Comments on: Patience is a Super Affiliate Virtue…Part I

By: susan

susan — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:51:59 +0000

REC:

Very good ideas! Thanks for that.

By: REC

REC — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:30:23 +0000

I’m no expert by a long shot. But sometimes I do the following.

-I subscribed to keycompete.com to get the best keywords.
-Sometimes I goto paypal, view its directory to see what store is selling the most.
-The same is true of Ebay and Overstock. The products on their main page is generally the stuff selling the most, Maybe.
-Or if your doing clickbank. Goto CBtrends.com or CBengine.com to see what is the best clickbank product.
-Get a Subscription to Revenue Magazine.(This is a most)
-Google trends can show you the monthly and yearly trends of an item. You can also see what city and state are search the most for that item.
-Sometimes I just do a simple search and count the Sponsered links to gauge it.
This stuff can really eat up your afternoon and more. So be prepared to do a lot of research.
Like I said I’m not a expert. Hoping to get Amit’s product one day. Also I want to get Affiliate Elite Software.

Anyone esle have any ideas. I could sure use them.
Thanks in advance.

By: susan

susan — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:48:09 +0000

Can somebody here please talk about how they do/perform market research?

Since Amit has refused to answer

By: Garrett Leyenaar

Garrett Leyenaar — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:29:58 +0000

Patience is virtue like they say. It just really sucks when your patient and still miss the boat.

Hopefully that doesn’t happen all the time.

By: Ms. Scorpia

Ms. Scorpia — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:50:02 +0000

Hi, I love the article! Can you take a look at my site and tell me what you think? I belong to linkshare and I rotate the offers by my many affilates with little success. So, I’m really trying to get an idea of what I need to do in order to be successful.

Thank You

By: susan

susan — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:43:28 +0000

Amit,

How many “employee’s” do you have?

Also, Could you do a post of how one might go about doing effective market research?

By: Jack Payne

Jack Payne — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:20:23 +0000

I’m caught between a rock and a hard place. I have a niche site, that is considered such, yet it has relevance for the general consumer population. Even though I have content that is not found anywhere else, I can’t seem to tap this ultimate responsive chord, which should be there, on a big scale.

Good stuff that you’ve got here. You cover much of my problem. But, come up just a little bit short.

By: Vijay Teach Me $$

Vijay Teach Me $$ — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:47:19 +0000

Hi Amit,
Wow U R a Black Belt in Karate also…..

Vijay

By: AJS

AJS — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:46:44 +0000

Wouldn’t we want to know that a specific niche is going to work for us before spending the time to build out as larger site? I like Jeremy Palmer’s “start thin, grow fat” analogy, where you start a site small and grow it out into more pages only after if it shows that it will bring decent returns. What is your take on this strategy?

I built a huge affiliate site, but it turned out to be complete flop (for various reasons). Since that experience, I have chosen to start with smaller sites and see how they do first before growing them out.

By: rick

rick — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:26:18 +0000

Amit,

Yes, but this raises the cost of entry. If someone is trying to dip their toes in and invest, say $500…. you could eat up a good chunk of that in creating the site and writing the content (unless you do that yourself). This is the position I’m in… I want to invest a fairly small amount of actual cash, so I’m trying to hit the sweet spot between upfront research, site creation and content creation and getting an offer out there. My plan right now is to spend next week choosing 2-3 offers, doing the prep work and having the offers live the week after.

Will my returns on these offers be optimal? Probably not… but there’s a range between failure and optimal return. My goal is to shoot for good return in the short term on some offers and then optimize.