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The Super Affiliate Handbook: How I Made $436,797 in One Year Selling Other People's Stuff Online

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I am an experienced Affiliate Marketer, who was intrigued by the title and its promo contents. Although Rosalind gives a decent high-level overview of how the business works, she provides less than adequate details on how to actually get started in this business. It appears that she's more concerned with selling other affiliate programs within her eBook, including her own telephone consulting services. I am technical. If you are non-technical, there is no way you will be able to get started by using this book. I picked 1 or 2 interesting reference points, but overall the book gets a thumbs-down. My advice - save your money.

I got hooked into the "hype" of this "sales product" and feel that I got burned. Although I feel that adequate insight was given on this business, that the book was simply a sales promotional for the author's programs. Save your $59.00 dollars. There are other books and free information sites that can provide you with the same information.

I purchased this book on line and unfortunately paid much more than the current price. Perhaps that is a reflection of how the information has deteriorated in value as well.

For the most part, the information provided by Ms Gardner is general in nature and does not provide specific strategies which would help anyone begin an Affiliate business. She uses the book to generate even more business for herself, sprinkling a generous number of her own affiliate links.

In this sense her book is nothing more than an example of how to use an ebook to generate more income in the guise of a "guide". She also spends a lot of time talking herself up as a guru, which does nothing for the reader.

Save yourself the money and just cruise the net. You will find all the info free.

A got a hold of a copy of Rosalind Gardner's Super Affiliate Handbook. Notice, I said "got a hold of" because I definitely wouldn't buy this book. I wasn't really impressed with it at all. Because it's so long, 288 pages, I thought it would contain a ton of information.

I was definitely wrong. In reality it's bloated with page after page of keyword Search results. From the looks of it she self published the book herself. No reputable publisher would put out that kind of garbage. I didn't really find what I was looking for at all with this book..

When I buy a book to learn online marketing, I want something that's loaded with good, solid, and useful information. Especially for sixty nine dollars. Think about it, when was the last time you bought a hard back book for sixty nine dollars or more? What kind of information was in it? For me it was a graphic design book on Print and Production Finishes. Did it have all the information I was looking for? You're damn straight it did. Honestly, I wouldn't pay more than two dollars for the Super Affiliate Handbook.

From the official website:
"Start NOW and Say "GoodBye" to Your Boss and "HELLO!" to a Better Way of Life"Yeah Right! I Googled Super Affiliate Handbook and found an ad that says "You can start your own business with no experience". I won't dispute the fact that you can start your own business with no experience. Any body can open a business with no experience. The question is can you make any money with that business? If your counting on the Super Affiliate Handbook to show you the ropes. The answer is no.

Rosalind adds affiliate links throughout her e-book with the class and style of a used car salesman. For me it's a big turn off. I'm like anybody else, I hate to be sold, but I love to shop. If I want something I'm going to go out and get it. But you won't see me buy a book to get to a link so can buy something from it. Nobody does that. She's depending on people to think "Hey Rosalind says I need this to make money. Oh look here's the link right here in the book. I'll go there now so I can make money." I feel bad for the person that buys into this because the only person making money is Rosalind. When she sells the book she gets paid and when you use her links she gets paid again. That's a big turn off.

There are little sections that waste your time like the "Can you handle the lifestyle". It goes into detail comparing the average persons workday to Rosalind's workday. I mean honestly, I think it's pretty safe to say that I'm pretty confident I can handle the "lifestyle" otherwise I wouldn't be looking for specific information about where to learn online marketing.

The information is also little dated since you can't go to overture anymore to check out keywords. So that part of the text is a worthless. But oh look, she put in a link for a site I can buy keyword information from. No thanks Rosalind I think I'll just go to my Adwords account and use the free tools they offer.

So would I suggest the Super Affiliate Handbook? Hell no, you should take that money and go to dinner and a movie. You'll get more from it.

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You're going to collapse!

When you start reading this book, you won't be able to stop. And it's over 270 pages long! So unless you are a much faster reader than I am, you are going to fall over with exaustion before you can stop reading.

Rosalind sells this book with the subtitle "How I made $436,797 in one year selling other people's stuff online" and I don't doubt it for a minute. The information she has included in this book is very detailed and there are so many ideas for how to get more traffic, better conversions, faster responses and so on that I just couldn't take it all in. I will be reading this book again after I've had some more time to try out the things I was able to take in.

Peel back the cover and what do you see?

There's a big focus on how to generate traffic to the products you are selling. After all, that's absolutely essential to selling anything. As a result, there is some duplicate content that you will find in other resources. For example, a lot of the content in Rosalind's book is also in John Reese's Traffic Secrets series which sells for about $1000 and I'll be reviewing soon, but the Super Affiliate Handbook is a whole lot cheaper and highly specific to affiliate programs. There is also some crossover into the AdWords world that Perry Marshall just plain Owns. But the focus is very strong on Affiliate Marketing and she does a good job of leaving the related topics like traffic generation and Pay Per Click advertising to the respective experts.

Included in the guide are sections on "How to Research a Profitable Topic", "How to Find Merchants" , "How to Choose Products and Affiliate Programs" , "How to Plan and Build Websites That Sell" and some advice on writing good copy, providing quality content, maintaining credibility and staying organized in your business as it grows.

In writing any review of a product or service, it's important to cover the up and down sides. But I'm honestly having a hard time coming up with anything negative to say about this handbook. She takes an honest approach to all of her marketing. Her business model revolves around adding value to the Internet in the form of real quality content, and not just cluttering it with junk. Overall she's a straight shooter with a very thorough guide on how to make a killing in affiliate marketing.

Ok, I've scanned the book some more and come up with a few things to complain about -just for you.

I'm really not that clueless.

