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Taking Advantage Of Startup Stuffs

by Melvin · Jan 11, 2009

Most marketers usually take advantage of stuffs that are startup or unpopular at first, and then make big profits out of it. And I know that well because I have done that a lot of times. In affiliate marketing or whatever, when there’s a new and untested offer that is up, I usually take advantage of it and even “abuse” it as possible. Now I know that its either it could make you quick cash or it can do you trouble but what I do mean by saying “abuse” is to pawn it as quickly as you can before it gets saturated. Marketers are all common for being quick so maybe a day or 2, an offer would all of a sudden be saturated.

So know you’re asking, how can I take advantage of an offer then? or how will I know what to take advantage? Unfortunately I don’t know the answer. 🙁 For me its more of an instinct and bit of luck at my side. Basically, most people spend their time in front of the computer so my advice is to just be productive with spending your time. I mean, do researches, take a look at the newest offer and etc. So know I am gonna share w/you some of my experiences  quickly making a buck w/a non saturated stuff (of course it becomes saturated then after some time)

  • Performancing Ads – Well its not really me but a good friend of mine who told me to let him anonymous. When Performancing Ads has just started, they are basically paying $10 per referral. That friend is actually a part of SplashPressMedia which happens to have connection w/performancing so he had the inside details and he pretty knew the $10 referral before everyone else did.  What happened then? At the end of one week he made $1300 of affiliate commission from Performancing. Pretty quick huh! Now its impossible to duplicate that because PerfAds has changed their affiliate program terms.
  • Clickbooth Select Campaign – Now I don’t know if I am gonna be hunted by doing it but what I know is I do it legitimately. So Clickbooth is an affiliate program that pays $10 per signup and 2% lifetime ref commission (I’m talking Clickbooth’s own affiliate program). Before the Wickedfire-Clickbooth dispute I was already promoting it like mad man. The result is $400 on one month just by promoting them. 🙂 After a year, my affiliate manager told me they have just removed it because some affiliates are abusing it. 😉
  • Dating Offers – Most of the offers I promote before are offers related to dating and more or less there is always a startup dating offer that usually accepts traffic from any part of the world. I just contacted my friends and asked to sign for this offer under my ref. Of course here in my country 85% are interested with dating sites so its another quick buck for me. It’s not really incentivizing but its just I gave them members I know are willing to stay. A month after I had a chat w/the merchant and they told me they have reduced the traffic to US only. And of course they’re too late because I already did my thing.

So those are the stuffs. Again it’s kinda risky because some are notorious for scrubbing leads and so on. But my advice is, if you do it legitimately and nothing against their terms then at the end of the day you’re still the winner

Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing, Internet Marketing Tagged With: Affiliate Marketing, new things, performancing, unsaturated

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  1. Donny Gamble says

    January 11, 2009 at 9:33 pm

    Sometimes it is good to be the very first person to do an idea because if that idea works, most bloggers will trackback to that posts or idea that you came up with and it will send a lot of extra traffic to your blog.

    Donny Gamble’s last blog post..Linkers Blog Posts Office Sundays

  2. Hugo Santos says

    January 11, 2009 at 9:45 pm

    well, i know one thig for sure… that i wasn’t amongst the first to take advantage of acai berry…. :\

    Hugo Santos’s last blog post..Get Free Stumbles and Free Social Submission

  3. Affiliate Marketing Blog says

    January 12, 2009 at 2:41 am

    @hugo neither do I… Im sure those who took advantage of it really milked it a lot.

    Affiliate Marketing Blog’s last blog post..When Just Starting As An Affiliate

  4. Kirby says

    January 12, 2009 at 3:59 am

    Great post melvs! Was able to “abuse” clickbooth months ago but yeps, they removed it. Glad I was on the bandwagon when it was still active.

    BTW, I shot up an email via contact form yesterday.

  5. zalds says

    January 12, 2009 at 4:57 am

    thanks for that tip.
    that is also one of the advice that AM told me, “get to that campaign quick”.. the question now is how to setup the campaign that fast without spending too much..:)

    zalds’s last blog post..2007 & 2008 Recap – Google Adsense Earning Report

  6. gel says

    January 12, 2009 at 12:45 pm

    This is out of the topic:

    Your file you’ve asked me to download doesn’t fit on your 2GB storage either. HAHAHAH!!! (I’ll bring the cord of my iPod tomorrow)

    gel’s last blog post..Same old, same old.

  7. Melvin says

    January 12, 2009 at 12:47 pm

    I never promoted weight loss offers… 😉

  8. Melvin says

    January 12, 2009 at 12:48 pm

    ok, I will try to reply as soon as I can. 😉

  9. Melvin says

    January 12, 2009 at 12:52 pm

    yeah thats exactly what all AM’s have been teaching. But the question always is how quick is quick?

  10. Novelty Gifts says

    January 12, 2009 at 1:05 pm

    Interesting psot will take this in and when i start projects have a look at your blog interesting blog will bookmark it.

  11. Rowell Dionicio says

    January 12, 2009 at 4:42 pm

    I guess the hard part is trying to find these before anyone else does and implement it first.

    Rowell Dionicio’s last blog post..Add Google AdSense to WordPress Sidebar

  12. Dexter | Tech At Hand Dot Net says

    January 13, 2009 at 6:54 am

    Nice site I found your site via Zalds.. And it is good to know that you are earning good amount in affiliate marketing..

    Actually nahihilo na ako dito sa Affiliate 🙂

    Dexter | Tech At Hand Dot Net’s last blog post..Poor Conversion Rate

  13. IronBlogger says

    January 13, 2009 at 10:06 pm

    Wow I had no idea Clickbank had such a wicked referral system. I think I’m going hop on that right away. It would probably be hard though because it’s a very common program these days.

    IronBlogger’s last blog post..OIO Publisher Offer 90% Referral Bonus

  14. Nihar says

    January 15, 2009 at 1:29 am

    @melvin, I didn’t think about this before. you are right. if a new company comes up and a very popular blogger joins and blogs about it then lot of readers would join and make a lot of bucks!

    Nihar’s last blog post..How to Add categories to Nav Bar

  15. Melvin says

    January 17, 2009 at 2:25 pm

    Let me correct it. Clickbooth used to have a wicked referral system and now they removed it. I didn’t mention “clickbank” 🙂

  16. The Moneyac says

    January 18, 2009 at 2:21 pm

    Good post Melvin, really makes me thinking…

    I remember when Top Affiliate Challenge Show was still “hot”, and many bloggers took the advantage of to hold their own “Top Affiliate Challenge” via Market leverage. I don’t remember who was it first, but I can only imagine how much money that person made, and after few days most of the blogsphere were doing “Top Affiliate Challenges”. It just means, first come, first get.

    Cheers,

    The Moneyac

    The Moneyac’s last blog post..NoFollow Links – Are they Really Useless ?

  17. RughedPoogoup says

    January 20, 2009 at 4:16 pm

    I am unable to understand this post. But well some points are useful for me.

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