Lucentdesign:
Good evening guys i sorry it took a while to get back to the thread here..

So today I'm gonna be posting this method. Just follow through.

Introduction
I don't know what to call this method but it is a combination of e-commerce and affiliate marketing.

Step 1: Product research
Go to online webshops or retail sites like
Amazon
Walmart
Lowes
......
Any webshop that has a decent affiliate program will work

then choose a product that is
Expensive (high ticket items work best IMO)
In demand but not too much
In a good affiliate commission range



If you want to use Amazon, I would go for the product categories that have high commissions (above 6%)

Do not list Vero items, they are trademarked and you will get accounts suspended.
Electronics are fine
Do not list digital products like courses or plugins and themes. Their commissions are nice but they are not worth getting your account suspended

When you chose this product, leave it open in another tab and prepare for step 2

Don't worry, you don't need to buy or drop ship the item.

You have to sign up to become an affiliate, this is pretty easy to do.
The only thing that is tricky is describing where your traffic comes from.
I would recommend selecting other but I haven't really found a way around this effectively.
If you have trouble getting accepted, do some google searches and try again.
Or go for a different store

There are literally thousands of sites you can use to get the items from just google "their name + affiliate program"

Step 2: list your product as an auction
Go to an online marketplace where you can create a listing for free
I recommend
Craigslist
eBay
Facebook marketplace
......
Or a marketplace in your county, I used tweedehands, a Belgian marketplace

List your product on these marketplaces (I recommend using multiple at a time)

If you don't know how to list a product, then go watch a youtube video so you can see it visually

You can use the stock photo from the retailer's site but I would recommend not doing that

try one of these methods
Search for noncopyrighted product images on google
add watermarks or banners to the pictures (like drop shippers on eBay do, just search for an amazon item in eBay and you will find a lot of ideas
Ask people in online forums to send you pictures of the product that they own in exchange for gift cards or PayPal money (best method but requires a little money, if you can offer them anything else like followers on their social media or anything else, that is even better)
I recommend listing the product as an auction and put the price the same as on the retailer's website or a little above

I wouldn't recommend doing a normal listing because people could see how many sales there have been, which is 0 because you don't actually complete the transaction

Auctions are perfect because you can set them to a long time and you don't give a "buy now" option

A little above works best because then they are tricked into believing that they save money and they will be more likely to buy

You can list the item as brand new or as used, doesn't really matter
Step 3: your first customer

Now you have found a product and created a nice looking AUCTION listing that is cheaper than the competition (mostly drop shippers) who need to calculate fees, profits,...

Someone sees your listing and sends you a message or does an offer for the listed item
Then you send them a message like this

Hi there John
I see you have interest in my (name of your item)
Unfortenately, someone has already purchased this item but I forgot to take down my listing
I bought my item from (retailers website) for (price higher than the actual retail price).
I just noticed that the price of the item has been reduced to (actual retail price you found for your product). You can buy it here if you still are interested (insert affiliate link for that product)
Cheers, have a good day
(Your name)

or

Hi Susan
I want you to know that the item comes from (retailers website) and I bought it for (not actual price, higher than actual price). Now the item that you are looking for is cheaper than when I bought it.
You can find it here: (insert affiliate link)
Let me know if you have any questions
(Your name

Or something like that, change it up and see what works for you.

Now you can either delete the listing or keep it up till other buyers show interest and then you do the same thing.

I would not recommend listing the item as sold because you haven't actually sold it and this may come across as suspicious. But then again, so is deleting all your auction listings probably :anyway:

Step 4: Here comes the moneeeeeey
Hopefully, the customer clicks on your affiliate link and they purchase.

They usually will because the price is lower than your listing and much lower than all the competition who actually send them the item

When they do you get a commission for referring them to the product

And the best thing is that you usually also get a commission on everything they buy while the referral cookie is active in their browser.

With amazon, you get a percentage of everything they buy within 24 hours, and they are great at upselling so you will probably make more than just the commission from the item you listed.

The commissions usually range from 1 to 10% so that is why I like high ticket (expensive) items because you get a bigger commission and the buyer had the intention of spending that money anyway.

You can do this with many products at the same and on different marketplaces and from different online stores.

Why I like this method
Risk-free: you don't need to invest anything and you will not lose anything (besides maybe an account but those are free anyways)
Ethical: you don't let the customers pay more for the products, you get the profit from the profit of the retailer
Highly scalable (see below)
Minimum skills required
Competitive advantage because you can list the item at the same price as the retailer, dropshippers and other sellers can't do that
You don't need to fulfill orders, do marketing or any of that stuff. You jsut refer them to their website and get paid if they purchase
How to scale to big bucks
I personally didn't bother doing this but these were some of the ideas I had
More accounts to list more products and bid on your own auctions to make the product look more desired and create scarcity
More products and more online marketplaces
Automate listings and or messages using software (I know yaballe has these functions but I haven't used it yet)
Go for higher commissions and try to refer as many people as possible. Look for the best retail affiliate program that has higher commissions and less competition
Improve sales messages to make them more trustworthy

I don't know how likely it is that your marketplace or seller account will get banned so please don't use accounts that are important to you, you don't need sales history or good seller metrics for this method to work. Just post a lot of nice listings and you will get some $$$

Maybe some marketplaces do not allow you to send affiliate links in PM but I haven't ran into any trouble yet.

