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Bum Marketing Made Easy
Bum Marketing is a technique where you can legitimately earn an online income without paying any expenses. This sounds "too good to be true" or like a "get rich quick scheme" but it is neither, as it will require work to become successful. Bum marketing is using free platforms such as Squidoo (this site), Blogger, and EzineArticles to rack up affiliate sales. I'm currently a 19 year old Freshman college student and I'm earning upwards of $150 a week by doing nothing but creating articles exactly like this one you are reading. To learn more, read on.
**For a free guide on internet and affiliate marketing, check out my website. You can download the 100% free ebook at Back to Basics: Making the Most of Affiliate Marketing.
Steps to Bum Marketing
- Find a niche that isn't overly crowded but is marketable.
- Find quality products within the niche in the price range you are looking for
- Build a Squidoo Lens for free, it costs nothing to sign up so sign up now.
- Create an article about the product that links back to your Squidoo through EzineArticles and other popular article directories.
- Buy social bookmarking services for your lenses and articles that all link to each other.
- Either A. Watch the profits role in, or B. Start a PPC campaign to earn even more money.
Bum Marketing Techniques - Table of Contents.
Bum marketing and using squidoo, ezines, or social bookmarking for profit
What affiliate company should I go with?
Choosing the right product to bum market
You should always choose products that are important to you in some way, or that you feel you can intelligently create web pages for at a bare minimum. There are many different affiliate companies out there for you to choose from, personally I use Clickbank as my main source of affiliate products but I also try to mix it up by selling separate individual products as well.
The company you choose doesn't matter all that much though, because no matter what you will be finding some products that work, and some that don't. Finding products that will sell and be useful to your customers is the first part of any bum marketing campaign.
The company you choose doesn't matter all that much though, because no matter what you will be finding some products that work, and some that don't. Finding products that will sell and be useful to your customers is the first part of any bum marketing campaign.
Using Squidoo to make a profit
Bum marketing with Squidoo
Squidoo is the site that this lens is hosted on, it is a user created content site where you get paid to have your own webpages. By creating a Squidoo lens you get 50% of the money earned by it through affiliate sales and AdSense revenue, while at the same time being able to market your own products.
It is 100% free to sign up, feel free to sign-up here: Sign-up Here (Note: Link will open in a new window).
Once you have an account you can start creating lenses and earning money on multiple fronts, by selling your products, and earning money through Squidoo itself. To learn more on using Squidoo for bum marketing I found this guide useful: Squidoo Queen.
It is 100% free to sign up, feel free to sign-up here: Sign-up Here (Note: Link will open in a new window).
Once you have an account you can start creating lenses and earning money on multiple fronts, by selling your products, and earning money through Squidoo itself. To learn more on using Squidoo for bum marketing I found this guide useful: Squidoo Queen.
Using Ezine to promote your bum marketing products
bum marketing with ezine bum marketing with squidoo
To promote your Squidoo, you should create articles such as EzineArticles.com or an equivalent such as GoArticle.com (from the Jayde network). These articles should all link back to a single Squeeze page, personally I use Squidoo as my squeeze page typically because that way I will earn revenue from AdSense as well as from my affiliate products.
Once you have an established niche your articles will become relevant to each other and if you use your name you may even begin to earn some name recognition. The beauty of the system is that all of your pages are self promoted due to the systems they are in, while also being promoted by each other. From there all you need to do is add social bookmarking and you will see nice placement in search engines and good traffic.
Once you have an established niche your articles will become relevant to each other and if you use your name you may even begin to earn some name recognition. The beauty of the system is that all of your pages are self promoted due to the systems they are in, while also being promoted by each other. From there all you need to do is add social bookmarking and you will see nice placement in search engines and good traffic.
The Seven Day Millionaire
My own book, the Seven Day Millionaire actually dedicates a whole book (1 out of the 7 it comes with) to bum marketing techniques, and another to article marketing. To learn more about this book check it out at The 7 Day Millionaire. It is scheduled to release on June 14th currently, don't miss out on this priceless resource.
Social bookmarking along with bum marketing
Bum marketing techniques
Social bookmarking is a new phenomenon that came with "Web 2.0". This is where people bookmark their favorite websites and web pages and then you can view what pages other people are bookmarking. Through a system of tagging relevant materials are linked together and suggested to users to visit, creating a very unique environment for users to surf the web.
As a result of this new gateway, webmasters are quickly catching on that this is a new frontier that has yet to be exploited. Social bookmarking will drive traffic to your site both in the form of bursts (such as 75,000 visitors in a day if your page hits the front page of Digg) and residual traffic such as with StumbleUpon. The social bookmarks more importantly at the moment leave behind a trail of one way backlinks leading straight to your site. Since many of these social bookmarking sites are PR7-8 they lead to your articles getting indexed the same day you order a social bookmarking package typically.
To learn more about social bookmarking check out Social Bookmarking Services or LazyURL to skip straight to the company that handles my social bookmarking.
As a result of this new gateway, webmasters are quickly catching on that this is a new frontier that has yet to be exploited. Social bookmarking will drive traffic to your site both in the form of bursts (such as 75,000 visitors in a day if your page hits the front page of Digg) and residual traffic such as with StumbleUpon. The social bookmarks more importantly at the moment leave behind a trail of one way backlinks leading straight to your site. Since many of these social bookmarking sites are PR7-8 they lead to your articles getting indexed the same day you order a social bookmarking package typically.
To learn more about social bookmarking check out Social Bookmarking Services or LazyURL to skip straight to the company that handles my social bookmarking.
Affiliate Marketing Books
Everyone could use a helpful hand from an expert.
Search Engine Optimization: Your visual blueprintfor effective Internet marketing (Visual Blueprint)
Amazon Price: $19.79 (as of 08/30/2008)
Influence: Science and Practice (4th Edition)
Amazon Price: $15.63 (as of 08/30/2008)
A Practical Guide to Affiliate Marketing: Quick Reference for Affiliate Managers & Merchants
Amazon Price: $19.79 (as of 08/30/2008)
Have bum marketing techniques worked for you?
Feel free to ask questions, comment, share affiliate marketing stories.
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koolmom
I'm trying to do this, but somehow it is still not working. Thats ok. I guess it just takes time. Posted June 11, 2008 |
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TheBusinessCoPilot
Nice lens. The idea is sound so long as it is legal Posted April 21, 2008 |
