When Ewen Chia’s “Secret Affiliate Weapon” exploded onto the Internet Marketing scene in 2004, who could have predicted the number of people that single product would launch to affiliate marketing success.  Ewen himself claims that over 50,000 people have been helped to win back their financial freedom.

Whether or not it’s possible to verify those figures, who’s going to argue with the man?  He’s been called the #1 Super Affiliate in the world.

Well, today could be ground zero all over again.  It is launch day for Ewen Chia’s Super Affiliate Weapon 2.

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This post will finish up our little mini-series. These last points I’m about to share with you relate to the importance of finding and developing your own “voice”.  Standing out.

Let’s get straight into it …

7. Promote uniquely

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What a depressing title for a blog post!

But did you know that untold people sign up as a Clickbank affiliate, work very hard to sell products and then are never paid their commissions?

Now let me be quick to say that this is NOT because Clickbank are some unscrupulous and crooked company that are stealing from affiliates. Neither are their vendors. The simple problem is in Clickbank’s Accounting Policy; specifically in the Customer Distribution Requirement. Here’s what it says (the following is the current policy wording on the Clickbank web site as of today’s date):

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The best piece of advice I was ever given was that I should study what successful people are doing and copy them.  More specifically, find out what they are doing that others AREN’T.  In other words, what sets them apart from the crowd.

Here are five things I’ve observed that we all may already know.  But successful marketers don’t just “know” these things, they DO them …

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You’ve heard of “The Pareto Principle”, otherwise known as the 80/20 rule?  It applies to affiliate marketing in the following way:  20 percent of affiliates generate 80 percent of all affiliate income.

Which side of the 80/20 equation do you want to be on?  The 80% of marketers who produce small or no returns?  Or the elite 20% who cash in?  If you want to be the latter, you’d better learn what sets this group apart. The following list of affiliate marketing best practices is a good place to start:

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I love Clickbank! When you’re looking  for great information products to promote to just about ANY niche market, there’s sure to be some cool e-book or software resource in the CB database that in a few clicks can be linked up on your site. And Clickbank merchants pay among the most generous commissions on the net.

Imagine how stunned I was to read this shocking fact that was emailed over to me this morning. Clickbank’s Vice President of Business Development recently admitted that most affiliates don’t make ANY sales.  I mean, I knew something about this, but I had no idea how bad it really is.  Here’s the hard data:

Clickbank has 1.2 million affiliates, and only 110,000 of them make at least 1 sale every 3 months. The others don’t make anything at all.

And here’s the really scary part:  Only 1% of Affiliates make enough money to live on.

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One of the premier sources for affiliates to find information products to promote is, of course, Clickbank.  But when you think of Clickbank, with 12,000+ products in their database, how do you choose which particular ones you are going to include in your sites, to pre-sell and link to?  “Eeny meeny miney mo?”  You need to be much more intentional than that.

Here are some simple criteria to think about:

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You’ve seen the sales copy everywhere, right? “Make a fortune overnight as an affiliate marketer without even a website.”

Let’s break that down for a second. CAN you make a lot of money as an affiliate? Yup. Can you do it overnight? Probably not. Can you do it without a website? HIGHLY unlikely. Sure you can make a few bucks, but let’s get a reality check here – if you’re going to make a go at this business you’re going to need to build websites. That’s right … with an “s” on the end (plural). Stick around this blog long enough and you’ll hear that I advocate LOTS of sites. Spreading the eggs across many baskets. Why? A couple of reasons …

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