AFFILO JET INFO

At first glance, it’s hard to know who Mark Ling is aiming his new AffiloJetpack product at.

Mark is widely respected in the internet marketing industry for his direct, no-hype approach to teaching affiliate marketing. His previous products have been the highly-praised step-by-step AffiloBlueprint course (aimed squarely at beginner affiliates), while his Affilorama Premium product continues to draw more advanced subscribers to its monthly tools/tips/hosting package.

But I’m confused about AffiloJetpack.

On one hand it looks to be targeted at complete newcomers to affiliate marketing, but on the other hand it seems to be pressing hot-buttons for more experienced affiliates.

For people who are completely new to internet marketing, Mark has identified a number of hurdles that stand between the average Joe Newbie and affiliate riches, and he seems intent on smashing every one of them.

The first hurdle that he says trips people up is in choosing a niche to target. I can’t disagree with that. I’ve seen affiliates spend weeks deliberating over a niche. So for AffiloJetpack to come along with TEN niches hand-picked by Mark Ling himself and PROVEN to be winners… well, that’s certainly going to help some newbies out.

(And maybe even some more experienced affiliates who are looking for a niche to go into next.)

The second hurdle Mark identifies is in the actual building of a website, so he’s put together his very own WordPress theme designed to make it easy for even the most inexperienced web designer to tweak the layout and design of their site. It includes some other nifty functionality that only someone experienced in building affiliate sites would think of, such as a squeeze page generator that lets you use Mark’s most successful squeeze page layouts in your own promotions. Nice!

The theme also reflects Mark’s extensive background in tutoring inexperienced affiliates… he’s added things like image uploaders so that users don’t have to master an FTP program to get their header or background images online.

I have to say, this theme is PERFECT for web novices. And with AffiloJetpack, Mark has also thrown in free hosting with what they’ve called “Incubator Hosting”. I know from experience that it can take quite a few steps to install WordPress and a great theme on a hosting provider. Each step is something that can go wrong. So I really think a lot of newbies are going to appreciate this one-click setup.

On top of all this comes the content: Twenty articles of very high quality that you can either just plug into the site as-is, or re-word to get full SEO benefit.

So that’s pretty much a kitset website: Everything you need to build an affiliate site in a very short space of time. It’s a great start for newcomers to affiliate marketing who just want to get something up on the web quickly, without the long learning curve.

But here’s where it gets more advanced.

Whereas I would have considered all this content and functionality to be an OK product on it’s own… Mark says this is just the beginning. In other words, this isn’t even the main show.

The main show is what comes next: A 80-part autoresponder series that you can plug into a service like Aweber and use to start collecting email addresses and building a relationship with people who sign up.

Mark says that the thing that disappoints him the most is when affiliates don’t add an autoresponder series to their websites, because this is the thing that will earn them the most money.

And I admit… I’ve been guilty of that myself. Sometimes you just want to see a site making money before you invest even MORE money in building a follow-up series. Or sometimes you’re just so exhausted by the time you finish putting your site together that this goes on the back burner.

An autoresponder seems more like “extra credit” for an affiliate site, but Mark is adamant that it should be the main focus. To the extent that you might not even promote affiliate products on your website at all!

So this autoresponder series comes with about 65 “informational” emails, and about another 15 “hard sell” emails written by Mark himself. He also tells you WHEN you should be sending these out to get the best response from your list, since just emailing someone once a week in the first month or two isn’t really going to cut it.

I was quite surprised at the quality of these emails… they’re far beyond PLR quality. You could even put these on your website if you wanted an extra 60+ articles! They’re the kind of thing that’s going to get people on your list trusting your opinion… at which point you can promote products to them and watch the commissions roll in.

One other aspect that made me think that this maybe isn’t purely aimed at newbies is Mark’s view that while SEO is low-risk, the bigger risk that newbies face is that they’re not going to see results quickly enough, and they’ll give up.

Because of that, as part of AffiloJetpack he’s also offering training on a variety of other traffic generation methods. You can still do SEO… but he’s saying that if you want to see fast results (and faster cash) you should look at these other methods.

The final verdict? AffiloJetpack is great for newbies who can’t get past the nitty gritty of building a site. It really makes the whole process laughably easy compared to the weeks or months it might take a newbie to put together a site on their own.

More experienced affiliates are probably going to see the real benefit in the huge amount of high-quality content that Mark has put together. Even to put together ONE newsletter series of this quality is going to cost you at least double the cost of this entire product. And with AffiloJetpack you get FIVE of these niches and newsletter series’, so to my budget-conscious ears, thats ridiculously good value.

Whatever way you look at it, and whatever level of experience you have, this product is a winner. Even if you don’t want to follow Mark’s strategies… do yourself a favour and grab it just for the content.

Very highly recommended.

* Use it to create an SEO site by re-wording the website articles.
* Slap it up on a website and send traffic straight to the squeeze pages and rely on the autoresponder series to do all the heavy lifting as far as sales are concerned. (No need to reword the articles in this case… PPC doesn’t care!)
* Use the content to bolster an existing site. A lot of affiliates don’t get around to creating an autoresponder sequence, so they can simply plug this one in to start building long-term relationships with a list through quality emails. They’ll also make consistent sales from these emails too, due to the inclusion of promotional emails.
* People can see what a super-affiliate website looks like, and use it as a model for building further sites.

