Affiliate Commandments - Blueprint to Success or Just More Hype?
Affiliate marketing has revolutionized the nature of selling products on the Internet in recent years. Companies have noticed that they can increase their sales dramatically if they offer incentives for third parties to advertise their products for them. This symbiotic relationship results in greater sales for the company and nice commission checks for the affiliate, who promotes the product without having to stock it or sell it.
With the increase in products being sold this way, it is only natural that quite a few of these products would be books that tell you how to make money through affiliate sales. Quite a few products are available that provide tips, techniques and advice for making money through affiliate marketing. A few of these products have sold quite well, while others are simply scams designed to make money for the authors while offering little useful information.
The latest product to arrive in affiliate marketing is a book called Affiliate Commandments, written by the author of two previous successful books, Day Job Killer and the ominously named Affiliate Project X. In this book, the author claims to offer a “blueprint” that explains how you can earn affiliate revenue using the same methods that he has used for success. Does this product offer a real value, or is it just another overdescribed book?
The author, Chris McNeeney, does have a previous record of success, and his previous two books did offer sensible advice along the lines of affiliate marketing. Affiliate Commandments is in the same mold. The most surprising thing about Affiliate Commandments is its length; it is not an especially long book. Then again, there is no filler. Affiliate Commandments presents refined and distilled versions of the techniques that Chris has talked about in earlier books, polished to a bright shine. Even though the book runs only a handful of pages, Chris is able to cover a number of topics that are essential for affiliate marketers - Choosing a popular product, building a “stable” of products to offer, and how to see if your advertising methods are working. He also offers a tweaked version of a famed plan that lets you take advantage of the profitable advertising of other marketers in order to use their techniques to your advantage. Don't know the first thing about affiliate marketing? That's not a problem, either, since he includes a copy of a beginner's affiliate marketing guide with the purchase.
The affiliate marketing world is full of hyperbole, and it can sometimes be hard to separate the good products from the bad ones. Affiliate Commandments is, by and large, a well-written, concise and most of all, fairly priced product that should help anyone in the marketing arena earn a few more dollars than they otherwise might.
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