Sunday, July 11, 2010

AffiloJetpack Review

AffiloJetpack is the newest affiliate marketing product created by
Mark Ling.

Mark Ling is widely respected in the internet marketing community
for his direct, no-hype approach to teaching affiliate marketing.
His previous products have been the highly-praised step-by-step
AffiloBlueprint course (aimed squarely at beginner affiliates), while
his Affilorama Premium product continues to draw more advanced
subscribers to its monthly tools/tips/hosting package.

At first glance, AffiloJetpack may seem confusing...

On one hand it looks to be targeted at complete newcomers to
affiliate marketing, but on the other hand it seems to be pressing
hot-buttons for more experienced affiliates.

For people who are completely new to internet marketing, Mark
has identified a number of hurdles that stand between the average
Joe Newbie and affiliate riches, and he seems intent on smashing
every one of them.

The first hurdle that he says trips people up is in choosing a niche
to target. I can't disagree with that. I've seen affiliates spend weeks
deliberating over a niche. So for AffiloJetpack to come along with
TEN niches hand-picked by Mark Ling himself and PROVEN to be
winners... well, that's certainly going to help some newbies out.

The second hurdle Mark identifies is in the actual building of a
website, so he's put together his very own Wordpress theme
designed to make it easy for even the most inexperienced web
designer to tweak the layout and design of their site. It includes
some other nifty functionality that only someone experienced in
building affiliate sites would think of, such as a squeeze page
generator that lets you use Mark's most successful squeeze page
layouts in your own promotions. Very nice!

The theme also reflects Mark's extensive background in tutoring
inexperienced affiliates... he's added things like image uploaders
so that users don't have to master an FTP program to get their
header or background images online.

I have to say, this theme is the perfect choice for web novices.
And with AffiloJetpack, Mark has also thrown in free hosting with
what they've called "Incubator Hosting". I know from experience
that it can take quite a few steps to install Wordpress and a great
theme on a hosting provider. Each step is something that can go
wrong. So I really think a lot of newbies are going to appreciate this
one-click setup.

On top of all this comes the content: Twenty articles of very high
quality that you can either just plug into the site as-is, or re-word
to get full SEO benefit.

So that's pretty much a kitset website: Everything you need to build
an affiliate site in a very short space of time. It's a great start for
newcomers to affiliate marketing who just want to get something up
on the web quickly, without the long learning curve.

But here's where it gets more advanced.

Whereas I would have considered all this content and functionality to
be an o.k. product on it's own... Mark says this is just the beginning.
In other words, this isn't even the main show.

The main show is what comes next: A 80-part autoresponder series
that you can plug into a service like Aweber and use to start collecting
email addresses and building a relationship with people who sign up.

Mark says that the thing that disappoints him the most is when affiliates
don't add an autoresponder series to their websites, because this is the
thing that will earn them the most money.

And I admit... I've been guilty of that myself. Sometimes you just want
to see a site making money before you invest even MORE money in
building a follow-up series. Or sometimes you're just so exhausted by
the time you finish putting your site together that this goes on the back
burner.

An autoresponder seems more like "extra credit" for an affiliate site,
but Mark is adamant that it should be the main focus. To the extent
that you might not even promote affiliate products on your website
at all!

So this autoresponder series comes with about 65 "informational"
emails, and about another 15 "hard sell" emails written by Mark
himself. He also tells you WHEN you should be sending these out to
get the best response from your list, since just emailing someone
once a week in the first month or two isn't really going to cut it.

I was quite surprised at the quality of these emails... they're far
beyond any PLR quality. You could even put these on your website
if you wanted an extra 60+ articles! They're the kind of thing that's
going to get people on your list trusting your opinion... at which point
you can promote products to them and watch the commissions roll in.

One other aspect that made me think that this maybe isn't purely
aimed at newbies is Mark's view that while SEO is low-risk, the
bigger risk that newbies face is that they're not going to see results
quickly enough, and they'll give up.

Because of that, as part of AffiloJetpack he's also offering training on
a variety of other traffic generation methods. You can still do SEO...
but he's saying that if you want to see fast results (and faster cash)
you should look at these other methods.

The Final Verdict:
AffiloJetpack is great for newbies who can't get past the nitty gritty
of building a site. It really makes the whole process laughably easy
compared to the weeks or months it might take a newbie to put
together a site on their own.

More experienced affiliates are probably going to see the real benefit
in the huge amount of high-quality content that Mark has put together.
Even to put together ONE newsletter series of this quality is going to
cost you at least double the cost of this entire product. And with
AffiloJetpack you get FIVE of these niches and newsletter series',
so to my budget-conscious ears, that's ridiculously good value.

Whatever way you look at it, and whatever level of experience you
have, this product is a winner. Even if you don't want to follow Mark's
strategies... do yourself a favour and grab it just for the content.

I highly recommend Mark's AffiloJetpack.

Related Posts:
AffiloJetpack Course Component Breakdown
Building a Passive Income Stream with AffiloJetpack

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