I had a chance to speak with some other very successful super affiliates. I talked to one guy who was running 500 affiliate offers at one time, making $20-$50\/day from each one. WOW!<\/em><\/p>\nIs fairly typical of a number of Super Affiliates I’ve worked together with.<\/p>\n
But the one limiting factor, especially if you’re not already doing this regularly is:<\/p>\n
How do you generate original and more importantly “sticky” content.<\/p>\n
Tim notes in the comments to Amit’s post:<\/p>\n
Thanks for addressing the issue of content creation. I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2m curious to know where you are finding writers who work for $5 a page. Most of the eLance article writers I have seen who actually have a good command of English and write well charge a lot more than $5 a page. Maybe I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2m not negotiating enough.<\/em><\/p>\nIt would be great if you could share your \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cinsider strategies\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d on quality content control and selecting the right people to outsource to. I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve found some great people on eLance, but they\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2re not insanely cheap not do I want to insult them by nickel-and-diming them down to nothing. I think what Amit has said is that if you find someone good, expect to pay them well because they\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2re in pretty high demand.<\/em><\/p>\n–<\/p>\n
The reality is that you will get what you pay for. Proven<\/strong> quality costs.<\/p>\nA workaround is to find new guys on sites like elance, workaholics or rent a coder, who’ve yet to establish themselves and might be willing to do quality work on the cheap in order to build some positive feedback.<\/p>\n
If you’re going along this approach, you might like to farm out a batch of 3 articles, and solicit 10-20 freelancers to work on your project. You could then do a ‘survivor’ style elimination and work with your favorite 2-3 writers.<\/p>\n
The important thing to note is that you need to spend time scanning and headhunting quality. You might be really lucky and have a talented freelancer fall into your lap, but it’s not likely to happen.<\/p>\n
In terms of negotiating a good rate, as a business consultant I look at three dimensions when working with a new prospect:<\/p>\n
\n- What’s the level of trust\/engagement?<\/li>\n
- What’re the long term prospects?<\/li>\n
- Am I merely a contractor or could I potentially be a “partner in profits”?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Addressing the trust\/engagement issue, you need to establish rapport with your writer, make them feel comfortable. It’s just like any real-world, face-to-face relationship. If you feel secure with the person, the relationship will flow very smoothly.<\/p>\n
You could demonstrate your commitment and explore the long term prospects by:<\/p>\n
\n- Making an upfront payment for the job<\/li>\n
- Making a long term commitment (contracting 500 pages of content over a 6 month period)<\/li>\n
- Banking on your credibility (You’ve established yourself as an authority and as a credible person within your industry, haven’t you?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Although it’s an online work relationship, many of the dynamics of physical relationships come into play.<\/p>\n
You might’ve heard of several successful Internet Marketing partnerships where 2 guys met on a forum, decided to work on a project together, and ended up as partners. You might also have heard of an Internet Marketer who advertised for a programmer on Monster\/Craigslist\/LinkedIn\/a forum, got someone to work on a couple of projects, found a good fit and eventually ended up as partners.<\/p>\n
A number of the joint ventures I’m working on have also originated from forums. Whatever you might think, Internet Marketing is still a people\/relationship business and at the end of the day, it’s not merely what<\/strong> you know, and who<\/strong> you know, it’s also a matter of how well <\/strong>you know them.<\/p>\nA cynic once told me, it’s not who you know, it’s who knows you<\/u>.<\/p>\n
There’s an element of truth in that, and keeping that phrase in mind, will help you go far in this business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An interesting discussion arose over at PPC Super Affiliate Amit Mehta’s blog: Is it easy to create content, which ultimately drives traffic and generates profits, at an attractive price? Amit and I are in obvious agreement that niche sites can be very profitable. As Amit notes: Yes, $1k-$2k\/month is fairly typical for the amount of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[86],"tags":[791,816,1810,1766,821],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}