If you have thought about the possibility of creating your own online store which delivers physical products, but have been put off by the prospect of having to deal with inventory, then the strategy devised by super affiliates Steve Clayton and Tim Godfrey may provide just the opportunity you have been waiting for.

Let me say at the outset that if anyone other than Steve Clayton and Tim Godfrey was attempting to get my attention by proposing to dominate niches using what sounds like eBay-seller type storefronts, I’d not be interested in listening to their proposition.

However, this pair happen to be awesome internet marketers, as you’ll see in a moment.

Steve and Tim are better known for their 2008 product, known as Commission Blueprint, in which they detailed their highly successful affiliate marketing strategies for promoting ClickBank products through PPC advertising.

In fact, one of their campaigns regularly pulled in about $100,000 per month in commissions, with ad fees that cost perhaps a fifth of that. If this sounds astonishing, it should. Especially when you appreciate they were able to make their money selling multiple non-internet marketing related products, like acne therapies, and schemes to fuel your car with water (apparently people will buy this kind of thing!).

So Steve Clayton and Tim Godfrey understand what it takes to sell stuff. It’s just what they are good at. They have done the work, gathered the experience, and these days they are happy to make some additional money explaining what it is that they do so well. I am sure that it also does wonders for the ego, but if the end result is a better understanding for me as to how to sell efficiently, then that’s all I care about. I am sure the same is true for you.

You’re probably wondering how these guys got to be experts, right?

Well, Steve Clayton has a technical background, having spent about 20 years in, as he describes it, “Corporate America”. But he got out in 2003 after deciding that what he wanted to do was build his own lifestyle independent of anyone else. Well, he almost did that, but as fortune would have it, he met Tim Godfrey and the two struck up a partnership which has worked out very well for the both of them. Tim has invested a lot of time experimenting with all the various ways that affiliates can earn money online, including having produced his own affiliate marketing products. He appears to be content being the backend part of this dynamic duo, while Steve creates the videos and gets his face out in front of clients.

Their first creation for 2009 is called the Niche Blueprint. In contrast to their first joint product, which concentrated on how to sell digital goods, this time around they are explaining how to be hugely successful at selling physical products.

As examples of this, they say they have made hundreds of thousands of dollars targeting obscure niches like bird cages, sewing machines, and even train horns. Train horns? You will almost certainly be surprised to discover that people are prepared to pay up to $1000 or more to put powerful train horns on their automobiles. Who knows why! But if there is a market for it, and the profit potential is good, then it is clearly an opportunity that should interest any serious affiliate marketer.

Now, I have promoted tangible goods in the past (and even presently) and I know that the commission rates on these are usually very low. For instance, the top commission rate you can get promoting a product through Amazon.com is about 8 percent. Steve and Tim understand this. So instead of simply making their commissions through referred sales, they have come up with a scheme for acquiring the goods wholesale, and then drop shipping the items through an inexpensive service. That way, they are able to set the prices of the merchandise and earn more that the standard affiliate commissions. In effect, they have become vendors.

In theory, it sounds great, but what about the storefront? How do you go about locating suppliers of the goods that you want to sell through the online store? And what about the drop shipping service (which allows you to bypass stocking any inventory)?

Well, Steve and Tim decided to set up their own drop shipping business so that they could eliminate the middle-man. When their members purchase the Niche Blueprint, which you can learn more about in my Niche Blueprint review, they get a free non-expiring subscription to the service.

They also get all of the software needed to implement their online store, plus lots of video tutorials and PDF manuals that teach them how to do everything. Again, if it was anyone other than this pair of marketers offering the product, I would probably not pay too much attention. But these guys are simply just too successful to ignore.

So if you think you might want to leverage their success, take a closer inspection of the Niche Blueprint. But I must warn you that Steve and Tim rarely take new clients for this product, so if you discover that they have opened up their membership queue, realize that it will only be temporary. I have also decided to make it easier for potential clients to decide to sign up for the Niche Blueprint. I am offering a sizable bonus in the form of companion software which can be used to generate lead-in pages for your store. You can see my offer on my review page for the Niche Blueprint.

Stephen Carter is a web developer and internet marketer. His Niche Blueprint critique page at http://www.niche-blueprint-review-bonus.com/ is an attempt to let others know about an excellent opportunity for affiliates to turn their hand to the promotion of physical goods. There is also a sizable bonus software offered for affiliates who decide to try out the Niche Blueprint.

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