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The other day, I shared with you my #1 affiliate marketing strategy, which is to create a product teaching other people how to use the strategy or tool I’m promoting.

Today, I’d like to share my next favorite way to generate revenue and build my business with affiliate marketing. This lesson comes from Module 3 of my SIMPLE 2 Business Acceleration Bootcamp in Baltimore September 24-26, 2010, which of course I’m encouraging you to attend.

Offer Mutually Beneficial Bonuses

I’m not talking about participating in the big bonus wars that seem to distract customers from the huge product launches. I’m really talking about thinking of a complementary bonus that does 3 things:

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A lot of people hear they can “get rich” with affiliate marketing, but too many come up way shorter than they want to.

Or, worse, they spend so much money on advertising and driving traffic that they dig a much bigger hole than the one they started in.

As I’ve developed my own business, I’ve generated quite a bit of my revenue from affiliate marketing. In fact, it typically makes up about 1/3 of my income. At times in the past, it was even more than that. But I don’t subscribe to a lot of the hypey ways to do it.

I’d like to share some of my big secrets to affiliate marketing success with you, starting today with my favorite one.

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The most popular price point for “big ticket” programs online seems to be $1997, and if you’re like me, you probably wonder if they’re really worth it, or is that just a number settled on inside the secret back room of internet marketing.

The answer is yes, no, maybe, sometimes, and “it depends.”

In reality, the answer relies much less on the product itself, but in the results you get from taking action on what you purchase.

Let’s take a couple of examples that are hot right now: Affiliate Dot Com and my own SIMPLE 2 event.

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Which of these 3 things is most important to you right now?

1. Getting a bigger list of subscribers
2. Generating More revenue for your business
3. Obtaining better visibility for yourself as an expert in your niche?

If you want all 3, you’re going to be very happy you found this blog post today!

I’ve got a great recommendation for you that will achieve all 3 goals above by automating the distribution of free reports.

In fact, I’ve already been using this system and it’s getting my report passed around faster than juicy gossip in a middle school lunch room!

It’s called Viral PDF Generator.

Let me tell you more about Viral PDF Generator

One of the VIP guests coming to SIMPLE 2 in September is a good friend of mine, James Grandstaff.

In case you don’t know him yet, he’s the creator of the Downline Secrets software which gave direct sales and home business team builders an incredible advantage in duplication and recruitment.

Today, he’s launching a viral ebook generator tool that I’m absolutely salivating over.

Since James is coming to SIMPLE 2 in Baltimore, and we’ve known each other since March 2006, I was able to get a sneak peek at how this software works.

Basically, you upload a report you’ve created (or a PLR report you’ve done some very minor edits to), fill out a quick form, and push a big yellow button, and voila!

… You’ve got yourself a viral marketing machine that turns any report of yours into a 24/7 virtual sales team.

Rebrand your ebooks

This would work for you if you:

• Are following my SIMPLE 3-phase formula and want to become the go-to-expert in your niche
• Have a product or service for sale that needs a lot more traffic
• Want to piggy back on the success of an affiliate product
• Build a network marketing team that wants an easy to use, duplication system without spending any money

Here’s an example of what you could do with Viral PDF Generator

Imagine you are trying to get known as an expert following my Connect, Create, Collaborate model (the foundation for SIMPLE).

You write a short report answering the biggest questions that people have about your specialty. In the report, you make a recommendation for an affiliate product.

The traditional method of getting eyeballs to read this report would involve you working really hard at driving traffic to a website. You might spend money on Adwords, Facebook ads, or banners. Or you could spend hours clicking around traffic exchanges. Maybe you comment on 100 blogs and forums to get links back to your site.

The primary method of this marketing: your own efforts.

With the viral marketing method, you create a useful report and empower your readers to pass it around. Even better, you give them an incentive for doing so.

Viral PDF Generator makes this really easy because your reports are delivered, rebranded, and hosted on the VPG system. Plus, James has included social sharing tools on the download page for even faster distribution.

