If you have thought about the possibility of starting your own online storefront which delivers tangible products, but have been put off by the prospect of having to maintain inventory, then the strategy devised by super affiliates Steve Clayton and Tim Godfrey may provide just the opportunity you have been seeking.
Let me say straight up that if anyone other than Steve Clayton and Tim Godfrey was attempting to get my attention with promises of niche domination using what sounds like eBay-seller type storefronts, I'd not be interested in listening to their proposition.
However, this pair happen to be amazing internet marketers, as you'll see in just a moment.
Steve and Tim are better known for their 2008 product, known as Commission Blueprint, in which they exposed their enormously successful affiliate marketing methods for promoting ClickBank products through PPC advertising.
In fact, one of their campaigns repeated earned around $100,000 per month in commissions, with an ad spend that cost perhaps a fifth of that. If that sounds remarkable, it should. Especially as they were able to do so selling scores of non-internet marketing related products, like acne solutions, and schemes to fuel your car with water (apparently people will buy this kind of nonsense!).
So Steve Clayton and Tim Godfrey know what it takes to sell stuff. It's just what they are good at. They have put in the time, learned from their experience, and these days they are happy to make some extra money explaining what it is that they do so well. I am sure that it also does wonders for the ego, but if the end result is a better understanding for me as to how to sell efficiently, then that's all I care about. I am sure the same is true for you.
You're probably wondering how these guys got to be experts, right?
Well, Steve Clayton has a technical background, having labored for two decades in, as he describes it, "Corporate America". But he got out in 2003 after deciding that what he wanted to do was create his own lifestyle independent of anyone else. Well, he almost achieved his goal, but as fortune would have it, he met Tim Godfrey and the pair struck up a partnership that has worked out very well for the both of them. Tim has spent a lot of time experimenting with all the many ways that affiliates can make money online, including having created his own affiliate marketing products. He seems to be happy being the backend component of this dynamic duo, while Steve appears in the videos and gets his face out in front of clients.
Their first creation for 2009 is called the Niche Blueprint. Unlike their first joint product, which focused on how to sell digital goods, this time around they are providing instruction on how to be hugely successful at selling physical goods.
As examples of this, they say they have made hundreds of thousands of dollars targeting obscure niches like bird cages, sewing machines, and even train horns. Train horns? You will almost certainly be surprised to discover that people pay up to $1000 or more to put powerful train horns on their cars. Who knows why! But if there is a market for it, and the profit potential is good, then it is clearly something that should peak the interest of any serious affiliate marketer.
Now, I have promoted tangible goods in the past (and even presently) and I know that the commissions on these are generally very low. For instance, the top commission rate you can get promoting an item through Amazon.com is about 8 percent. Steve and Tim know this too. So instead of simply making their commissions through referred sales, they have come up with a scheme for procuring the goods wholesale, and then drop shipping the products through an inexpensive service. That way, they can set the prices of the merchandise and make more that the standard affiliate commissions. In effect, they have become sellers.
In principle, it sounds great, but what about the storefront? How do you go about finding suppliers of the products that you want to sell through the online store? And what about the drop shipping end of it (which allows you to avoid stocking any inventory)?
Well, Steve and Tim decided to set up their own drop shipping business so that they could cut out the middle-man. When their members buy the Niche Blueprint, which you can learn more about in my Niche Blueprint review, they get a free non-expiring subscription to the service.
They also are given all of the software needed to set up their online store, plus loads of video tutorials and PDF manuals that explain how to do everything. Again, if it was anyone other than this pair of characters offering the product, I would probably not pay too much attention. But these guys are simply just too good at their game to ignore.
So if you think you might like to leverage their success, have a closer look at the Niche Blueprint. But I must warn you that Steve and Tim rarely take new clients for this product, so if you see that they have opened up their membership queue, realize that it will only be temporary. I have also decided to make it easier for people to decide to sign up for the Niche Blueprint. I am offering a substantial bonus in the form of companion software which can be used to create lead-in pages for your store. You can see the offer on my review page for the Niche Blueprint.
Stephen Carter is a web developer and internet marketer. His Niche Blueprint critique page at http://www.niche-blueprint-review-bonus.com/ is an attempt to let others know about an excellent opportunity for affiliates to turn their hand to the promotion of physical goods. There is also a sizable bonus software offered for affiliates who decide to try out the Niche Blueprint.
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