Learn from Canadian Affiliate Marketing Entrepreneurs

You may be surprised to learn that Canadian affiliate marketing gurus are at the top among leading internet performance marketing entrepreneurs. Old pros such as James Martell, Rosalind Gardner, and Ken Evoy are considered the best in a business which is hardly more than a decade old.

But what can you learn from entrepreneurs? Surely they are the exception to the rule and most people are not going to achieve a five figure monthly income after a year or two of working in AM.

While it remains one of the easiest ways to start a business online, you still need to know how to win at American or Canadian affiliate marketing in order to make any level of measurable monthly income. And you can learn an enormous amount of information from these gurus.

Who They Are and What They Do

Rosalind Gardner was working as an air traffic controller when she built a small gardening and seed exchange web site in 1997. Three years later she was making $10,000 a month and only then decided to quit her day job. Since that time, she routinely earns between $30,000 to $50,000 a month in commissions, scoring one of the largest profit margins among Canadian affiliate marketing gurus — some 40% to 50%.

She’s gone on to write the highly regarded Super Affiliate Handbook which is AM’s primary manual for newcomers. She also authored the Affiliate Business Blueprint ($49) with Jim Edwards, another excellent book that is constantly being updated with current information. Rosalind is also the "Affiliate’s Corner" columnist for Revenue Magazine, which is the only magazine dedicated to affiliate marketing.

Another superstar in Canadian affiliate marketing is Ken Evoy who is the founder of the high successful SiteBuildIt enterprise which combines site-building, hosting, and marketing. Dr. Evoy, a former physician who practiced medicine in Montreal, has designed over two dozen software products, e-commerce books, and internet revenue building courses.

SiteBuildIt offers a free introduction to AM, called the Affiliate Masters Course, which discusses niche marketing and shows you the tools and strategies to starting your own website and online business as an affiliate partner. He also offers a lot of other free-to-download tutorials such as Make Your Content PRE-sell.

Vancouver-based James Martell is the third Canadian affiliate marketing guru you should read up on. Like Gardner and Evoy, he’s a self-taught Internet entrepreneur who came into the e-commerce business between 1997 and 1999 and immediately identified a way to use the World Wide Web to launch a lucrative personal business.

Martell not only runs dozens of websites in dozens of different industries, he’s the author of Affiliate Marketers Handbook. He offers personal training of new AM entrepreneurs through his highly regarded BootCamp events (there’s even an online version now). You can listen in to his Coffee Talk audio series as he interviews other experts in the AM industry.

Why You Should Start With Their Lessons

It’s obvious from their lofty incomes that these entrepreneurs have learned to focus on affiliating with high earner merchants and they know how to identify strong partner programs. They also reveal that they like to do things the slow and true way: they build content-rich websites that derive traffic through natural searches at the search engines.

The success of these three Canadian affiliate marketing entrepreneurs is testament to the fact that anyone from any background can break into this business. You can achieve your goal of being a profitable website owner as long as you are willing to put in the effort, have patience and determination, and use proven methods. As Dr. Evoy recently said in an interview: "I realized back then [in 1999], and it remains true today, everyone has the same chance to successfully market a product or service on the Web."

About the Author:

Kevin Urban is the editor and webmaster at http://www.Affiliate-Marketing101.com. He provides tips and guidance on how to build a website for your business and reveals insiders' affiliate marketing secrets.