Comments on: The Bum Marketing Method is DEAD?

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By: joeymimi

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By: dennis

dennis — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:06:50 +0000

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By: ikea

ikea — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:10:17 +0000

Do you put the affilate link on your review page? And am i right to assume your review page is one you create with some of your own webskills? How do you review a product you have not used?

Also what might you do if you are trying to write about the very competive key word ‘make money”

By: Davion

Davion — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:56:10 +0000

Hi Ikea, affiliate redirects work well if the sales page is compelling. The article itself needs to pre-sell your customers already. However, if you ask me which is my preference, I still prefer to have a review webpage/website ready so that I can send my article visitors to the review page. Conversions have always been good for me that way. And it works great if you are building a list or making affiliate commissions or a combination of both.

By: ikea

ikea — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:48:46 +0000

Hi, do you think affiliate redirects work as well as squeeze pages, hub pages and etc? for coverting to sales. Im just starting out, and I don’t have the time to research how to make squeeze and hub pages. Redirects are easy for me. But I don’t want to write thirty articles with a redirect link if I don’t have a good chance of getting sales.

By: Davion

Davion — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:29:44 +0000

Hi Harry,

For affiliate links, use a top level domain ie http://www.thisismydomain.com to forward to the affiliate link. Use masking features within your domain management area and people will only see http://www.thisismydomain.com not knowing it is an affiliate site.

EzineArticles will allow top level domains that forward to affiliate ie merchant sites.

By: harryheys

harryheys — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:19:51 +0000

Re: the problem with Ezine not allowing direct links to merchants – is it OK to use redirects? I thought I had read somewhere that this is OK?

By: Fendi Salim

Fendi Salim — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:04:07 +0000

Hi Davon, great stuff.

I pride myself on writing great autoresponder messages prior to building squeeze pages LOL! I think it’s important as you mentioned and also about the niche potential.

Now that you said, you get more sales selling directly, I believed you as well. I have a site doing just that and believe me it works.

For the trick you mentioned, I do a variation. I lead to a “Confirmation Required” page and place a >>Click Here Next at the bottom to lead them to the sales page. I’ve seen pages doing a html redirect using a timer as well. I guess you’ll have to time that with how long you take to read the page. It’s cool.

Let’s keep bumming mate. The articles are that important to be out consistently.

By: Davion

Davion — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:07:28 +0000

Hi Fendi, I have used squeeze pages as well. Let me share what I discovered.

Squeeze Pages are great if you have a solid set of autoresponder messages to sell your product. It works even better if your audience or rather market has a wide mix of products. Example, in the beauty industry, you can offer a whole range of products from skin care to hair treatment and so on.

However, I realized that I get a lot more sales selling directly to my prospects, rather than via squeeze pages. So unless you have plans to build a long term relationship and do more backend and upsells, then squeeze pages may not work well for you.

There is yet another trick I employed that helped me to build my lists and sell to them at the same time.

In your autoresponder settings, when they register through your squeeze pages, lead them to your affiliate sales page directly after that instead of flashing your “Confirmation Required” page. In this way, you’ll kill 2 birds with 1 stone!