Warcraft Affiliates

July 19, 2009 in Affiliate Marketing, Basics, Free Training, Modules by MatthewDC

What should you sell?

Sometimes, one of the hardest parts of affiliate marketing is finding a niche and then finding products within that niche that convert well. Let me explain a little bit about what I mean.

A niche is the specific industry you are working in. In our case, that part is simple to figure out. We are going to be using the World of Warcraft niche. There are hundreds of other niches out there that you can sell products for using the skills you are going to learn here. However, I want you to focus on only the one niche for now. It makes things easier.

July 18, 2009 in Affiliate Marketing, Basics, Free Training, Modules by MatthewDC

So now that you understand the basics, let’s talk about clickbank. Clickbank has what we call the clickbank marketplace. This is where we go to research product’s that we might want to sell. If we go to the clickbank website, we will see a link at the top named marketplace.

When you click the marketplace link, it will take you to a search box. We can use this search box to look for products that are currently registered with clickbank. All of these products will be affiliate products and will offer us a percentage of the profits from any sale we refer. I am going to search for “World of Warcraft” in the marketplace search. It is important that we search WITH the quotes on our search term, so that we get only results that have the exact phrase, World of Warcraft.

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Introduction to Clickbank

In the first module we discussed the method we are going to use to make money off of World of Warcraft. We are going to promote WoW Guides, written by other authors, and get paid 50% profits for sending them traffic that buys their guide. Some of you may have been wondering after reading the first module, “What if the guide seller doesn’t pay me?”. Well to legitimize the affiliate sales (that is what we call it when you make a sale), we use a website called Clickbank.

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What is Affiliate Marketing and Why do I Care?

You came to this site so that you could learn to make real money, using your knowledge and experience playing World of Warcraft (WoW). But how is it we will take experience playing a video game and turn it into cash money? We do it by using something we call “Affiliate Marketing”. It is called that because you are affiliating yourself with another person or company in order to make money. In the World of Warcraft niche, we affiliate with Gold and Leveling guide authors specifically.

You may have seen the various WoW guides plastered all over the Internet. The banners and text advertisements are on just about every WoW related site you can find. Zygor’s Leveling Guide, Joana’s Leveling Guide, and Warcraft Millionaire are just a few. These guides sell for upwards of $50 each currently. The reason you see these guides all over the Internet is simple; the authors of these guides will pay you 50% of their earnings for every guide you help them sell. So let’s break this down into something that can make your mouth water :

Zygor’s Leveling Guide sells for $50 (That’s $50 each Alliance or Horde)

For every person you send to his website that BUYS a guide (you get nothing if they don’t buy), you get 50% so $25 (roughly after fees, the actual amount is more like $22.62 but I am not good with math and $25 is much easier to work with).
On average, I sell 3-5 of this specific guide every day. Let’s do the math.

3 guides x $25 = $75 per day.

$75 x 7 days in a week = $525 / Week.

$525 x 4 Weeks in a Month = $2100 / Month!!

As you can see, by sending traffic to Zygor’s website, using a special link, you can earn $2100 a month and that is only looking at 1 guide. There are approximately 15-20 WoW guides currently on the market! What I have just described, sending traffic to someone’s website in exchange for a percentage if they buy the product, is what we call affiliate marketing. You are marketing for Zygor and by affiliating with him, you get paid. It is as simple as that. So why would he want to give away 50% of his profits? Because that way he doesn’t ever have to worry about advertising his product and he can spend all of his time making sure it is the best on the market. Makes sense right?

So now you are getting anxious to get started and you are wondering how exactly you can get traffic over to his site and start making money. LISTEN CAREFULLY! Do NOT jump into paying a bunch of money on various traffic methods all over the Internet before you go through these training modules. I am going to explain as best I can, all of the different methods I like to use, and I am going to recommend which ones to use, and which ones to stay away from. I will also show you how to go about doing it completely free, it just takes longer that way but it is doable. I will also show you some methods you can use that cost a little money, but greatly speed up the process.

What I want you to take away from this first module is this. Affiliate Marketing is making money by sending traffic to someone else’s site, in order to help them make sales, in exchange for a percentage of the profit. It is a feasible business model and there are marketers currently making millions on the Internet using this very method. Are we going to turn you into an Internet millionaire by using what I teach? Nope. I am not even close to that point. That being said, I do make a nice chunk of change and it pays my car bill, my rent, and most of my expenses. I still have a regular job too so if you are thinking you won’t have the time to dedicate to this new mission, consider this. I am a SSgt in the USAF and I work 12 hour days regularly. I also take 2 classes per semester of College and I still have enough time to use these methods to make thousands a month selling WoW Guides.
It’s possible. It’s easy. It’s staring you right in the face.

Read the modules, implement the techniques, and you WILL make sales. You may only make 2 sales in your first month, but guess what, that is $50 you did not have before you started, and thats 2 sales closer to quitting your job and working for yourself. Thanks for reading and see you next module!


Our next module is Module 2 : Introduction to Clickbank.