Niche blueprint 2.0 launched in 11th January 2010, and I participated in its promotion. Although I have been doing affiliate marketing for a long time, this is the first time I tried it in the Internet marketing niche. What was keeping me from doing affiliate marketing in Internet marketing niche was the false assumption that the competition was too stiff, and that you need a big list for getting considerable sales. But the launch of Niche blueprint 2.0 proved me wrong.
Apart from the handsome commission and some recognition in the Internet marketing community, there is another thing that I got from this launch. And that is experience. I learned several thing from this launch and I am going to share them with you in this post:
- Don’t let the fierce competition scare you. Just apply the basic Internet marketing knowledge like getting a lot of backlinks, targeting proper keywords etc and you will do fine
- Don’t forget to target product name review. I was so busy targeting [Niche blueprint 2.0 review] and [Niche Blueprint review] that I forgot to target [Niche Blueprint] and [Niche Blueprint 2.0] and suffered from poor traffic consequently.
- Start promoting the launch at least 3 weeks before the launch. I decided to promote it just 10 days prior to the launch and as a result I couldn’t get good enough ranking on the day of the launch
- Don’t think that you cannot make any money if you dont have a big list or an established blog. You can make many sales just by creating a one page landing page and direct traffic to it.
- Create a relevant bonus. Don’t think that just because you wrote an excellent review, people will buy from you. Also don’t just give a lot of PLR material as bonus. It works but not as well as unique relevant bonus.
I am hoping to promote more Internet marketing product launches soon. Although they are short term income compared to promoting clickbank products in other niches, they are really cool to give you an instant spike in income.
What do you think? Is it wise to promote short-term products like most internet marketing products? Let me know in the comments below.
It’s great that you did so well. The real difficulty is competiting against the Internet Marketers with massive lists, who jump on every product launch, and who have direct relationships with the main product owners, something which helps them to put together exclusive and complementing bonus packages.
The good thing is that most potential marketers now are savvy enough before the big launches that they actively hunt out the best bonus deals. So, if you can rank, and you put together an exclusive bonus package, you can do well. I’ve found that any kind of service solution works well as a bonus, so if you can find something which you can outsource, where people can see they’re getting real value (not just PLR, as you say), this can be a winner.
Thom