Building an Affiliate Marketing Powerhouse – Case Study
Scott over at the AffSpot blog is doing an interesting step-by-step case study. He’s building a network of 25 minisites and sharing what he’s doing every step of the way.
He started with a conservative goal of making $3,000 a month and decided one way to reach that goal would be to launch 25 niche mini sites. “Here’s how we’re going to do this. We’re going to hit a functional area every day til you’ve got a resource you can use. We’re going to cover discovering niches, finding offers, necessary tools, elements of minisite design, tracking performance, testing for success, and replicating success.”
Each day he’s blogging with his action list and progress. Here are his posts for the 1st 5 days with a summary of what each day covers.
Day One – Research – Did the Math and figured out how many sites (25) to make a living (theoretically).
Day Two – Research – Niches and Keywords. Learned how to find localities, keywords, and offers.
Day Three – Planning – CMS Tools, Domain Names, Plugins, Virtualmin, the mechanics of managing sites.
Day Four – Rollout – Built first site draft, tested CMS, wrote copy, did 1 site to get the hang of it.
Day Five – Rollout – Launched site one and two and start promoting.
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#1 Internet Strategist @GrowMap wrote on September 29, 2009 :
Thanks for sharing this information. I am actively seeking super affiliates for a merchant with thousands of products paying 12-20% with great conversion rates. On top of that I spend all my time writing about ways I’ve tested to grow businesses that I also use to drive traffic to quality content.
I’m off to check out his posts. Thanks again.
#2 paidmailer wrote on September 29, 2009 :
Interesting study. I find it pretty ambitious to manage 25 sites. Each earning over a 100$, I have my hands full with only 4 sites and 100$ is hard work for some of those. We’ll see how he’ll do soon enough.
#3 Ron wrote on October 8, 2009 :
It’s a pretty detailed plan but I am not sure all of the “tools” he uses are needed. At least not for a beginner.