Become an affiliate of The Minimalist Program

Affiliates - Earn 75% Commission!

Welcome to my resource page for affiliates. My product The Minimalist Exercise And Nutrition Program is one that you can feel confident promoting to a very large target audience of people interested in learning how best to achieve superior long term health using the most effective and efficient approach to working out and eating healthy.

Please use the resources on this page to help with your promotions and feel free to contact me with any questions you may have about promoting my program.

How Much Will I Make?

When you promote The Minimalist Exercise And Nutrition Program as an affiliate you will be making a healthy 75 percent commission on every sale that you refer. The main product that you will be promoting is The Minimalist Exercise And Nutrition Program, but you will receive commissions for any other of my products that are promoted to the prospect as well.

The program currently sells for $37. This means you get to keep approximately $24.92 of every sale (once my sales processor takes its small cut).

If you are familiar with pay per click advertising, and know how to create adverts with appropriately chosen keywords, you can run profitable campaigns while you sleep! Or, if you prefer not to dabble with pay per click, you can simply promote my book on your blog, create a page on Squidoo or HubPages, or write an article and place it on EzineArticles or any other popular article directory. These are just some of the more obvious zero-cost promotional ideas.

There are, of course, lots of other places that you can use to promote the book without spending a penny.

How Often Will I Be Paid?

Because ClickBank® manages the affiliate program for my program (see the next section) the customer actually pays ClickBank directly and they in turn pay you. That means your commission is credited to you the moment the sale is processed.

You are never waiting on me to pay you. ClickBank pays you every two weeks, like clockwork. If there are any refunds to be handled (very infrequent with my program), ClickBank handles that too.

It is a simple system and it works incredibly well for both affiliates and merchants.

Affiliate URL To Sales Page

Because I am using ClickBank to sell my book you only need to sign up as a ClickBank affiliate, get your affiliate nickname and you will be ready to go. The affiliate URL you will need to use to promote the book will look just like this:

				
					http://nickname.minimalism.hop.clickbank.net/

All you need to do is replace "nickname" in this URL with your actual ClickBank nickname.

Note that this STANDARD affiliate URL takes visitors directly to the SALES PAGE for the product. You can also find other URLs on this page that work as hoplinks but which take the visitor to an opt-in page where they can obtain a free report that promotes the product.

ClickBank also allows you to specify an optional tracking ID, so that you can figure out which campaigns are making you sales. I strongly recommend that you get into the habit of keeping tabs on your referrals this way, since in the long run it will help you establish profitable campaigns. ClickBank allows you to specify a tracking ID with the query string variable tid, so that if your tracking ID was getfit for a particular campaign (say a PPC keyword like get fit), then you would add tracking like this for that campaign:

				
					http://nickname.minimalism.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=getfit

On the remainder of this page you will find material to help you with your promotions.

Blog & Article Swatches

Feel free to use the following promotional copy as blog posts or short articles. I recommend that you rewrite these a little, especially if you want them to be ranked by the search engines (which like unique content). But if you already have a readership you can elect to post these pretty much as is if you like.

The FIRST article uses your hoplink to take the reader to the SQUEEZE PAGE that can be used to offer the visitor my free report entitled "Achieve Double The Results In Half The Workout Time".

Article 01 - Wasting Your Time In Exercise Wonderland?

Physical fitness never comes easy.

Especially not if you take to exercise like Alice does when she visits Wonderland and encounters the Red Queen's race.

As Alice quickly discovers - somewhat frustratingly - though she runs and runs she remains in exactly the same spot.

So she quips to the Red Queen that where she comes from "you'd generally get to somewhere else - if you run very fast for a long time, as we've been doing."

"A slow sort of country!" the Queen roars back at her incredulously. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"

Now I'd love to be able to tell you that Lewis Carroll brilliantly anticipated the treadmill a good century before its time, but that's just not the case. In the early nineteenth century treadmills were used as punishment devices for people sentenced to hard labor in prisons. Of course, if you have spent any time using a treadmill machine in an effort to get fit you will know that this curious historical note has a real ring of the truth about it!

Not only does running on the spot literally get you nowhere fast, according to fitness expert Carolyn Hansen it's a COMPLETE waste of your time if your goal is to improve your level of fitness.

Carolyn co-owns a gym, and like thousands of gym-owners across the world she concedes to the client's desire to stock her gym with a more than sufficient supply of the "go nowhere" exercise machines.

