The Miracle of Pomegranate Affiliate Marketing

The Miracle of Pomegranate Affiliate Marketing starts with a perfunctory Google search for the phrase "Pomegranate Affiliate". We observe "about 127,000" results. Google allows us access to only the first 1000; we can only imagine the strange and wonderful configurations hidden deep in the depths of cyberspace.

Affiliate Marketing provides two income streams. Entrepreneurs market a product or product line and recruit others to do the same. Money ostensibly rolls in from product mark-ups along with commissions on the sales of affiliates. Famous hubber Uninvited Writer sagely observed that there's no such thing as passive income, but profiting from the transactions of your affiliates might be the next best thing. Sign 'em up and turn 'em loose.

Dang tootin' there is.

Google doesn't lie. With over 100,000 web sites yearning to sign up affiliates and over 363,000 sites hitting on the phrase "pomegranate juice", public awareness of the (allegedly) miracle fruit should be relatively high. Welch's puts pomegranate juice in their concord grape blended drinks. Given that Welch's has signed up such affiliates as Kroger, Publix, and Sam's Club, the squishy Pomegranate has landed squarely in the mainstream.

Science and pseudo-science agree: the Pomegranate has cool stuff in it. Pomegranate molecules scrub free radicals from your body better than red wine and green tea, at least according to folks that sell Pomegranate juice. As they keep repeating it, people begin to believe it.

A simple filter applied to your Google search may provide useful information beyond the hype of The Miracle of Pomegranate Affiliate Marketing. Submit this search request to Google:

pomegranate juice site:.edu

This search limits results to sites that end in .edu, which typically have more cachet than for-profit pages such as TheMiracleOfPomegranateAffiliateMarketing.com. We can safely assume that a site ending in .edu might be motivated by something other than profit, at least on the surface. Our search returns only 2570 results. This is getting interesting.

"Pomegranate juice may prevent newborn brain injuries"

So screams the headline from The Washington University in St. Louis: http://record.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/5484.html. Read on and learn that the study was sponsored by POM Wonderful, a U.S. producer of pomegranates and pomegranate juice. Grant money is a wonderful thing.

"Pomegranate Juice: Elixir of Life?"

The Vanderbilt University psychology department presents us with this nugget of thoughtfulness at http://healthpsych.psy.vanderbilt.edu/PomegranateJuice.htm.

"Pomegranate Juice Helps Keep PSA Levels Stable in Men With Prostate Cancer"

Visit the University of California to read this report: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/8288

As long as enough thirsty people are too busy to sign up for an affiliate account, there's money to be made. When we reach the point that everyone is selling Pomegranate Juice to themselves, it's time to identify a new superfood craze.

Here's a site that rates the affiliate sites: http://www.affiliatescout.com/pomegranate.html. Settle in for an evening's reading of more metadata than you can shake a Jack Lalanne Power Juicer Deluxe at. Delve into:

• 2nd and 3rd tier commission rates,
• minimum purchase requirements, 
  
• payment thresholds, and
  
• affiliate tracking software.

Affiliates are necessary to realize The Miracle of Pomegranate Affiliate Marketing. Nothing happens until the squishy fruit entrepreneur puts down the remote, reseals the bag of chips, and gets off the sofa. Affiliates won't come to you. Eventually you'll run out of sympathetic friends and family. The single secret to building a powerful network of affiliates is to recruit, train, and motivate. Stage Pomegranate parties in your home. Sponsor Pomegranate floats in community parades. Purchase advertising on high school football scoreboards.

Coach up your affiliates to bring friends to your home parties. Teach them to schedule their own parties witrh their own affiliates while assuring them that you'll be there to help them along. Face-to-face interaction is the most effective way to convince a human of anything. One home party trumps a thousand blind email messages from a third-party mailing list.

Make the party low key and fun. It's not college; no exams, no lectures, no rigid time schedule. Present your points and your opportunity, then get out of the way while your guests sample Pomegranate wares. They can't sell what they haven't tasted.

Don't expect much. Unless you're Zig Ziglar, most of your guests will wander away unimpressed. The tiny percentage of people who are sincerely interested in affilate marketing will grasp the concept almost immediately. Everyone else had a built-in excuse to fail before they walked through your door:

• It's too scary to sell to people.
• Everyone's already doing it.
• I don't have time.
• You aren't making money, how will I?

it may seem crass, but affiliate marketing boils down to a numbers game. Present your plan to enough people and sooner or later the recruits will assemble in your living room. Don't waste time on wafflers. Embrace their friendship, but don't impose expectations that they aren't equipped to meet.

The Pomegranate Affiliate Marketing Miracle must come from within. All the pieces are in place. Go make it happen.