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Money is tight. You have a hunch it could pay off to do pay per click marketing. Maybe you could conquer a niche and start making the kind of money that the super affiliates tease you with in those incessant emails that pour into your mail box every morning. So what do you do?
I was asking myself that very question when into my email box came an announcement from someone whose newsletter I had been on for a quite some time. But unlike those other annoying affiliate marketers, this one rarely sent me anything. Which was kind of odd because he happened to be one of the more widely respected and well-known super affiliates of today. His name is Jeremy Palmer, and he was getting ready to launch something that would become known as the Black Ink Project.
Jeremy had acquired his fame back in 2005 when he published an ebook entitled High Performance Affiliate Marketing, which he now makes available for free. In the book he detailed pretty much everything he knew about how to do successful pay per click marketing. The kind of things that had earned him a Commission Junction Horizon Award for Innovation in 2005, and more than a million dollars in annual affiliate income. His book sold more than 5000 copies.
But then he began to sour on the whole idea of dealing with info products. The industry seemed to be awash in false promises and unrealistic marketing copy that brainwashed aspiring affiliates and more or less guaranteed they would be doomed to failure.
So he stopped dealing with affiliates on any large scale, and went off to perform some experiments on a just a few affiliates that he could teach one-on-one. Could it be possible, he wondered, to teach the things he was doing successfully to others who wanted to achieve that same level of success with pay per click strategies? It didn't work with ebooks, he'd found. Almost none of his ebook customers ever went on to do anything with their newfound knowledge. He was sure that a more hands-on method of teaching was required.
My Black Ink Project Review is a summary of what it was that he eventually came up with.
As for those few lucky students that Jeremy took under his wing - well, 4 out of the 5 he mentored soon began to earn more than $10,000/month with their PPC-based affiliate marketing efforts. One went on (with his business partner) to earn an amzing $4,000,000 dollars over the next two years. You can watch a video from this same affiliate on my site. Clearly the hands-on method was a great deal more effective than even Jeremy had suspected was possible.
So when that email from him popped into my email box that day, it was to announce that he was accepting an initial two thousand students to partake in a course that would take affiliates from a standing still position to one where they were operating in the black. That is to say, they would have profit-pulling campaigns.
The course turned out to be immensely successful, and got the thumbs up all-round. But again, Jeremy wasn't entirely satisfied. So he ran a second version of the course, in which he allowed his audience to watch every single thing that he normally did to launch a new campaign. Everything from the niche-selection, to keyword research, site planning and building, and the eventual setting up of pay per click campaigns, complete with often overlooked ad-tracking to maximize profits. This course later became known as Black Ink 2.0
For affiliates operating on a shoestring budget, the Black Ink Project will show you how to set up your own profitable affiliate review site from scratch, and spend the least amount of money possible to do it. I even have software which builds these affiliate review sites for you, which I give away to course members. You can learn more about that in my Black Ink Project Review
Stephen Carter is a web developer and internet marketer. His Black Ink Project critique page at http://www.blackinkprojectreview.com/ is an attempt to let other know about an excellent affiliate marketing course that can benefit every affiliate.
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