It allows you to examine the keywords they use, see their ad copy, study the market as a whole.

Affiliate Elite is a great tool for market research (Surprisingly, not because of the “Find Products To Promote” feature)

Project 2 (Reverse Google Search) and Project 3 (Analyze competition) give you a lot of great data to look at when contemplating if the market can sustain an affiliate promotion via pay per click.

The releif when you see a sale is good then catch 22 you think forget it now and look at end of day, but your mind is saying all the time, hope I sold something else so you check again. And you get back into the 5 minute check routine.

Keep smiling,

Kevin

Amit, Melanie and I are partners. We each bring our own expertise and experience to the table. We don’t have employees, but work with talented freelancers when needed.

Building a team is as easy as finding people that have a valuable skill and simply asking. I initially hired Amit
for consulting, then he requested services from me. We partnered up and found a good writer who already had a developed team (Melanie) and partnered with her as well.

Thanks,
Thomas

My question is how do you go about building a team? I mean, do you have employees or do you work more in a partnership kind of way? I always feared that employees could end up “stealing” my ideas or niche.

What do you think?

I found point #3 particularly telling.

However the note has me confused.

- You don’t scrape
- You don’t use a program
- You don’t steal

It’s a strange perspective. One could say if all that were true, you wouln’t be looking at their keywords, ads, landing pages etc.

By doing so, you ARE in fact taking advantage of their hard work, as you call it, by gaining competitive inteligence and profiting from their trial and error.

But that’s fine by me, it’s how business works.

In which case, what’s the ethical case for doing it manually rather than programatically?

It’s slower and bulkier and costs more?

You’re an absolute inspiration.

I’m so excited about getting into affiliate marketing, I can hardly breathe!

Please keep up the posts – we all need a pep up when things seem hard.

Tomorrow i launch my first adwords campaign and i looked at around 10 different niches (and a few subniches) before finding one that i feel would have a chance at being profitable.

I spent 4 days doing Market research then Keyword development then another investigating the type of landing page that should be used.

Im finally there but kind of worried to start it but it’s all for experience right.