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How to Become A Bum Marketing Genius
By Derrick | March 5, 2008
If you don’t know what Bum Marketing is, you must have been hiding under a rock. It’s basically a new name for article marketing, except that instead of including a link back to your own website, bum marketers put in a link to an affiliate sales page.
There are some skills involved – the main one is finding a product that you can write a good ‘pre-sell’ article about. I’m giving away a great report about Bum Marketing which explains how to find the right product, how to research the best keywords to use and how to quickly write articles and submit them to article directories.
You don’t have to be a great writer, the skills are useful for marketing any kind of site, and the technique is completely free. What are you waiting for?
Topics: Affiliate Marketing, Articles | 27 Comments »
March 6th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
I guess I was living under a rock. Sounds like a great way to market when your a bum.
March 6th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Well, it does work for those of us who aren’t bums – the name came from the fact that it’s free (you don’t even need a website), and even a bum could do it.
March 10th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Whats the main difference between this and normal marketing? I mean, to make a website successful, you need fresh, good well written content, and then you market it that content? How is this different?
March 13th, 2008 at 4:27 am
Shaun,
There’s no real difference, except that you can start without a website, and at zero cost. You submit articles for free to the most popular article directories, with resource boxes which point to affiliate offers.
Having your own website lets you send visitors to a landing page instead of directly to the affiliate page, so you can collect email addresses.
The principles involved in writing articles for Bum Marketing and for promoting your own website are identical.
March 17th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Now I’m starting to wonder if the article link to the website sales push page is just an extra unnecessary step! I’m definitely going to have to give this a shot on my next round of article submissions…
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March 17th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Hi derrick, thanks for your intro to the bum marketing. I have try to promote my product, it’s about iphone through article directories but I never get approval from the owner. But I don’t know what I’m doing wrong? Can you show some approval tips to consider before I submit my article? Please help…
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March 18th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
I haven’t done bum marketing for a long time but in my short stint with it, I’ve had great results. Like anything else, i believe you need to keep at it for long lasting results.
P.S Ezinearticles is the best directory to submit to.
March 21st, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Agree that ezinearticles is the best. I haven’t downloaded your free report yet but looking forward to checking it out.
March 25th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Hey Derrick,
After reading your post, I am thinking that I’ve been living under the rock. I do write on the topic “Live Customer Support and sales support” to marketing our services and products, I guess your idea about bum marketing will be much useful for my company as well.
Thank you for educating us.
March 31st, 2008 at 1:51 am
I always wondered about this, I just feared sites would axe the article if they didn’t see a plain link in your credentials box.
April 11th, 2008 at 11:48 am
I’ve just read report about Bum marketing. It’s really useful information. Thanks for your blog, Derrick
May 23rd, 2008 at 5:49 am
Even though i didn’t know exactly what bum marketing was, i kinda figured it would be some type of free marketing technique. Bum marketing (to me atleast) is very time consuming. But i guess depending on what directories you submit your article to, it can be worth it.
July 14th, 2008 at 12:02 am
well if the marketing is so good how do you stay a bum? lol
August 26th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Well, it is a nice approach, as it takes much less work. but then you lose some of the potential the readers traffic has.
I will try both I guess as it’s hard to say if it’s a good thing that the traffic doesn’t have to go through another website or do the traffic really convert better on my own site.
January 4th, 2009 at 8:47 am
One of the things is to find a product to market.
writing good ‘pre-sell’ is a skill, and not always easy. I like the fact that I can market other people products.
January 5th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
EzineArticles is the best!
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April 23rd, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Actually, writing a article to make money from just one product with an affilate link in direct to the merchant beats setting up a website. If you can establish a network of good places to submit articles to and even indexed by search engine quickly, could be a very easy and lucrative way to make money. Ummmm
Lee
May 12th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
People do make money with bum marketing. I would make own website for it and then use the links to that in articles. Now your bum marketing and getting links to your website not some page someone else owns. I see some people just use link to affiliate site and they could do better with own websites.
May 30th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Great idea. I’ve always known about using articles for affiliate sales but just never had the discipline to crank them out like I should and having the direct link in them is a great idea I’ve never thought of. I guess if you do enough of them and use the right keywords this can be viable!
July 9th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
I think that bum marketing is an excellent solution for those who do not really want to create your site ad there is a lot of methods of promoting products through shareware and download sites. Am I right?
July 9th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
I guess I was living under a rock. I mean I heard about Bum Marketing but never questioned myself what exactly is.
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