Outsell Your Competition
October 31, 2009 by Magda
Filed under Affiliate Training, Intermediate Affiliate Marketing
I just read The Affiliate Trump Card written by Ben Settle and it blew me away. The content is valuable and practical with no false promises.
Ben does not claim to be a super affiliate or a guru. He shares his techniques that is helping him to compete in the market without being a “celebrity”. It is straight forward advice, once implemented, will immediately increase your online profits for example:
* How to build trust and credibility that will convince people to buy from you and ONLY you (p.10)
* How to convince people sitting on the “fence” to buy from you (p.24)
* How to get even better in promotions than you already are (The world’s greatest marketers do this all the time without you realizing it) (p.13)
* How to double your profits with little extra effort on your side (Although I have heard this many times before, the understandable and sincere style in which it was written, suddenly got the message across) (p.30)
* Why you should never promote the product (and what to promote instead) (p.38)
(Why he doesn’t charge more for it… I don’t know, but anyway I am glad I could get it at an affordable price. I have bought products two and a half times more expensive than this…. which didn’t deliver … leaving me with disappointment.)
The first few chapters are geared towards affiliate marketing newbies and the last few chapters covers a bit more advanced stuff.
The valuable tips Ray Edwards shares in the audio interview is worth five times the price you’ll pay. Ray, also a copywriter, worked with Armand Morin, Mike Filsaime, Frank Kern and Matt Basack to name a few.
He got involved in affiliate marketing when his clients asked him to promote their products. You should expect Ray to know the “secrets” of affiliate marketing, but even he had some lessons to learn.
He shares his failures and successes and discuss six successful strategies to implement to increase your profits and outsell your competition through affiliate marketing. One of them is how to use bonuses effectively to maximise sales and conversions with product promotions. (There is a good and a bad way to use this)
The best lesson I have learned from Ray is how to stay true to yourself, use your own words and write from your heart.
I am sure South African affiliate marketers will benefit from Ben’s product as he gives honest and sincere advice. No rocket science … in fact he clearly states and I quote:
I am NOT a “super affiliate”
I have NOT made a million dollars in affiliate marketing
And affiliate marketing is NOT my main “thing”
So why should you bother reading this eBook?
Three reasons:
1. I have a modest-sized (but ever-growing) list of customers, just like you have
2. ….. even with my small list, I am sometimes able to out-sell (or at least out-convert) marketers with much bigger name recognition …
3. The reason I am able to do this is NOT because I’m some affiliate marketing “guru” or because I am some kind of super copywriter who can sell ice to eskimos. It’s simply because …
I leverage My List Better
Than Most OF My Competitors
And that’s what this eBook is really about.
What I really appreciate is the fact that they don’t try to push another product in the interview which happened so many times with the interviews I listened to. This is straight forward, practical advice in an understandable “language” … concise and to the point.
Apart from the ebook, you’ll also receive a series of interviews with:
Russel Brunson / Ewen Chia: Two well-known “super affiliates” .
Ray Edwards: Has written ads for top affiliate marketers to rake in six figure incomes.
Jay White: Reveals exactly how to write profitable emails
Greg Perry: Greg makes a small fortune selling on eBay.
Brian Clark: Explains how he got from 0 to 30,000 per day in just two years. (Brian runs Copyblogger.com)
John Ritz: Shares his top ideas how to run tele-seminars.
I have received valuable tips from Ben in my inbox during the past year. Since day one I have learned a lot from the content he has sent me. I remembered the email I got in August where he stressed the reason for split testing after an argument in a marketing forum about “7″ and “9″ in pricing and which is best. He didn’t say which one is best, he advised to use A/B split testing. What is working for one market, might not work for another. So if you were stuck on a “7″ or “9″ rethink your strategy.
The Affiliate Trump Card is practically being given away at the most affordable price of $19. (R152 at the time I bought at R/$8.00)
Visit his website for more information.
Happy marketing!


