Many affiliate marketers tend to skip over promoting physical products. If you aren't promoting physical products, and are just focusing on digital products such as eBooks sold through Clickbank, then you are leaving a lot of potential niches (and money) on the table. In fact, when done properly physical products can often be more profitable to affiliates than digital products, it depends on the affiliate and the plan that they have.

Today you're going to learn how to find hot physical...

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Put your hand up if you’re not a fan of long sales copy…

Now keep your hand up if you have purchased a product after reading its long sales copy.

That’s what I thought.

No matter how much some of us just don’t like long sales copy, we can’t escape the truth that good long copy actually works – and it works well.

So how do you take this seemingly conflicting knowledge and apply it rationally when choosing affiliate programs to promote?

Gravity ratings can be excellent indicators,...

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As an affiliate, you will eventually face a Catch-22: The majority of your time is spent juggling menial day-to-day tasks like customer support requests and administrative duties, leaving you unable to work on the more important tasks like increasing conversions.

At the same time, you don’t have enough cash to hire and train a new staff member to alleviate the situation. Could outsourcing to offshore contractors be the solution you need to take your business to the next level?

Why...

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How much thought do you put into choosing a domain name?

Surely it's the easy part of setting up a website, right?

You could be missing out on well-deserved traffic and not even know it if you haven't been savvy about choosing your domain name.  

So what can you do to make sure you're not sending your hard-earned traffic to someone else's website?

You need to put yourself in your customers' shoes. Say your fancied domain name out loud and see how many interpretations you can get out...

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I've been kept rather busy lately piecing together a year-long auto-responder email series for my subscribers. Let me tell you, it has been a mind-numbing task at times, requiring a lot of ‘suck it up Kim and just get through these next 50 days of newsletters' self encouragement talk.

Luckily, I'm happy with the end result :)

After taking a moment to bask in the relief and glory of having a WHOLE year's worth of emails set up and running (cha-ching!), the memories of exasperation...

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