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As anyone who has seen milliondollarmaybe from the beginning, you will know that the only way I made any consistant money was from Google Adsense, and even that wasn’t a fortune. With the odd affiliate sale here and the occasional Clickbank cheque there, for an eBook that’s out in the ether somewhere I certainly couldn’t call myself a ‘Guru’ (nor would I want to even if I was one of course)!

However I constantly read about these super affiliates and have always believed there must be a way to crack it…but never have!!!

Oh yes on several occasions have I tried and on even fewer occasions has it worked for me. Either my Adwords ad bids are too low it seems or my keyword targeting is off somewhere, I don’t know. Whatever I tried I came to the conclusion it doesn’t work unless you go to a sh** loads of trouble to follow the procedures set out in products in the world famous Affilaite Project X (in fact I had never made a single affiliate sale until I read APX).

Don’t ever let them kid you it’s easy, ‘coz it certainly ain’t!

However I believe I’ve recently had my eyes opened to what affiliate marketing should be about and although it still requires a sh** load of work, I reckon it’s going to be enjoyable.

The problem is that most ‘newb’ affiliate marketers try to go for the ‘make money’ niche, which although is highly lucrative, if you’ve never actually done it, without proof of how fantastic you are, you’re never going to earn your fortune from it now are you?

But then I came across KirstyMcCubbins site www.affiliatestuff.co.uk a few days ago and to be honest I was hooked on the info that I got from her.

Herself and others seem to be making  a sh** load of money from other niches where the punters aren’t even aware of things like affiliate commssions etc.  Because of this they are much more likely to follow links and buy…because they don’t believe they are being SOLD to!   Get it?

It’s just so obvious to me now why, although I have only been recommending what I consider to be decent products, I haven’t been making the sales.  I think it’s because very often people THINK they are being SOLD to.

It should be said that I never recommend products if I don’t believe in them but I can see why many prospects might not necessarily believe that! So what do I do about it?

Try the markets where the prospects don’t know what’s going on! I’m not trying to be deceiptful here but I can see now that this is what serious affiliate marketers do.

For me it was a light bulb moment and I’ve decided to update some of my other sites and concentrate on being an affiliate for other niches. And guess what? I’m fired up about it, because I am starting to believe again!

I’ve just read an interview with Kirst McCubbin, an affiliate marketer who makes her full time living even while she is backpacking round the world. To my mind this is the whole ethos behind the internet marketing game, making good money even when you’re not working.

If you need inspiration or have failed to make any money yet as an affiliate you can read the interview here.

She even gives a real example of one of her sites and it doesn’t cost anything to look.  Not often you get some good info for nothing.

Read the interview and learn from it, that’s what I say!

A few years ago I purchased the world famous ‘Google Cash’ program and although at the time I thought it was pretty good, I was never able to make any of the techniques work for me. I think this was because being a new marketer I didn’t take it seriously enough to follow the methods properly and was hoping for a quick ‘million dollars’ to fall into my account.

 When it didn’t happen I soon got bored and didn’t bother try using it any more.

However I was going through my hard disk last night, and was amazed at the amount of PDF’s I’ve got filed away ready to be read ‘later!’  My intention was going to clear a load of it out when I came across the ‘updated’ Google Cash 3rd Edition (It was obviously sent to me as a previous purchaser and I must have just put it aside). I decided to have a quick look.

Well I was blown away because it is really good! Two hours later I was still reading it so needless to say I didn’t get far with the old harddisk!

However for anyone who’s into affiliate marketing this book is a ‘must have’ and as soon as I’ve got the time I intend to give the new updated version another try. What I like about the Google Cash 3rd Edition is it takes into account the Google ‘Slap’ and other situations that weren’t there a few years ago.

So what’s in it? Well basically Chris Carpenter the author takes you through real life examples of actual campaigns that he has used from setting up accounts to writing Google Ads, researching keywords, to landing pages (when and when not to use them the proper way)! He also demonstrates everything with videos so it’s real easy to follow.

For me it was understanding the Google Slap that really made the Google Cash stand out and the fact that it discounted a few of the myths that are out there regarding Google, for example, apparently it is still OK for Adwords ads to go direct to an affiliate URL.

As for the ’slap’ I shall now be checking my adwords campaigns a lot more closely in future!