The fastest way to make money on the Internet is to sell what people are already buying. The second fastest way is to sell what people are about to buy. Imagine being able to guarantee a person as your customer, not just at the point of purchase, but days, weeks, or even months before they spend their money.

It’s my pleasure to present the Pre-Order Cash System. If the early bird catches the worm, then this is the equivalent of digging up the entire lawn the night before and claiming everything that wriggles!

One of the best places to work this system is as at Amazon.com. There are relatively few who are aware of this, but affiliates for Amazon (go to https://affiliate-program.amazon.co.uk to register) have the facility available to sell products before they are even released – while they are still in “pre-order” or “pre-release” status. Amazon doesn’t bill the customer until the order is ready to ship but, when they do, you are identified as the referrer . . . and you receive the commission.

What makes this system so attractive and profitable is that many products only available for pre-order often have low competition. Let’s look at how to identify the most attractive products to promote.

Step 1
Go to Amazon.com, enter preorder in the search box, and click GO. On the left-hand side you can then narrow your search by department. You’ll notice that most of the preorders or in the Books department, but you’ll also find plenty of items in departments such as Video Games, Electronics, Toys & Games, and so on.

Step 2
Select a product that you want to sell. For this example I’ve chosen “Call of Duty – Modern Warfare 2”.

Step 3
Go to the Google Keyword Tool (search for “google keyword tool” in Google and it’s the first result) and find out how many people are searching for the product. The columns you want to focus on are:

• Global Monthly Search Volume
• Estimated Average CPC (cost per click) if you were going to sell this via pay per click.)

If these columns aren’t visible, you can choose to shown them in the drop down menu, “Choose columns to display.”

In this screenshot you can see that there are 301,000 searches a month and the estimated average cost per click is $ 0.05. Once the video game goes on sale, you can expect the cost per click to increase rapidly but, for now, if I created a Pay-Per-Click campaign for this key phrase, I should be able to purchase traffic for just five cents a click.

Step 4
When you find a popular product with little or no competition, then you can start promoting the preorder page on Amazon, using your affiliate link. If you’re confident using Pay-Per-Click, then this is the fastest route, but you can also create blog posts, Squidoo lenses, Xanga sites, and so on, promoting the forthcoming product and directing visitors to Amazon via your affiliate link. When you establish your web pages with these keywords early in the game, you are in a much stronger position to establish good search engine rankings for a long period of time.

Don’t underestimate the power of the Pre-Order Cash System. Some products – particularly video games and software packages – are almost impossible to get hold of unless you’ve placed a pre-order; you’re targeting the people that aware of this and don’t want to miss out. Start setting up affiliate promotions built around products on preorder and you can take advantage of some huge opportunities with very limited competition.

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By Stephen Pierce
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This article was originally featured in Mike Filsaime’s print newsletter, “MDC Monthly.” You can get a free trial copy shipped to your door by clicking here.

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