Go get Viral PDF Generator

Viral PDF Generator Is Better Than Existing Tools

In the past, I was using ViralPDF to create rebrandable reports. And although that is a pretty good tool, it has one major downside: it requires too many steps for readers to rebrand the report.

With Viral PDF the reader usually has to:

1. Download a .zip file
2. Unzip the .zip file
3. Find and Double-click the .exe file
4. Enter the tags for rebranding
5. Create the rebranded report
6. Upload the rebranded report to their own server
7. Give out a link to the report

Viral PDF Generator goes the extra mile by skipping the complicated steps.

With Viral PDF Generator, the reader only has to:

1. Fill out a short form with affiliate ID tags or links
2. Press a big yellow button
3. Give out the automatically generated link

It really is that easy!

Here’s an example of the simple form a reader would fill out to rebrand one of my reports:

Test Out Viral PDF Generator

James Makes It Simple For You To Use His System

I mentioned above how many steps it takes for the readers to rebrand your reports using the best alternative software. But it gets even more complicated for you to create the rebrandable report in the first place.

James makes it really easy with Viral PDF Generator.

All you have to do is create a report using Microsoft Word or Open Office (James event gives you a fantastic template to work with for free), make sure you include a placeholder tag in the links, and upload it into his system.

You’ll fill out a quick form with default values for the rebrandable links, and set up the link to your affiliate program.

The system gives you a link to share to a rebranding page the system hosts for you (or you can embed an iframe on your own site like I’m doing for my report).

Everything is then hosted on the system – no download/unzip/upload nonsense required!

Phenomenal Tool For Product Owners To Give To Affiliates

In the above example, I actually sell rebranding rights for all 4 links for added revenue. But you can also simply give away rebranding rights for your affiliates if you are selling your own product.

Notice in the form above the “No ID? Click Here” area. Those are linked to the affiliate sign up pages to make it easy for people to get their links.

Your affiliate partners will love having a high-converting sales tool to earn commissions.

This Is A Refer 2 And It’s Free System

Another thing I love about Viral PDF Generator is the fact that James will likely pay you more to use his system than you’ll pay him.

Not only will you be generating more revenue from the content inside your report, James will share 50% of the revenue of any referrals you recommend this same system to. And with 4 different membership levels, you could actually have your own membership paid for with just 1 referring member.

VPG Gets My Highest Recommendation

The bottom line is Viral PDF Generator is an essential tool that you’ll love using for your business. I’m using it (and paying for the Gold level for now), and I know you’ll love it too!

Check out this video from James to learn all about Viral PDF Generator

Bob Jenkins

p.s. Set up your reports on Viral PDF and watch how quickly your list grows, your revenue jumps, and more people are impacted by what you do. Try Viral PDF Generator yourself!

p.p.s. Don’t forget – you can meet James Grandstaff in person at SIMPLE 2 in Baltimore!

Guest Post From Jimmy D. Brown

Did you know that other people “warm up” your customers for you with their “big product launches”?

And, did you further know, that a huge opportunity for you to create sales for YOUR product or a product you promote as an affiliate can be the result?

If, that is, you “borrow” the buzz that other people are generating.

Imagine this scenario…

Mr. Marketer creates a new $2,000 product.  He “launches” it with his friends.  Everyone on the forums is talking about it.  Every email sent out within the marketplace has something to say about it.  Bloggers are raving.  The whole industry is buzzing about the new launch.

The average conversion rate is 2%.  And that’s not on $2,000 products.  But, let’s assume that Mr. Marketer is the best in the biz.  And he can generate something obscene like 25% conversion rate on a $2,000 offer (which, by the way, ain’t likely to happen).

IF that were to happen, the flipside is this:  75% DON’T BUY.

In other words, for every 100 visitors to the “launch” site, 75 of them walk away without buying.

Were they uninterested?  If that’s the case, they likely wouldn’t have visited the site in the first place.

In the majority of the cases, they $2,000 price tag was out of their reach.  Not in the budget.  Don’t have the money.  Been there, done that … didn’t have the cash to buy the t-shirt!

