AFFILIATE MARKETING OVERVIEW PROGRAMS…

QUIT YOUR DAY JOB — High Performance Affiliate Marketing
$49.95. Beginner to Intermediate.
Program Includes: "High Performance Affiliate Marketing" eBook (150 pgs), access to members-only forum.

UPDATED MARCH 2007

Jeremy Palmer's High Performance Affiliate Marketing was always one of the most comprehensive affiliate education resources around. It still is.

The manual begins with an excellent Affiliate Marketing 101 section for newbies. Palmer painstakingly explains performance-based marketing in a writing style that's straightforward and conversational. The eBook is impressively well-organized and has an air of professionalism. If his business is organized as thoroughly as the table of contents in his manual, no wonder he's been successful.

Palmer's approach is thoughtful, specific, and ultra-focused. He lays a foundation, then stacks the blocks of building an online marketing business, one by one — from advice on the administrative ins and outs to tips on finding products, assessing merchants, measuring demand, and analyzing ROI. As a Commission Junction CJ Performer™, (a title awarded to top publishers in the CJ affiliate network), his advice on affiliate networks is particularly credible. He knows how to get the most of relationships with affiliate networks such as Commission Junction, ClickBank, ShareASale, and LinkShare.

The search engine optimization sections provide a thorough understanding of how search engines work and how to optimize ads and websites, including advice on Black Hat, White Hat and Gray Hat SEO, and deciding which color hat you'll wear. The book offers an impressive analysis of keyword buying cycles, as well as detailed strategies and bidding advice for affiliate marketers interested in building Google AdWords and Yahoo YPN portfolios.

We respect his emphasis on obtaining sophisticated traffic reporting, and monitoring those numbers daily to determine what tweaks should be made to ads and websites. This is a guy who monitors his business closely and teaches you how to monitor yours. The 2007 update includes four new Excel worksheets to help you evaluate merchants, estimate keyword profitability, and track your results.

High Performance Affiliate Marketing includes advice on building websites that sell, covering a wide variety of websites… directories, reviews, shopping comparison and datafeed sites, and sites that deal with coupons and incentives or rebates. You'll also find advice on creating landing pages and resources for becoming HTML-proficient. Now, he lays down hard-and-fast rules for website components such as link color and site navigation which we don't necessarily agree with, as we think the internet would be a very dull place if every site was identical. Haven't we had enough of reflex blue links?

One key benefit of owning High Performance Affiliate Marketing that it includes Palmer's ongoing support through his members-only forum. The Quit Your Day Job forum, not just another phony excuse to post affiliate links, can occasionally be a good source for inside dirt. You'll find all sorts of useful resources and solutions to common affiliate marketing problems, both from affiliates and from Palmer himself, who actively participates in the forum, and in fact, claims to have posted personalized answers to over a thousand questions since the forum's inception in 2006.

For beginners, High Performance Affiliate Marketing is quite possibly the single best affiliate marketing manual to read first. For intermediate affiliate marketers, it will fill in some blanks, in case this isn't the manual you read first.

Palmer offers free updates to High Performance Affiliate Marketing fairly frequently. Most affiliate marketing manuals are rarely updated (though almost all their authors promise they will be). And when they are, owners typically have to pay for the update.

We highly recommend the Quit Your Day Job program. High Performance Affiliate Marketing is a lot of bang for the buck.

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