"But in my heart," she says, "I know that the people using them are getting NOWHERE near the benefits of physical exercise that they COULD be getting from the time they allocate to pursing their fitness goals."

So what SHOULD they be doing instead?

According to Carolyn they should be stepping OFF those treadmills and doing the kinds of exercise that will give you the benefits of TWO workouts in one. And in HALF the time!

If you want to learn how, grab her FREE REPORT which answers that exact question:

<a href="http://nickname.minimalism.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=article1&ttid=article1&page=quadruple">Click here to discover How To Get The Benefits Of TWO Workouts In One</a>

As Carolyn would say, this may be the way to break out of your Wonderland experience in the gym once and for all.

Article 02 - Are You Frittering Away Your Life With Exercise?

I had always suspected that my complete lack of interest in exercise had some kind of logical foundation to it. But it wasn't until recently that I was able to pinpoint the reason.

And no wonder. Because it turns out my reluctance to set foot in the gym has at its root the now-confirmed notion in my mind that exercising for me is a complete waste of time and effort.

At least it would be if I did any.

That's because like most people, if I actually DID exercise I would have done it completely the WRONG way. Which is to say that I would have spent my time working out like 95 percent of the rest of the population - who do completely the WRONG thing.

But wait a minute. ANY kind of exercise is surely better than NO exercise. Right?

Short answer: yes. Longer answer: well, it kinda depends...

Like most people, I tend to picture myself running, swimming, hitting the stationary bicycle, or even committing to that dreadful "go nowhere" machine when I think about entering a gym to put in the hours needed to get into shape. And I DO think about this stuff, because when I stand in front of the mirror and turn sideways there can be no doubt that - to put it mildly - I am in need of a tune-up!

But according to fitness professional Carolyn Hansen, who co-owns a fitness gym and has watched people try to get into shape for more than 30 years now, the image I have of the work needed to get the job done is the wrong one.

Too many people spend too much time in the gym and walk out no better off than when they went in. That's what Carolyn says in her FREE REPORT that explains how to "Achieve Double The Results In Half The Workout Time":

<a href="http://nickname.minimalism.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=article1&ttid=article1&page=quadruple">Click here to discover How To Get The Benefits Of TWO Workouts In One</a>

According to her, people fritter away their time doing what they THINK they need to do in a gym, but in actuality they are getting almost nothing in return for their time and effort.

On the one hand that makes me feel better. At least I have been frittering away my time doing things I like to do, of which exercise is not one of them.

On the other hand, I am paying for my laziness because the trade off is increased risk of chronic disease, a miserable period of old age, and a reduced life span.

At least, that's what Carolyn says in her book, along with providing a prescription for how to right this problem by making use of the most effective and efficient forms of exercise that even LAZY people like me should be able to implement if we simply decided that we really liked the idea of living a long, sustainably-enjoyable, and disease-free life.

Actually, that doesn't sound all that bad, does it?

Note About Which Affiliate URL To Use
Although you will find in these promotional articles and emails the hoplink that takes the prospect to a squeeze page (because these pieces all promote the free report) you can always CHANGE the emphasis of the email (or article) if you want, and promote the sales page instead. In that case you would use the standard hoplink.

However you will probably find your conversion rate tends to be higher when sending prospects to the squeeze page. This is because the prospect will see the sales page anyway (right after opting in) and they will be marketed to in the days ahead using the auto responder sequence designed to promote this product. Your affiliate URL will appear on follow up emails that go out during this time.

Note About Tracking Variables
In all of the affiliate URLs appearing in the articles (and in the email swipes below), the tid variable represents the standard ClickBank tracking variable which is NEVER passed through to our landing page.

So, if you want to have your tracking ID recorded as a "lifetime cookie" use the additional ttid variable that we can then append to hoplinks in promotional emails (as the tid variable) along with your Clickbank affiliate nickname.

Email Swatches

One of the benefits of promoting this product is that EVERYONE finds it hard to get the best possible results from their health and fitness routines, whether this involves working out, trying to eat healthy, or doing both.

That means no matter what your list may be interested in specifically, they are likely to find this subject - their long-term health - hard to ignore. That means you can broach the subject with them and use the special report squeeze page to get them to take action. From there, my automated follow up auto responder sequence will do the job of alerting them to The Minimalist Exercise And Nutrition Program.

Or you can send them straight to the sales page. However, the squeeze page approach is likely to afford you the best results.

