Clever Clickbank affiliate marketing strategy.
Try searching on Google for “30 minute backlinks” or “seo elite” or any other popular product. Look at the sponsored search ads. What do you see? “Don’t buy seo elite”, “seo elite is a scam”, “30 minute backlinks scam”, “30 minute backlinks a waste of money” etc. Try visiting one of these sites. Can you see it now? They are not trying to stop you from buying the product. In fact they are trying to sell you the product… by telling you it’s a scam? Believe it or not some of these people make $30.000/month+ on pretty much auto pilot.
Here is how they do it:
You go on clickbank (Or any other affiliate website for that matter) and pick a raising product. With Clickbank you can use gravity as in indicator. 50 and bellow will do. The trick is to spot the right product at the right time. It needs to be popular enough but not too popular because you will end up with a whole bunch of competitors.
You then set up a PPC campaign for the products name eg. “something is a scam”. Set up a “squeeze” page for your traffic to land on with a sole purpose sell that particular product. I suggest you buy the product yourself and have a play with it so that you could write a good looking review. Sit back and get rich.
How it works:
You hear about a great product and you decide to buy it. You go on and search for it on Google. Suddenly, as you are about to buy that product you see an ad that says: “The product you are looking to buy is a scam!”. I can guarantee you almost every single person will click to investigate further. Then it turns out that the product does actually work and it is not a scam. Most people will get pissed off and leave. Around 15% of those who stay will follow through to buy the product. Do the maths. You spend $500 on 1000 $0.50 clicks. You will get around 150 conversions. 150 x $20 = $3000. You have just made $2500.
PS: There is no such thing as easy money. Yes, people make a living using this method but these people know what they are doing. They have experience with PPC and marketing. They spend a lot of time finding the right product, writing a spotless landing page and setting up their PPC campaigns. Don’t just expect to get rich. Experiment! Good luck!
PPS: Think about other products. “Nokia n95 sucks?”. I have made just under $400 with my first, a few hour long test campaign.
April 9th, 2008 at 4:26 am
So basically just pick a product and use reverse psychology? Rile up people’s emotions to pique their interest?
April 9th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Not really. Reversed psychology is saying: “Don’t click on the ad!” when you want them to click. The method i mentioned is arbitrage. Its just you are intercepting the customer before they buy the product and then you sell them the same product but via your referral link.
April 9th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
wow… let me see, uhmm….
i got it.. nice trick .. uhm.. are there another trick that hide in the idea cosmos ??
April 9th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
I’ve always wondered if those sites make any real money. What do your squeeze pages look like?
April 9th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Squeeze pages are those (usually) long, centered pages designed for the sole purpose to either collect an email address or sell a product. You can’t do anything but to hit buy or submit. You must have seen a few of them before. Id rather not post a link to my one at this time.
April 11th, 2008 at 5:28 am
I prefer squeze page that contain video. Long squeeze page with the testimonial from other won’t do anymore(at least to me)
April 11th, 2008 at 11:27 am
That’s a smart way for making money! It’s known that all marketing strategies are based on psychology and if you find the right way to do it, you can be rich!
April 14th, 2008 at 4:53 am
This is a great trick, but a lot of companies don’t want to see their brand name tarnished like this, sales or not.
April 15th, 2008 at 2:35 am
“This is a great trick, but a lot of companies don’t want to see their brand name tarnished like this, sales or not.”
Thats why you put a question mark at the end of it, kind of like what FOX News does so they can basically lie about anything and get away with it
April 15th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
That is an awesome idea, a little like reverse psychology, nice and sneaky but gets the job done.
April 17th, 2008 at 11:53 am
I saw instant article wizard thats a good example of a squeeze page, i ended up buying it, not too sure that im overjoyed with it, might look into this could be a nice little way to make a few extra quid. “thats pounds for our american friends lol.”
rb
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Clickbank affiliates have been using the method for at least a couple of years.