High End Affiliate Marketing

Terry:
Hi, you're listening to Terry Telford. Today we're very fortunate to have with us an extremely successful high-end affiliate marketer. His name is Josh Peak. Josh has actually developed a very interesting business model because he is a professional affiliate marketer, but not for your average $20, $30, $100 programs. Josh specializes in high-end affiliate programs. So, when we're talking about high-end we're talking about anything in the range of $4,000 to $10,000. So, it's a little bit of a different aspect or way of doing business than it would be for marketing your low-end, up to $100, affiliate products.
So, Josh has agreed to let me pick his brain for a while and basically go through a run through of how he runs his business and how he actually gets people signed up to his affiliate programs when they cost the dollar figures that we're looking at.
First of all, I'd like to say thank you very much for being here today, Josh.
Josh:
Thank you Terry; I appreciate being here.
Terry:
I appreciate your time. Maybe you can start off telling us a little bit about yourself and a little bit about your business.
Josh:
A little bit about me first... I'm 27 years old, I live in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the U.S., I've been married for over eight years, I have three children, we just had twins on August, 5th, so we're very busy now. We do a lot of affiliate marketing and direct response, and not as much network marketing. I've been in the industry since late 2000. This is basically what I've done professionally since I got out of college. I love what I do; this is a great industry to be in. There are also some tricks of the trade, so anyway.
Terry:
Excellent. That sounds cool. Where did you graduate from?
Josh:
I graduated from Oklahoma State University in Tulsa, and I graduated with a bachelor's degree in marketing with an emphasis on promotions and advertising. It's really what I'm doing right now; I do a lot of advertising and promotions and direct response.
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How I got introduced to the industry is probably the question... I just came out of college and started a job in the corporate world. I was a management trainee for a large company in the states who does electrical distribution. They were going to guru me to lead the company. What I saw was, I saw the management and the salaries they were making and I had a good friend who was in outside sales who was making three or four times what the management was making, which was very interesting.
I was raised by blue-collar parents; they were not entrepreneur people. I've always been an entrepreneur at heart, but I wasn't raised in that environment. I've been blessed to be around people who... it goes back to my college days where I wrestled on a scholarship. I've just been put around really driven individual people. In business it's been the same way. I think it is the law of attraction