I recently began working with our resident affiliate marketing mastermind Anik to learn the basics of article marketing in the acne niche. He’s a firm believer that everyone on our team should try their hand at being an affiliate – and it was my turn to learn.

You’d think since I studied English in college the thought of writing 5-10 articles wouldn’t make me feel so panicky, but it did.

Fortunately I discovered that getting past that point where you’re staring at a blank word document with no idea what to say is the biggest obstacle. After you’ve figured out what to say it’s really not so hard.

So how do you figure out what to say? At first the situation felt a little reminiscent of being locked in my dorm room the night before a paper was due, but then I realized that I was just freaking myself out needlessly. I had to write about acne, and I know about acne!

You’ve got to start with what you know. I made a list of all of the home remedies I’d heard of and tried, all of the products I’ve used that did or didn’t work, and before I knew it I had outlined enough information for 6 articles! I did have to research some of the tips and topics that I had heard of to flesh out some of my ideas, but I no longer felt like I had no idea what I was doing.

Even if you’re working on a niche that you think you don’t know anything about, you probably know more already than you realize. For example, I don’t know anything about online dating and dating services, but I have been on enough dates to come up with a few articles on what to do and not do on a date.

I don’t know much about debt consolidation either, but I’m pretty sure there are many strategies to get out of it, so with a little research you can quickly come up with an article on the top 3 strategies to manage debt.

Once the articles are written and submitted, you just have to sit back and wait for the traffic…but that’s a lesson for another day.

At 12:00 pm Eastern today, “Not Your Typical Article Marketing Report” will finally be available. We’re releasing this report to celebrate the official launch of AffSphere.

This report reveals an article marketing strategy developed by Affiliate Classroom’s CEO, Anik Singal, over a 5-year time period. The strategy is fast, simple, and is designed especially for affiliate marketers who want to get traffic and sales from their article quickly.

For more details on how to sign up for AffSphere and get your own copy of this low-cost report, check out this video on the AffSphere blog.

If you’re into PPC in a big way, one of the things you must love about it is the ability to scale your campaigns. Once you have a winner, you just let that campaign run, and rinse and repeat.

And you probably feel that the whole problem with content marketing is you can’t scale it the same way, right? Wrong! We’ll show you how…

With PPC, you know exactly what a click is worth to you in terms of real dollars earned. Well, to be able to really scale content marketing, you need to be able to do the same thing. You have to:

– Focus on submitting articles to syndication directories, and…

– Know what an article is worth in the niche you’re promoting.

We’ve developed a system for making the results of your articles measureable. In this free video we show you that you can calculate the return – in real dollars – for every article you submit to article. It’s actually a simple but powerful way of figuring average ROI for every article you write and submit in given niche.

This allows you to scale because you can now outsource articles, and you’ll know how much to you can pay for every article based on your ROI. Nice!

This is just part of the free video course we’re covering on our AffSphere blog. We’ve released the videos to celebrate the launch of AffSphere, our own article directory, and our upcoming report, “Not Your Typical Article Marketing Report.” The report will be available at 12:00 pm EDT on August 12. Be sure to check out the entire free video series!

Many affiliates feel that a downside of article marketing is that it takes too much time – maybe weeks or months before your articles start generating sales. But we can show you how to get traffic and sales in just days! Here’s how…

1. Pick the right niche! This is the single most important factor, yet so many affiliates get this wrong. You’ve got to pick a niche that’s already getting traffic – the right kind, and from the right places. Watch this free video where we show you how to do it right.

2. Submit to the right directories. Getting traffic and sales means you have to go where the traffic is. And that means using your time wisely, and submitting to the highest traffic directories – ones that have a loyal readership – first.

So what directories should you submit to right away? Should you use automated submission tools? The answers in this video may surprise you, and you’ll find out why when you watch this video.free course.

To celebrate the offiical launch of our own article directory, AffSphere, we’re giving away more of our best article marketing secrets for affiliates. We’ll highlight more tomorrow, but you can catch them all here, at the AffSphere blog.

To celebrate the official launch of AffSphere, our new article directory, we’re offering a free article marketing course that features our best tips for promoting affliiate products through content.

In the course, we’re covering some of the topics we’ll be discussing in our upcoming report, “Not Your Typical Article Marketing Report,” which will be available at 12:00 pm EDT on August 12. You can follow the entire video series at our AffSphere blog.

The entire free video course will show you how to get traffic and sales through articles fast, plus lots of other helpful tip on scaling article marketing the right (quality) way, outsourcing, and much much more! Check it out here.