Monday, March 17, 2008

GadgetSpots Case Study - Phil Wiley

To many in the affiliate marketing arena Phil Wiley needs no introduction being one of the most successful affiliate marketers in the business, but before we describe how Phil is succesfully using GadgetSpots here's some background.

Phil has made is living for many years from affiliate marketing after resigning his job as a journalist some years back.

Phil has a knack of spotting trends in the affiliate business and adapting to them early. He tests new products and strategies and if he finds them worthwhile or profitable he will promote them to his fellow affiliates.

Phil's methods are not driven by rocket science but, they make him a very comfortable living which allows him to travel the world to attend marketing conferences and meet other affiliate marketers.

One of his early successes was to spot the mini site craze that hit the Internet marketing scene several years ago. Phil immediately went to work building small 5 page mini sites dedicated to promoting a single product or brand.

The websites were unique and the search engines loved them, needless to say Phil made a financial killing and to this day is still earning affiliate revenue from mini sites that only took him a few hours to build.

But Phil saw an opportunity which turned out to be his 'coup de grĂ¢ce.' He created a small ebook called MiniSite Profits which describes exactly the methods he was using to build his minisite empire.

He built one of his minisites to promote the book , called it Mini Site Profits and now sells the book for $67.00 via Clickbank a popular affiliate marketplace service which acts as a merchant for publishers selling digital products.

The book has turned out to be a best seller and although it's been available for several years, Phil is still enjoying regular sales due to the website being well indexed in the search engines. He also has a huge number of Clickbank affiliates promoting the book.

Not only has Phil enjoyed huge sales of his book but every visitor to his website is invited to subscribe to a newsletter called Letter From Phil which he publishes by email.

Through his newsletter and in his own personal style he has told stories of his travels, his affiliate successes and mistakes and recommended many products and services he has tried and tested.

He's made a lot of money with his not too complicated strategy and he's now using those same tactics to expand and promote his GadgetSpots Network membership.

Here's how Phil is quickly becoming a very successful GadgetsSpot Network affiliate.

When he was approached to be a a beta tester for GadgetSpots Phil quickly realized the GadgetSpots Network was different and started preparing his involvement and use of the system by becoming a Subscribed Member.

He submitted his own ads to the system, those ads will be displayed on the GadgetSpots Network and enjoy a share in the 75% of network ad displays.

He chose to become a Subscrbed Member due to the huge increase in impressions for his ads by sharing 75% of network ad displays relative to the 20% Free Members get.

He intergrated a gadget into his own blog at www.philwiley.com and believes in a very short time the affiliate link being displayed in the gadget will attract Subscribed Members. He will earn monthly referral commissions from these referrals and he is confident he will more than cover his own membership fee.

He wrote his own press release that he submitted to PRWeb and other online press release services. Phil is great believer in press releases and has dedicated several of his newsletters decribing the benefits he's enjoyed from taking just a couple of hours to write and broadcast releases.

He submitted an article to article directories such has Articles Base. He maintains articles provide a never ending trickle of traffic to his minisites and the effort required to write and submit the article will be rewarded many times over.

Finally he wrote a review of GadgetSpots Network which he sent to his Letter From Phil subscribers and also published it on his Phil Wiley website.

Phil says he's now completed most of his promotion of GadgetSpots Network and eventually search engines will index his blog post, articles, and press releases.

Because of the viral nature of the GadgetSpots Network distribution he is very confident he'll make a steady growing income from the affiliate program whils't enjoying traffic from his ad displays on the network.

Phil Wiley is an astute affiliate marketer who makes an attractive living online and has been quick to become involved with the GadgetSpots Network. We would like to thank him for an insight into the methods he's using with GadgetSpots

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