Suzanne 3FC |
03-28-2007 03:43 PM |
a warning about diet ebook sales - please read
It's hard to search the internet without stumbling over countless websites designed to sell ebooks, all promising to hold the secret to successful weight loss, and revolutionary tips that will astound us. Many offer the sale of ebooks with free bonuses valued at several hundred dollars, which are also more ebooks.
Have you ever been tempted to buy one? More importantly, have you wondered who was on the other side, collecting your cash?
A new member, Joseph Cole, signed up for our forum this morning and posted a helpful response to a question by a member. He was friendly and had our attention. This new member also had a signature containing a link to his revolutionary diet ebook. Most of you know that signing up to advertise or self promote is against the rules, so he was banned. But it gets worse - Upon browsing his website and incredible :rolleyes: offers, we found his affiliate offer page that explained his true motives behind this ebook. What we are about to post below is very similar to most other diet ebook affiliate offers.
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Dear Affiliate,
How would you like to receive $24.38 for every quick sale you make to one of the easiest products to sell online? Allow me to back up my claim with a couple of quick facts.
Fact - the weight loss market contains hoards of RABID buyers. A rabid buyer is someone who purchases as many products they can get their hands on to solve their problem. They are so desperate for a solution, price is often not a factor.
Fact - 96% of dieters FAIL within one year. This means there is a constant stream of unhappy buyers desperately seeking a solution that works.
Affiliate Programs - Not All Are Created Equal!
If you're in the affiliate game, you've probably stumbled across a few products that sell like wildfire, and a few more that do nothing but eat up your ad budget. What's the difference between a run-away success and a miserable failure? The Offer.
The Offer is what makes the difference. More than the website design, even more than the sales copy. Present an irresistible offer to a desperate crowd, and the result will be more sales notifications than you can count in one day.
Formula for high sales conversions:
irresistible offer + desperate crowd = many, many sales
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Weight Loss - A Whopping Market!
The second requirement is a desperate crowd. As talked about in the facts above, you'll see we've picked the perfect "crowd" to market to. According to Yahoo/Overture Search Term Suggestion Tool, 647,612 people search for the term "weight loss" every month. 986,732 search for "diet". Not counting all the other terms, that's at least 1.63 million people desperately seeking to fix their weight problem every single month.
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We felt insulted after reading this.
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