Make a Fortune Promoting Other People's Stuff Online: How Affiliate Marketing Can Make You Rich [Paperback]

Rosalind Gardner (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 29, 2007

“It took me years to discover many of the techniques she spells out in her book. I wish it had been available when I started.”

-Allan Gardyne, AssociatePrograms.com

The definitive guide to planning and managing a successful online affiliate business!

Make a Fortune Promoting Other People's Stuff Online is your hands-on guide to starting your own profitable affiliate marketing business quickly, easily, and inexpensively. Leading affiliate marketing authority Rosalind Gardner gives you a proven five-step plan for identifying a niche with a huge market, choosing products to promote, and selling the benefits effectively. You'll see how to:

• Navigate the different affiliate programs, from commissioned-based “click-through” programs to CPM impressions to flat-fee referral
• Identify the products and programs that are profitable-and the ones to avoid
• Ask the right questions before you join an affiliate program
• Research, understand, and sell to your niche market
• Negotiate for a higher percentage on your commission
• Stay on top of developments in the industry

Packed with time- and money-saving techniques-including twelve ways to drive traffic to your website at no cost-this comprehensive guide is all you need to make big profits as an affiliate marketer!

Rosalind Gardner is the creator of several successful online businesses and the author of the bestselling Super Affiliate Handbook. Her website is NetProfitsToday.com.

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About the Author

Rosalind Gardner is the creator of several successful online affiliate businesses. She teaches seminars around the globe and speaks regularly at Internet and affiliate marketing conferences.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (June 29, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071478132
• ISBN-13: 978-0071478137
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #337,747 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

CEO of Webvista Inc., Rosalind Gardner is an author, speaker and consultant, best known for her affiliate marketing training manual, "The Super Affiliate Handbook: How I Made $436,797 in One Year Selling Other People's Stuff Online" http://superaffiliatehandbook.com).

Rosalind speaks at industry conferences such as the Affiliate Summit, and writes the "Affiliates' Corner" column for Revenue magazine.

In addition to speaking and writing on the topic of affiliate marketing, Rosalind maintains a companion site at http://NetProfitsToday.com on which she regularly blogs tips for affiliate marketers.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

75 of 76 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for learning and implementing affiliate marketing, August 20, 2007

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Deborah Crawford "Writer, Trainer, Walker, Sm... (Memphis, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Make a Fortune Promoting Other People's Stuff Online: How Affiliate Marketing Can Make You Rich (Paperback)

I don't know anyone making a fortune with affiliate marketing, but I do believe it is possible, which is why I bought this book. If you are an affiliate marketer, you might find much of this book repetitive. But, if you are not making a fortune and want to, then this book is for you.

Most of us know it takes a llloooooonnnnnngggg time to make any money from most affiliate programs, and Gardner doesn't tell you you can get rich overnight. I found her information to be true to what everyone else is saying--build a good website (or websites) with great content, find good paying companies to promote and run your affiliate business like---a business. What a concept! (I find many people throw up a few pages of content and a couple of links and then start waiting for the money. As if. . .)

I like this book because there are actual "how-to's" in here--how to set up tracking tools and spreadsheets, how and when to create content, how to promote your business, how to get your website up, when to expand your business, what to do when an affiliate doesn't pay, how to find affiliates, and much more.

If you are looking for get rich quick scams, look somewhere else. If you are looking for a guide to having your own successful affiliate business, get this book.

45 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful little book about how to sell product or services online!, October 20, 2007

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Jeff Lippincott "JLIPPIN" (Princeton, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Make a Fortune Promoting Other People's Stuff Online: How Affiliate Marketing Can Make You Rich (Paperback)

A good little book about how to promote YOUR BUSINESS using your Web site, Internet search engines, and other marketing techniques. I'm a SCORE volunteer who counsels small business owners on how to improve their Web presence and make the Internet work for them in bringing in clients. Much of the material covered in this wonderful little book is exactly what I explain to my clients.

As a SCORE counselor I discuss market research, competition research, Web site research, keyword research, profit research, how to design a winning Web site, how to build a winning Web site, and how to market the winning Web site. This book covers all of these things. If you are looking for advice on how to do these things, then look no further. You have found it when you get a copy of this book.

About three years ago I did a bit of research on affiliate programs on the Net and how to build my own affiliate program and upload it onto the Net. There really wasn't a lot out there to read about the subject at the time. Still isn't. But I was able to figure out back then that affiliate programs were not worth the effort to get involved in or to put together. I learned that if you can do a great job selling through an affiliate program, then you can do just as good selling your own product and make all the profit on the sale instead of a silly commission. This book helps explain how to do a great job selling. So get it for that angle and not the affiliate program angle.

I'm giving this book 4 stars because in my opinion the title is a little misleading. I don't know anyone who is or has made a fortune in affiliate programs. But if the title were changed to something like make a fortune selling your own stuff online and the content was reworked a little, then the star rating would go up. 4 stars!

29 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Brief Overview and Outdated!, August 31, 2008

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Monica Main "Monica Main" (Valencia, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Make a Fortune Promoting Other People's Stuff Online: How Affiliate Marketing Can Make You Rich (Paperback)

This reminds me of the "Dummy" books which usually start off with super basics on a subject. This is the same type of concept.

It talks about selling stuff as an affiliate. The concepts covered are being used by so many internet marketers (and have been for years) that you can't make money doing them anymore, making this book outdated.

For example, the book talks about the "review style" website where you review several like products then provide a link to each product. If someone buys through your affiliate link then you get paid a commission. Nothing cutting edge there.

Pass on this book unless you are a total newbie and know nothing about internet or affiliate marketing.