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I had been considering promoting affiliates for quite a while - as in picking individual products to actively promote (not just an Amazon link here or there or a referral link to some service). I just didn’t have a lot of time to start looking for a product I could ethically get behind and actively market.

Over the holiday break, I was contacted by the author of an e-book called Six Figure Freelancer. He sent a review copy, I made time to read it, and I liked it. I didn’t agree with absolutely everything in the e-book and made some suggestions (which he’s actually implementing - that certainly encouraged me to give promoting it a try).

I started promoting the e-book yesterday, and pick up a sale then, and another today. No, those aren’t huge numbers, but the blog where I’m promoting it isn’t high traffic, and for a first go-around I’m pretty impressed with affiliate marketing. So I’m going to keep it going for a while.

For now I’m only going to aggressively promote this one product. I decided that if I’m able to get 10 referred sales in the first month, I’ll look for additional products to promote on other sites of mine.

So what’s my personal affiliate marketing plan?

I put up an image ad for the e-book on my freelance writing blog. I also put a text link referral below each post on that blog. I added a text link to the header area of my writing forums (where I used to generally just promote my own sites). I set up a Six Figure Freelancing lens at Squidoo. I took my un-biased review from the Squidoo lens and published it on my freelance writing blog as well. I’m planning to promote it a bit bum marketing style in the next week or two with a few articles (although I guess that’s kind of what I’m doing with the Squidoo lens anyway).

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