I hope this method was new and or valuable to some of you and that you make some money with it. Make sure to PayPal me my percentage when you do


Stay safe tomorrow, things will get wild!
I will definitely be joining the fun. Good job man, pls I need your WhatsApp number, we need to talk sir.

Lucentdesign:
Good evening guys i sorry it took a while to get back to the thread here..

So today I'm gonna be posting this method. Just follow through.

Introduction
I don't know what to call this method but it is a combination of e-commerce and affiliate marketing.

Step 1: Product research
Go to online webshops or retail sites like
Amazon
Walmart
Lowes
......
Any webshop that has a decent affiliate program will work

then choose a product that is
Expensive (high ticket items work best IMO)
In demand but not too much
In a good affiliate commission range



If you want to use Amazon, I would go for the product categories that have high commissions (above 6%)

Do not list Vero items, they are trademarked and you will get accounts suspended.
Electronics are fine
Do not list digital products like courses or plugins and themes. Their commissions are nice but they are not worth getting your account suspended

When you chose this product, leave it open in another tab and prepare for step 2

Don't worry, you don't need to buy or drop ship the item.

You have to sign up to become an affiliate, this is pretty easy to do.
The only thing that is tricky is describing where your traffic comes from.
I would recommend selecting other but I haven't really found a way around this effectively.
If you have trouble getting accepted, do some google searches and try again.
Or go for a different store

There are literally thousands of sites you can use to get the items from just google "their name + affiliate program"

Step 2: list your product as an auction
Go to an online marketplace where you can create a listing for free
I recommend
Craigslist
eBay
Facebook marketplace
......
Or a marketplace in your county, I used tweedehands, a Belgian marketplace

List your product on these marketplaces (I recommend using multiple at a time)

If you don't know how to list a product, then go watch a youtube video so you can see it visually

You can use the stock photo from the retailer's site but I would recommend not doing that

try one of these methods
Search for noncopyrighted product images on google
add watermarks or banners to the pictures (like drop shippers on eBay do, just search for an amazon item in eBay and you will find a lot of ideas
Ask people in online forums to send you pictures of the product that they own in exchange for gift cards or PayPal money (best method but requires a little money, if you can offer them anything else like followers on their social media or anything else, that is even better)
I recommend listing the product as an auction and put the price the same as on the retailer's website or a little above

I wouldn't recommend doing a normal listing because people could see how many sales there have been, which is 0 because you don't actually complete the transaction

Auctions are perfect because you can set them to a long time and you don't give a "buy now" option

A little above works best because then they are tricked into believing that they save money and they will be more likely to buy

You can list the item as brand new or as used, doesn't really matter
Step 3: your first customer

Now you have found a product and created a nice looking AUCTION listing that is cheaper than the competition (mostly drop shippers) who need to calculate fees, profits,...

Someone sees your listing and sends you a message or does an offer for the listed item
Then you send them a message like this

Hi there John
I see you have interest in my (name of your item)
Unfortenately, someone has already purchased this item but I forgot to take down my listing
I bought my item from (retailers website) for (price higher than the actual retail price).
I just noticed that the price of the item has been reduced to (actual retail price you found for your product). You can buy it here if you still are interested (insert affiliate link for that product)
Cheers, have a good day
(Your name)

or

Hi Susan
I want you to know that the item comes from (retailers website) and I bought it for (not actual price, higher than actual price). Now the item that you are looking for is cheaper than when I bought it.
You can find it here: (insert affiliate link)
Let me know if you have any questions
(Your name

Or something like that, change it up and see what works for you.

Now you can either delete the listing or keep it up till other buyers show interest and then you do the same thing.

I would not recommend listing the item as sold because you haven't actually sold it and this may come across as suspicious. But then again, so is deleting all your auction listings probably :anyway:

Step 4: Here comes the moneeeeeey
Hopefully, the customer clicks on your affiliate link and they purchase.

They usually will because the price is lower than your listing and much lower than all the competition who actually send them the item

When they do you get a commission for referring them to the product

And the best thing is that you usually also get a commission on everything they buy while the referral cookie is active in their browser.

With amazon, you get a percentage of everything they buy within 24 hours, and they are great at upselling so you will probably make more than just the commission from the item you listed.

The commissions usually range from 1 to 10% so that is why I like high ticket (expensive) items because you get a bigger commission and the buyer had the intention of spending that money anyway.

