Well here it is we have finally come to the end of our guide into Bum Marketing and i hope that you have enjoyed it and found it useful. In our last post on this series we we are going to look at the final action plans for you to succeed.
The following plan is what you need to be doing week in week out and by following these final steps you will be well on your way to succeeding as a Bum Marketer.
Step 1 – Find 5 products to promote
Start by finding the 5 products you are going to promote. Clickbank is a good place to start. Make sure that the products you are going to use have a good payout dont waste your time on one that have a low payout.
Step 2 – Research upto 30 keywords per product
Finding up to 30 keywords ia good start but you can go for more if you wish. This should let you know if the product is worth promoting you don’t want to write 50+ articles only for the product not to convert into sales.
Unfortunately this is going to happen occasionally but as long as you haven’t spent a long time on the articles its not too bad. Remember some products will perform better than others.
Step 3 – Write the articles for your keywords
Now start writing your articles. You have found a great product and you got your keywords. If you decide to get someone else to write your article then look at forums many people charge around $5 for a short article.
If you do decide to hire people to write articles for you, here is a tip.
Never pay upfront. Pay after the articles are completed.
Write the articles quickly. Give them an action plan to use, top it off with an interesting article byline and you will make sales.
Step 4 – Create your landing pages and submit your articles
Ezinearticles.com will no doubt in the future change the rules for what is acceptable as the landing page people click on in your article byline.
In the future Ezinearticles.com will probably not allow you to redirect their readers straight to a sign up form for an opt-in email list. They probably won’t even let you send readers straight to a sales letter or affiliate page via redirect.
What I’ve found to work even better then a simple pre-sell page or an opt-in page is to incorporate content around the landing page. That way, people land on a page where they have something interesting to read before you go into a hard sell.
For example, you would have the reader directed to a page on your website. This page would be a simple pre-sell page like Travis suggests doing in his bum-marketing course.
But instead of just having one page site visitors can click on and either sign up to your free opt-in list or click straight over to the affiliate website, on the side of the page in the navigation area, you would put links to other articles you’ve written. This is likely where you will make your most money, but getting people to opt-in to a list is equally important, because you can always market your product to them later by a sales letter.
This makes your website more of a content/resource website. This will please your website visitors and Ezinearticles.com. People are more likely to click through the links you have when you have a website set up with information, not just a blaring sales page. Remember, with time everything gets old.
At some point, customers, not just article commandos like Ezinarticles.com are going to demand more from the people using their services.
As you know, Ezinearticles.com is cracking down on landing pages and they no longer allow USfreeads.com.
Also, this gives you more chances to make sales as well.
When a reader can see that there is more content to read on the topic, they will read those articles as well and get even more excited about the product you are promoting. If you do a good job of writing articles, they will believe you have quality content to offer, and they are more likely to trust whatever products you have to recommend to them.
This is pre-selling at its best. Many people really hate giving away their email address straight away just to get more information, so give it to them free repeatedly, and they will eventually WANT to give you their email address.
There is already too much junk mail out there, so more and more people want something tangible immediately. They do not want you to bombard them with crap, so just don’t do it. Do as I say and make money the right way.
Once you have created your landing page, submit your articles MANUALLY to Ezinearticles.com and Goarticles.com. Those are the only article directories I use.
Step 5 – Double up on your keywords
By now you should have written 150 articles and submitted them to the relevant article directories. If after a few weeks, you find a certain product is doing really well, double up.
Like I explained before, create a second Ezinearticles.com account and write the same articles again under this different persons account.
Also go and look for other keywords you can write articles on.
Milk it for all it’s worth.
Do all of this for 4 weeks straight and if you are not seeing $100 or more a day in your Clickbank account I will be surprised. This system WILL work if you try it. It is not another “tactic” it is THE magic key you have been looking for, a way to be lazy and make money. Who doesn’t want to live life like that?
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#1 by Dennis Edell on May 29th, 2008
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Time to print them all out, read through it again and see what i can do!
Thanks much.