I’ve been earning commission as an affiliate for a few years now, but until this year it wasn’t consistant or significant amounts. In the past 24 hours I’ve received over $600 in commission* :)

Also this year I’ve appeared in top ten tables for launches and won prizes in Giveaways.

Why did things change?

Here’s my top tips on what has worked for me:

1) Focus
Focus on what works and brings in results.
Don’t bother reading emails, looking at sales pages, chatting on skype etc.

2) Traffic
Always the top issue for anyone building an online business.
My top sources of traffic have been
A) Giveaways
B) Adswaps
C) Affiliates
D) Emails
E) Forums
F) search engines
G) Pay per click.

I recommend Giveaways and Forums initially.
Affiliate traffic won’t apply unless you have your own product and can promote other products
on your download page or in your members ares, and you can’t use emails or adswaps unless you have built a list.
Adswaps are becoming less effective due to the techniques many people now use but if done right they still work.
Search engines and pay per click are more difficult unless you have the expertise.

3) Targetting
Target offers on download pages/thank you pages.
For instance when entering a free gift in a giveaway or using it for an adswap I put a banner for a related item on the download page.

4) Tagging, Recurring, and Funnels
Ideally promote affiliate programmes that are tagged and have a funnel and have recurring income.
This basically means if you send someone to an affiliate offer and they sign up to the persons list they then become marked as you referral for any future sales.
In the case of Your Internet Buddies this got me in the top ten of the Blue Print Coaching Program launch just from the people tagged as mine (which totalled around 2000)

5) Exit Splashes
Personally I find these annoying and they should not be overdone, but adding one can work very well.
I use Tim Bekker’s ( http://keithpurkiss.com/timbekkera ) and Free monthly Websites ( http://www.keithpurkiss.com/freewebsite )and these give me a constant stream of income (mostly small amounts at a time but it adds up)

6) Use The Right Tools
Make is as fast and easy as possible – use automated tools and outsource workers for everything you can.
I of course use my own product Push button giveaways to automate my Giveaways :)

7) Don’t expect to become rich overnight
This is probably the most important tip. Just keep going and earn a few dollars here and there and gradually build up.

That’s the end of my tips which have earned me $1000s, but if you want the knowledge of someone who’s earned over $1000000
then click here:
http://www.keithpurkiss.com/recommends/apf

Affiliate Promo Formula was created by John Thornhill who was my biggest affiliate for my first clickbank product (Free Listings Report)
and I’ve seen him in many top ten leaderboards for product launches.

I’ve taken a look inside his latest product Affiliate Promo Formula and there a lot of tips I’m going to be using myself from now on.

There is a concise PDF overview which give you the general idea of how his system works, but also a series of 15 modules that go into much

more detail of various parts of the formula, right from the basics to the different stages of a launch. There’s one module of advanced

material and another for people who don’t have a list so there’s something for everyone no matter what stage you’re at.

If you do decide to buy through my link, I’ve put together a special bonus package worth over $1000!
http://www.keithpurkiss.com/apfbonus.html

Thanks

Keith

(*I have to disclose though that these were payment for sales over a number of weeks, it’s just that 3 of the programmes I promote sent me payments at once, still it’s a great to get this just before Christmas)

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