Bjorn Says

Ross Goldbergs Affiliate Marketing 2.0

I’ve promised you this review over and over again, and somehow I always end up having to set a new deadline for it Well, today I spent a couple of hours reading, watching, listening and then doing it all over again.

So what did I learn?

To be honest, not that much. In the ebook Ross recommends choosing other products than just ebooks from clickbank, and goes through the various types of affiliate programs you can choose between. He talks about cloaking links, and recommends one free service for link cloaking. This didn’t exactly feel like news.

Next, Ross explains how to choose the products you want to promote, and reveals Clickbank, PayDotCom, FreeIQ and 2CheckOut. Last time I checked, 2CheckOuts affiliate program was still in beta and not open for the public. And Clickbank? Ross spent the previous chapter explaining why eBooks weren’t the only choice for affiliate marketing, and yet he spends one page explaining how to choose products on Clickbank…. Making any sense?

Next comes the interesting part .. The “Web 2.0 Affiliate Tactics“. I almost started drooling when I came to this part…

Ross talks about Video Tactics for marketing, using other peoples videos and creating your own with Camtasia. He explains Squidoo, marketing wisely on social networking sites. If Ross had asked me, I could have written the social networking page in 4 words for him: “Don’t Spam, Network!“. Ooops. That was three words. Even better

There is one part of this ebook that I did find very valuable….

I’ve found that marketing through blogs is a very efficient method that works well for me. Ross also uses blogging for affiliate marketing purposes. He uses a method that differs quite a bit from mine, as Ross targets the Internet Marketing niche. His method is a very good method indeed, but I’m not convinced it is a good method in small niches where there aren’t 10 new products released each and every week I’m not saying it can’t be done, but when you’re out of products, you’re out of products. You might have to wait for a year to market a new product with this method. It’s still a good method, and if you buy the ebook, this is probably the best part for you too.

The last half of the ebook is about creating, launching and promoting your own product. While I very well understand how “finding affiliates to promote your products” can be seen as “affiliate marketing” if you disconnect your brain, I really wasn’t expecting half of this ebook to be about product creation and launching ….

So let’s talk about the other things that come with this ebook, shall we?

There are videos. If these videos had better sound (so I could at least hear what the man is saying without wondering if I’ve been pressed down a tin can) they would have been great. Ok, maybe not great, but if the sound was better, I could probably have found some value in them.

I got “exclusive mindmaps showing how to set up marketing methods for success”. These are great, but …. Yes, the dreaded “but”. I can’t print these out.. Even if I had a color printer, I wouldn’t be able to read them. The text in the bubbles is hardly visible, as the text is in black on very dark backgrounds… Not made for printing, hence not made for using.

There were audio interviews. I actually did enjoy some of them, like the interviews with Willie Crawford, Simon Leung, Andrew Wee and Tiffany Dow. Those were ok.

I enjoyed Richard Butlers’ report and weekly planner, and I had great fun listening to the 6-part audio course by Daniel Taylor. That guy is friggin hilarious

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So, the first review for 2008 is ready, and I hope there will be many many more