Thomas:
I would say that starting off with about $50 dollars a month would be my preferred choice. Is that too low?

PPC involves testing…and some choose to look at testing as “wasted funds”.

To do PPC, or even Internet Marketing long-term means you need to have some disposable cash to do testing.

It might be possible to strike gold on your first try, thought it’s very, very rare.

The best affiliates are those who test and persist till they find a winning formula.

That’s one of the biggest takeaways I’ve got from working with Amit on the Super Affiliate Accelerator…

What is your budget to get started?

Thanks

Being a complete newbie who is reading just about everything he can get his hands on for Affiliate marketing (but hasn’t started his own first campaign yet), I will attempt to answer Susan’s question:
If creating webpages that pre-sell a product (or paying someone to do it) is the problem, you can initially create Adwords that link directly to the merchant’s site. This way, your only investment is the CPC (cost per click), and you can set daily limits on that too! So set a limit of $5 a day, and for a $0.10 bid, you are allowed 50 clicks for the Adword (or is it keyword, I’m a little confused) Bottom line is, with this small investment you get a good idea of how your choice of keywords performs. Once you make some profit from that, you can re-invest that into webpage development. Best of Luck!

Guys, please feel free to correct me if I’m spreading misinformation. Thanks.

I have heard that the lower you are on adwords position the higher your ROI would be because the top position generally gets click happy people.

But mr.x from blackbook DVD says that “true ROI is lower on top position but the PROFIT is higher on top position even though ROI is lower because of the volume you get”

Which one is true?

Which method do you prefer?

Thanks in advance for answering

Susan, most people attempting affiliate marketing already know enough to get at least some measure of success from it. It’s really a matter of developing the mindset Amit talks about and doing it.

As far as not having $5K to spend right now, if you read through Amit’s prior posts you’ll know that he started with extremely small budgets.

For websites, if you don’t have HTML skill, try Elance or Rentacoder. I’m sure you can get a simple but nice looking site designed for $100 or less. BTW, it could turn into a long-term relationship, who knows?

Finally Amit’s given more information and valuable PPC techniques for free on this blog and his Affiliate Summit talk than you’ll get in many $100 ebooks.

Anyway, I wish you much success. You’ve already found one of the most valuable resources for affiliate marketing information.

I think Amit started with only $200 and just kept reinvesting that to get where he is today.

Also if you’re completely broke then I suggest looking into article marketing. You can get successful with that, then use the $ from that to start PPC.