Shotgun Marketing

Today was a good day. A pretty long day, but a good day none the less.

I've been putting the finishing touches to Shotgun Marketing and using the full process for a run I did on a Weight Loss related niche.

Anybody who's ever tried to break into the weight loss niche knows it's competitive. Ultra competitive, but with commissions as high as $30 for giving FREE stuff away, it pays VERY well.

Decided to try for a search term with 334,000 results, less than 20,000 results in quotes, but a very big "buying" term. OCI on MSN came out at 85%, which means the chances of somebody searching this term and wanting to buy (commercial intent) is 85%. HIGH...

Trends are showing a 600% increase in search volume.... I'm in the right place (or places as I've got the top 2 spots) at the right time.

Here's a couple of screen shots:
334,000 results for the broad search term.

Used the Shotgun Marketing methods today November 17th 2008 and got the following results:



These are for the broad search term, NOT "quotes".

I've blacked out the urls. This is a pretty nifty niche, and at $30 a pop, I'd like to keep it that way.

What you can make out though is the date and time these 2 sites were setup. November 17th 2008. One site is 6 hours old (Position 1) and the other site is 7 hours old (Position 2).

All I've done is posted to these 2 sites. No other articles, no RSS submissions, no video. Nada. Zip.

So the 2 top spots out of 334,000 results. These are the broad search results, not in "quotes", so I'm topping the whole enchilada, the full 334,000 results.

My commission on each sale is $30. OCI is 85%. I reckon this could be pretty good...

When I run the other elements of Shotgun Marketing - Articles, RSS and Social Bookmarking then things will really take off. Keep in mind these are SITE urls, not feeds, and I occupy the Top 2 spots after 7 hours.

No.3 is a big PR4 site - so they must be pretty pissed off
No.4 is the shopping results (mostly EBay) so I've jumped them
No.5 is a HUGE PR3 site - and I KNOW they are pissed off because that particular site is promoting the same product I am.
No.6 is an Ezine Article (that will go as soon my Ezine Article passes review - which it will)
No.7 is a blogger blog (that will go as well as soon as I submit my Blogger Blog)
No.8 is a Wordpress Blog (ditto the blogger comment)
No.9 is a feed (ditto wordpress and blogger comments)
No.10 is a PR2 site

As things stand I have SITES at positions 1 and 2 after 7 hours. When I submit RSS feeds these will grab a couple more spots in the Top 10.

When my Ezine Article passes review that will occupy another spot.

My Blogger and Wordpress blogs will take up another 2 spots, so I should be looking at something like 7 of the top 10 spots.

Shotgun Marketing is about 13 sites, so I should have 13 SITES on the first 2 pages, plus all the other listings the articles and feeds will occupy.

Pretty nifty and all in a day's work.

My Thoughts for the Future or Why You Won't find any Affiliate Links Here

Brute Force has launched to hugely positive feed-back from users. Yes, the software has some bugs which need fixing, yes there are some issues for some users.

Pete and his support team are working flat out to fix all these and I have no doubt all will soon be resolved.

The sheer number of users who signed up must be taking a toll on the system I feel. The software is solid and I'm 100% sure Pete will iron out all the wrinkles.

Not an unusual turn of events. How long has Windows been around as an operating system and how may bugs does that still have ?

Brute Force is good. Enough said on that one.

You might have noticed that this blog is now minus any affiliate links to Brute Force. The reason is simple. I won't be presenting anymore affiliate links to the product.

Why ???

Simple answer. The way the affiliate program is setup is that affiliate links only start to work after the 7 day trial is up. Once the trial is up, affiliate links will work for those spots not already filled. If any of the original 1000 spots are still vacant or any of the original 1000 users drops out, affiliate links kick in for those vacant spots.

Anybody who did try to use my affiliate links, many thanks, but your purchase went into the general system. Rest assured though, I'm still around.

I've decided to remove my affiliate links as:

1. I can make more money using the Brute than promoting it
2. I don't really feel like getting into a scrap over scraps

So how can I help ?

My commitment to offering as much assistance as possible to my subscribers is ongoing. I won't be changing that.

I'm delaying the launch of Shotgun Marketing. Simple reason. Better to address general questions people have about affiliate marketing using Web 2.0 properties and RSS (aka Brute Force). Get to know the product, get a bit more familiar with what you'll be doing - then we can move on to the advanced Shotgun Marketing tactics.

I will be releasing Shotgun Marketing, hopefully by the end of October - beginning November, but this will be a stand-alone product and not part of any bonus offers. Not a prerequisite to being on my subscriber list. Get it or not, all the help I can offer will be open to all.

I will also be increasing the size of the marketing Group to include ALL subscribers to my Brute Force related lists.

It's as easy to send 5 emails as it is to send 1 and as easy to send 10 as it is to send 5.

There might be some of you who prefer not to be on this bigger list. If this is the case, please feel free to use the "unsubscribe" link in the next issue of the newsletter.

Many Thanks