Now I have always been a sceptical when it comes to these online money making schemes etc. However the Arbitrage Consipracy Report really caught my attention. Firstly because the intial report was free, secondly it was quite detailed. Yes of course there was hype about the launch yada yada yada, but the concept made sense, particularly because it takes elements of Financial Trading and brings it to Google. Now I am not sure how long it is going to last but it does work, I made $31 to prove it. Now of course that is not alot and that was at an expense of $17 (PPC Campaign via Google Adwords, but a $13 profit or 76% profit is still one hell of a profit! As % that is phenomal and the work I did was very little. All I need to do now is replicate it and “Aymens your Uncle”, I too should be making $100,000 a day!! To be honest I would be very satisfied with $1,000 a day for an hour or two work a day, that sounds like easy money to me and $100,000 a day would essentially mean one would be spending between $20K – $30K on PPC traffic. That is a lot. So to get there one needs to have deep pockets, so I see this more as a gradual growth.
There are a couple of issues I foresee though, (1) Google starts to clamp down on it, but I can’t see that happening, because they obviously benefit from it financially. (2) The Merchants do not see it as a viable business model. I could see this happening, because for instance, I made $31 on a Acai Berry Trial Campaign. The Customer had to pay $6.95 for Shipping and Handling and they would get 3 free bottles. You can view the landing page here (www.acaiberryselect.com). Simple mathematics tells me the people behind Acai Berry have actually made an initial loss by paying me a hefty commission. But they have taken the calculated risk I hope, of saying ’Well foro every person that trials it, they go on to come back and order more at full RRP and they order $xxx worth per annum’, so in principle the Merchant should benefit. Lets hope!. (3) Efficient Market Principles. Many economist have written about the existence of efficient markets which are largely driven by Supply and Demand. No we all understand that basics of this principle, but what happens when to many Affiliate Marketers chase too few good campaigns, the price of clicking goes up. Of course there are a number of other factors such as quality of PPC Advert that prompts the initial click, but if the CPC or Bid price is stilll high then chance are you will be at the bottom of the list if you are bidding relatively low and some schmuck who does know what they are doing bids high. Can I foresee that happening, certainly so, if the download figures of the Arbitrage Report are anything to go by many people will at least try it out, so that could mean for the next six months whilst the chancers are getting weeded out it might be a good idea to be testing on a small scale before increasing budgets etc once the chancers are bled dry.
The principle behind this is very simple, buy traffic at a low price and “sell” it at a high price i.e. if it converts you earn a nice bit of commission. I was analysing my Google Adwords stats, and whilst they make for pitiful viewing, that fact is it took under 100 clicks to make $31 dollars. Obviously I will need a lot more clicks from that, but the TEST phase has convinced me. I obviously can’t afford to get on the Aymen program, but one thing we have to remember with the Internet is information will get leaked sooner or later, so I will be patient.
If you are interested in finding out more about Affiliate Marketing go to Never Blue and sign up to their program and you too could be on your way to making some decent money. If you want to download the free copy of that Arbitrage Report then click here.
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Yes. Affiliate marketing is one of the best way to earn extra income. The simple fact behind this is you will not get sales if you don’t get traffic. An affiliate product is sold by advertising, so the more ads, the more traffic, the greater the number of sales.
By: Shopping Cart Template Affiliates on December 12, 2008
at 10:05 pm
I too have read the report and find it very interesting. I have not yet joined any CPA networks. Did you have any trouble. You are using Never Blue, have you joined any others? How long did it take you to make your $31? Did you setup a landing page or just link directly to your CPA ad? Great to see you making money. Scaling up should be quite easy for you. Keep going!
Andrew Murphy
By: Andrew on December 13, 2008
at 6:14 am
Thanks for the comments Andrew. I have joined a few others as well, but Never Blue was the first. I started on Tuesday and by Thursday I had made the first sale, it is largely a numbers game. I understand the Email Submit campaigns tend to be the most lucrative as there is less resistance to sale, so I will be working on implementing some of those this week.
By: abillionaire on December 13, 2008
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