Pick Anik Singal's Brain for Zero Cost
I’ve learned a heck of a lot about online marketing without any cost. When I first started, I couldn’t do that, but now I am a master. I used to be like most newcomers to Internet marketing who don’t even know how to find a free course about starting an online business.
Over the years, I’ve gradually shifted my business model from retailing (which I still do) to affiliate marketing. I realize that in much of that time period I wasted a lot of money. Now (a little late) I know that there are placed where there are valuable resources about how to become an affiliate marketer available without cost. If you know where to look and who to trust, that free information has proven to be much more useful than any of the products I bought that promised secret information that would insure my business’s success.
I was reminded of all of that this morning. I received an email from Anik Singal, one of my own gurus. Singal is about to release his flagship, college level, newly overhauled affiliate learning resource, Affiliate Classroom 2. This morning he released a new report that exemplifies how the best will often share what they know, and all you have to do is ask for it.
The zero cost report, which is for affiliate marketing businesses is crunched into a mere 55 pages, however, even for someone as experienced as I am, these tips are valuable reminders. I’m going to share a few of the details of the report, even though I’m not sure that I’m supposed to.
Singal’s teaching method in this report is a case study approach. He tears apart three typical affiliate marketing websites: an opt-in, a blog and a review site. Each of these sites had one major problem. They weren’t earning any money (or not enough). Sound familiar?
In the report, Singal breaks apart each of the sites for the owners (and for us) and makes specific, actionable recommendations for turning them into money machines–okay, not million dollar a month money machines but at least profitable business websites. Despite my years of experience and my relative success as an affiliate marketer, I found a lot of his recommendations could be applied to some of my own sites. And, as soon as I’m finished writing this, I’m off to change a few things about my own already profitable sites.
In case you don’t know who Anik Singal is, you definitely should. He was recently named one of Business Week Magazine’s four “young entrepreneurs of 2008.”
By the way, I’m not sure how long he’ll leave this report online. I suspect that once the soon to launch Affiliate Classroom 2 sells out, he will take down the report. If he does, I’ll share a few of his insights in a later article.