You can do this with many products at the same and on different marketplaces and from different online stores.

Why I like this method
Risk-free: you don't need to invest anything and you will not lose anything (besides maybe an account but those are free anyways)
Ethical: you don't let the customers pay more for the products, you get the profit from the profit of the retailer
Highly scalable (see below)
Minimum skills required
Competitive advantage because you can list the item at the same price as the retailer, dropshippers and other sellers can't do that
You don't need to fulfill orders, do marketing or any of that stuff. You jsut refer them to their website and get paid if they purchase
How to scale to big bucks
I personally didn't bother doing this but these were some of the ideas I had
More accounts to list more products and bid on your own auctions to make the product look more desired and create scarcity
More products and more online marketplaces
Automate listings and or messages using software (I know yaballe has these functions but I haven't used it yet)
Go for higher commissions and try to refer as many people as possible. Look for the best retail affiliate program that has higher commissions and less competition
Improve sales messages to make them more trustworthy

I don't know how likely it is that your marketplace or seller account will get banned so please don't use accounts that are important to you, you don't need sales history or good seller metrics for this method to work. Just post a lot of nice listings and you will get some $$$

Maybe some marketplaces do not allow you to send affiliate links in PM but I haven't ran into any trouble yet.

I hope this method was new and or valuable to some of you and that you make some money with it. Make sure to PayPal me my percentage when you do


Stay safe tomorrow, things will get wild!
I will definitely be joining the fun

Lucentdesign:

The method involves accepting article writing jobs and using WordAI to create the articles.


First sign up for WordAI. I'm not affiliated with them in any way - it's just a good product and miles ahead of any other article rewriting software. WordAI alternatives won't work well enough so don't bother trying anything else with this method. Also it costs $50/month but there's a free trial so you can just cancel before you're billed if you decide this isn't for you.


Next sign up on platforms where you can accept article writing jobs. Platforms include:
Textbroker, Iwriter (these two are the easiest to get started on)
Fiverr
Elance, Odesk
SEO forums
and probably more I'm missing


Once you accept a job find an existing article related to the topic in an article directory such as ezinearticles. Rewrite it in WordAI, and check to make sure it passes copyscape (very important). If it passes copyscape then briefly read over it and fix any grammar errors before submitting. You're done!


Like I said before, it's simple but it works. [b]When I did it I made about $20 with 30 mins of work [/b]using only textbroker and iwriter. That dollar amount would've been higher if I stuck with it and wrote enough articles to get an upgraded account (for better pay) on textbroker/iwriter or if I accepted more article writing jobs on other platforms.


ADVANCED TWIST:

WordAI, textbroker, iwriter, fiverr (and maybe the freelancing sites?) all have affiliate programs. I believe fiverr pays $15 per signup, WordAI pays $10 per month for as long as the person stays signed up, and textbroker/iwriter pay a percentage of revenue generated by anyone signing up under your link. So for each person that signs up you'll get $25 on the front end + $10 per month + however much they generate by writing articles.


So sign up for all of the above affiliate programs and put the above method into an ebook or video with your affiliate links. Distribute your ebook/video on other marketing forums Or find other channels to distribute your ebook

morningstar55:
When I haven’t made up to $15 for the past 6 months on kdp

fastlane84:


Who send you message?

Lucentdesign:
I'm freed now, i got banned

Its been a while here..I WILL UPDATE THE THREAD WITH THREE METHODS TODAY.so guys you can get your hand dirty and take action on which ever appeals to you

Goodluck418:
Mr Lucent,

From your Tik Tok post, you didn't tell us how we would be making the money.

Thank you

maddman:


He didn't because he's not the original poster and never tried it. Dude literally copied it word for word from BHW and posted here without any form of credit whatsoever.

Lucentdesign:


Its time consuming but omo its evergreen.

maddman:


He didn't because he's not the original poster and never tried it. Dude literally copied it word for word from BHW and posted here without any form of credit whatsoever.

maddman:


He didn't because he's not the original poster and never tried it. Dude literally copied it word for word from BHW and posted here without any form of credit whatsoever.

CapitalBank:
lol... I could sense but just couldn't put my fingers around it. thanks for the headsup

maddman:


He didn't because he's not the original poster and never tried it. Dude literally copied it word for word from BHW and posted here without any form of credit whatsoever.

Knowseek:


Those guys are mad.. they would just copy and paste bullshit tactics that don't work . And giving people false hope here. Shit they never tried probably never made a penny online. I don't understand to what end. Is it for nairaland clout or to later scam people.

Nairaland should be the greatest platform in Africa. But they don't want it to grow. Spamming everywhere and this people posting gababges everywhere

morningstar55:

When I haven’t made up to $15 for the past 6 months on kdp

Lucentdesign:


Hey who is bhw,
How the hell do you think the op didnt do same..and were in my post did i claim they are mine..read btw lines bro..it could help help you.