Sep 21 2009
Affiliate Marketing:why I got involved and a starter product
First steps in Internet marketing and Search Engine Optimization for dummies
As I discussed in my last post “ ”I am not a natural sales person” I am now two months into the Year of the Affiliate Affiliate marketing forum with Australian Internet-marketing guru Sean Rasmussen.
Before the Internet marketing course, I was already involved in sales as a commission salesman, as you may have gathered from the previous posts. As I was considering my options recently, something crystallized in my thinking on one particular day. I was trudging the cold and windy streets of my city in the deep Southern winter, looking for suitably elderly-looking individuals to qualify for the government-funded security products that I market, and was telling myself there had to be easier ways to market not just my product, but any product. (and no, I do not spend all my time taking such an old-fashioned approach to direct sales, but when you live in a city of old people it is definitely an option to just get in your car and look for potential customers!). Other times we book a Mall or a function room, which then eliminates the weather as a problem factor in sales prospecting, at least to some extent (but my customer base-the elderly-often stay indoors on cold days too).
The answer came within a short time when I got an email from Australian internet marketing guru Sean Rasmussen, inviting me to join his Affiliate marketing forumas a Beta-tester.
I knew the potential of the internet, having spoken to various friends who were either designing websites or studying internet marketing in various degrees or levels of ability. The problem was: all my sales experience had involved more or less direct contact with customers. Somehow, I have been successful in doing this. It is great if one can keep finding prospects, but not so great if whatever reason one cannot (e.g bad weather/sickness/family issues).
So I had a need, I saw the potential, but had very little experience of marketing anything over cyberspace, and my know-how to create websites and pages on the net to do this was non-existent. I worked out it would cost me a lot of money, and since I hate overly-jargon-filled subjects, I discounted internet marketing as an option. “Affiliate marketing?” “Web 2.0″ ? I would not have had a clue what these terms meant.
In my next post I will go into more detail on the exciting “Year Of The Affiliate ” product that I will offer direct from this site, together with some more reports on my experience in building an online income using affiliate marketing using the “Year of the Affiliate/Web2020″ training I have received.
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John Reason
Salesman, Internet marketer, independent researcher, Article writer.
Living in New Zealand.
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