Comments on: Is Affiliate Marketing Dead? http://www.rohailrizvi.com/is-affiliate-marketing-dead.htm Rohail Rizvi | Rogue Affiliate | Entrepreneur Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:59:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nev http://www.rohailrizvi.com/is-affiliate-marketing-dead.htm#comment-132989 Nev Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:40:52 +0000 http://www.rohailrizvi.com/?p=227#comment-132989 You seem to be focusing only on pay-per-click arbitrage. My first try at AM was pretty successful (hell, even John Chow had it as a 5-part guest post series)! http://www.nevblog.com/my-affiliate-marketing-experiment-part-1/ Or even checkout his post here I thought was great: http://www.johnchow.com/how-to-really-make-money-with-clickbank-or-any-other-affiliate-network/ You might want to learn more about marketing and optimization if you're not getting things right. I'd suggest start with chapter 1 or Gary Halbert's Boron Letters: http://www.thegaryhalbertletter.com/newsletter-archives.htm You seem to be focusing only on pay-per-click arbitrage.

My first try at AM was pretty successful (hell, even John Chow had it as a 5-part guest post series)!
http://www.nevblog.com/my-affiliate-marketing-experiment-part-1/

Or even checkout his post here I thought was great:
http://www.johnchow.com/how-to-really-make-money-with-clickbank-or-any-other-affiliate-network/

You might want to learn more about marketing and optimization if you’re not getting things right.
I’d suggest start with chapter 1 or Gary Halbert’s Boron Letters:
http://www.thegaryhalbertletter.com/newsletter-archives.htm

]]> By: RohailR http://www.rohailrizvi.com/is-affiliate-marketing-dead.htm#comment-132859 RohailR Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:49:26 +0000 http://www.rohailrizvi.com/?p=227#comment-132859 Ben- You had some really good insight there. You're right about that bankers would kill for some of the ROIs we get, even though it's more short term. And you're right there's the need for adaptation in both the corporate world and affiliate marketing. I'm ready to and have been making the sacrifices a long time. It's just time to see if I can really make it happen to the point where it outweighs the benefits of a job. Michael- I see myself shying away from the big 3 as well as I'm testing the waters with PPV. I just never found real success on Google primarily. Maybe I'll give it another shot with Yahoo and MSN. Social is such a beat, but yeah it's probably not as long term as keyword optimized search campaigns. Ben- You had some really good insight there. You’re right about that bankers would kill for some of the ROIs we get, even though it’s more short term. And you’re right there’s the need for adaptation in both the corporate world and affiliate marketing. I’m ready to and have been making the sacrifices a long time. It’s just time to see if I can really make it happen to the point where it outweighs the benefits of a job.

Michael- I see myself shying away from the big 3 as well as I’m testing the waters with PPV. I just never found real success on Google primarily. Maybe I’ll give it another shot with Yahoo and MSN. Social is such a beat, but yeah it’s probably not as long term as keyword optimized search campaigns.

]]> By: Michael http://www.rohailrizvi.com/is-affiliate-marketing-dead.htm#comment-132853 Michael Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:27:24 +0000 http://www.rohailrizvi.com/?p=227#comment-132853 yea, offer ADD can be quite terrible. Pick something broad that doesn't have too much seasonality behind it and just attack that using one traffic source. seems a lot of affs are branching away from the big 3 traffic sources for something shiner.. maybe give msn and ysm another run. these social sources seem to be great for short term bursts of profit which should be viewed as bonuses and not the meat. yea, offer ADD can be quite terrible. Pick something broad that doesn’t have too much seasonality behind it and just attack that using one traffic source.

seems a lot of affs are branching away from the big 3 traffic sources for something shiner.. maybe give msn and ysm another run. these social sources seem to be great for short term bursts of profit which should be viewed as bonuses and not the meat.

]]> By: Ben http://www.rohailrizvi.com/is-affiliate-marketing-dead.htm#comment-132851 Ben Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:54:22 +0000 http://www.rohailrizvi.com/?p=227#comment-132851 i wouldnt take the advice of robert kiyosaki as the end all be all of investment advice. the guy makes his money by selling a dream of having financial freedom. i've been doing affiliate marketing full time for almost 2 years now and it has its ups and downs. before doing this i was doing investment banking and its not nearly as sexy as it may seem. long hours and now that i've done affiliate marketing the pay doesnt seem that great either. however there is the dream of becoming a managing director or higher and making millions a year. a job like investment banking can make you a millionaire provided you play the game right. there are ways to build online assets like websites and email lists like you said. ultimately campaigns are assets which are short term in nature. your ROI is high for a short period of time. wall street would kill for returns like i've gotten on some of my campaigns. in business, conditions change and you need to adapt to those conditions. you cannot sit still so ultimately i think all businesses you have to be adapting and changing to the environment you're operating in. affiliate marketing is no different. with the high ROI and the income you make, you can take some of your profits and invest in assets that you may think are more stable. that may help put your mind at ease about doing this. you need to figure out where you want to go with your life. being an affiliate or having your own business will be tough. its not easy. you'll have to make sacrifices. a job will be more comfortable and more stable but most likely you wont make as much money and more importantly you give up some of your freedom in exchange for a steady paycheck. i wouldnt take the advice of robert kiyosaki as the end all be all of investment advice. the guy makes his money by selling a dream of having financial freedom.

i’ve been doing affiliate marketing full time for almost 2 years now and it has its ups and downs.

before doing this i was doing investment banking and its not nearly as sexy as it may seem. long hours and now that i’ve done affiliate marketing the pay doesnt seem that great either. however there is the dream of becoming a managing director or higher and making millions a year. a job like investment banking can make you a millionaire provided you play the game right.

there are ways to build online assets like websites and email lists like you said. ultimately campaigns are assets which are short term in nature. your ROI is high for a short period of time. wall street would kill for returns like i’ve gotten on some of my campaigns. in business, conditions change and you need to adapt to those conditions. you cannot sit still so ultimately i think all businesses you have to be adapting and changing to the environment you’re operating in. affiliate marketing is no different. with the high ROI and the income you make, you can take some of your profits and invest in assets that you may think are more stable. that may help put your mind at ease about doing this.

you need to figure out where you want to go with your life. being an affiliate or having your own business will be tough. its not easy. you’ll have to make sacrifices. a job will be more comfortable and more stable but most likely you wont make as much money and more importantly you give up some of your freedom in exchange for a steady paycheck.

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