The Way Of The Advanced Affiliate

Written by Jason Parker 20 Comments

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The products we see all the time on affiliate marketing are usually basic. They’re for beginners… and frankly, beginner stuff really doesn’t work all that well. It’s no secret that the gurus hold back their true affiliate secrets. Well, what I want to do with this blog post is be completely transparent with you and teach you how to create a high 4 figure to low 5 figure monthly income as an affiliate… just promoting other peoples’ stuff.

One thing you need to know is that, even though you’re just an affiliate, you still want to create joint ventures… because joint venture deals are probably the most powerful thing you can do. You see, the advantage product creators have with their affiliate marketing is that other people are sending them traffic all the time, and the marketer is building his list, then selling them affiliate products.

The average affiliate is usually trying to muscle everything out with blogs, PPC, CPA, and web 2.0. You don’t have to be self-reliant as an affiliate, because what you can do is buy limited Master Resale Rights to a high quality product and sales page created by at least a B-list marketer who is fairly well-known, then set it up with a script like Rapid Action Profits (expensive but worth every penny) which will create an affiliate program for the product… and then you can use it the same way product creators use their affiliate programs to build their affiliate businesses.

With this strategy, you want to offer 100% commissions to the affiliate on the frontend and 100% commissions on the OTO. And you want to integrate RAP with either GetResponse or your AR (using single opt-in… that’s important… GetResponse is glad to allow you to use single opt-in… AWeber doesn’t like it so much) so that you get the buyers list and can mail them other offers later. Price the frontend offer in the $17-$27 price range. A couple examples of this strategy my business partner Lance Tamashiro and I set up are Tiny List Big Profits and Membership Site Tactics.

Now you can use your resources you slaved away to build to cross promote the MRR product set up on RAP with other marketers’ products. So not only will you be promoting offers as an affiliate, at the same time you’re building your resources. This is obviously so much more powerful than just promoting affiliate offers and building your own resources. You can use your resources for other types of JV Deals too, such as Ad Swapping and JV List Dumping, which Lance and I explain in Ultimate Listbuilding Secrets.

The beginner affiliate doesn’t do joint venture deals. That’s one thing that makes them beginners and not advanced affiliates And sadly, too many people fail because they’re trying to pull the carriage all by themselves without horses. You can completely hate product creation (like I do) and still get the benefits of being a product creator. You can do other types of joint venture deals and not be completely self-reliant as an affiliate.

There’s a lot more inside my brain about being an advanced affiliate. Let me know in your comment below if you’d like a followup to “The Way Of The Advanced Affiliate” and I’ll share some more of my best insider secrets that can fuel YOUR success.

Share and Enjoy:

James Foster

- 16th Aug, 09 03:08am

Dude, do a follow up! More people need this kind of info.

Lisa

- 16th Aug, 09 10:08am

Wow this is great stuff – I didn’t think about JV with affiliate products – but how can you get people to partner with you when you don’t have a list yourself yet?Thanks
Lisa

Trevor Greenfield

- 16th Aug, 09 11:08am

Hi Jason,

Yes, I’d like to get more of what’s inside your head. This was a great taster and a good use of a blog to drive traffic to your products. Maybe we can JV sometime.

regards,

Trevor

Loralyn Tate

- 16th Aug, 09 12:08pm

Hi,

This is really good information. Thanks

Phil Morgan

Great stuff, Jason. Keep writing – we’ll take all you got.

Phil

Tom Brite

- 16th Aug, 09 01:08pm

Nice blog and this is the first time ive visted it!

I would ask though that you go into more detail if you could about why and how you choose MMR products especially over PLR material because surely it is branded with the other marketers information if its MMR??

Thanks
Tom Brite

Jason Parker (author comment)

- 16th Aug, 09 02:08pm

@James, Trevor, Phil, Loralyn Thanks for your comments I’ll definitely put out a Part 2 soon.

@Lisa That’s a tough one. You definitely need something to leverage. Being able to send traffic with a list or authority site would be best. However, you can leverage all kinds of things. The product and sales page might be enough leverage on its own to get some people promoting. Though if you want to create some actual JV deals, you could offer to write articles for the marketer in exchange for promotions (just make sure they send you an amount of traffic that’s equal to the value of how many articles you sent). You could try to leverage something like that with bigger marketers.

However, there are a lot of people who have the same amount of resources as you that you can do joint venture deals with. But you’ll want to grow a list to 500-1000 first. You ought to join my buddy Chuck Mullaney’s new JV social networking site called JVME: http://www.jvme.com/signup.php?signup_referer=es3mark I don’t make any money off that link. It’s just a referrer link that tells me how many people I’ve referred to the site. If you were on the PPC call we did a while back, that was Chuck.

@Tom Thanks for visiting man This blog just officially launched about 6 days ago. …To answer your question, the reason why I choose MRR is to leverage the marketer’s name. While this isn’t good for building authority, you can use the authority of another marketer to get people to promote. I invest in PLR, but not for paid products or freebie products, just content on websites… I guess it’s just a preference. …You’re not building your own authority by using MRR, but you get to leverage another person’s already built authority. …Again, though, I want to emphasize to use limited MRR that’s a product you would buy yourself, and sometimes getting rights to this kind of stuff is a little expensive, sometimes not.

