The Super Affiliate Club

I’m sick of super affiliates aren’t you?  This year the market is even more saturated with product launches than ever.  They’re bigger, better and more informative (?) than ever before.  But isn’t it interesting to note what a little club has  been created by self serving “gurus”.  Over the years super affiliates have got to know one another via internet marketing conferences which they regularly attend or speak at.  Because most made their money when things were easy they have built massive lists of followers.  As a result of this they discovered the power of the joint venture which works like this.

I’ll give you an advance copy of my latest product which you can review and promote to your list.  We’ll hype it with free videos, limited availability and we’ll all tell everyone how fantastic it is.  Then we launch make a thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars in a week and then we move on to the next.

With this simple strategy these guys have cornered the market and because they can afford to give away so much stuff, most of which purchasers never use anyway (regardless of value) they have cut thousands of potentially up and coming internet marketers out of the loop.

Now of itself I have no problem with this as it is good business.  However, there are some disgraceful practices starting to emerge off the back of this strategy.  My purchase of (p&p only) PPC Classroom resulted in a phone call from them suggesting that to be successful I had to leverage my credit card (referred to as free money) to fund my Adword budget and pay advanced coaching fees, in my view, a guaranteed way for many to increase their debt burden rather than gain relief from it.

My other gripe is the never ending boasts of many of these guys that this system will make you thousands of dollars  a week after a few hours work and you just follow a step by step process.  My experience is that there are always plenty of steps missing.  They tell you WHAT to do but not HOW to do it.  Or, the HOW  uses one of there’s or there buddies other products which holds a regular subscripton or you need to employ a team of outsourcers to do all the work.

I have checked out a few super affiliate products but mostly I have asked for a refund for the reasons stated above.   My business model mainly focuses around mini sites.  The more I build the more money I make.  It’s simple, it’s hard and at times boring work but by the end of my second year in this business I reckon I’ll be making $10,000 – $15,000 per month which is way more that I earned in any job.  This is the only business I know  where anyone prepared to do the work can succeed for an investment of just a few bucks a month.

If you’ve got money to burn then rather than buying super affiliate products outsource as much of your work as possible.  I currently outsource about $1,000 of work per month.  I hope to ramp that figure up considerably by the end of the year.  In a plan I was knocking around recently I figured if I outsource $5,000 per month of work I could add 120 qaulity mini  sites per annum to my  portfolio.  After 12 months each of those sites should be capable of generating $500 per month.  Some will generate less some more but I still reckon that’s $60,000 per month in income and all without buying a single super affilliate product.

That’s a pretty tempting prospect don’t you think?

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