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Affilate Marketing -
Don't Quit your day job!
Contrary to all the hype that
affiliate program managers through at you and all the stories of
affiliates making thousands of dollars a month, the real truth is
bleak. Profit margins are low and competition is high.
One of the most basic facts of
affiliate marketing is that you are nobody trying to compete with
the actual manufacturer or retailer to sell the same products. If
a company like wal-mart can't sell inventory then why would you
be able to sell it?
Maybe you think you know
something that their million dollar advertising budgets can't buy
them. The truth is, they need affiliates because they can't even
meet their own sales margins.
There is a bunch of cash to be
earned in affiliate marketing, but it is not by trying to compete
but rather capitalizing on your own unique traffic. We will tell
you how to do that and how to avoid common mistakes and bad
affiliate merchants.
Our company has generated
millions of dollars in affiliate sales and we are building an
archive of articles that outline the good and bad points of being
an affiliate and or merchant. This archive is meant as a guide to
our hosting clients that choose affiliate market as a revenue
stream. We also hope to steen merchants looking to run an
affiliate program into a positive direction by pointion out
common merchant mistakes and headaches.
Sample Affiliate Agreement - Read that affiliate agreement carefully. Here is
our take on what those affiliate terms of service contracts
really say.
Our company The Cyber Web Inc
is exiting the affiliate marketing business, so that means that
there is going to be more business for the rest of you as we
slowly close down about 500 affiliate websites. Since we will
have no interest in making money with affiliate marketing, we are
going to dump all of our information, website tricks and secrects
on this website.
We will also be offering up free perl
scripts to manage and buid your own
affiliate sites. We have over 2000 scripts, thousands of
databases that can be used as content padding and more ideas than
anyone could ever use.
We will be concentrating on
web feeds and providing free content for webmasters looking to
expand their websites. With our strongest base in programing the
affiliate marketing is just a big waste of technology and
resources.
It was fun, we made enough
money to buy a new home with cash in just 2 years. But the time
to keep up with 500 affiliate sites is just too much and taking
away from our website hosting business.
The overhead is also high with over $500 a month just in domain
renewal fees, several dedicated servers and about 4 T-1's maxed
out. The profit is great, but without constant tweaking the sites
barely make enough to cover costs.
If you plan on getting into
affiliate marketing, we recomend starting small and growing. We
jumped in and now we are jumping out to persue other emerging
technology and markets.
We hope the information we
have to offer will help the newbie affiliate webmaster stay on
the positive side of the cash flow. The business can be very
rewarding as well as very risky and upsetting. Dealing with
unresponsive affiliate managers and volitile programs often
closing days after you add them to your website will drive your
blood preasure through the roof. If you can handle it, the
rewards can be high.
This website will slowly be
rebuilt into an real affiliate resource website as we share what
programs worked for us and what were just a waste of time. With
500 sites to base our opionions on, we should be one of the more
Get
Free Website Content -
We have started adding new javascript web feeds to our
content sites. This allows webmasters to display thousands of
pages of content by simply adding a javascript to any page. Take
advantage of content from many industries, all FREE.
An
introduction into affiliate marketing
Managing
The Numbers - How do conversion
ratios affect your website or marketing approach.
Poor
Affiliate Support and Technology -
After a while, marketing just gets old without support and
cinstant changes the numbers you earn don't equal the time you
invest.
AffiliateBee.com sucks!
This site was set up to help people earn money running affiliate
programs. But it has become one big rant about bad affiliate
practices. I hope to add so good news, a forum and some cgi
programs that can convert datafeeds into working affiliate
websites. But for now, its just my jaded opinions and my bad
experiences with affiliate programs.
Don't get me wrong, I have
made piles of cash for myself and the affiliate merchants. But
much of it has been in spite of the merchants and bad affiliate
managers. I hope to share all my tools and ideas with other
people in exchange for their ideas. Webmasters working together
to assist with ideas and generating income for each other.
This website will also serves
as information resource for web merchants that are interested in
participating in an affiliate programs. Weather you choose to
join an affiliate syndycate or run your own program, you will
find info here about the do's and dont's of running a program. To
understand what webmasters concerns are and how to secure good
affiliate relationships.
I hope the articles on this
website offer a ballance between good and bad. People need to be
honest with themselves and understand the bad parts of life as
well as the good. Some of the articles may seem pessimistic, I
hope you can apreciate the honesty without being detered from
affiliate marketing.
There are millions to be made,
there are loads of good programs and merchants despite what
biased opinions we may offer on this site. However, we feel that
someone needs to point out the downside when there are millions
of people making money selling everyone the upside.
Stay informed, and be sensible.
The answers are out there, but all the answers will not come from
a single source. Comapre data, get multiple opinions, we are
smart, but we are not always right.
How
many sites do I need to make money?
Measuring
Success - What should you consider
to be successful and what is a failure?
Realistic
Earning Potential
Merchants
That Do Not Pay
Merchants
That Do Pay! On Time!
Top Affiliate Programs
Affiliate
Managers - Why does your site suck?
Text ad Programs - bumblebee ads google adwords
How to
make money using affiliate programs
Deceptive
Affiliate Practices
Quality Affiliate Programs
Making Money With Datafeeds
Running Google Adwords Campaigns
Sites With Datafeeds
Finding
Info Online
Bad
Affiliate Merchants - our personal
list of who to avoid and why.
Pissed Off Affiliate Managers
Banging
Heads with Affiliate Managers
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