Dear affiliate marketers: don’t bring a whip to a sword duel
Published: Wed, 05/06/20
Fight like Indiana Jones.
There is a scene in the movie “Raiders Of The Lost Ark” where Indie is running through the crowd with whip in hand… and a swordsman pops up doing a bunch of fancy moves challenging Indie to a duel (whip vs sword).
But instead of a fight:
Indie simply pulls out his gun and shoots the guy dead.
No “duel” necessary.
That’s how you do affiliate marketing. In other words, don’t try to out-muscle or out-fight or out-spend your competition if they have more “celebrity” juice, better marketplace positioning, better ads, etc.
Don’t bring a whip to a sword duel.
Bring a GUN, Jonesy.
One of those guns — and there are many — should simply be offering premiums/bonuses for buying from you that have lots of “impulse” value, and that also are so ridiculously valuable people will be eager to buy something just to get them.
The good news is, this is super simple.
The bad news is, it can also be super inconvenient for most people.
And the reason why is, the vast majority of businesses have to require the customer — whose buying info the affiliate does not normally get, even though they come from their own list — send them their receipt in order to get the bonus(s).
Not a big deal to me to me, personally.
I fact, I like doing it for a whole plethora of reasons.
But a lot of affiliates would much rather the bonus be delivered automatically.
And, for them, here is my advice:
Grab Troy Broussard’s Automation Magic for just $20 before tonight’s deadline, where he shows you how to set up a very simple automation (or pay someone to do it — it ain’t expensive) where you don’t have to have anyone mail you any receipts. It’s all done completely automatically, whether you want to deliver it via your website, or in a mobile app (like I am doing with this promo), or anywhere you like.
Deadline is tonight at the stroke of midnight EDT.
To get it with my soon-to-expire affiliate link, go here immediately:
http://www.EmailPlayers.com/automate
NOTE:
You'll need a smart phone to access these videos.
And it will have to be newer than when Steve Jobs still walked the earth.
Ben Settle
P.S. If you buy the course today, you also get an extremely rare & valuable bonus:
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These bonus videos contain information about writing emails I have been selfishly keeping to myself for over a decade.
But they be yours for $20 with Automation Magic.
Assuming, of course, you get it before today’s deadline.
Here’s my affiliate link:
http://www.EmailPlayers.com/automate
NOTE:
You'll need a smart phone to access these videos.
And it will have to be newer than when Steve Jobs still walked the earth.