Have you heard of video site maps? How about using them in conjunction with your affiliate marketing? There’s a good chance you may have heard of them, but, very few people actually know how to benefit from them. Over the course of the next few posts, you will learn an EXTREMELY powerful way to stand out in front of the crowd in the search engines.

Here is a link so you can sign up for Google Webmaster Tools today. In the next few lessons we’ll be covering the whole process of doing affiliate marketing with video site maps in more detail.

Until then…all the best:)

Finding An End To The Hype?

Recently, I received an email from a subscriber who had written in apologizing that he was going to unsubscribe from my newsletter. It’s certainly not everyday that you receive a letter from somebody actually apologizing for doing that. In the letter, he explained that he wanted to express that it wasn’t anything personal, just that he was getting so many emails from so many different marketers (somewhere around 500 per day) that he simply felt he had to cut them all off, as he was suffering from so much information overload he just couldn’t take it anymore.

I completely understood what he was saying. I wrote him back, and thanked him for writing in to me, and for taking the time to do that. I also explained to him, that I completely understood what he was feeling, as I’d went through the exact same thing myself at times. I told him that I actually urge people to unsubscribe from mailing lists all the time, even my own if need be. I also explained that personally, I had unsubscribed from hundreds of them myself, and only remained a member of the peoples lists, who I feel are still helping me to become a better marketer myself.

Recently, I have spoke to a few of my close friends in marketing about how I would like to be a lot less involved with the IM niche, by the end of the year. For some that do know me fairly well, I’ve expressed this desire quite a few times now. But, also, at the same time, I wasn’t quite in the position to walk away from it just yet. The reason being, that it does make up for a fair chunk of the profits that I do make online, to fund my business in other areas. It helps to fund things like link building services, certain memberships I need to be a part of for growing my business, and that sort of thing. And well, also of course, the funds I need to support living in general.

While I do believe it’s important for people to be involved in the IM niche to some degree, as it really helps with branding, and building positive relationships with others of whom you are trying to help become successful themselves…it would really be nice to be less reliant on that side of the business.

Some people reading this may be asking the question…Why? As I do know that some marketers are only building their list in this niche, and not trying to focus efforts anywhere else.

It is a good question, and at least from my perspective here is my reasoning…

One of the huge pitfalls I find with being an affiliate marketer in the IM niche, is actually being able to find and promote quality products that aren’t all filled with hype. If you are a marketer that is trying to get away from the hype associated with marketing, unfortunately, it’s a bit of a task in the IM niche.

Yes, there are some products out there, that are straight up with people, and extremely helpful without the hype associated, but, these days it’s almost becoming a rarity.

So many marketers, who release new products have been trained over the last few years to use tactics that perhaps do improve conversions with sales, but, it is almost saddening that the hype has been taken to such a level that marketers feel they need to rely on it, just so they can make sales. In fact, sometimes, I sometimes think that it cheapens people’s view of the products.

While, I have always done my best to review products as much as I can before recommending them to subscribers, and other people…there still comes the problem with many of the sales pages provided by vendors in which we drive traffic to the offer. The problem is, that although, certain products are very, very, good and helpful, as soon as you send people to the sales page…there they are once again…at a hype filled sales page!

Of course, if you are promoting that product as an affiliate, then it also gives the impression that you (yourself) may be labeled as a hype filled marketer yourself, which personally is not the path I want to be heading in.

I’d like to get your opinion on this as well. Are there people out there who also feel that it’s getting very tough to be an affiliate marketer in the IM niche, while trying to keep things hype free as well?

Please let me know…

Who Is Davin Ogden?

Davin Ogden is a former full time musician who drastically changed his life when he went back to college to become a certified computer systems engineer. He’d had enough of playing drums with bands in the drunken smoke filled bar rooms and wanted to make a very positive change in his life. Once he discovered how computers were obviously going to be shaping the future he got heavily involved in the changes occurring around him. He also discovered and became extremely passionate about Internet Marketing.

Since 2007, Davin learned how to build prospect lists into the thousands very quickly, and it allowed him to become fairly successful quickly with affiliate marketing. He also released some of his own products into the Internet Marketing arena. On one joint project in particular Davin built himself a brand new prospect list from scratch amounting to over 12,500 in under 30 days time.

Over time through Internet Marketing he began to get to know many other very successful marketers. Some were his earliest of mentors, who he later went on to performing affiliate management and j/v management details of their businesses for them. He continues to work with his good friend and business partner Holly Mann on occasion. He’s also worked for Tim Brocklehurst on a steady basis in the past, and has done j/v arrangements with Fabian Tan, Tuks Engineer, Alvin Phang, Guido Nussbaum, Stephanie Mulac, Todd Gross, Dave Offen, and many, many more amazing marketers. Currently he is employed as an affiliate manager with Paul Lynch of the Cambridge Business Academy.

In 2009 Davin was asked to be interviewed and be a featured expert for Dan Kennedy’s “Future of Information Marketing” product. It was a huge privilege being asked as he was featured along with other experts like Ewen Chia, Mike Filsaime, Rosalyn Gardner, Alok Jain, Mark Varnum, Carrie Wilkerson, Alex Goad, and many more. He was also asked to be an expert inside of Tahir Shah’s Easily Answered.com membership site along with many other featured experts like Michelle McPherson, Holly Mann, Kevin Riley, Willie Crawford, Charles Heflin, Andrew Hansen, and more.

Davin has proven that running your online business with perseverance, honesty, and integrity will undoubtedly lead to success. Affiliate marketing is the online business approach that he enjoys best, and his knowledge of this topic is vast.

His no BS, honest, and helpful business approach has been recognized by many experts, and also thousands of people and followers across the Internet, and continues to grow daily!