{"id":1324,"date":"2010-08-17T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2023-04-17T16:12:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T00:12:18","slug":"how-to-win-in-a-big-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/17\/how-to-win-in-a-big-market\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Win in a BIG Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/17\/how-to-win-in-a-big-market\/&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=1&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;font=\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:25px\"><\/iframe><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fheathervale.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F08%2F17%2Fhow-to-win-in-a-big-market%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><p>We talked the other day about &#8220;old-school&#8221; affiliate marketing, and why it doesn&#8217;t work anymore.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For example, if you&#8217;re paying for traffic the old way, and you want to compete in BIG markets, you also need a BIG budget.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With Google AdWords, you could easily pay $3 to $5 a click&#8230; or even up to 10 bucks &#8212; just for a simple click &#8212; if the market is really competitive.<\/p>\n<p>Ouch! You better have a damned good landing page if you&#8217;re paying that much, or you can go broke&#8230; fast (and many marketers have).<\/p>\n<p><strong>But here&#8217;s some good news<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Today Mike Filsaime released <a href=\"http:\/\/adjix.com\/zrn6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another free video<\/a> on Affiliate Marketing 2.0&#8230; that&#8217;s the NEW way of doing it effectively.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It&#8217;s a case study where you&#8217;ll see an actual campaign, promoting one of the hottest video games on the market.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not a gamer (and I have to admit I&#8217;m not), you should know that&#8217;s a HUGELY competitive market to go for.<\/p>\n<p>But Mike took one day, spent less than 9 cents a click, and walked away with success:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A fresh list of new email subscribers, AND a nice profit for a product he doesn&#8217;t even own.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s all with no testing or optimizing of the campaign whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine what you could do if you spent a little more time on it!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah&#8230; and Mike invites you to rip off the exact campaign if you like.<\/p>\n<p>If free traffic is more your taste, the next video will deal with that. 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