Affiliate Christmas Cash Strategy

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Whilst the ‘crunch’ bites, online sales of Christmas Gifts will rise this year. We’ve been looking at the Christmas gifts market by building a combination of static and blog websites focusing on certain products and toys. Specifically chosen products that we want to target get their own product page, and where possible their own mini-site. Blogs are just too powerful to ignore, so we will be putting a few of those out there too and pushing the feeds to remote content sites using the strategy in our new new media reports.

Specifically focusing on Amazon products works nicely and there is an excellent product Info Product Killer - discount code SPL777 - (although we have nothing against info products!) featuring videos and templates to build this strategy to focus on affiliate marketing of real products and not just for Christmas

A very handy wordpress plugin came to our attention called MultiFeedSnap which easily brings in RSS Feeds to your blog by encasing them in a [feedsnap, 10] tag, so naturally we used Amazon’s product feeds with our affiliate associate ID slapped on there..

Grabbing the Feed:

Most of the main categories on Amazon have their own RSS Feeds which you’ll see on your browser if available.

You can also grab the main RSS feeds from Amazon.com from here. Just copy the URL after choosing your category and don’t forget your associates ID.

You can also get the feeds manually by copying the RSS url and tagging on your associates tag.

Example:

Step 1.
Go to the relevant category on Amazon and copy the URL:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/videogames/ref=pd_ts_h?pf_rd_p=103981591&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_t=2101&pf_rd_i=home&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=0M4DFHDP3P4JFGKKQRC2
http://affiliate-blog.amazon.co.uk/2008/07/create-associat.html

Step 2.
Delete everything in yellow above until you just have:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/videogames/

Step 3: Replace gp with rss and add ?tag=AssocID-21 on the end giving you:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/rss/bestsellers/videogames/?tag=AssocID-21

Warning: This will not work if there is no RSS feed available. You can pick out most categories and there is an excellent post on the UK Amazon affiliate blog which gives you a good idea on how it works.

This feed just goes within your [feedsnap, 10] tags in the html tab of your wordpress post:

[feedsnap, 10]http://www.amazon.co.uk/rss/bestsellers/videogames/?tag=AssocID-21[/feedsnap]

It works pretty well, except occasionally there’s an error instead of a list of lovely products which is usually fixed by a hit on the refresh button. There are many many ways to pull in the feeds to your blog, so if there are any other great plug ins for that, let us know.

Your Social Network Empire

Building Communities in your niche has been a big talking point for a while now as it is a fantasic way to build authority as well as a large valuable community. No doubt you’ve heard of Facebook, MySpace and Twitter - but what about the exploding growth in niche social network sites? Imagine the potential of dominating your market with social media, not only that but these sites can build into real value, there are many marketers that pay good money for social media sites.

OK so it costs thousands to build these things though doesn’t it? Well Hollis Carter and Marc Horne have developed a software system that enables you to easily build social network sites for autopilot income!

This video pretty much says it all - go check it out before it is taken down - there are limited spots for this!

>> Watch the Video

Let yourself Succeed

I recently picked up a handful of books, kindly given out at the Focus Seminar in London recently and have just finished the first one. I do intend to read all of them by the way - you can never stop learning.

Relax into Wealth is a very light read but packs some powerful punches when it comes to the physcology of success. The book deals with the concept of  letting yourself succeed by trusting that the universe will deliver as long as you follow, what is basically, your gut instinct. Many reading will be familiar with this train of thought and there’s been many a book written about it,. no doubt.

When I was travelling in South East Asia waaaay back in ‘91 (good times) I had pretty much used up all my money after 6 months of travelling around Thailand, Malaysia and Sumatra and was heading home via Penang, Malayasia. However, I wasn’t ready to go home and somehow I just knew that I wouldn’t be, just yet.

Conciously though, I was preparing to go home and my cunning plan was to print up a load of t-shirts (with my crazy designs) and ship them back to the UK to sell there for a nice profit as I’d knew I’d be going home to absolutely nothing. I needed to get hold of blank plain t-shirts and on visiting a surf shop asking where to get them promptly got offered a job to design t-shirts! I had merely mentioned that I drew cartoon style illustrations - they liked what I showed them and I ended up staying another 2 months in Penang.

That is one example of the universe delivering for me, I have many others. Whilst in Penang I read every chapter of a book called ‘Talk and Grow Rich‘ by Ron Holland, an obvious play on Napolean Hill’s classic, which had a profound effect on me and changed my entire outlook on life. Ron Holland had used the power of the ahem..’universe’, the spoken word (persuasion) and the power of the subconcious to become a very successful entrepeneur.

I feel I have almost forgotten what I had learned in those years and these recent reads have brought back that invincible powerful feeling I experienced during my twenties. Right now I am feeling very much back on track and was interested to hear about a bloke on a recent TV programme who made up a powerpoint presentation of his major goals and desires, no matter how big - grand homes, thriving businesses, an international jet-set lifestyle. Today, that man is a multi-millionaire and he still uses this technique for his new targets and goals to visualise nad enforce them into his subconcious.

I am now in the process of creating my own powerpoint presentation, using imagery of places, things and goals that I really want. Check out the books to see what I’m on about and I’ll review plenty more soon.

Look forward to your comments!