The Affiliate Lifestyle Blog

What if I told you I just built a 300 page website using private label rights?

The site has a front end product and back-end, with autoresponder.. I wrote the sales page and used private label rights for everything else..

It’s pretty easy to find content that you can purchase for a minimal fee (like $5 - $25 bucks for a few hundred articles)..

So what are private label rights and why are they important?

Private label rights basically mean you can buy articles or content to resell or post on your website that someone else has written and decided to give away for a small fee. You simply purchase the “rights” to the content, and you can then resell this content.

Building a website using private label rights (plr) is straight forward.. You can buy plr from tons of websites on the internet, just do a google search for “private label rights” — you’ll find plenty of sites willing to give you content for a few dollars.

Once you buy the content, you can simply post it on your site, or even sell it! It’s not good for search engine optimization, since you will face a duplicate content penalty, but if you have a membership site you can easily post these articles to add value to your site.

You’ve heard the saying… “Work ON your business.. Not IN Your Business!”

Quite simply, if you are not outsourcing nearly everything but your core compentency, then YOU are the bottleneck in your business!

It’s way to easy for us to outsource.. My favorite place is Rentacoder. Hire a designer, copywriter, coder, whatever you need.. It’s cheap, efficient, and once you start outsourcing the crap you don’t want to do you will never look back!

The next subject I want to talk about is SYSTEMS.

It’s so important for us affiliates to create systems to our business. If we are hoping around from one thing to the next we will never create a system which we can duplicate over and over again…

If you can’t write down your business model on a NAPKIN.. You don’t have a business model!

If you can’t leave your business for at least a week or two without your business collapsing.. You don’t have a business.. You have a J-O-B! :)

Affiliate marketing is about LEVERAGE.

We need to leverage these guys and gals in India who will work for $10 bucks an hour…

We need to leverage our time using Basecamp..

You get the point.

Now you know what to do.. Get to it! :)

I was recently asked this famous question:

“I’m just starting in the industry with $500 bucks– what do I do?”

Here’s what I’d suggest:

1) What subject do you know the most about? Everyone is a specialist in something– do you know about guitars? Car washing cleaners? Web hosting? (Those are just 3 examples from people I’ve spoken with recently)

2) Find 4 products in your market that have affiliate programs that you can review on your site..

You can do a google search for “myhobby affiliate program”..

Join 3 or 4 of these affiliate programs/networks.

With most niches, you can find several interesting products to review.

3) Create a review site comparing these products. A review site provides helpful information to move the visitor closer to a buying decision. You can brand yourself as an expert on this topic and create an auto responder series which offers a free report and additional information about the topic.

(see keywordresearching.com or identitytheftkiller.com for an example of my review sites.)

4) Drive traffic to your site using Google Adwords. Bid on keywords such as the names of the products you are reviewing on your site. Remember, you can also bid on the domain names of these products as keywords in your Adwords campaign..

Google provides a free Adwords Learning Center

Although it may be a challenging, you will learn a lot about the two most important aspects of affiliate marketing: driving traffic and converting that traffic into sales.

You may also want to consider “direct linking” which is when you have no website and set up a Google ad which points directly to the offer you are promoting. This is also a good way to start since it will help you develop a better understanding of Adwords without having to create your own site.

I’ve had a fantastic time in Beijing the past week and blessed with unbelievable Olympic seats. I went to 5 events in total: Men’s Weightlifting, Argentina v. Brazil semi-final soccer, USA v. Argentina Basketball Semi-finals, Athletics (saw Bolt break 200M record), & Boxing Finals.

USA v. Argentina match..

Boxing (front row seats!)..

The Great Wall…

Care for Starfish on a Stick?

Feeding the bears..

I’m heading back to Shanghai tonight and then leaving back to Florida on September 2nd to get my butt in gear for some serious affiliate marketing!

I just got back from the Athletics Olympic event tonight held at “Bird’s Nest” stadium, featuring some qualifying, semi-final, and final events– including the 200M world record setting time of 19.30 by Jamaican runner Usain Bolt:

I scored a great ticket for the event, Sector A, Tier 1, Row 24, right next to the finish line and medal ceremonies! :)

Tonight I grabbed a Argentina v. Brazil semifinals soccer ticket. It was a pretty fun game to be at, considering these are two of the best teams in the world facing off.

Here’s a short video:

Tomorrow I’m hoping to get a ticket for the track & field finals.

Overall, the atmosphere in Beijing is fantastic and I’ve met a lot of fun people :)