I have been thinking of buying this ebook called The Super Affiliate Handbook by Roslind Gardner for more than a year. Finally, I bought it, and I just finished reading it. This is my review of one of the best Internet marketing ebooks I’ve ever read.

The ebook was first published in 2003. Since then, Rosalind Gardner has updated it many times to include new affiliate marketing techniques, new technology and new statistics. The newest version is 206 pages, and I bought it on August 17, 2009.

Why I bought The Super Affiliate Handbook

Lately, I’ve discovered that the easiest way to earn money online is to sell other people’s stuff. I only need to recommend the stuff, if someone buys, I earn money. I never have keep any stock of my products, I don’t need to do any support. It’s all about recommending products of high quality.

As an affiliate marketer, there is a very low cost set-up, no fees or licences, no employees, no order processing, no inventory. I’m writing this in my living room, you can actually work from anywhere and you can set your own schedule. It’s a great way to earn money.

Rosalind Gardner is one of the few super affiliates in the world, she earned $436,797 in 2002 selling other people’s stuff online, now (in 2009) she’s earning a lot more than that. It goes without saying that I’d like her to reveal all the techniques she’s using in order to get this huge success.

Take a peek inside her affiliate accounts:

The Easy Part

As an affiliate marketer, you promote other people’s products, and you earn commission every time someone buys from you, by clicking on your affiliate link. It sounds fairly easy, but it’s really not, not if you’re like most people and you’re only thinking about the money and not the products.

The first thing that Rosalind Gardner mentions in her book, is that in order to become successful you should always profit from what you know. You should always build your business around a topic you enjoy and either know well or are willing to learn about. And of course, the business should have huge income potential.

Knowledge + Passion = Profits

Step by Step Guide

I really like the fact that the ebook is a step by step guide to affiliate marketing. It contains lots of details about exactly what to do in order to become a super affiliate and earn a living online. She’s even giving you the details about how to install your wordpress blog. That’s just an example of how detailed The Super Affiliate Handbook is.

The book contains great details about why and how you should be tracking your results. A lot of people never bother to track their results, they just expect to earn money, but without tracking they would never understand which marketing techniques that are successful and which ones that are failing. Tracking is really important, and Rosalind Gardner explains it all.

Everything you need to get started

I believe that The Super Affiliate Handbook is everything you need to get started with affiliate marketing. It’s not just an ebook for beginners, it’s an ebook for everybody involved in affiliate marketing. If you have it, you can use it as a step by step guide in order to remember everything when it comes to affiliate marketing. Even for people like myself, who’s been involved in affiliate marketing for several years, there’s always something I forget… and there are things I didn’t know before reading this ebook.

The book contains information about all the ways you can earn money as an affiliate, not just by selling a product and earning commission. There are six ways affiliates can earn money:

1) Pay-Per-Sale & Percentage Programs

2) Pay-Per-Lead, Pay-Per-Action and Pay-Per-Signup

3) Pay-Per-Click Programs

4) Pay-Per-Call Programs

5) Pay-Per-Post

6) Broker Programs

Rosalind Gardner even gives us all the information regarding which programs to use, and where to find them. She provides us with an overview of the business building process, about market research, building websites, adding content, monetizing it, marketing it and growing the business.

It’s a fantastic ebook

I’ve read many ebook and regular books about Internet marketing and affiliate marketing. This is by far the most detailed I’ve read. When it comes to affiliate marketing, it doesn’t get any better than this. You get everything you need to know as a complete beginner, and you get advanced stuff like “5 must-have site pages” and content planning using keywords.

… and because Internet marketing contains a lot of new words and phrases, you get the glossary of terms at the end of The Super Affiliate Handbook, where Rosalind Gardner explains all the most important words and phrases.