Why I Love Affiliate Marketing of Physical Products.

• I don’t have to buy the products and store them to sell them.
• No customer service needed, no 800 phone numbers, no dealing with shipping hassles.
• I can test markets cheaply and easily to see which I want to spend more time or money on.
• The products sell themselves and I don’t have to create a squeeze page or separate website for each one.
• Products do not change as rapidly as other affiliate stuff (like CPA offers which come and go all the time).
• I can set up a niched product website with departments and categories (which customers AND search engines love)
• I can make an online store with many pages and products – which is considered more authoritative than a blog with a couple of products.
• I can do market research in order to convert a store from affiliate marketing to drop shipping if I decide the products will sell.
• And I make money WHILE I SLEEP!

My Secret Weapon for Creating Web Stores for Products

I use this inexpensive but powerful affiliate store builder that gets my products found in the search engines. This system is the best I have seen for adding affiliate products with the image, price, affiliate link, description and the ability to edit all of those things. Plus you can put in your own meta tags (for those in SEO, you know how important that is).

The system I use is from Bizzites (which used to be Traffic Genesis and My Affiliate Store). With it, I have build several successful websites that look like e-commerce stores but are actually affiliate marketing websites. The customer comes in, finds a product and the product pages link to the vendor that sells them – where the customer uses their website. EVERYTHING they buy in that session counts toward my commission. And the cookies that keep track of where someone went to that vendor from last for a month or more. So, if that customer goes back to purchase something within that time frame, I am credited with that sale, too.

The commissions are not high for physical products (not like selling downloadable stuff from Clickbank), but you CAN add clickbank products or any affiliate product from any affilate network or even a store you are an affiliate of.  

Here is the BIG difference – this is a store builder that has products (from datafeeds) already loaded into the system. All you do is add them to your website – they come in with the price, picture, description, keywords, etc. and you can design your store to have departments and categories to make it easy for people to find what they are looking for.

Actually, there are so many features I find it hard to tell you all of them, so click on that banner and try it out! If you end up buying the system, I would recommend the plan that allows you to build multiple sites. I am telling you, this is NOT expensive – and you can get the hosting included, which makes it really easy for a new online marketer.

Here are some stores that were built with Bizzites:

Drawing Tables and Easels

Woodworking Heaven

All Scrapbook Albums

On the first one, there is not even a custom logo or banner, but the site converts and sells really well – an real no brainer to make a site like this!

The other 2 example sites have had more artwork added, but nothing that difficult (except for the professionally designed banner at the top of Woodworking Heaven which was something I did to customize the template).

I’m telling you, if you’d like to try this out for yourself, go check out the promotional page. There is a free trial. You have to get on their mailing list to do the trial. Als, if you do the trial, contact me and I will personally give you some tips from the standpoint of someone who’s been using this system for 2 years (only contact me if you are serious about this, though). I give better tips than the guys who sell this, so trust me, I can help you if you need it.

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I’ve been selling products as an affiliate for almost 2 years and have made a steady income from my web stores. I can’t say every thing I’ve tried to sell online has been a success. But, the affiliate product stores I built are doing great. I can count on them to make a profit every month – the steady stream of income that at this point isn’t taking me too much time to manage. I might not make millions from these stores, but making they do bring in some $$ and that is a good thing.

There is a promotion at the moment to try out this store builder for free for a month. I highly recommend this for anyone who wants another revenue stream from online marketing.  Let me explain this 5-minute challenge video demo before you watch it. This is a little crazy, but it’s entertaining and is actually showing (in real time) how quickly a store can be built. The products they are using for this demo aren’t really something I would build a store for, but it works for the demo:

So, now that you saw all that, you probably have no idea what was happening! Well, in a nutshell, a store’s template was modified and customized with photos and a video, store departments were added, store categories were added. Then products were added to the categories and some were selected as featured products (to show on the main or home page). Google ads were also set up.

It’s kind of hard to believe, but in 5 mintues a fully-functioning store was built!

This kind of store works great for niche marketing. I used this very system shown in the demo video to build several affiliate websites that sell products. The website builder was created by Traffic Genesis (which is part of Bizzites). The concept is really different than most affiliate stores because it is more customizable, has better SEO features and there are millions of products already in the system that you can easily add product pages to your store. As far as the SEO features – they are awesome. The sites get spidered by search engines really well (and you get pages indexed quickly). I have many, many pages that rank on the first page of Google (and Yahoo and MSN).

One of the best features has nothing to do with technology – it’s their customer service. They are the most responsive and competent group I have ever had to ask for help from. And there is a large group of users who write in the forum – there is so much free help there, you wouldn’t believe it. Many of the forum members are experienced marketers, too. Their tips and advice have helped me along the way.

So, crank up your favorite music and go on and take the 5 minute challenge. Sign up for a free trial and make an affiliate store. You’ll be using one of my current favorite online store building tools.

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