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If you have pondered the possibility of starting your own online storefront which delivers physical products, but have been deterred by the prospect of having to maintain inventory, then the method devised by super affiliates Steve Clayton and Tim Godfrey may provide just the opportunity you have been waiting for.
Let me say straight up that if anyone besides than Steve Clayton and Tim Godfrey were trying to get my attention with promises of niche domination using what sounds like eBay-seller type storefronts, I'd not be interested in listening to their proposition.
However, these two guys happen to be amazing internet marketers, as you'll see in a moment.
Steve and Tim achieved fame with their earlier product, called Commission Blueprint, in which they revealed their highly successful affiliate marketing methods for moving ClickBank products through PPC advertising.
In fact, one of their campaigns regularly pulled in about $100,000 per month in commissions, with ad fees that cost perhaps a fifth of that. If that sounds astonishing, it should. Especially when you appreciate they were able to do so selling scores of non-internet marketing related products, like acne therapies, and schemes to fuel your car with water (apparently people will buy this kind of nonsense!).
So Steve Clayton and Tim Godfrey know how to sell stuff. It's just what they are good at. They have put in the time, learned from their experience, and these days they are happy to make some additional money explaining what it is that they do so well. I am sure that it also does wonders for the ego, but if the end result is an improved understanding on my part for how to sell efficiently, then that's all I care about. I am sure the same is true for you.
But who are these guys really?
Well, Steve Clayton has a technical background, having spent about 20 years in, as he describes it, "Corporate America". But he got out in 2003 after deciding that what he wanted to do was create his own lifestyle free from anyone else. Well, he almost achieved his goal, but as fortune would have it, he met Tim Godfrey and the two struck up a partnership which has worked out very well for the both of them. Tim has invested a lot of time experimenting with all the myriad ways that affiliates can make money online, including having created his own affiliate marketing products. He appears to be content being the backend component of this dynamic duo, while Steve appears in the videos and gets his face out in front of everyone.
Their first creation for 2009 is called the Niche Blueprint. Unlike their first joint product, which concentrated on the selling of digital goods, this time around they are providing instruction on how to be massively successful at selling physical products.
As examples of this, they say they have made hundreds of thousands of dollars targeting obscure niches like bird cages, sewing machines, and even train horns. Train horns? You will almost certainly be shocked to discover that people pay up to $1000 or more to place powerful train horns on their cars. Who knows why! But if there is a market for it, and the returns are good, then it is clearly something that should peak the interest of any serious affiliate marketer.
Now, I have promoted tangible goods in the past (and even presently) and I know that the commission rates on these are generally very low. For instance, the best commission rate you can get selling a product through Amazon.com is about 8 percent. Steve and Tim know this too. So instead of just making their commissions through referred sales, they have devised a method for procuring the goods wholesale, and then drop shipping the items through an affordable service. That way, they can set the prices of the products and earn more that the standard affiliate commissions. In effect, they have become sellers.
In theory, it sounds great, but what about the storefront? How do you go about finding providers of the goods that you want to sell through the online store? And what about the drop shipping end of it (which allows you to bypass stocking any inventory)?
Well, Steve and Tim figured out how to set up their own drop shipping business so that they could remove the middle-man. When their clients buy the Niche Blueprint, which you can learn more about in my Niche Blueprint review, they get a free non-expiring subscription to the service.
They also are given all of the software required to set up their online store, plus lots of video tutorials and PDF manuals that teach them how to do everything. Again, if it was anyone other than this pair of characters offering the product, I would likely not pay too much attention. But these guys are simply just too successful to ignore.
So if you think you might want to leverage their success, have a closer look at the Niche Blueprint. But I must warn you that Steve and Tim rarely take new clients for this product, so if you discover that they have opened up their membership queue, realize that it will only be temporary. I have also decided to make it easier for people to decide to sign up for the Niche Blueprint. I am offering a substantial bonus in the form of companion software that can be used to create lead-in pages for your store. You can see the offer on my review page for the Niche Blueprint.
Stephen Carter is a web developer and internet marketer. His Niche Blueprint critique page at http://www.niche-blueprint-review-bonus.com/ is an attempt to let others know about an excellent opportunity for affiliates to turn their hand to the promotion of physical goods. There is also a sizable bonus software offered for affiliates who decide to try out the Niche Blueprint.
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