How To Build a Successful Mini Site and Boost Affiliate Income Instantly
| Category: Affiliate Marketing - Setting Up | Date: 2003-04-28 |
Guaranteed Success with Mini Sites
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Heres a quick step by step guide to creating a mini affiliate site from scratch. You can do it today in just a couple of hours or less. Heres my diary:
11.45am: Logged into Commission-Junction to find a replacement cell phone program for my cell phone mini site (the affiliate program I linked to has been de-activated because of chargebacks)
I glanced at the new affiliate program listings and one jumped out as being a perfect subject for a quick new mini site.
"Amazing Cure for Bad Breath".
Tons of people have bad breath. Great topic for a mini site. Or is it? Depends on what products there are to sell, and how many potential online buyers there are.
11.47am: Followed the CJ link to http://www.orasweet.com/ which sells a new product called a tongue scraper, and pays 30% commission.
Dismayed to find the product only sells for .50, which means it only pays a little over 0.15 per sale. But then I followed the sales links to find the site does an upsell on the order form, which makes it much more attractive for people to buy a package or a family package. This is more like it!
11.55am: But do many people look up bad breath in the search engines? Booted up Good Keywords from:
http://www.goodkeywords.com
and discovered that last month 3659 people looked up halitosis on Overture and 5176 searched for bad breath. Not too bad a number. Should be able to do something with those figures.
12noon: Visited Overture to see what people are willing to pay for high rankings on these search terms. If people are paying for ranking they must be making money from it. Discovered that 6 cents will get you 10th spot in Overture for halitosis, and 40 cents a click will take you to number 1.
I wouldnt recommend paying 40c a click for a possible commission but 6 cents should be fine. Its hard to tell until the site has been running a while and you can analyze the stats.
Bad breath will cost you 74 cents for top spot, so thats out, but bad breath cure will only cost 21 cents. So thats a possibility, though 3rd spot is yours for only 6 cents so thats much more attractive.
12.10pm: Spend the next 30 mins checking out the opposition. Discover a site called tongue scrapers selling a similar
but
far more expensive product. It has no affiliate program that I could see. But more importantly found a number of other items to sell, or upsell from a mini site, including BreathAlert, an electronic palm-size monitor that "detects and measures the presence of annoying or embarrassing breath odors."
Now Im sure that lots of people who think they might have bad breath would love to be able to find out for sure with this product.
About to kiss someone? Check your breath...though preferably not in view of the person youre about to kiss ;-) Walking into an important business meeting? Check that breath.
In 2 minutes I discovered 2 affiliate programs you can sell it through. One at www.themall.com was terrible offering only 2 cents a click-though and no further commissions on sales. It also only pays you quarterly and then only if youve generated over at 2 cents a time. The other at iGadget www.igadget.com didnt look great paying only 7% commission on a sale.
But it has possibilities. Ran out of time to look further. But odds are there are some much better affiliate programs around for this product.
While looking for an affiliate program for the BreathAlert I also found an Australian mini site selling both this and the tongue scraper. Theyre probably missing out on a lot of Internet sales because the products are priced in Australian dollars http://www.freshkiss.com.au/index.html , includes 10% Australian GST tax, and theres no order form for people outside Australia.
12.40pm: Look up available domain names, and ideas for domain names by using Name Boy. http://www.nameboy.com which lets you enter both bad breath and halitosis. Available names, at the time of writing on 2nd Aug 2001) include:
breath-fresh.com
awful-breath.com
bad-breath-cure.com
bad-breaths.com
a search at www.betterwhois.com revealed these available names:
my-bad-breath.com
problembreath.com
betterkissing.com
Incidentally the 2nd magazine article I ever got commissioned to write, back when I was 16, was about why people kiss. Took a lot of hands on (mouths on?) research.
12.55pm: Quick search on Google reveals plenty of info about combating bad breath, and researching then putting together enough content would be easy enough. Theres also lots of info and some good graphics on the Orasweet tongue scraper site.
1.10pm: Lack of time means Im not going to build a mini site on this subject. But YOU can, which is why Ive written this article for you. If you dont like this topic, then use the above techniques to find more suitable mini site topics - there are thousands. Using the above system also guarantees you will be able to attract traffic.
Phil Wiley is the author of Mini Site Profits - "The Easy Way to create a stream of fast, low-cost, mini sites that create an incredible cash flow 24-Hours a Day, Non-Stop!" If youd like to read a lot more about building mini sites, including much more detailed step-by-step help, you need his Mini site Profits book: http://www.roibot.com/w.cgi?R18328_minisites
Subscribe FREE to the Strategic Marketing on Steroids Ezine and Get over $195 in Marketing promotional software and search engine tools http://www.businessmarketinginformation.com/ezine
About the Author
Dale Reardon
:To contact see details below.
dale@businessmarketinginformation.com
http://www.businessmarketinginformation.com
http://www.roibot.com/w.cgi?R18328_minisites
Heres a quick step by step guide to creating a mini affiliate site from scratch. You can do it today in just a couple of hours or less. Heres my diary:
11.45am: Logged into Commission-Junction to find a replacement cell phone program for my cell phone mini site (the affiliate program I linked to has been de-activated because of chargebacks)
I glanced at the new affiliate program listings and one jumped out as being a perfect subject for a quick new mini site.