UNLEASHED Marketer

- 16th Aug, 09 03:08pm

Hi Jason! I\\\\\\\’ve just logged-in and got your GREAT audio book on List-Building, now, browsing over this post on Affiliate Marketing. I agree with the comment on using either MRR to leverage on someone\\\\\\\’s else products AND creating your own products thru PLR.

The strtegy of creating an Affiliate System just like RAP would allow is now TOPS on my list as I would be releasing a product with this concept.

Your post only \\\\&quot;solidifies\\\\&quot; my intention of using the Affiliate System for my quick list-building. Thanks and looking forward to many more great and useful posts! ~ rommel;p

Tom Harvey

Jason

Great info and some interesting thoughts in how to bridge the gap from being a newbie to a more advanced affiliate. Will definately check back for more advice.

Tom

Rob Golding

- 16th Aug, 09 04:08pm

Hi Jason
Yes, I\’d like to see more of what\’s inside your head about advanced affiliate marketing

But recommending *single-opt-in* is a no-no – we all get massive amounts of junk/spam every day, and going against both legal use of email addresses and best-practices can only harm you and email marketing in general.

Rob

@Rob Thanks for your comment. Single opt-in is legal… and using GetResponse, deliverability is the same as using double opt-in. …I’d have to disagree with you and suggest that others use single opt-in. If I didn’t use single opt-in, I’d be leaving at least $30,000 on the table this year. Even Frank Kern uses single opt-in… the problem people run into is using single opt-in with autoresponder scripts that don’t work for your high deliverability. What I mean is a 3rd party service like GetResponse makes sure your e-mails get delivered. That’s why I recommend them with single opt-in, and not using a script like AutoResponsePlus with single opt-in.

Kirsten Paris

- 16th Aug, 09 10:08pm

Great blog, Jason!! Definitely lots of \"food for thought\" in what you write and I thank you very much for that — a follow-up would be terrific when you have the time

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- 19th Aug, 09 03:08pm

Great post, why are you giving up MOST of our secrets?? We need to have a talk! Awesome job my friend!

Marcia Ming

- 31st Aug, 09 02:08pm

Thanks for the information on Rapid Action Profits and your comments on PLR. I and my readers want to know more about how to leverage PLR effectively. There is so much to do as affiliates and so little time that we need all the effective information we can find.

- 31st Aug, 09 05:08pm

@Marcia PLR can make you a lot of money if you use it right. This post is just one way… It’s technically Master Resale Rights material in the post. BUT if you get your hands on some high quality PLR with a flexible license, you can do a lot more things.

Jeff Bode

- 8th Sep, 09 09:09pm

Hey Jason I just recently bought RAP and I plan on using it soon, I think it will have a huge impact on my business.

Lance Tamashiro told me that he had big success from using this method, it helps when you have a great product and a great sales page like the products you mentioned above.

Very powerful…

Thanks for another great blog post

- 8th Sep, 09 11:09pm

@Jeff Good for you man. RAP has made me a whole pile of cash. Affiliates love the instant commissions.

Lance… he and I do stuff with RAP together all the time. It makes us just as much money as an other strategies we’re using.

affiliate marketing forum

- 11th Nov, 09 12:11pm

I have looked at many sites and not come a cross such a site as yours that tells you what you really need to know about affiliate marketing.

I’ve added your feed to my reader, are there any other good blogs you’d suggest I read on the subject?

Flo

- 25th Feb, 10 03:02am

I am just about to start things up, but I just don’t buy all the JV emphasis everyone keeps talking about. Why would I want to give 100 % commission to both my product and the oto just because? On the off chance next week I can sell those people something when they don’t remember me, only the guy who sent them the affiliate link. I like to write, I got a bachelors degree in journalism and I have published many places. I will have my own product soon and I have a ton of good quality RR products to sell as soon as I get a list going. I plan to start with newbies, but I am both a librarian and a career case manager. I should be able to create some authority pretty quickly. I just don’t see giving all that away starting out to others for what does not appear to be any good reason to do so. I can see ad swaps type of JV or introducing your list to a product your buddy just came out with. But even Clickbank products only come with mostly 50% commission. Why hand all that money to someone just because they or you think they are gurus or something. I don’t bow down and say I am not worthy to anyone but Willie Crawford, and maybe Frank Kern, but they don’t need my money. I have been screwed over by plenty of them, including one on your homepage. I have good careers, I don’t have to make 6 or even 7 figures starting out. I don’t buy a lot of people who claim they do. If I only get 50% commission from their Clickbank products, why should I give them twice as much? Or is that just what your PLR said to do? Surely some loan duck you decry is doing just fine.

@Flo

I don’t expect you to follow this advice since you’re just getting started and haven’t tried my methods out…

You sound like I used to be and it’s going to be a long painful road of attaining the right mindset for internet marketing for you. The best advice I can give is to not listen to people who think like you and instead just blindly try what they suggest you do as long as it’s ethical. Because lots of things are counter-intuitive and don’t rationally make a whole lot of sense online… until you have the right mindset.