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Sometimes in affiliate marketing, you'll stumble upon a great way to make money online. What many people do is they copy the idea and proceed with either making a decent amount or fail completely.
As a creative marketer, your job is to not only be able to spot great ideas, but to capitalize on them by making them your own. What I mean by this is to not only use other creative ideas but expand upon them further and come up with new methods and optimization techniques. Doing so, puts you ahead of the game and sets you up as an authority in that particular niche.
I have a friends who literally own niches. What I mean by this is that they are one of the top performers in particular niches. The way they got their was by being different, applying techniques they adopted for their own use, and being creative... Not just someone who does nothing but copy and replicate.
To be a big time affiliate, you have to be able to train your mind to not only see creative / innovative ideas, but to capitalize on them using your own creative twists.
It's one of those things that really comes with time. The more I am in the business, the more I recognize ideas that will actually make decent money.
Your creativity does just mean having a super awesome page. It can also mean coming up with creative traffic sources or even creative scripting.
That being said, let's get creative!
I am trying to attack some small niches to build my business and hopefully get into the big ones.
Do you have any specific suggestions that you no longer used as an example of such creativity?
Adapting ideas is one of the key creative strategies–in my book, “Do Something Different,” (Virgin Books, foreword by Sir Richard Branson) I collected 100 case studies of inexpensive and creative marketing methods that you can adapt to your own product or service.
So products like ‘google cash detective’ is not a good idea, because it motivate you to copy someone else success and if you are not the only one that discover the ‘money path’ (ad -> keyword->landing page) this ‘money path’ will be destroy by bid war.
Nice Post
Its not a bad idea to benchmark other successes but one should use his head too.!
This is what I call intelligent benchmarking.