Oct 31 2007

Confessions of a Lazy Super Affiliate

The Two Biggest Reasons Why Most People Will Never Make a Full-Time Income Online...

It all starts when some well-meaning (yet misdirected) person encourages a budding internet entrepreneur to “start in a niche they know a lot about”, or base their business around “something they’re passionate about”…

As horrible as it may sound – they’ve unknowingly sent the hopeful entrepreneur down a path of false expectations, poor results and eventually – failure. In fact, the myth of “do what you love and the money will follow” has been responsible for more failure than likely any other influence – perhaps even more so than laziness or a lack of perseverance.

Because the simple truth of the matter is that the only way you’re going to make real money on the net is if your business is based around two crucial things:

  1. Large Demand
  2. Buyers

In other words – you aren’t going to get rich selling a $15 ebook about growing square watermelons – even though that might be a great passion of yours.

The demand just isn’t there. Maybe there’s a few searches a day on Google for the topic, and perhaps there’s some interest in the online “gardening enthusiast” communities – but you’d be hard-pressed to make even a few hundred dollars a month from ebook sales.

Similarly, you also aren’t going to have a particularly easy time getting rich by building websites about some seemingly “popular” topics like humor, jokes, funny pictures and so on. And while there are a few ways to “monetize” your site (with AdSense, CPA Offers, CPM Banners, etc.), it takes literally millions of website visitors to make even just a few thousand dollars in markets like that.

The demand is huge – but the visitor value is extremely low…

Instead, if you want to make it big online – pulling down an impressive six-figure income – you need to tap into markets with tons of demand, where the majority of the visitors are valuable.
You need to capture tons of traffic that wants to buy something. If you take this approach, you’d practically have to hijack your own order links (or affiliate links) not to make a sizeable income.

In fact – did you know that some affiliates make several thousand dollars daily just by promoting a single product in hot markets? (Just imagine what the merchant is making…)

In some markets there’s actually so much demand that the vendors are quite literally selling over a thousand units – or more – per day. Digital products, with practically zero overhead/delivery cost.

But it all comes back to tapping into valuable demand. In most cases, it takes no extra effort or “skill” to market to a valuable market than it does to struggle along with something you’re passionate about.

These two factors – demand and buying traffic – are what separate the “wannabe” marketers from the millionaires. Because there’s no real secret – you just need to sell what thousands of people are already buying.

The ball is now officially in your court. Are you tapping into markets with massive, valuable demand?

Or are you struggling to simply make a few dollars occasionally with a business that’s based on your own passionate interests?

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Chris Rempel, author of “Confessions of a Lazy Super-Affiliate”, reveals 5 of his most effective traffic strategies and niche-targeting tactics in full detail at Confessions of a Lazy Super Affiliate.

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  1. Jean from ZineGuru Website Marketing said:

    Great post, I definitely agree about tapping on large demand markets and profit from the huge potential there. If you can succeed in these markets, it’s very profitable. The main problem is they are highly competitive and not many people will be able to prosper. The concept of following your passion and the money will come is true. Hence, some people have been able to find their passion in some niche markets not too competitive and still make some interesting income, even though they don’t get very rich. If they can find several of these, it can make a difference. People can always learn and find new passions. Diversifying is always a good idea.

    July 24th, 2009 at 8:26 am
  2. TigerTom from Affiliate Internet Marketing said:

    I think a key thing is choosing good quality products to promote.
    A lot of products on the smaller affiliate networks you wouldn’t buy yourself or recommend to friends, ever.

    November 13th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
  3. IainH said:

    @TigerTom I agree that there are a lot of poor quality products and services out there. Promoting any of these to potential customers does both of you a disservice.

    However, it is worth bearing in mind that just because something does not appeal to you, does not automatically make it inappropriate for your customers. One man’s junk is another man’s gold.

    November 14th, 2009 at 11:04 pm

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