Bum Marketing Experiment - Intro
At the moment I’m involved in investigating a really nice money making opportunity called Bum Marketing. Basically, it’s a way to make money online without investing a single cent. Therefore it’s called “Bum” Marketing, because even a bum from the street could (in theory) start earning a nice income online without paying anything for it.
The basic idea behind this marketing method is the following. First, you have to search a product you want to promote. It should be a niche product that people really want to buy. For example a uber-great ebook about magic methods for losing weight without doing any hard work on it (Ok, it’s probably an ugly example… 
Second thing is keyword research. Look for long-tail keywords with high search volume and less competition (<5000 results on Google would be great).
Third part in Bum Marketing is writing articles with your long-tail keywords in the title and body. It’s really important to write your article with those keywords in mind to get the best position in the search results later on. You have to submit those articles to as many article directories you can. In the author box below your article you should integrate affiliate links to the products you promote.
Fourth step (the easy part). Rinse and repeat and watch your income grow. The more articles you write, the more money you’ll make from affiliate sales/leads. A single article won’t make you rich (it’s assumed that one article brings in $20 each month), but with 100 articles you will definitely see your earnings rise.
So far so good. That’s for the theory. But there’s is also the part with work involved. To actually test the income potential from Bum Marketing, I will do a long-term experiment on it. I’ll try to write some articles promoting different products (I think I’ll start with Clickbank first) and submit them to many article directories. Then I will see if one can really make good money from this marketing method.
Personally I expect to make far less than $20 a month from a single article, but that’s only a feeling, maybe I can make much more…
This post should only be a short intro to Bum Marketing. I’ll write more detailed articles later on. I will also report about my current progress (and my earnings). For now I have to do some more research on it….
See you,
Querblogger
Quer, if you research keywords for them. Why not do it for yourself? Write a post here on your blog then optimize it. You would earn more from contextuals in one month if you can find the keywords.
Comment by Rome — March 20, 2008 @ 5:59 am
Pretty interesting article, Querblogger. And this “Bum” Marketing program sounds good. I would like to see what results you’ll achieve, so don’t forget to keep us updated;)
Cheers buddy!
Comment by Midwest — March 20, 2008 @ 10:13 am
@Rome
I know what you want to say, but I think posting such articles here on my blog wouldn’t be that great idea, simply because they wouldn’t be related to my niche here. Therefore I would choose to use such article directories to submit my articles to, they have a high page rank and it’s very likely to get enough (free) traffic. Sure, I wouldn’t have the option for contextual advertising, but I think to make only one sale a month it would be enough. The big idea behind bum marketing isn’t quality but quantity! (Maybe I haven’t understood your comment, it seems I had to many beer tonight… :P)
@Midwest
Thanks for your comment. I will do my best to don’t disappoint you all
But I think there’s a really great potential in bum marketing, although it isn’t a getting rich quick thingy (as everything else in online marketing). I’m willing to invest enough time and I hope to make at least $100 a month from bum marketing.
PS: Shrtnd.com performs normal, we have an average of 10 uniques a day (which I think is normal for a fairly new site). I will contact you for more details, but at the moment I’m a bit busy and there are Easter holidays too…)
See you,
Querblogger
Comment by Querblogger — March 20, 2008 @ 4:51 pm