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John Paul Raygoza offers Your Affiliate Success at youraffiliatesuccess.com This is a $74 course on affiliate marketing and also includes marketing material on pay per click advertising and search engine ranking. It was almost impossible to find anyone talking about it who wasn’t also trying to sell it through John Paul Raygoza’s affiliate program for the course. They have a generous commission for selling this, because John Paul Raygoza makes his money on the back end with the $2,500 and $5,000 Pushtraffic mentoring packages, of which affiliates don’t get anything. This is a good strategy for him, but let’s focus on the product here.
Affiliate marketing can be good if you do it right. I’d personally only do high end product reviews like big screen TV’s and washers, dryers, and other appliances like them. The reason is, that these are items stores don’t have in stock. Whether you go to a store or buy it online they still have to deliver it, and if you can save $500 on a plasma TV then why not. Amazon.com and others pay good commissions for making these sales, so that’s the only way I’d do this kind of marketing.
$74 isn’t the end of the world for a course showing how to do this. The problem is most people start affiliate marketing not knowing what kind of work and financial investment is involved. You have to be proficient in making web pages and optimizing them. You have to know pay per clicks and test which keywords convert and which don’t. Testing like this takes money, and even with a course you need a few months to get traction. Of course an optimized blog will speed things up, but if you think it’s going to be a fast return on investment you’re in for a surprise. Think weeks to months for the time frame just because there’s so much to learn, even with a course.

John Paul Raygoza never takes his foot off the gas (or employs a spellchecker) for the sales copy here. All the talk is about the money and how fast you’ll get money and all the things you can spend it on. Also it should be pointed out when he guarantees you’ll be making $1,200 to $5,000 that’s not a guarantee, it’s a refund policy that if you don’t, then he’ll refund your purchase price. I also doubt the testimonials, it’s statistically improbable that four testimonials in a row would all end in an exclamation point! Also the claim that if you can browse a web page and read it then you’re set to do affiliate marketing is ridiculous. With all the talk about paying off your mortgage, buying fancy things, taking vacations, etc. It looks like the sales copy was tailor made just to get the kind of person who would go for the $5,000 worth of mentoring they’ll offer.

If you do this, at least know what’s ahead. You’ll need to learn how to make web sites and optimize them, also blogging and around $500  for a pay per click campaign, just to learn and test what works before you see money coming in. If you’re just starting out, count on a few weeks of hard work and learning before you see a dime. If they talk you into mentoring, another $2,500 to $5,000 there.  As the only person to write a review of this who isn’t selling it, I have to stress affiliate marketing is not nearly as easy as John Paul Raygoza makes it sound.

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