Affiliate tools review at www.mikes-ecommerce-software.com

Excellent software review site at www.mikes-ecommerce-software.com
Mainly web based tools and services.

Top Reviews at the moment are:

1. Site Build It! – Web site building & marketing system
2. Domain Registration Bank – Cheap domain names
3. ClickBank – Credit card processing and affiliate marketing system
4. Activ Ebook Compiler – Ebook compiler software
5. ClickTracks – Interactive web log analyzer

I think Site Build it is excellent if you don’t want to get down and dirty building the website itself.

Mike describes the site,

At Mike’s Ecommerce Software, an internationally recognized ecommerce expert, with over 8 successful years in the industry, gives you informative, straight-to-the-point reviews and informed opinions, supported by well researched information, on ecommerce and web development software, solutions and tools for webmasters.

I will put together a list of the tools and services I use, as it’s always useful to someone.

Michael Cheney’s free list building videos.

Michael Cheney of Adsense video fame has now turned his attention to “list building”.

His sales letter starts with “How To Start From Scratch And Get Your Own List Of Rabid Buyers In Just 11 Days..”, I love it. Imagine packs of rabid buyers roaming the web waiting to devour your products in exchange for cold hard cash.

I would like to know who wrote the sales letter as it’s a bloody good one. Let me put in on my to do list. Tell you what, I will email Michael and ask him but only report the news on my email list. See, already you get something juicey by signing up to my list.

OK, I have not bought the list building system yet but each time I read the sales letter my juices get going and I itch to buy. It’s not the money, it’s the time. Also I’m not so sure about videos, I prefer to read. You can print out and ebook and take it anywhere with a pencil and marker pen. Also, you get to write on the ebook and I take lots of notes when digesting this stuff.

Also, Michael Rasmussen has brought out a similar product and it’s difficult to differentiate between the two.

Here is the link to Michael Cheney’s list building videos. There is no affiliate link because I cannot find one and the product is not yet listed on Clickbank.

Gabriel Aguinaga Rubbishes Dominating Clickbank

Gabriel Aguinaga, writer of the Money making Secrets blog has rubbished Andrew Fox’s top selling Ebook Dominating Clickbank (aff).

When he asks himself is it worth $97 he answers himself, “Heck NO”. He goes on to say “Okay that wasn’t so nice… but I am wondering if all the “gurus” promoting this product saw the same videos as I did… or if they watched them at all.”

It’s true the so called Gurus do promote each others stuff, but is that just because if you produce quality stuff you end up being a guru. If being a guru means you are an excellent marketer then it would make sense that when another succesful marketer has a product it’s worth a look.

I have not bought Dominating Clickbank, not on the the strength of the review but the promo videos didn’t reveal anything new to me.

I would buy it simply on the basis that Andrew Fox is an excellent salesman and marketer and there is something to be learned. But when the community responds in such a strong way you have to think is this more spin than substance.

Gabriel Aguinaga generated a huge amount of comments from his scathing words, which shows that there is a large proportion of people who are not interested in being sold to like this, but when it only needs a response rate of 2%, does a product have to please everyone.

As I trawl through the underbelly of marketing that is affiliate marketing I constantly come across comments on blogs and forums from unsuccesful people that so and so is just selling snake oil. Well that may be, but I see it as the cost of doing business.

I have a budget for information products that runs at about $350 a month. Some ebooks and tools are going to be duds, that’s the price you pay to get to the good stuff.

It’s a price worth paying.

A lot of these super affiliates talk about spending thousands of dollars on their education.

Think you can do it for 50 bucks and a lifetime dredging through free forums.

Good luck.

I don’t think this business is easy to get into.

As I am not selling anything (yet) I can tell you that I expect affiliate marketing to be hard to get into, to take a long time to get right and to cost a lot of money.

Blood, sweat and brute force.

That’s my approach.

Informational Marketing products trying to prise cash from my wallet

Having signed up with a number of double opt in lists run by marketers, I am in the situation where I get sold offers thick and fast. What is useful with being subscribed to so many lists is that I get to see an overview of what is flying around the web.

Here are the latest products trying to prise the cash out of my wallet.

Dominating Click bank by Andrew Fox.
This is a tale of a young mans ability to make money from nothing. I have not yet bought the product yet but it is certainly enticing simply from the numbers that this guys has achieved. He basically takes free products and sells them through clickbank, getting affiliates to sell it for him.

You can see Andrew Fox talking about Dominating Clickbank in this video http://dominatingcb.com/videoforyou.htm. And further proof with this video at http://dc.launchaproduct.com/proofvideo/

Lessons to be learned here if you have a product you wish to sell and how you build your affiliate list.

Dominating Clickbank by Andrew Fox

Another informational product to pop into my email this week was the latest offering from Michael Cheney. I wonder if he is a relation?

I can’t find it on Clickbank so it goes out without an aff link, but what the heck. Michael Cheney is of Adsense Videos fame which can be found here, . This does have the aff attached ;)

Now I am in the market to build a list. I want to build my list here and at another site where I have a very juicy joint venture coming out.

Michael Rasmussen has a similar product out and it would be interesting to put these two side by side and compare. Interesting idea to sell them both would be to set up a review page.

Also, Andre Chaperon has a launched an Elite coaching service, where for $200 a month he will give you one hours worth of advice each month. It may seem a little steep but my dealings with Andre have left me to conclude he is a stand up guy. Someone to be trusted. If I had the money lying around I probably would go for it, knowing what he teach me would easily pay for the tuition. Andres blog can be reached here, I suggest you bookmark it.

Rosalind Gardner set me http://www.nichemarketresearch.com/ which is a piece of software which does exactly what it says on the tin. Researches niche markets. looking at the screenshots, it seems to be just a keyword tool. Not as sophisticated as Keyword Elite but also not as expensive.

I don’t think it’s worth buying a keyword tool until you have got to grips with manual keyword research. I have been researching keywords for seven years now. Even before I knew what it was called. It’s a fascinating area of the business of building a business on the web. It is a skill that should be honed as words are what make the Internet marketing go and knowing the right words and the profitable words can be very useful

Another links sent was for http://www.adwordanalyzer.com, again you can work out what it does from the url. An Adwords analytical tool it allows you to identify “The number of searches that were conducted throughout the previous month for each keyword phrase!”, “The number of advertising campaigns that currently exist – for both Google AdWords AND Overture!”, “A comprehensive list of all RELATED keyword phrases!”.

Again this can all be done with keyword Elite ( I love that tool) and at $77 for both packages you may as well buy Keyword Elite.

Here’s a tip, buy through Chris of Affiliate Project X – Miracle Adwords fame and he will send you a 45 min video on how he uses Keyword Elite, yeah I know I’m crazy not getting you to buy it through my own AFF link but I think this represents the best deal and I have nothing equivalent to offer.

Chris produces quality, informative products that give you the edge, so check it out at http://www.killyourjob.com/

Chris has introduced me to Steven Lee Jones who has written a free pdf on Adwords Copywriting, it’s an interesting read and can be found at http://www.adwordsconfessions.com/copy101.pdf

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