Initially, like most books, I skimmed over some big areas of this book. One of those areas was the "Setting Up Shop" chapter. She starts with "Basic Knowledge" and tells the us that we don't need HTML knowledge at the start and that it's good to learn Windows Macros like CTRL-C to make work faster. Then she says you need a computer and a Fast Internet Connection. Next we learn that we need a web browser. (This is getting too complicated for me. I should just get a refund for this book.)

Ok, so she does give some nice links like where to get Firefox for those still stuck on IE and suggestions to use a router and where to get some good software like eudora and UltraEdit. But this chapter gives me the impression this book was written to be printed and sold to soccer moms at the school book sale. If you feel you already know how to use your computer and your Internet connection pretty well, I give you permission to skip this chapter too.

Another thing I can say that's bad about this book is that most everything she recommends actually requires some significant work. Sure, there are some thing in there like using datafeeds from merchants to create your own website in less than an hour. But most of those things have lost a lot of effectiveness due exactly to how easy they are to do. Now everyone has a datafeed site. And it just sits there doing nothing because people would rather buy from the real store instead of your feed to it. The suggestions that she makes which actually return results will take some work.

Stand back and watch the explosion. (Or hold the match with a big smile)

This handbook was an important one for me to review early on. Affiliate Programs are the core of my marketing business, and a major force in Internet Marketing. And if you've been following the trends, one of the fastest growing segments of sales on the Internet have been in Information Products. In other words, people are buying more and more instantly deliverable information products online. They are beginning to trust eBooks and online courses. They are beginning to PREFER them over print because it's instant gratification. Even Amazon is running fast toward electronic delivery. And what's so great about this field is that the profits are very good. Electronic delivery has basically zero cost. And zero cost means low overhead.

So, I'm not just going to leave this as a simple ho hum review. I'm going to TELL you that if you want to get into this area of marketing (and I think it's a darn good idea), you will save yourself a lot of wasted time, money and effort by getting this book as soon as you can. There might be some other books out there that will try to compete with this one, but they are going to have a tough time. Rosalind did an excellent job on this. I can't think of much that would improve on it. This is an example of something that will pay for itself many times over when you do what it says.

People complain about the price. I agree, it's high. All "Get Rich Quick" guides worth anything are high priced. And yeah, you can find everything here for free on the net. But if your willing to spend some money buying an "expensive" book that will help you make a lot more money and feel that your time is more valuable than searching the net for the same information for free and having to sift and sort what actually works, then this book won't dissapoint.

I don't get anything if you buy the book. The author doesn't even have a clue who I am. I just read it and loved it. Good Luck

Buy it! (So much for my impartial review credibility ;-)

I read quite a few other reviews posted here before I decided to write one. I can't help but wonder if I got a different edition than some of the other reviewers. Mine is not the eBook. It is the published book - October 2007 edition.

It is so poorly written, I had difficultly staying focused on the content because I found myself constantly trying to make sense out of typos or sentences that just did not make sense i.e., words mixed up and/or left out of the sentence. It was very distracting and irritating considering the price I paid for the book.

The lack of proofreading was so disturbing to me, that I actually sent an email with my concern that she/they/whoever should know how bad it was. I did receive a reply back and I was told that they "already knew" and hoped to make changes in the new edition. Well, I HAD the "newest edition" (just two months old when I purchased it) and that was the edition I was referring to!

Many of the links do not work either. The author will direct you to reference a site, but the link won't work. Sometimes, if you do a search with the web site name, you can find it and it will indicate she left out a word or position in the URL. This got very frustrating to me. I realize sometimes links change, but this happened much too often. It was due to lack of quality of proofreading and testing prior to publishing.

The margins are inconsistent and all over the place. It just makes for too many distractions. Bottom line is, time was not taken to produce a quality product and it shows.

I'm sure one can still learn information from this book but you can also learn elsewhere for a lot less. And there is NO WAY you will be able to become an affiliate marketer from reading this book as there are too many details left out. So don't plan on this teaching you how to begin to become an affiliate marketer. I don't believe the book is sold as an "instruction guide" but I just wanted to add that information as a heads-up.

This book contains very basic information about affiliate marketing. If you are new to affiliate marketing or new to the idea of making money online, this book is definitely for you. The author explains everything, from the concept of affiliate marketing to the hardware that you will need to set up your online business. The book is also great because it contains a lot of resources to help you get started, it contains a lot of links (Most of them are affiliate links, so the author earns money every time you click on them and buy something from her referral) to websites that you will need for your affiliate marketing business. This is the perfect book to get started in the affiliate marketing business. For seasoned affiliate marketers, I do not recommend this book. The reason?? You probably know most of the information in this book.

I have been in the affiliate marketing business for several years following a different system, a system that was incredibly volatile. I finally decided to change the way I was approaching the affiliate marketing business and found Rosalind Gardner's Super Affiliate Handbook. Immediately after reading I knew that her book offered a very solid foundation for an affiliate business and since reading it my business has grown and not only has it grown my business is now set on an incredibly solid foundation.

Thank you Rosalind for providing your valuable insights for such an affordable price - I know that anybody who sticks to your system will become financially free!

Rosalind has built a solid foundation and is a successful affiliate marketer. However, reading this book probably won't help you follow her path. She covers so much ground. You won't know where to start.

When she speaks, she's solid. She's a content affiliate. She writes her own content (in this case I would've enlisted help to organize and condense to make the content more useful). She gives great coaching and advice.

She recently updated the book which was long overdue.

If you're new and the tone is helpful and accessible but the sheer bulk of information could be overwhelming.

This was a great source of information. I am new to affiliate marketing and needed a product that could break it down for me in terms I could understand. This book did just that. I would definitely recommend to anyone who wants a good starting point for online marketing and affiliate sales.