When I first started out in Internet marketing, affiliate marketing was in its infancy. You could link as an affiliate to the big retailers, but the commissions were so low, you couldn’t make a lot of money.
But now, Clickbank and PayDot.com have made it possible to actually make a living from affiliate marketing. Their informational products really sell, and they now offer substantial commissions.
It all sounds easy, right? Well, it isn’t all that easy. Now that there’s real income potential, there’s tremendous competition in the top categories and for the best-selling products.
To help affiliate marketers compete, Brad Callen developed Affiliate Elite software that can give you an edge.
It’s not a quick process, but it will make sense if you watch Brad’s 14 training videos before you dive in. Otherwise, you will be lost.
Brad teaches you how to find profitable products to promote. He explains his formula for product profitability, and shows you how the Affiliate Elite software queries Clickbank and PayDot.com databases to help you find those products based on that formula.
Then, he shows you how the software can be used to find every keyword that profitable marketers are using or your competition is using. The system creates a powerful list and includes all the ad copy the person is using plus their position.
You’ll also be able to find advertisers, their relevant advertisements, and landing pages using your customizable list of keywords. The results are displayed according to each keyword supplied.
In my opinion, the best reason to buy Affiliate Elite is to be able to see what keywords are actually making people money. The software has a very powerful AdWords spy tool that will run on a scheduled basis. You enter your list of keywords and Affiliate Elite will run for as many days as you want and track which keywords are being bid on and which ones are not. It will then start to show you an extremely powerful list of words that are being used by the same companies for extended periods of time.
These keywords are most certainly money makers because advertisers don’t like to waste money. Once you’ve identified which sites are using which words for extended periods of time, you can go back to the reverse search and find all the words those sites are using and watch those as well.
This all takes some work to set up, but if you use AdWords to drive your affiliate marketing program, Affiliate Elite can prove to be a tremendous tool.
The software navigation takes some getting used to, but once you get it, you shouldn’t have any problems.
My Verdict: Affiliate Elite isn’t for newbies; it assumes a moderate level of Internet marketing knowledge. It’s not a plug-n-play piece of software; you’ll have to work at it, but it is very powerful, and used the right way can make you some significant income.
