4 Steps to Making Money with Clickbank Affiliate Products Using Bum Marketing Method - Part 1

Bum marketing is very similar to article marketing. It is actually a variation of article marketing. Bum Marketing is really an Internet marketing method for anyone who wants to sell their own product or affiliate product on the Internet; or wants to get targeted visitors for a website, whether it is a squeeze page designed to get opt-in subscribers, a content based AdSense site, or a website containing a lot of affiliate ads.

Here’s a few sentences to describe how bum marketing works: You research and write keywords rich articles related to your niche, product, affiliate program or website; submit them to large traffic article directories and sites, let the search engines index them and send visitors to your article pages, then generate affiliate sales, get lead and opt-in subscribers or earn money from selling your own products.

Below is a step-by-step plan to applying bum marketing for promoting your Clickbank affiliate product and generate Clickbank affiliate commission.

Step 1 - Find Several Products to Market and Promote
You will have to look for several quality products to promote. One of the good places to find products to promote is Clickbank. To find out which products are good in quality and successful in Clickbank. You need to conduct some research. You may look at the gravity ratio of the products provided by Clickbank, high gravity of a product would simply mean it has attracted a lot of affiliates to promote it and indicate that it may be a good product. You should also ask the seller or merchant about the conversion rate of the product. A product with conversion rate of 4% is reasonably good. It means that for every 100 potential customers to the website, 4 of them will make a purchase.

When it comes to sale commission sharing ratio, you should pick products that offer at least 50-60% commission. This is to make sure you earn enough for your time, marketing efforts and costs.

Choosing affiliate programs that offer residual income is a great idea for earning steady income for long term using bum marketing method. There are still not many bum marketers taking advantage of promoting residual income affiliate programs that pay every month.

Here is how these programs work. You promote a product one time. A customer purchases the product. Every time they come back to purchase another, you earn more money. Promote a product once and are paid for as long as that customer stays as a customer. For example. If you promote a paid membership website and make a sale, you will earn that same amount of sale commission every month for as long as that customer stays as a paid member of the site.

Residual income affiliate programs have pretty good earning potential in the future. If you want a list of some good affiliate programs that offer residual income opportunities, check out this site:
http://www.lifetimecommissions.com

Step 2 - Find at least 20 keywords for each product
If you can find more keywords, even better, but begin with 20 first to find out if the product will be worth it. You don’t want to spend a hard time writing 50 articles to promote a product but later then discover that the product is hard to convert into sales.

You may start off by writing 30 articles to promote a specific product. If you make no or very little sales, then you should look for another product. The great thing about bum marketing is it's a useful and free method to test whether the products sell well. If a product converts well into sales, then there is nothing stopping you from advertising with PPC programs like Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing.

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