"Amazing Cure for Bad Breath".
Tons of people have bad breath. Great topic for a mini site. Or is it? Depends on what products there are to sell, and how many potential online buyers there are.
11.47am: Followed the CJ link to http://www.orasweet.com/ which sells a new product called a tongue scraper, and pays 30% commission.
Dismayed to find the product only sells for .50, which means it only pays a little over 0.15 per sale. But then I followed the sales links to find the site does an upsell on the order form, which makes it much more attractive for people to buy a package or a family package. This is more like it!
11.55am: But do many people look up bad breath in the search engines? Booted up Good Keywords from:
http://www.goodkeywords.com
and discovered that last month 3659 people looked up halitosis on Overture and 5176 searched for bad breath. Not too bad a number. Should be able to do something with those figures.
12noon: Visited Overture to see what people are willing to pay for high rankings on these search terms. If people are paying for ranking they must be making money from it. Discovered that 6 cents will get you 10th spot in Overture for halitosis, and 40 cents a click will take you to number 1.
I wouldnt recommend paying 40c a click for a possible commission but 6 cents should be fine. Its hard to tell until the site has been running a while and you can analyze the stats.
Bad breath will cost you 74 cents for top spot, so thats out, but bad breath cure will only cost 21 cents. So thats a possibility, though 3rd spot is yours for only 6 cents so thats much more attractive.
12.10pm: Spend the next 30 mins checking out the opposition. Discover a site called tongue scrapers selling a similar
but
far more expensive product. It has no affiliate program that I could see. But more importantly found a number of other items to sell, or upsell from a mini site, including BreathAlert, an electronic palm-size monitor that "detects and measures the presence of annoying or embarrassing breath odors."
Now Im sure that lots of people who think they might have bad breath would love to be able to find out for sure with this product.
About to kiss someone? Check your breath...though preferably not in view of the person youre about to kiss ;-) Walking into an important business meeting? Check that breath.
In 2 minutes I discovered 2 affiliate programs you can sell it through. One at www.themall.com was terrible offering only 2 cents a click-though and no further commissions on sales. It also only pays you quarterly and then only if youve generated over at 2 cents a time. The other at iGadget www.igadget.com didnt look great paying only 7% commission on a sale.
But it has possibilities. Ran out of time to look further. But odds are there are some much better affiliate programs around for this product.
While looking for an affiliate program for the BreathAlert I also found an Australian mini site selling both this and the tongue scraper. Theyre probably missing out on a lot of Internet sales because the products are priced in Australian dollars http://www.freshkiss.com.au/index.html , includes 10% Australian GST tax, and theres no order form for people outside Australia.
12.40pm: Look up available domain names, and ideas for domain names by using Name Boy. http://www.nameboy.com which lets you enter both bad breath and halitosis. Available names, at the time of writing on 2nd Aug 2001) include:
breath-fresh.com
awful-breath.com
bad-breath-cure.com
bad-breaths.com
a search at www.betterwhois.com revealed these available names:
my-bad-breath.com
problembreath.com
betterkissing.com
Incidentally the 2nd magazine article I ever got commissioned to write, back when I was 16, was about why people kiss. Took a lot of hands on (mouths on?) research.
12.55pm: Quick search on Google reveals plenty of info about combating bad breath, and researching then putting together enough content would be easy enough. Theres also lots of info and some good graphics on the Orasweet tongue scraper site.
1.10pm: Lack of time means Im not going to build a mini site on this subject. But YOU can, which is why Ive written this article for you. If you dont like this topic, then use the above techniques to find more suitable mini site topics - there are thousands. Using the above system also guarantees you will be able to attract traffic.
Phil Wiley is the author of Mini Site Profits - "The Easy Way to create a stream of fast, low-cost, mini sites that create an incredible cash flow 24-Hours a Day, Non-Stop!" If youd like to read a lot more about building mini sites, including much more detailed step-by-step help, you need his Mini site Profits book: http://www.roibot.com/w.cgi?R18328_minisites
Subscribe FREE to the Strategic Marketing on Steroids Ezine and Get over $195 in Marketing promotional software and search engine tools http://www.businessmarketinginformation.com/ezine
About the Author
Dale Reardon
:To contact see details below.
dale@businessmarketinginformation.com
http://www.businessmarketinginformation.com
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