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As promised, here is the new e-book for all those people who want to get started affiliate marketing. This is the first version, so if you find any errors or have any suggestions, please let me know.

I tried to be thorough without being too verbose, so hopefully that's how it comes off. I made sure to keep it to just ten chapters.

Hope you like it.

Thanks,
Scott

This Friday -- March 8th, 2008 -- I'm going to release my latest creation as a dessert item on the blog.  It's my guide to getting started with affiliate marketing and it will be FREE.

I started writing the guide when I realized people were coming to the blog and asking the same questions I created the blog to answer! So the e-book will be an introduction to affiliate marketing, featuring some of the posts you'd find here, as well as a sort of introduction to this blog and all it has to offer.

As always, my intention is to put out information for free that you'd normally have to pay for. This e-book will be no exception to the rule. Just like I normally do, I'm just going to put my referral links in the book and hope people enjoy it enough to pass it along and I'll consider that payment enough.

So definitely keep an eye out. For all those getting started with affiliate marketing, this should give you a decent advantage in the game. I'm writing it just like I like to read things.

I've been working a lot this weekend and as such, I've come across some pretty great things so I thought I'd tell you about two of them.

High Performance Affiliate Marketing

One of them I came across while reading my buddy Jon's blog. It's called High Performance Affiliate Marketing and it's a free, extremely thorough guide on affiliate marketing from getting started to making it big. We're talking over $100,000 per month big. The guy who wrote the guide made over $1.7 million last year and is set to make even more this year.

I definitely recommend the guide. I haven't finished reading it yet, but for something free, what I've read so far is valuable so go get yourself a copy (click here).

10 Ways To Increase Adwords Quality Score

Part of running a blog like this is finding information that is lost in the jungle we call the interweb. I found this link while perusing a few search results and it's helped me to increase my quality score on Adwords already. This sounds like an infomercial but it's true.

As we all know, the key to paying less per click on Adwords for the same position is getting a higher quality score. Sometimes, the way to getting a lower QS isn't a clear-cut path and it's actually pretty difficult to do.

If you're having difficulty, definitely give this post from RedFly Marketing called 10 Ways To Increase Adwords Quality Score. It was written in March of last year but the rules still apply today. No, there are no short-cuts per se, but it will definitely give you a better idea of how you can create a better quality website and adset so that Google will "like" your campaign enough to increase your quality score (hopefully). So far, it's worked for me and that spells profit, baby.

And profit is king.

Scott

If you hadn't guessed already, I like reading. I spend a good deal of time at Borders and Barnes & Noble just browsing through the Marketing, Business and Computer section (also known as the nerd section). While I was browsing through the Marketing section, I happened upon this little jewel by Anthony Borelli and Greg Holden called Affiliate Millions.

Much like the last book I reviewed, Moonlighting On The Internet, this book is all about Affiliate Marketing (as you might have guessed from the title). The major difference is that this book is completely geared toward the newbie. In fact, the authors divulge full knowledge about various campaigns, so much so that I'm going to try out a couple myself just to see how well they do. Hey-- you can never have enough nodding donkeys working for you, right?

The book starts out with the main author describing his average day where he rolls out of bed and checks stats (like any of us), only his best month so far has been around $250k. While this is a day in the life of Uber Affiliate, most of us are still amazed at anything close to $10k on a consistent daily basis.

From the beginning, affiliate marketing is defined and explained in detail. Then the author breaks down search marketing and why it's important (essentially the information you find at ATB but with pictures!). There are also chapters on what to look for in a product/offer you'd like to sell and how to research keywords for that product.

My favorite part of this book is the math section. The author busts out with several formulas for determining how profitable a campaign is based on actual numbers vs. estimations, which is what gets a lot of affiliate marketers in trouble when they're just starting out.

If you are new to affiliate marketing and you want to get a jump start on it, I highly recommend you buy a copy of this book and read it three times or more.

You'll be glad you did.

If you're just getting started with making money online, you're probably feeling a bit overwhelmed with all of the nonsense floating around the internet. Sure, there are hundreds of different ways that people claim you can make money, from reading emails, surfing the web for cash, or even taking surveys.

The truth is, these ways might make you some money but they won't give you a second decent income. What The Affiliate Toolbox is all about is helping people to start their affiliate marketing business and the reason for that is because it's the best kind of business. One word: autopilot.

What other business features ALL the following?

• Large volume
• No inventory
• No employees
• Residual Income
• Never Sleeps (On 24x7)
• High profit margins
• Low Startup Costs
• Low Maintenance
• No need for high technical skills
• No need to involve friends & family
• Can become your main business
• Can help your other business ventures

You get the idea. Internet marketing allows you to create a strong business that you can manage from anywhere in the world. That's exactly the idea behind this book.

In Moonlighting On The Internet, Yanik Silver describes how he's making money as well as how his students are making money as well as their different backgrounds. What's great is that most of them have no technical skills and they're good at one or two things, allowing them to create informational products they can sell. Others market products for companies (affiliate marketing) and some run informational websites.

Overall, this book is outstanding for newcomers. Much like this blog, it contains crucial information to starting out in the industry. There are still billions of dollars to be made.

Why not take your fair share?

While we're on the topic of books, I just wanted to point out yet another great read you should get your hands on. My brother-in-law gave it to me as a gift and I'm still in the middle of reading it, but what I've learned so far goes extremely well with affiliate marketing.

Regardless of the content, it's pretty sweet that the chapters are organized into alphabetical order. But the content itself is pretty tops, too. Each chapter is essentially a short, real-world example of why small is the new big. And by 'small', Godin is referring to acting small and the benefits that go along with doing so.

For instance, smaller companies can easily adapt to market fluctuations and put more TLC into their products than larger companies do. Larger companies are usually run by accountants who have a very myopic goal in mind: make money. Not that it's a horrible goal, but the way larger companies are forced to go about getting that money removes the detail and finesse that smaller companies can put into their products. I won't even go into customer support, but you get the picture.

I definitely recommend you read anything by Seth Godin. After this book, I'm going to read "The Dip." I hear it's pretty decent. Incidentally, if you want to learn more about Seth, you can read his blog here.