So, what can we learn from this?

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At the Niche Affiliate Marketing System internet workshop in Atlanta, David Perdew challenged the attendees to sell a product during the weekend that had been created early on Saturday.

The product is a social media panel discussion, and David and a few volunteers put up the sales page during lunch.

The winner was Rafael Sanchez, from Venezuela, who sold 26 copies.

We held an impromptu interview with Rafael and his wife, to find out how he did it. And now, here’s Lynn Terry from Self Starters Weekly Tips with the story…

Become the next NAMS success story in August!

Bob Jenkins

p.s. Congratulations also to Cindy Brock who came in second!

Are you using Private Label Rights in your business?

These are articles, blog posts, autoresponders, reports, ebooks, even videos created by somebody else, but that you can use as if you were the author.

As a former high school teacher, I’ve always had a bit of a reservation about using PLR in my own business, because I’ve always thought that I needed to be the author of my own work.

But maybe I’ve been overlooking a great way to help more people by utilizing content created by somebody else who has given permission to reuse their work.

To help answer this “ethics question” about PLR, my friend Nicole Dean sent me this video to share with you.

Click to visit EasyPLR.com site

What are your thoughts on this topic? Please share with a comment below.

And if PLR fits your criteria, check out Nicole’s Easy PLR resource center for high quality niche PLR packs.

Bob Jenkins

p.s If you’d like to meet Nicole Dean in person and discuss how PLR can be used for your business, register for SIMPLE. Nicole will be one of a handful of VIPs I’ve specifically invited to help you in key areas of your business. She’s also a genius when it comes to outsourcing, managing affiliate programs, and quick product creation.

As a teacher of internet marketing, I strive to help you get the word out about your products and services in profitable ways.

But an important part of generating a growing income is to partner with relevant products and services that you simply can’t offer yourself.

And that means incorporating affiliate marketing into the mix of your service to your customers and clients.

Usually you hear people raving about affiliate marketing as if it’s the only thing you ever have to do. And still others shout from the rooftops that you have to build your own information product line and only sell your own products and services.

As Usual The Truth Is In The Middle

If you have your own products, smart affiliate marketing can increase your bottom line by 50% or more. And if you don’t have your own products yet, promoting other people’s products first in the right way gives you an opportunity to discover what people really want to buy.

I’ll be teaching this hybrid system of information product development and affiliate marketing at the Online Profits Academy in February. But today, I’d like to give you a big tip on my favorite affiliate program to promote.

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As part of my quest to help you see what it really takes to succeed online, I’ve asked Super Affiliate Marketer Lynn Terry to share her thoughts on 4 key areas of her profitable online business:

• Time management
• Focus
• Commitment, and
• How to go from start to profit

Enjoy the interview, and be sure to hang out with Lynn and I in her internet marketing forum.

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I continue to be very impressed with Digital Access Pass software as a membership site script working with WordPress. The IMSuccessLibrary.com runs on DAP, and I’m finding more benefits to the software than I anticipated.

Some people are in love with Wishlist Member for WordPress – a competitive membership script that I have not tested myself yet (but hope to soon).

The reason I chose DAP in the first place are documented in my first comparitive review.

Let me now share a few additional thoughts now that I’ve been using DAP for a few weeks on a live site.

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You’ve been hearing me talk a lot about NAMS 3 – the Niche Affiliate Marketing Systems workshop in Atlanta in January that is all the rave right now among internet marketers who value real education at conferences.

I interviewed David Perdew about what makes NAMS3 different, and to explain the benefits of the Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced tracks of the weekend that sets it apart.

At the end of the audio, David surprised me and gave out a coupon code to save $100 off the registration. Make sure you get that before you register.

The presenters David has lined up are incredible teachers, and since the event is a no-pitch event, you get some of our best stuff. Plus the sessions are designed to have us teach you what we know, then give you time to implement it right there on the spot.

While you listen the audio below, here’s an unofficial list of speakers:

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