The Two Secrets To Bum Marketing
What most people don't understand is that you don't have to get everything right all the time with bum marketing. You don't have to be right all the time, you don't have to be perfect all the time, you don't
have to be the greatest marketer of all time to make bum marketing work for you.
That's the great thing.
You can be a complete beginner to bum marketing and Internet marketing and still make more money then many of the so called guru's. This is why I'm such a fan of bum marketing and why I have
gotten my family and friends onto bum marketing.
The first secret to bum marketing is.... Super Fast Writing
It sounds simple I know. But how many of you sit there and take 4 hours to write one article? You can't do that. You need to churn out 5 articles an hour, at least. Don't sit there and go "I can't do that". Because you can. I can write 5 articles an hour and still have time to play 15 minutes of Call of Duty on WII. Speed is essential when it comes to bum marketing. Your articles don't have to be great. They can't be utter
rubbish, but they don't have to be masterpieces of Pulitzer prize award stature.
Don't sit there and think about the article for 10 minutes before writing it. Just start writing. It doesn't matter what topic it is, just start writing.The only source I use for research is Ezinearticles.com. What I do is get the list of keywords I want to write articles for and then go to Ezinearticles.com and search the articles for topics similar to mine.
This is what you should be doing every week. Follow this action plan every week and you will be well on your way to earning $150 a day within a month.
Step 1 - Find 5 products to promote
You will need to find 5 decent products to promote that fit the criteria I talked above. Clickbank.com is a good start to find products to promote. There are new products being added daily.Make sure they pay you enough for your time. Don't promote a product that pays you peanuts. It's not worth it especially if their are
more products out there that pay you better.
Do you want instant cash paid via Paypal?
If I want instant cash, I go to Paydotcom.com and find products to promote. I then email the product owners and tell them I am going to promote their products, ONLY if they pay me instantly as soon as I get a sale.
With Paydotcom.com the owner of the product gets paid instantly via Paypal and they can also pay their affiliates instantly.
Another great idea for the bum marketing method which not many bums are doing is promote residual income affiliate programs.IE, affiliate programs that pay you every month, like web hosting. I love residual income affiliate programs. Promoting a product once and getting paid for as long as that customer stays a customer.
For example. If you promote a web hosting company and make a sale, you will make that same amount of money every month for as long as that customer stays with that web hosting service.
Residual income affiliate programs are the wave of the future.
If you want a list of some good affiliate programs that pay this way go to
http://www.lifetimecommissions.com
This is a website directory full of residual income affiliate programs.
Step 2 - Find at least 30 keywords for each product
If you want to find more keywords, even better, but start with 30 first to see if the product will be worth it. There is nothing worse then writing 50 to 100 articles to promote a product and then realized the product doesn't covert to sales.
This is very frustrating and it is going to happen on occasion, that's life. Some products will convert better then others.But the very minimum articles I write for a specific product is 30. If I write 30 articles and I make very little sales, then I know not to keep going.
The great thing about bum marketing is it's a perfect way to test if products are winners for free while making money. If a product is a winner, there is nothing stopping you from advertising with Google Adwords and Ezine advertising.
I know all the top bum marketers write at least 30 articles for each product they promote. I know this because I write for them and myself and this is what works for us.
Step 3 - Write the articles for your keywords
Now is the time to write your articles.
I've given you many tips above to make this easier and more profitable for you. If you wanted to outsource the article writing you could do that as well. There are places that write articles for as little as $6.
If you go to forums.digitalpoint.com and signup to that forum, and go to the services for sale section, you will find many, many people offering article writing services for as little as 2 or 3 dollars a pop.
Never pay upfront. Pay after the articles are completed.
Write the articles quickly. Give them an action plan to use, top it off with an interesting article byline and you will make sales.
Step 4 - Create your landing pages and submit your articles
Ezinearticles.com will no doubt in the future change the rules for what is acceptable as the landing page people click on in your article byline. In the future Ezinearticles.com will probably not allow you to redirect their readers straight to a signup form for an optin email list. They probably won't even let you send readers straight to a sales letter or affiliate page via redirect.
I've found to work even better then a simple presell page or an optin page is to incorporate content around the landing page.For example, you would have the reader directed to a page on your
website, something like....
http://www.yourwebsitehere.com/worldofwarcraft/index.html
This page would be a simple presell page. But instead of just having one page site visitors can click on and either sign up to your free optin list or click straight over to the affiliate website, on the side of the page in the navigation area, you would put links to other articles you've written.This makes your website more of a content/resource website. This will please your website visitors and Ezinearticles.com.
As you know, Ezinearticles.com is cracking down on landing pages and they no longer allow USfreeads.com.
Also, this gives you more chances to make sales as well. When a reader can see that there is more content to read on the topic, they will read those articles as well and get even more excited about
the product you are promoting.
This is preselling at it's best. A lot of people really hate giving away their email address straight away just to get more information, so give it to them for free again and again and again and again, and they will eventually WANT to give you their email address.
Once you have created your landing page, submit your articles MANUALLY to Ezinearticles.com and Goarticles.com. Those are the only article directories I use.
Step 5 - Double up on your keywords
By now you should have written 150 articles and submitted them to the relevant article directories. If after a few weeks, you find a certain product is doing really well, double up. Like I explained before, create a second Ezinearticles.com account and write the same articles again under this different persons account.
Also go and look for other keywords you can write articles on. Milk it for all it's worth.
Do all of this for 4 weeks straight and if you are not seeing $150 or more a day in your Clickbank account I will eat my Russian fur hat.
Have You Thought About Buying Your Own Article Directory Site?
This is for the more technically minded bum marketer who wants to take his or her bum marketing to the next level. I don't know about you but I'm getting sick of Ezinearticles.com's rules and regulations.
I'm not one to sit around and whinge though, it's their site and they can do as they wish with it, but I'm going to find another solution.What I am doing right now is this.
I'm at forums.digitalpoint.com and I'm looking on their forum to buy a website with a PR rating for Google of 7+. I'm looking for one to buy. I've seen a few already. They range from anywhere between $300 and
$3000.
What I'm going to do is buy a PR 7 website and setup my own article directory on it. As you know, Ezinearticles.com is a PR 7 website and that is why it gets such good rankings in Google so quickly.
But there is nothing stopping anyone out there from buying a site with a genuine PR 7 rating and turning it into an article directory site. Then you can submit all your articles to this site that has a PR 7 rating and
not have to worry about rules and regulations as it would be your website.
This is something I will be doing and investing in and I know a few other bum marketers I told this idea to are thinking about it.Imagine owning your own Ezinearticles.com article directory, except you play by your rules and you can submit whatever the heck you like. You don't even have to accept other people's articles you could just use your own.