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VPT Solution 8 by Ed Walters 6th May 2009 Step-By-Step Guide To Virtual Property Brokering
Hi Friend,
I hope your Bank Holiday was as
entertaining as mine - minus the
inevitable hangover which was
well deserved for Tuesday.
Last week I introduced the
subject of Virtual Property
Brokering and the concept of
two-tier affiliate marketing. I
realise it’s a bit of a mind
bender at first but hopefully by
now it’s had enough time to sink
in.
This week I want to walk you
through the entire process
step-by-step so you can actually
think about implementing this
strategy successfully. So let’s
crack on…
Just to remind you, a two tier
affiliate program is a simple
concept. Let’s say you found a
site selling golf clubs that had
a two tier program. If you
signed up on tier one, you could
go and promote those products
and earn, say, 50% commission
for every sale you made.
You could then go and
recruit second tier affiliates –
these would be people who either
have a large email list or a web
site related to the golf niche
you are promoting. If they
promoted, you would get a
percentage of their sales too,
which could be around 10% for
example. Good, hey. You could
literally have commission
earnings pouring in from all
angles using this method.
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The Best Sites To Broker For
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One thing many people don’t
understand about two tier
affiliate marketing is that
signing up to just any old two
tier program is NOT good enough.
You need to find a site that:
1) Pays at least $10 for each
sale your sub affiliate makes.
You should also always try to
broker for American sites as
these often have more favourable
commissions. With a $10
commission rate you could make
some serious cash brokering
deals with people who have lists
of 1000 upwards.
2) Has a “cookie” tracking
system for their affiliate
program that means it doesn’t
matter if a sub affiliate signs
up the first time they visit the
site you are brokering for, or
the twentieth time, providing
they don’t clear their cookie
cache you still get your
commission for everything they
sell.
3) The two tier site provides
ready made marketing materials.
This is the clincher. Think
about it, you get an email
asking you to promote a site and
all you need to do is spend a
few hours writing your own email
promo and sending it to your
list. Will a lot of people do
that? No. People are naturally
lazy. However, if they get an
email where all they have to do
is sign up to the program (all
of three minutes) and copy and
paste a ready made email promo
into their email blasting
software and hit send (five
minutes) and they’ll make cash,
do you think there’ll be a lot
of people happy to do that? You
bet!
Obviously I’d be foolish to say
everyone you contact will
promote, but if you get a few
percent of people promoting for
you and making you cash out of
thin air trust me you’ll be
laughing!
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Finding Sites To Broker For
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I want you to just try this once
because the second you clinch
one deal and make a few hundred
for very little “work” you’ll be
hooked. So broker for a site
initially that you’re interested
in. If you like golf, broker for
a golf site. If you’re
passionate about interior
design, broker for an interior
design site. The more motivated
you are to start this the
quicker the cash will come in.
(if you’re stuck for ideas visit
www.clickbank.com
and click on “promote products”.
Also look around the marketplace
for a niche market that
interests you. (Please note
Clickbank does not have two tier
affiliate programs).
Now it’s just a question of
finding a site related to your
market. This may take a bit of
digging around, but even if it
takes an hour or so you can be
brokering for these sites for
months to come, so one hour of
research is a drop in the ocean
compared to the profit you could
be bringing in.
Go to Google and type in
“(niche) two tier affiliate
program”. So if you wanted to
broker for the golf niche you’d
type in “golf two tier affiliate
program” (without quotation
marks). Then it’s just a
question of searching through
the results and finding a site
with a two tier affiliate
program that matches the
criteria I have outlined
already.
Sign up, get your affiliate
link, then it’s time to move on.
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Finding Marketers To Contact
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There are a few ways to do this.
I’m going to give you a simple
way that will enable you to find
more potential deals to broker
than you could ever have the
time to do so. We’re going to
find people with ready made
email lists of people we know
have an interest in the product
we are brokering for. One email
could potentially make
thousands.
Go to Google again and type in
“(niche) ezine”. Let me use a
really obscure market to
demonstrate how powerful this
is. Let’s say you were slightly
crazy and wanted to broker for a
site on the subject of
witchcraft. You’d go to Google
and type in “witchcraft ezine”
and hit Google search.
Try it. You’ll see you get
70,000+ results. Now obviously
not each end every single one of
these will be a site with a
witchcraft ezine (or e-letter)
but thousands if not tens of
thousands will. It’s just a case
of visiting the site, finding
the “contact us” page and
sending them an email.
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Contacting Marketers
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The whole of the above process
is just a bit of research. If
you know how to surf the web you
can do the above. If you also
know how to send an email you
have all the qualifications to
become an online Virtual
Property Broker.
You want to send out single
emails (strictly no spam). It’s
one email for one site owner and
that’s it. As this is a business
proposition it is not seen as
spam. However, sending out one
email to hundreds would be, plus
you wont get anyone promoting
for you anyway doing it that
way.
Your email should include:
1) A mention
of the web site where you found
info about the ezine
2) If possible
a mention of the ezine owners
name
3)
Explain that by simply sending
out an email or adding a graphic
to their site they can make
money. Also explain these
marketing materials are already
provided so their work is
minimal.
4)
Tell them all they need to do is
click on your link in the email
and sign up to the program and
they’re all set to make some
more cash
5)
Keep the email to under 500
words (people are busy and don’t
want to wade through a strangers
huge email).
And that’s it. Go through the
list of sites with an ezine
related to yours and send them
an email. Keep track of who you
are contacting, and occasionally
log into the two tier site you
are brokering for and see how
much money you’ve made: )
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Can You See How Easy This Is?
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I’m sure you can see why I’ve
been so excited about this.
Finally we’re all on a level
playing field. Both the
experienced and the newbie’s
have got an equal chance of
success because for once
reputation, marketing knowledge
or financial clout doesn’t
matter. Not only that you don’t
even need your own web site or
product!
Listen you know me, I tell it
the way it is. I’m not saying
this will make you a
millionaire, it won’t. And you
DO want to have your own web
sites and products eventually.
But would you be happy with a
few extra hundred dollars a week
for sending out a few emails?
Thought so.
To your virtual property
brokering success
Ed
P.S. Not
making a killing from virtual
property yet? Check out the full
course at:
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