Who is AffiloJetpack for?

* Complete newbie affiliates who might never have built a site before and don’t know how to get started. We provide training to get them off on the right foot.
* Affiliates who have tried building sites before, but have got bogged down with learning all the initial skills required to do market research, build a website, outsource content creation, etc. Many of these people give up.
* Affiliates who have successfully built affiliate sites, but haven’t achieved much success because they’ve failed to add an autoresponder. We hear a lot of people saying that they “haven’t got around to it yet” or that they’ll do it once their site starts making more money (because it can be an expensive thing to set up).
* Affiliates who have little difficulty building sites and getting them earning, but who are attracted by the vast quantity and quality of this content for the price.
* Affiliates who are struggling to see good results with SEO traffic.

Whats Inside: AffiloJetpack Component Breakdown

* Niche Research done for you
We find that a lot of would-be affiliates get stuck right at the very beginning when it comes to choosing a niche to target. So in AffiloJetpack we have hand-picked ten niches that are ALL known to be great for affiliates.
* Push-button web design solution
Our custom WordPress theme (called AffiloTheme) gives users the power to perform dramatic changes to the look at layout of their site, without having to learn HTML, CSS or PHP.
o Change background colors/patterns
o Set colors and font styles for headings, menu items and body text
o Switch the sidebar from left to right
o Set page width, header height, sidebar width
o Easily add/remove pages and text in the footer
o Siloing option
o Upload background images and header images without FTP (a LOT of people have trouble uploading images!)
o Squeeze page generator uses my top 4 converting squeeze page layouts to quickly and easily generate squeeze pages with opt-in boxes.
* 3 x Professionally designed header graphics for each niche
We see a lot of new affiliates tripping up on designing headers for their websites, so we’ve taken that problem away with three professionally designed header graphics for each niche.

Users can add these into their sites directly, and then just add their own text into the header using our Theme Options panel. Or take them into a Paint program like Paint.NET to use different fonts and effects.
* One-click installation of WordPress and AffiloTheme on our Hosting Incubator
As soon as a user enters their domain name and presses the button, they’ll be able to start adding content to their website. We worked out that that even when using a simplified installer like Fantastico, there were still a number of steps to getting WordPress up and running with our theme. So we decided to use a pared-back hosting option which allows us to install these things for people instead. One less place to get tripped up

Everbody who buys AffiloJetpack gets one year’s free hosting on our Incubator. At the end of that period, the user can purchase additional hosting from us (for a price equal to or lower than other hosting providers) or they can easily move to another hosting provider.
* High quality 80-part (1 year) autoresponder sequence
Includes:
o High quality, informational emails for building a great relationship with your list
o Hard-sell promotional emails written by Mark Ling himself.
Emails are around 600 words long.
* 3 x “Free report” ebooks per niche
These ebooks can be used to entice people to sign up for a newsletter list, as bonuses for people who buy through a user’s affiliate link… they can even be sold as their own product.

Each ebook is approximately 7500 words long.
* 20 x high-quality PLR articles for a website
Note: If people want to use these to build an SEO site, they will still need to do their own keyword research and re-write the articles to avoid duplicate content penalties. They should also look at doing their own research on keywords closely related to the topics of the niches, and maybe tweak the articles a little bit to reflect their keyword choices.

The key to developing confidence as an affiliate is to see results fast, and to not get bogged down with the initial “administration” tasks. At each step — whether it’s choosing a niche, outsourcing content, designing graphics, acquiring hosting, or building the site itself – there is a good chance that people will delay, procrastinate, or just “get stuck”. By providing all the content, graphics, hosting, and website building tools the user needs to get a site up and running in a short period of time, they are more likely to see results faster, and less likely to give up.

Many affiliates do not add an autoresponder to their site because it is an expensive investment of time and money. This is despite the fact that an autoresponder can be the best way of generating repeat commissions from visitors. Mark Ling considers this the thing that will make an affiliate the most money, yet very few affiliates do it. By providing a full autoresponder series (one year’s worth of emails, appropriately timed, and complete with hard-sell emails and scarcity offers) users can easily get their autoresponder going and leave it on autopilot.
* For would-be affiliates who have difficulty putting together a website, we have built our own WordPress theme. This theme has a comprehensive theme options panel with a huge array of layout tweaking options, so a user never has to fiddle around with HTML or CSS. WordPress itself is free and widely used, so it’s a great solution for affiliates. For users who just want a professional looking site with no fuss or tweaking, we provide three pre-set layouts per niche.
* For a new affiliate to learn all the skills required to set up a website like this, and to source content of this quality, it would typically take months, and thousands of dollars. With AffiloJetpack they can have a top-notch site up and running in an afternoon, at a tiny fraction of the cost.
* Since one of the big problems is that affiliates give up because they don’t see results fast enough, and since one of the key reasons they don’t see results fast is because they pursue SEO which can take months to start generating reasonable traffic, we’ve provided comprehensive training on traffic generation methods to get traffic to these sites as quickly as possible.
* Users will build confidence in themselves and in affiliate marketing in general. With five of these sites under their belts (AffiloJetpack allows users to choose 5 of 10 niches) a user should definitely be seeing some good results.