Mark Carrington

May 18, 2020

No Technical Experience Needed

No Technical Experience Needed: Introduction No technical experience needed. There it is staring me in the face in a banner ad at the top of my blog pages. There it is sitting on the opt-in box on the right hand side of my site – No IT Skills. I have been doing affiliate marketing for a long time. I have been working with computers for a long time (since 1981 professionally). I do not know what it means to have no IT Skills. I can remember a long time ago doing a project migrating a system from one mainframe platform to another. The team was short of skills to deploy stuff needed for my project. I just grabbed a manual...

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IP Journey / membership marketing

May 5, 2020

Coping with Depression: Lessons

Coping with Depression: My Lockdown Story Introduction It has been 10 weeks since my last blog post here and also on my investing blog over at Steemit.com. Truth is I have been in a black hole coping with depression. The dates are really quite important – February 21 was the day the stock market crashed when Saudi Arabia undercut Russia in the oil markets. That plus the Covid-19 escalation in Europe brought the markets to their knees. I watched my investment portfolios wipe out more value than I used to earn in a year when I was still working (now 20 years ago). I got the same feeling that I felt in March 2009 when Lehman Brothers collapsed and the...

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Affiliate Marketing / membership marketing

February 26, 2020

Building Membership Site

Introduction to Building Membership Site Over the last few weeks, maybe even months, I have been working through in my head how to put together strategy for building membership site. There have been a few threads to the thinking A unique way to offer bonuses on affiliate offers. I have been pushing a few offers and have added in bonuses – nothing is really zinging just yet. I know that membership sites can be really profitable. This was confirmed to me in emails I have received from Promote Labs who have a few membership sites. In fact they have 15 years of experience building, running and marketing dozens of different membership sites (their words) A membership site is a good...

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Affiliate Marketing / New Stuff

January 21, 2020

The Iceberg Effect: The Untold Secret

Affiliate Marketing is Changing Have you felt that making money as an affiliate marketer is difficult – even impossible? You’ve tried everything and nothing seems to work. It is deeper than that. It is the untold secret they are keeping from you – the iceberg effect. I completely understand. I’ve tried everything too. Affiliate marketing is a whole lot harder than it used to be. Like so many things, the forces of supply and demand have been at work. More competition has meant that product prices have come down. In the old days one could sell an eBook for $27 – not any more. With prices coming down, commissions have come down too – maybe not in percentage terms but...

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Affiliate Marketing / New Stuff

January 18, 2020

5X Affiliate Sales with Commission Gorilla V2

Review: 5X Affiliate Sales with Commission Gorilla V2/V3 Edit: Commission Gorilla V3 relaunches in February 2023 – review is still valid as software has not changed much. The funnel and pricing has changed a bit. My bonuses have changed – the buy now button goes to the new launch page – updated for that Would you like to 5X affiliate sales? If you’ve done any sort of affiliate marketing online you often end up struggling to compete with the bigger players who always seem to grab the most cash and win all those leaderboard prizes. Now you might imagine it is because they have bigger lists or bigger budgets for advertising. The team at Promote Labs found a way to increase...