I’ve learned a heck of a lot about online marketing without any cost.  One of the most important things that I can do now, that I didn’t know how to do when I was starting is to locate useful, accurate information without any cost.  Most newbies don’t know that they can actually find a high quality free course about starting an online business.

Over the years, I’ve gradually shifted my business model from retailing (which I still do) to affiliate marketing.  I realize that in much of that time period I wasted a lot of money.  Now (a little late) I know that there are placed where there are valuable resources about how to start affiliate marketing without any cost at all.  If you know where to look and who to trust, that free information has proven to be much more useful than any of the products I bought that promised secret information that would insure my business’s success.

I was reminded of all of that this morning.  I received an email from Anik Singal, one of my own gurus.  Singal is about to release his flagship, college level, newly overhauled affiliate learning resource, Affiliate Classroom 2.  This morning he released a new report that exemplifies how the best will often share what they know, and all you have to do is ask for it.

This zero cost report, which is for affiliate marketing businesses is only 55 pages, however, even for someone as experienced as I am, these tips are valuable reminders.  I’m not sure that I’m supposed to reveal too many of the details, but I’m going to pass along some details, anyway.

Singal’s teaching method in this report is a case study approach.  He tears apart three typical affiliate marketing websites: an opt-in, a blog and a review site.  Unfortunately these sites all shared a common problem–common to them and common to a lot of affiliate businesses–they weren’t making as much money as they should be.

Singal allows us to sort of look over his shoulder as he examines each site, identifies major problems and then makes critical suggestions for specific improvements.  Despite my years of experience and my relative success as an affiliate marketer, I found a lot of his recommendations could be applied to some of my own sites. 

In case you don’t know who Anik Singal is, you definitely should.  He was recently named one of Business Week Magazine’s four “young entrepreneurs of 2008.”

By the way, I’m not sure how long he’ll leave this report online.  I suspect that once the soon to launch Affiliate Classroom 2 sells out, he will take down the report.  If he does, I’ll share a few of his insights in a later article.

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