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Rosalind Gardner:

"The Super Affiliate Handbook"

Important note: It's my sincere intention to deliver to the reader an unbiased review of a product that I have purchased and used. I am not being paid for this review. Ultimately, it's up to you if you decide to purchase the product, which I've placed under the reviewer's microscope.

Objective: to scrutinise Rosalind Gardner's handbook and to present an unbiased feedback to the potential buyer.

Product description

Downloadable ebook.in PDF-file format.

Length 265 pages

Website

superaffiliatehandbook.com

Review

Essentially what is this product?

"The Super Affiliate Handbook" by Rosalind Gardner is an aid for "the-would-be" Internet marketer. An affiliate is a person who seeks to promote a merchants product on the Internet and earns a commission on clicks, leads or sales. The product range incorporates a vast selection of types and genres.

The plain and simple fact is Rosalind Gardner totally comprehends her subject. She understands affiliate marketing inside out and upside down.

She provides evidence of her annual earnings from affiliate marketing at a rate of $436,797 per year.

Prior to this she had never been involved with the Internet in any shape or form.

But can you match this? Perhaps, if you seek out potential niche markets as she advises and instructs?

Rosalind Gardner demonstrates a step-by-step guide to how she has become so successful.

Things I like about this book:

Rosalind Gardner's "The Super Affiliate Handbook" is by far the best overview of the

Rosalind Gardner

affiliate marketing process that I have come across. Perhaps the closest competitor at the moment is James Martell's which attempts to cover the topic. In my view he comes close but not close enough.

Rosalind is a universe away from anything else that I have purchased or been given as a "freebe".

In "The Super Affiliate Handbook" Rosalind Gardner actually delves, in some detail into the system of building a real, profitable online affiliate business, in the shortest possible time.

Rosalind Gardner's "The Super Affiliate Handbook" does not skim on the important topics. Many other books that I've read hardly cover things like:

• Tracking long-term performance - she actually tells and shows you how to do it. You get the screen shots of her spreadsheet.
• You will have to create your own spreadsheets however. Rosalind would have improved the book by providing these spreadsheets.
• She gives you the actual spreadsheet formulae - you can use these in your own spreadsheet
• Planning your business from the ground up
• Software requirements
• How to select the right products for you to promote. We're all different and so we should look for the affiliate products we have an affinity towards
• A through introduction to market and selling the affiliate products

"The Super Affiliate Handbook" incorporates a vast vault of valuable yet Rosalind seems to have the ability to take you by the hand and lead you through the whole process.

This is one of the few products that I have actually taken the trouble to print out in its entirety. I find it much more comfortable to read of screen. Maybe she should publish it as an off-line book. I'm sure it would sell really well.

I don't really like to detract from the absolutely essential information that The Super Affiliate Handbook delivers but there are a few areas that I think could be improved:

Perhaps the ost difficult part of the process of affiliate marketing is the "pre-sell". This is the process that the marketer goes through in order to

Nonetheless, the handbook is the perfect example of pre-selling that I have come across. The aim of pre-selling is to create a favourable impression in the mind of the reader. The reader is then inclined towards the product somewhat. "The Super Affiliate Handbook", contains many hyperlinks to other products. These products are highly recommended by Rosalind. In effect she is pre-selling her affiliate links to her readership.

In my opinion, the links are well worth a visit. They do have abig part toplay in the content of the ebook. In truth they will save you hours of search the web trying to find the resources that she recommends.

I quite like the style of the writing. Its easy to follow and will keep your attention. As I've pointed out already I printed the book out, punched holes in the pages and stored in a file. This is something I have only done a few times.

The handbook is well laid out and includes usefull illustrations when they are needed. It has a professional feel to it. Rosalind has made the book easy to use by incorporating pdf. Hyperlinks. Many ebook authors neglect this simple yet obviously useful feature.

The Contents in a nutshell

Here are some things you will learn:

• Debunking the 6 Biggest Internet Marketing Myths
• Profile of an Entrepreneur
• Quiz: Are YOU an Entrepreneur?
• Can You Handle the Lifestyle?
• 15 Reasons to Become an Affiliate Marketer
• Market Research Tools
• How to Choose Products and Programs
• How to Choose a Domain Name
• Plan Your Site
• 4 Site Building Options
• How to Write Compelling Product Endorsements
• 28 Ways to Promote Your Affiliate Business
• How to Get and Stay Organized
• Evaluate Your Site's Performance
• How to Prevent Commission Theft
• 25 Avoidable Mistakes
• Rosalind's Directory of Goodies
• My Favorite Affiliate Programs
• Stats to Track and Numbers to Crunch
• Site Structure - Mini or Content?
• And much more…

Summary

• I can honestly say that it's the best read that I've come across on the topic of affiliate marketing.
• Extremely good value for money. I don't like to waste money, just ask my wife, but this one is worth the cash.
• Written in an easy to follow format.
• Contains all of the essentials in detail.
• Good illustrations and graphics
• Low price
• On the down side the section on copywriting is a little thin. If you email me I send you a link for what I believe to be one of the best copywriting ebooks available and more importantly you can have it for free. Also it would benifit from the inclusion of the spreadsheet templates. But there again, not everyone is going to have the same spreadsheet software.

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In essence this book is HIGHLY reccommended! "The Super Affiliate Handbook" authored by Roslind Gardener.