Ever since I start this blog I’ve gotten a lot of flack from people who think I’m absolutely nuts giving all this wonderful information away.
“Amit why can’t you just pitch ebooks like half of the affiliate marketing blogs out there do? Why do you have to give away industry secrets? The increased competition is going to kill us!?!?”
This type of thinking is pervasive in this industry. Everyone is REALLY secretive about their techniques and strategies, as well as the niches their in.
In fact, even some merchants have this attitude. I was about to go into the education leads market, working with some ad agency. I ask them if they could send me a list of universities and colleges they work with, and some other suggested keywords. They basically said they couldn’t share that information because they themselves were bidding on the same keyword!?!? HELLO, are you stupid? I’m a super affiliate here to produce a massive amount of leads for you, and make you money.
Needless to say, I’m not working with them, and they have no idea how HUGE a mistake they made.
Even my mother said I was crazy to reveal my most closely guarded secrets.
I’m hear to say that despite all the naysayer, I will continue to share my insights with the world, and hope to help as many affiliates as possible.
“But Amit, why would you that? Why not just keep all these money making secrets to yourself?”
Here’s why I believe that super affiliates and all successful people should share their secrets:
- I believe the more you give, the more blessing you get in return. It’s the law of reciprocity, the law of giving and receiving, or whatever you want to call it. There are many ways of giving: your money, your time, your knowledge. This is an age old secret to success, and from my experience it works in amazing ways!
- I really like helping people and watching them succeed! Once you’ve succeeded, having more success is awesome, however, there’s nothing like the feeling of helping others achieve success as well. And again, this will only accelerate your success.
- The pie is only getting BIGGER! There are thousands of markets, and millions of keywords, and it’s growing by leaps and bounds every year. There’s enough opportunity out there for everyone to succeed and become a super affiliate.
So do YOU have a giving mindset or a hoarding mindset?
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What a nice change and refreshing viewpoint Amit. Affiliates are lucky to have someone like you around. Can’t agree more with 1,2 and 3 above.
Thanks for all you do! We appreciate you!
I completely agree, it’s great to be able to help – somethings are more valuable than money.
Great post Amit, really like your blog. Thanks for commenting on mine.
Si
Amit,
This is an outstanding post and I think it is great that you offer helpful information to affiliates like this. I’m just getting into affiliate marketing myself, so it is really nice to have resources like your blog to read on a daily basis to get some great help and guidance.
Keep up the good work.
Clarke
Another great post Amit! As you know I can personally atest to this. For those of you who don’t know I’ve known Amit for years. In March of 06 he told me he was making a 6 figure income from affiliate marketing I asked him to teach me (I’m no PHD but I realised he knew something I didn’t
). I followed his advise down to the letter and by May I made 8 grand in profit and quit my job. Now I make a comfortable 6 figure income. 
As for Amit…well he’s doing okay 
…now netting a 7 figure income.
We all need to be reminded that there is no fixed pie it’s a growing pie. I still have to consciously remind myself of that. It’s easy to be a hoarder and think there is a fixed number of sales and try to keep everyone off your turf. It takes a lot more faith to believe that helping others in the cut throat wourld of Internet marketing will come back to you.
Jeff
ok Jeff your turn to teach me please, I will follow you to a T email me if you get a change
Hmm.. you’re not really giving away anything earth shattering tho Amit. Everything you’ve written so far I’ve read through other forums and blogs and your writing, although well written and entertaining, is nothing more than hope. You’re selling hope and dreams. Yes, you’re motivating some, but let’s be honest – you’re not giving away any secrets that will lose you any sales.
Hi Emily,
Wow! You’re in some serious pain. Based on this comment and the comment questioning how much I spend on PPC (yes I do spend 10k a day and I can prove it with screen shoot of my MCC account if you’d like).
You sound like someone who’s struggling with Adwords, and is green with envy that I figured this business out and have succeeded.
Here’s my suggestion: change your attitude and try to learn AND apply as much information as you can. It’s a trial and error process, eventually it will come together.
I wish you the best of success.
Amit,
I just discovered your blog so I am slowly reading through your posts. Anyway, thank you for not being afraid to share your knowledge. I think your brutal honesty is what makes your posts so pleasurable to read. It shows that you do have a sincere interest in helping others achieve success. Besides, I don’t think you have to worry about revealing your secrets because most people do NOT take action even if you show them exactly what to do to make money. Again, thank you and I hope that I can achieve the same level success as you in the near future.
P.S. If you were wondering, that is really my first name.
Amit,
What Nonsense! What secret strategies are you sharing here in this blog? I can’t see any secrets over here. You are just trying to convince readers that you are expert in PPC and a perfect personally improved guy who is making $1,000,00 p.m. Are there any proofs of your income?
No!
You are even not replying to the readers queries completely, leave sharing of secrets aside. Either you don’t know the answers or you just want them to become members of your highly costly PPC coaching program ($ 2k p.m).
Go and check your blog posts and you will find that there are lot of queries which have not been answered since months. Then why are you projecting yourself as a Messiah?
Why not post the proof of your last year return to show that you are indeed making $ 1,000,00 p.m?
I know that everyone wants to make money from their knowledge but at least be honest and don’t write bullshit!
Thus your statement “Even my mother said I was crazy to reveal my most closely guarded secrets” is totally disgusting. You are always trying to promote your close JV friends – Anik, Andrew etc. crappy products.
If you are making $1,000,00 p.m then why are you looking for such small affiliate commissions of few hundred dollars? Doesn’t make any sense to me at least.
So, be true and don’t make false claims- “I really like helping people and watching them succeed! and I believe the more you give, the more blessing you get in return”. These false unethical statements are not in line with the unanswered posts and hyped products promotion being
done by you over here.
Show which closely guarded secrets have you written here? You are promoting your coaching and friend’s products without any solid research results and proofs from your side that they indeed are making money for anyone.
Wake Up, Write truth and don’t show yourself as Father Teresa. We all are not idiots over here. You are here just to make money and nothing else; another person in the category of those scammers, called online money making gurus.
Govind
@ Govind:
Wow, What are you talking about?!?
I am sorry to say but you got lot of negative thinking.
If you watch closely in every post you would find golden nuggets, please don’t just blame others as you are not making any money online..
I highly recommend that you head over to Amit’s profit swami blog, here is the link for you: http://www.profitswami.com/ and order the books that Amit recommend, those books will change your negative thinking and if you want to make big online you important to have a right mindset my friend.
I just know this, I was a normal guy and was stuck in 9 to 5 job, but after following Amit, I quit my job at IBM India and since 1 year now I am making money online with Affiliate marketing and SEO, haven’t done much with PPC, but I am soon gonna start PPC campaigns, thanks to Amit..
So please stop blaming Amit, and go and take some action… and FYI, Amit is not like other super affiliates who don’t share anything with others.
Regards,
Taqi Askari
PS. If you really want to change your negative thinking and want to learn how to have a right mindset, go and order Rich Dad Poor Dad, right now!