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Is Affiliate Marketing Really Profitable?

December 15th, 2008 |

I know I am supposed to be answering your questions, but I had to let you know about this now. I made a big mistake in my ‘internet marketing’ in that I presumed affiliate marketing was a non earner and ignored it. I bought a few affiliate teaching type packages, but never got to finish them all the way through, so never made anything and just wrote it off.

Well I know know that this was truly a huge mistake and I probably would have saved myself hundreds of dollars had I stuck with it until the end.

Recently I met someone online called Jason Brown who had never heard of clickbank, but is making over $3000 a month as an affiliate marketer. He does not own any websites, he does not pay for hosting, he does not use adwords, infact his outgoings are $0. YET, he is making in the region of $36,000 a year. Now I can see you looking at the figures saying that is not that much, but how much are you earning a year? How much time do you give to your employer for that time? Well I bet it is less than Jason who is currently working just 10 hours a week. He knows if he doubled his efforts he could earn more, but for the moment he is happy with where he is at. $100 would be nice for all of us.

I was talking to Jason about clickbank and how big the commissions could be and this got him very interested, so we decided to do a test and see what would happen, so I bought him a domain name on the 5th Dec 08, just 10 days ago, I set up hosting for him and I explained to him everything I had learnt about clickbank product launches through e-mails that I have received in the past.

Jason went away got on with things and I forgot about it until yesterday when he told me to look at this link … http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=the+next+affiliate+idol&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

He then went onto explain that 5 out of these 10 listings belonged to him. I was astounded as this is the most important keyword for this particular product and this all in just 10 days AND out of 1,800,000 results. For the keyword with bonus at the end he has 6 listings on the homepage. (as of today, 15 Dec 2008 8pm GMT+1) I thought this was a one off, but he explained that he get’s these types of ersults every time he promotes any sort of affiliate product, he just normally does it without a domain of his own. I was astounded to say the least. He explained that he had only used the information that he gave me and information he was given by the creator of the product he is promoting.

The product that he is promoting is actually an affiliate markeing video course. You can read all about it at his site and you can order from the sales page here. I just got mine as he told me the creator is putting up the price in the next few days. I am going to go through it all this week and get started. I’ll let you know how I get on.

So Jason says YES affiliate marketing is really profitable.