50. Grow Your Affiliate Marketing into a Money Machine with Greg Davis
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Greg Davis is the expert who trained the experts in Affiliated Marketing. Greg is a graduate of Penn State University, he holds a degree in electrical engineering. Working part-time he grew his affiliated marketing business from its humble beginnings, working part time and losing one hundred dollars per day to generating over one hundred thousand dollars per month and becoming a rock star in the affiliate marketing world. His income numbers just continue to rise. In 2009 Greg surfaced from the affiliate marketing underground to start SuperAffiliateRockstar.com, a private coaching program that has helped his clients generate upwards of one hundred thousand dollars a day. Greg is known to many as Mr. 50K-a-Day because of his ability to bring in tons of \\xa0revenue in one day, consistently!
Greg owns Rockstar Revenue Media, a private affiliate network, and he puts on the Super Affiliate Rockstar Conference, as well as provides private coaching and consulting on a limited basis. Greg has worked for years to become \\u2018an overnight success\\u2019. He shares with us his journey to success through traffic generation techniques such as SEO, Safe Lists, and bulk e-mail before he found the sweet spot in pay-per-click advertising focused on Google and Facebook.
In this episode Greg walks us through the ins and outs of the affiliated marketing world, the research, the luck, the science, the methods, and even some of the bad boy moves that have made him such a rock star.
In this week\\u2019s episode:
- 3:03 \\u2013 Greg tells us about his secret to success\\u2026testing everything!
- 4:00 \\u2013 Greg tells us how he has used cash, credit, and loans to build his business, as well as encouraging us to start small (like he did) and build your way up to larger and larger affiliate deals.
- 7:17 \\u2013 We hear the Greg-ism \\u201cIf the ad is good enough, key words are irrelevant.\\u201d
- 8:05 \\u2013 Learn about the two-to-one female-to-male bias in Google searches.
- 10:27 \\u2013 After discussing Google Display Networks, Stephan reminds the listeners about his interview with Tommie Powers about YouTube advertising killer content. (Check out that episode here)
- 10:54 \\u2013 Greg gets into the nitty-gritty of \\u2018cloaking\\u2019.
- 16:55 \\u2013 We discuss poor Google quality scores.
- 17:49 \\u2013 Details about costs per-click are revealed, as well as an evaluation of Google vs. Facebook ads for value.
- 20:07 \\u2013 Greg shares that he often spends seven figures a month for ad revenues. He gets into the pros and cons of leveraging those buys with points on credit cards versus simply using his bank account.
- 22:44 \\u2013 Gain insight from the many ways that Greg has been able to grow his revenue in the Affiliate Marketing world, including: negotiating larger and varied fees with merchants, capturing market data, and more.
- 26:05 \\u2013 We talk about building and using email lists.
- 27:39 \\u2013 Greg tells us when SMS marketing works well, and when it doesn\\u2019t.
- 29:35 \\u2013 We hear Greg discuss how being able to grow your volumes is the secret to seeing your offers grow as well.
- 31:15 \\u2013 Learn how building quality relationships helps to increase your revenue stream, and how conferences like Ad Tech, Affiliate Summit, Leads Con, and Ryan Deiss\\u2019s Traffic Conversion\\xa0can help you do that.
- 33:59 \\u2013 Find out about Greg\\u2019s Facebook group, as well as a few other Facebook groups he likes: Internet Marketing Super Friends\\xa0and Super Affiliate & Internet Marketing.
- 35:52 \\u2013 Greg talks about his coaching and consulting.
- 36:29 \\u2013 Greg goes in depth about how he does testing and tracking on his ads to optimize their effectiveness.
- 41:17 \\u2013 We learn about the program he uses for testing called Landing Page Genius, which is available here.\\xa0
- 43:15 \\u2013 Hear why Greg thinks some people quit too soon on campaigns because they are not looking at their testing data. \\xa0\\u201cSome people call it losing money, I call it buying data.\\u201d
- 45:30 \\u2013 Greg shares his secret of success \\u2013 Don\\u2019t give up!
Find out more about Greg Davis at:
www.superaffiliaterockstar.com
or join his Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/gregdavis/
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Links and Resources Mentioned in this episode:
Ryan Deiss\\u2019s Traffic Conversion
Internet Marketing Super Friends
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