compensate for your lack of knowledge and interest in the subject that you choose.

I hope this makes sense.

Ajith

Depending no the offer 1 sale can mean $100…but the board based niche site/blog approach seems to work best for most affiliates…