Are you the Sore Thumb In Interent Marketing?

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 at 7:24 am 
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Idiom Definitions for ‘Stick out like a sore thumb’

If something sticks or stands out like a sore thumb, it is clearly and obviously different from the things that are around it.

Have you ever felt like you are the proverbial sore thumb or the dog’s danglers?

I have and do….everyday.

Computers and the Internet weren’t part of my upbringing or education because being born within the baby boomer era, they simply didn’t exist!

As a result probably 90% of the people testing the waters and trying their hand in internet marketing, are below the age of 40 and have egos to go with it.

Hence sticking out like a sore thumb is part of being a baby boomer internet marketer. “It just aint’ natural” and many younger internet marketers don’t take us seriously or see us as real competition.

How wrong they are!

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Do you know why the phrase “sticks out like a sore thumb” came into being?

The obvious answer would be that if you have a sore thumb it’s probably because you’ve hurt it accidentally and because its red and swollen its far more likely to be noticed by anyone who glances at your hand.

Well. If you said that, you’re only partly correcct.

When we’re hurt physically we tend to favor the damaged area in several ways. The obvious one would be to protect it with a surgical dressing, bandage, sling etc; but what do you do with a sore thumb which has been hit by a hammer causing painful bruising but not breaking the skin?

You stick it out to the side out of the way to ensure it doesn’t get bumped or knocked again because if it does cop another bump regardless of how lightly….it *&%$# hurts!

Q) What makes a good boss?


A)

A good boss will send a Sore Thumb victim  home.

If you’re in a physical job which requires you to use your hands and hand tools constantly and you wind up with a sore thumb or finger through a minor accident, a good boss will send you home or depending on the severity, to a doctor or hospital for attention. But that’s not what makes him/her a good boss in such a case.

What makes a good boss is that he/she knows that because you will be favoring the sore thumb or finger by sticking it out, it’s then in a place where it normally wouldn’t be and is even more likely to be damaged more severely because your brain is telling it that it’s where it belongs, when in fact it isn’t and as a result is more likely to be struck again by something which IS where it’s normally supposed to be and your sore thumb or finger isn’t..

Baby boomer internet marketers are a bit like that sore thumb because we’re within a niche we wouldn’t normally be in and as such are more likely to be damaged because we don’t have the basic education that so many of our colleagues and opposition learned as a normal part of their school curriculum as children.

As a result we need to be sent home or we need to learn to keep that sore thumb where the younger ones learned to keep theirs when they were young…….or do we?

As baby boomers what we need…. is to set a course which has all the basics already in place so that we don’t have to learn them or implement them.

My introduction to affiliate marketing was through a course created by Affiliate Marketing Millionaire Mark Ling and was called  AffiloBlueprint. I can honestly say that I learned 80% of what I now know about affiliate marketing through that course and still highly recommend it and promote it but Mark and his team have  just spent nearly the past year setting another such course which alleviates the necessity for all that learning and the sore thumb.

It’s called “AffiloJetpack” and is easily the best such course available anywhere and I highly recommend it.

While Affilojetpack is not specifically targeted at Baby Boomers, I see it as the ideal method for baby boomers to get into Affiliate Marketing while avoiding the sore thumb syndrome so many of us have had to go through.

Find all the information on this Affilojetpack revolutionary course here.

The very Least You’ll get by visiting the site:

IS a FREE Report which is A Step By Step Formula That That Has Literally Made Mark Ling MILLIONS Of Dollars Online.
Now It’s Yours… For FREE!”…..

without the sore thumb!

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The Death Of Niche Marketing

Monday, June 21st, 2010 at 3:48 pm 
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Does this link hail The Death of Niche Marketing?

Over the past year or so since I started to take the idea of Internet Marketing more seriously, I always leaned toward the idea of promoting digital products as opposed to physical products. The reasoning behind that is simply because that’s where I’d been led.

However I always liked the the idea of promoting tangible products because I thought that I would feel better in myself if my customers had something they could touch or use physically. It probably stems from my up bringing when we were taught that if you can’t use it and then sell it, it wasn’t worth having in the first place.

Outside looking in

I’ve since changed my way of thinking somewhat in that there is really no monetary value which can be placed on knowledge and information can be priceless to those seeking it in order to solve a problem if indeed the problem is solved.

Still, my upbringing holds in good stead but until recently I hadn’t realized just how profitable promoting physical products can be. I always thought that because most tangible products have a low commission rate, that it wasn’t worth while pursuing. Amazon for example only have a commission of around 3-4% which when selling a second hand book for example could be as little as a single dollar or even less on a shipped item.

However, I had an email from an associate a couple of weeks ago which had me taking another look at the idea of promoting physical products as well as digital and what I found was quite startling.

What about Clickbank?

For one thing, the system he told me about doesn’t actively promote clickbank products because they are all digital products and as I mentioned, this system is all about promoting tangible products. But… it’s worthwhile noting that the same system can be used to promote any product at all including digital products.

Digital Products Have More Competition!

For example, if you sell a digital product you might make up to 75% commission on the sale which apart from some exceptions will rake you in anything from around $5 to $20 per sale or more but, taking into consideration the number of affiliates promoting the higher ranking products and the number of similar products available, it can be hard work to compete and to win a sale.

Whereas, physical products have a lot less people promoting them and if you think in dollar value a single set golf clubs for example sold for $1000 dollars with a commission of 5% will bring you in $50 for the same amount of effort on your part with a lot fewer affiliates to compete with.

A couple of fellow Aussies have come up with a system for selling physical products which I actually bought a few days ago and I’m so impressed with it already I thought I’d share it on here.

Daniel Turner and Marc Lindsay have put together a simple system which will make you in excess of $18,000 per month.

Check out the full details here.


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