This email swipe is intended to be used when you want to send a prospect to the SQUEEZE PAGE which can be seen here

SQUEEZE PAGE EMAIL PROMOTION 01

SUBJECT

Sneaky adult tricks to cut gym class early

BODY

Back in high school if you cut gym class the worst thing that might happen is you get caught and you end up in detention.

Roll the clock on 30+ years and the picture has completely changed, the potential consequences for defaulting a lot more serious.

Now if you decide to forgo time in the gym you're possibly committing yourself to literal bodily ruination. After all, none of us are getting any younger...

So either you totally get that exercise provides a way to stave off the inevitable decline in health that sets in as you approach middle-age and beyond - or you don't.

Assuming you do, this new report from fitness expert Carolyn Hansen will tell you how to "Achieve Double The Results In Half The Workout Time":

http://nickname.minimalism.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=email01&ttid=email01&page=quadruple

That means it could literally peel HOURS off your required workout time every single week.

Not only will you be doing yourself a HUGE favor by learning how to wring out more benefits from every minute you spend exercising, but I suspect the time you do save yourself will be a whole lot more valuable to you than it was when you skipped gym class as a pimply-faced teenager who had all the time in the whole on their hands!

SQUEEZE PAGE EMAIL PROMOTION 02

SUBJECT

Double your workout results? Or QUADRUPLE them?

BODY

If I asked you what the best way to exercise is, what would you tell me?

Most people, if pressed for an answer, will end up describing a workout format that bears an uncanny resemblance to the one they follow almost religiously.

Never mind that more than 90 percent of people who hit the gym or engage in any other form of physical fitness NEVER attain anything close to the level of fitness that they would like to attain.

That's why, even if you ARE working out regularly, you'll want to grab Carolyn Hansen's new report to learn how to "Achieve Double The Results In Half The Workout Time":

http://nickname.minimalism.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=email01&ttid=email01&page=quadruple

In case you're as bad at math as I am, double the results in half the workout time means that your ratio of results to time spent achieving them has gone up by a factor of four.

That's QUADRUPLE the workout efficiency that you might be getting right now.

In fact, there's nothing really amazing in that number because most people are so far from achieving what they COULD be managing from their workouts that absolutely NOTHING in Carolyn's report reads as over-hyped or beyond the reach of mere mortals like you and me.

So what's the secret to getting the job done?

We'll, I won't go so far as to steal Carolyn's thunder before you have the report in your hands...

But I will say that exercise selection makes a CRITICAL difference to how long it takes to get the results you deserve.

If you are regularly biking, swimming, doing cardio, running laps or the treadmill, or performing any of a host of similar exercise activities - then you may not like what you discover on reading her report.

On the other hand, if you've begun to suspect that you're just NOT making the progress you think you ought to be making, you may just thank your lucky stars that you did read it.

That's because there is whole range of "common sense" workout philosophies that JUST DO NOT WORK if your goal is to dramatically improve your level of physical fitness. To learn what does work, grab Carolyn's report now:

http://nickname.minimalism.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=email01&ttid=email01&page=quadruple

Cover Art

Here are the three covers associated with the program, reproduced in a few different sizes for you to grab and insert into your promotions.

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Affiliate Conduct

Before you start promoting my product, I only have one request: Please don't "spam" people.

And I am not just talking about the illegal kind (see the clarification on spamming below).

I am also talking about the overall approach taken to promoting my products. Please make sure that you are not being "hypey", or unrealistic when you contact your subscribers or client-base, publish ads/articles or otherwise drive targeted traffic.

Your target audience should be anyone interested in learning how best to improve the state of their health using the most effective and efficient means of physical activity and nutritional principles to do so.

OK, good luck with your promotions.

And don't forget, if you have any questions about promotional activities, feel free to contact me and I will get back to you shortly thereafter (though do note that I am based in New Zealand, so I could well be asleep when you email :)

Sincerely,

Carolyn Hansen

Author, Fitness Centre Owner & National Champion Bodybuilder

Clarification of the term Spamming
You are prohibited from promoting this product by spamming - including, but not limited to, unsolicited commercial email broadcasts, forum/newsgroup crossposting, blog-spamming, solicitation on classifieds sites, social network spamming and otherwise contacting anyone without their prior permission. Please visit FTC.org to learn more about ethical marketing practices, guidelines and laws.

Any affiliates caught spamming will be immediately reported to ClickBank

See ClickBank's specific rules and regulations regarding affiliate promotion here