The Affiliate Game- Find Your Own Treasure

By The Creative Affiliate- Karen Vesgaard
Posted Tuesday, November 16, 2004

If you're perfectly content, and just Know you've already found the potential Gold in the Affiliate Program you've chosen to market, then this WeekEnd Project may not interest you.

But for most of us, deciding what to market on the internet is much the same as a Treasure Hunt.

And any good Treasure Hunt should always begin with good research.

So, let's put on our Indiana Jones hat, grab our trusty whip..(those pesky commission bandits are everywhere!)

And go on a Scouting Expedition.

The purpose of this scouting expedition is to help you establish What Kind of Treasure You Want to Find.

What has always been your passion?

Ancient Carvings and statues made of pure gold, and embedded with rare gems, found only in the depths of a Peruvian Jungle..Priceless and Rare

Or Shipwrecks loaded with stolen coins from a pirates trove.

Lost manuscripts buried deep within the sands for untold centuries just waiting for that intrepid explorer to bring their secrets to light.

Ok..let's come back to earth (present day) for a moment..

What do we have so far? What do these bring to mind?

Antiquities, Antiques, Art, Carvings, Rare Gems, Shipwrecks, Pirates, History, Exploring, Coins, Manuscripts, Lost and out of print books..

Whatever strikes your interest,,

If its Rare Coins..Do a search on Rare Coins..See what hundreds of Web Sites have done with their topic..

I'm reminded of an example I ran across from someone who had read a book on doing Mini Sites, and had gone on to create a series of Mini Pages on what his passion in life was.

Each Mini Page detailed a specific Rare Gem, with research and resources of where, and how to deal in the buying and selling of these gems..

He wasn't selling hype..he was selling Information that was extremely well put together with a ton of great content..

His passion in life..was Rare Gems..that was his expertise..And it showed.

Don't worry about giving up those Internet Gurus in search of your own adventure,

When you get ready to go looking for treasure, you'll want to make sure you are properly prepared for the "country" you will be searching in.

That's where you Will Need what those Internet Gurus have to offer.

Find the Very Best Information you can find..buy only what you will need..and keep it close by on your journey..And you'll be prepared for anything!

So go exploring..

It might just be time to Break Out and Escape..
Escape from promoting what Every One Else is promoting.

Find Your Own Treasure!

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