A new plan of action is now underway in this $200 per week affiliate challenge. From the picture above you can see my new course of action in planning stages, that picture represents the layout of a simple website that I will link to from my articles, with the goal of capturing the emails of interested prospects.
With my old plan I was writing articles for 5 separate products targeting related keywords in each one of them. In the articles I would use a target keyword as a link out directly to that products sales page via my affiliate link hoping to make a sale from then on.
However despite what I’ve read about “people needing at least 7 communications on average to become a buyer”, and “the money is in the list”, I failed to really try it out. So with this new plan I’m going to do just that, try and build a list of buying customers(hopefully:)
So Plan #2 Is Born
- The concept behind plan 2 is to pick just 2 products this time and focus on them. DONE!
- Build each product a simple site that contains and opt-in email list option for each. DONE!
- Continue writing articles as before(plan 1), only this time link out via keywords to the landing page. DONE!
- Write several killer content giving follow-up emails for each product that contain my affiliate links. DONE!
- Write 50 articles for each product.
- Build links to articles to push them up the rankings.
- Track EVERYTHING!
I built the sites yesterday and set up the Aweber account for each product, so they are now ready to be linked to. I then went in to edit some older articles to include the new link to my landing pages, and the rest of today will be spent writing more articles for each product.
Product Selection – How I Did It
From 5 products to 2 was pretty easy, I just dropped the products that I did not have as much knowledge about, which will probably help when writing all those articles.
The other thing I wanted as an affiliate for those products was something free that I could offer on my landing pages to get the visitor to sign up for. Once they hit the landing pages I could then use the headline and text on the page highlighting the free gift offer.
Then in the follow up emails I would place affiliate links within the content of the emails I send out, which I think will be a total of 10-15 emails in sequence.
One of the products is a Clickbank product, and the other has its own tracking and checkout system. I still have the articles for the other 3 products live, so I will be able to compare results over time.
Anyway I’m off to spend my Saturday writing more articles for my products. Have a good weekend!
Tags: affiliate challenge, aweber, landing pages, opt ins
