Google Assassin
270 words | Last Updated: November 21, 2007 |
Chris McNeeney launches Google Assassin, a monthly membership club that gives you access to advertising-monitoring software. In other words, you'll get the chance to see what other affiliate marketers are bidding on and somehow guess which ad keywords are profitable. But there's something else you'll learn about this system....
Take, for example, the Google Assassin salespage. If you try and navigate away from it, a chat window will pop-up in an attempt to save the sale. This is the first time I've ever seen anything like it, so I exchanged messages with someone (or something) called "Summer."
No one can possibly type that fast, so it's obvious that Summer is the product of some artificial intelligence program.
Some of her responses, though, surprised me, and for a while I thought there was a human watching the exchange and stepping in if the AI script cannot handle the query. But it later became clear that "Summer" just has a list of canned responses. Kudos to the programmer for anticipating some of the questions.
Another thing you'll learn is how a lot of people are heavily promoting Google Assassin. From mailing lists to web pages, and now even in the realm of online video. I've never seen anything like this. A quick search on what has been placed online about GA shows that around 45% of the entries are videos.
Does this herald a shift in the way people engage in affiliate marketing?
Anyway, if you're the kind of person who purchases online ad spots and sends the traffic to affiliate marketing referral links, then give Google Assassin a try.
"Google Assassin"
First Posted: November 21, 2007 | Filed in: Make Money Online
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The new wave of software and affiliate marketing tools are re shaping how the game is played, but not the game itself. In fact 2007 was a banner year for all these so called research and spy tools.
Google Assassin is an interesting product, but the honest truth is, it does not present any "new way or method" of making money through affiliate marketing… as a tool it does what most tools do, aid and assist the user..
I am currently using Google Assassin and the main benefit I believe it gives as an affiliate marketing tool, is that it makes research work shorter and easier.
Just some weeks ago I got my hands on Affiliate Elite at affiliateelite.com also and same thing, a research tool that helps us marketers make informed decisions.
The main disappointment I have with GA is the promise that we no longer have to make any decisions since, the program will emulate Chris' decisions; since he claimed in an email to me (yes I am on his mailing list) that he literally cloned himself... meaning decision making included. But no, that does not do that. The keyword tool also is not as good as some other keyword research tools... however there are other tools that are great like the MicroNicher and the Campaigner, but again, these just present you with information that can be retrieved on your own, it just hastens the process.
The truth is currently I switch between both programs because there is something AE can do that GA is weak at, and vice versa.
At the end of the day, given the data that you uncover, you would still have to make your own affiliate marketing decision.
So the game has not changed at all, just how it is played, and all these new tools "up" the level of playing for the players, thus changing how the game will be played... and that would be on the aspect of "speed", how fast you can research a niche or product; you are considering to penetrate or promote, respectively.
The problem with all these programs is that the market becomes flooded on the day of a launch, and then the best way of making money is to promote the product that's just been launched to other people and flood the market some more....
In this case I'm not sure following the pack is the best idea!
Or perhaps it's better if we create our own product and launch that instead, right?