Get Started In Affiliate Marketing

I've learned a heck of a lot about online marketing without any cost. When I first started, I couldn't do that, but now I am a master. Most newbies don't know that they can actually find a high quality free course about how to start an Internet business.

As I've transitioned my business from primarily retail to earning the bulk of my income from affiliate marketing, I've discovered how much I spent in those early months and years on products that turned out to be worth very little, when there is a great deal of free information concerning how to start affiliate marketing without any cost at all. And that free information is much more valuable than almost any of the magic bullet product I bought.

I was reminded of all of that this morning. I received an email from Anik Singal, one of my own gurus. Singal is about to release his flagship, college level, newly overhauled affiliate learning resource, Affiliate Classroom 2. This morning he released a new report that exemplifies how the best will often share what they know, and all you have to do is ask for it.

This zero cost report, which is for affiliate marketing businesses is only 55 pages, but those pages are packed with "read and apply" tips that are of value even to old hands like me. I'm not sure that I'm supposed to reveal too many of the details, but I'm going to pass along some details, anyway.

Singal's teaching method in this report is a case study approach. He tears apart three typical affiliate marketing websites: an opt-in, a blog and a review site. Unfortunately these sites all shared a common problem--common to them and common to a lot of affiliate businesses--they weren't making as much money as they should be.

Singal allows us to sort of look over his shoulder as he examines each site, identifies major problems and then makes critical suggestions for specific improvements. Despite my years of experience and my relative success as an affiliate marketer, I found a lot of his recommendations could be applied to some of my own sites. And, as soon as I'm finished writing this, I'm off to change a few things about my own already profitable sites.

I suspect that once the soon to launch Affiliate Classroom 2 sells out, he will take down the report. I don't expect selling out is going to take very long. If he does remove it, I'll share a few of his specific insights at a later time.

You may be interested in knowing that Anik Singal was recently named one of Business Week Magazine's four "young entrepreneurs of 2008." Not a bad recommendation for a mentor, is it?