My name is Matthew Bredel and as of March, 2007, I am a full-time, work-at-home internet marketer.
For close to 10 years, I worked for a defense company which was an OK job, but I was so uninspired in life and frankly, I needed some more money. That is when I first discovered internet marketing! Now I admit that I didn't start making thousands in my first couple of months (in fact, I lost my shirt!), but I finally saw the "internet light"...
Can You Make Money Promoting Physical Products Online as an Affiliate Marketer? Here, I go to Deborah Carney, an established affiliate marketer of over 10 years to describe her success as a physical product promoter. She also spends much time going over affiliate marketing tips for the newbie is this exclusive podcast.
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“Can You Make Money Promoting Physical Products Online as an Affiliate Marketer?”
Kind of an interesting question!
For years, I have read countless ebooks and ways to create income from home and many of them point to becoming an affiliate marketer for information products.
Why?
Simple: the combination of both a marketing platform that requires no fulfillment (i.e., affiliate marketing) plus the high commission structure of information products
makes it a low risk, high gain investment.
STILL, it is a highly competitive market and there is the notion of information products being an simple avenue for multi-level marketing (MLM).
Now personally, I don’t buy into the MLM concept of information products (in most cases). In the “home based business” niche, this is highly arguable. Still, I personally have found success outside of this niche using techniques I have learned through my own personal studies from “home biz op products” and trial and error.
But the question still remains: What about physical products?
Can you make money selling items from Amazon.com? or Walmart.com? or JoesPetSupplies.com (I made that one up!).
The lower commission rates may scare some of you, but then again, this should not deter you at all!
I have had my own successes in the physical product marketing promoting products such as TMX Elmo, Playstation 3, Webkinz, and many other products.
Still, this is not my major source of income.
Can you make a living promoting physical products?
That seems to be the next logical question and one that I will answer in the form of a podcast…
I met Deb Carney (from TeamLoxly and Loxly Gallery) back in January at Affiliate Summit Las Vegas. She is also a moderator at the popular ABestWeb forums, a community devoted to affiliate marketing.
After spending over 2 hours with her, I learned a LOT of things (she has a lot to say, let me tell you!). She has been in the online business for over 10 years and through our discussions, she’s well hearsed in almost anything to do with affiliate marketing.
And her focus is (and has been) physical products.
Listen to the Podcast (above) to learn more about Deb and her strategies and advice on how to make money online through marketing physical products.
Too few people are affiliate marketers for physical products (and there is so much more opportunity to effectively promote it versus information…that is, if you do it right!).
cheers…matt
P.S. Now this is very cool! Through Deb’s photo gallery website (at LoxlyGallery.com), she has created a section called the “Passion Collection”. Here, she and I have created our own print (which includes a picture of mine with my own quote) that is for sale. For a product like this, we donate 50% of the sale to charity (and I have chosen to forgo my affiliate commission on this so the actual price is cut in half, too!).
Be sure to check it out! If you are looking for a little bit of inspiration personally from me, this is it!
(I already have one of her Passion Collection images hanging in front of me right now!)
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Gorgeous picture, Matt!
March 5th, 2009 at 6:46 am
What are physical products? Is it an umbrella word used so that people will be touched with interest before they realize it is vitamins and supplements?
March 5th, 2009 at 7:38 am
Hey Ginger…
Really interesting point here! And you are right to some degree. (it is worth a post all in itself!): using physical products to get leads. This is a part of the industry, no doubt, but there are ways of making a living without this bait & switch technique (Deb provides a few in the podcast). And as you also say, you see this in a lot of the industries like vitamins and supplements (products that are for hard to reach clients in conventional means). This is part of lead generation techniques, not really affiliate marketing.
Great point!
cheers…matt
March 5th, 2009 at 7:50 am
Matt, that is a great write up and thank YOU for talking to me. Your print is beautiful and I will be sending you a printed copy shortly.
Ginger, “physical products” just means retail products that you buy online like pajamas and books and posters. Vitamins and “supplements” were more lucrative in the past, but now are a niche just like information products where some people are good at promoting them and some aren’t.
My focus is on real products that people buy online everyday that affiliates can be selling that is a consistent income stream. People do buy books at Amazon every day through affiliate links where they read a book review. People buy posters everyday online that they can’t buy in the local store because they local store can’t possibly offer them all in the space that they have.
There is a lot of opportunity for affiliates that want to add retail affiliate marketing to their already successful information product marketing.
March 5th, 2009 at 9:42 am
(Didn’t I say that Deborah is awesome!…well said!) cheers…matt
March 9th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Deb,
I tried clicking the podcast link and none of them are working. i would like to listen to this if i could?
Thanks!
April 24th, 2009 at 11:47 am
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October 9th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Matt, is this podcast no longer available? I am interested in learning more about promoting physical products through affiliate marketing and this content seemed interesting. Unfortunately, I can’t get the links to work. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
November 13th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Hey Deborah, Thanks for pointing that out! The plug-in I was using must have been out-dated. I have fixed it now! Enjoy the podcast! cheers…matt
November 13th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
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December 29th, 2009 at 10:57 am