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Affiliate Millions - How To Create Hungry Hordes of Happy Buyers

By: Ian Fleming

Here we are. We’re going to go through affiliate marketing from A to Z. I’m going to show you a campaign. This campaign made me in the order of $20,000 and it was a pretty low-priced product, so you can imagine how much of this I’ve sold.
I’m going to show you everything that I did step-by-step as quickly as I can.
You might be thinking at the outset that this had a lot to do with the size of my list. Yes, you do need a list to do affiliate marketing. I’m also going to be touching on that as well.
You also really need a website. If you don’t have a website yet get over to www.KioskWebsiteHosting.com. Apart from that you’re pretty much ready to go and I’ll show you every step of the way exactly what I did.
First off let me go through how I actually promoted this product as an affiliate. It doesn’t matter the size of your list. You can have 100 people on your list and have a massive payday. Do not get obsessed with the size of your list.
The first thing I did is I started pre-launching this and pre-selling this before the product even went live. It went live on a Tuesday and this is the Monday – not the Monday before the launch, but the Monday the week before the launch, so this is over a week before the product went live. This is the email that I sent out.
“Surprise, surprise! Here’s another pdf newsletter for you…” and I sent them off to my blog, giving them some snippets of what is in the newsletter, which included this bit…
“Ex-Gangster Turned Internet Marketer Reveals His Site-Stealing Secrets”
This is a promo. The product that I’m telling you about – let me just click back there, I kind of jumped the gun a little bit – is this, Harris Fellman’s www.SiteStealing.com. That is the product. It’s essentially a product that tells you how to swipe and steal sites legally, model from the best, borrow from the successful campaigns. That’s the product and this is what I did.
So I sent that email out. That was the first step that I did, sending people to my blog, so this is on my blog where I sent people first. I sent them to go and grab this pdf.
When you’re building up your list it’s a great idea to send multiple things out to them in different formats. Don’t just send email text. Send video, send audio, stuff that they can download, and people on my list really love these pdf documents.

So I sent them to my blog to go and download this, and some people obviously went on and commented.
So you download this and what happens? This is what you actually get. This is inside the newsletter, and then here you can see – so this is again a week before the product’s gone live I’m putting it in the newsletter. This is a free newsletter. There’s a lot of free content in here, and also in here I’ve got this headline –
“Éx-Gangster Turned….reveals his site-stealing secrets next week” – so I’m telling them that it’s coming, it’s on the way.
“I’ve been reviewing a new product that a lot of marketers have missed the boat on. It’s being unveiled on Tuesday, the 17th of July, next week.”
I’m telling them about it but I’m importantly not giving them a link to click on. That’s really getting people hungry, building up their desire, making them feel curious, but not actually giving them anything to click on.
I include a little picture there. The reason I’ve done that is to start the branding. Harris had a really well-branded site. It was branded all the way through to this character they called Sal the Gangster, all throughout his website with videos and in the product as well, so I’ve just put that in here so that people see it right from the beginning. Over a week before the product’s gone live they start to associate with this character.
Who is he? Is he really a gangster? Is it like a made-up thing? Can you actually steal sites? How am I going to make money? What’s the link? What’s the website called? Who is this guy? I’m raising and creating curiosity.
Scrolling down, there’s the rest of the newsletter with various things in there.
“P.S. You’re going to discover how you can legally steal sites next week. I’m going to show you who this guy is. I’ve included another picture of him here.”
It’s important that you try this type of technique by blacking things out, name censored or removing things, giving people a little bit of the information but also holding some of it back so they’re thinking, “I really want to find out what that is,” even if they’re not 100% keen on getting the product. They want to find out what that information is.
So that was Step 1, sending out that pdf newsletter and raising curiosity.
Let’s go back to my list of emails then and I’ll show you what the next thing is that I sent.

Later that week on Thursday I emailed people with, “If site stealing was legal, would you do it?” This is tapping into people who have already read the newsletter and it’s giving them a little bit more information.
I’ve said “Yes, it’s coming out next week. Don’t sue me. None of these tactics are actually illegal,” and then I start dropping further carrots.
“This is the fastest way to improve results of almost any sales page. If you correctly ____ ____, your results can skyrocket.”
Level 2 – “____ and run. If you’re starting out you’ll love this strategy.”
I go and I’ve used this stuff. I haven’t created this stuff myself. I grabbed it from his sales page, so remember that. It’s a great idea when you’re putting an affiliate promotion together, whether you’re sending it via email, putting it on your website, your blog or anything, is to use the sales letter from the product. Either get permission or just go ahead and borrow some of the stuff from the product sales page and give that to the people that you’re trying to educate.
“Look, this is the great stuff, the cool stuff,” so I’ve done that, but I’ve blanked some of it out, again to raise curiosity.
Even now you can see in the newsletter there was no link, and even in this email there’s no link. I put here, “Do you want to know more about site stealing?”
Then I’m saying, “What happens next week Tuesday when it goes live?” I say that I’m going to be doing an incredible bonus, and then I say, “P.S. What’s wrong? Are you looking for something to click on?” because I’m not giving them a link.
People want a link at this stage. They’ve already seen the newsletter. They’ve seen the pictures of the guy. They know a bit about the product and the site stealing idea, or the notion of it, but I’m not giving them anything to click on. I’m building up the curiosity.
The only thing I did send them to click on is my blog so they can go back and post comments and discuss with other people how they’re getting excited about it. This is all the week before.
It then gets to the week of the launch. This one, as you can see, is the Monday before the launch. I’m priming them now. I’m telling my list, “Get ready, it’s coming.” To read more go to http://Affiliate-Millions-Riches.com

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Ian is the webmaster for over 350 websites and has been a webmaster and internet affiliate marketer for over 7 years. His website at Affiliate-Millions-Riches.com will show you the answers to making a full time income on the internet. You can easily make over $100,000 in the next 12 months using these techniques.
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