If you have thought about the possibility of creating your own online store which ships physical goods, but have been put off by the prospect of having to maintain 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 straight up that if anyone besides than Steve Clayton and Tim Godfrey were trying to get my attention by proposing to dominate niches using what sounds like eBay-seller type storefronts, I'd be very unlikely to listen to their proposition.

However, these two guys happen to be outstanding internet marketers, as you'll see in a moment.

Steve and Tim achieved fame with their earlier product, called Commission Blueprint, in which they exposed their enormously successful affiliate marketing methods for selling ClickBank products through pay per click advertising.

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

So Steve Clayton and Tim Godfrey know how to sell stuff. It's just what they are good at. They have put in the time, learned from their experience, and these days they are happy to earn some extra 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 this is also 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 create his own lifestyle independent of anyone else. Well, he almost achieved his goal, but as luck would have it, he chanced to meet Tim Godfrey and the two struck up a partnership that has worked out very well for the both of them. Tim has spent a lot of time experimenting with all the myriad ways that affiliates can earn money online, including having produced his own affiliate marketing products. He appears to be happy being the backend part of this dynamic duo, while Steve creates the videos and gets his face out in front of everyone.

Their first creation for 2009 is called the Niche Blueprint. Unlike their first joint product, which concentrated on how to sell digital goods, this time around they are explaining how to be massively 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 shocked to learn that people are prepared to pay up to $1000 or more to place powerful train horns on their cars. Who knows why! But if there is a market for it, and the profit potential is good, then it is clearly something that should interest any serious affiliate marketer.

Now, I have promoted tangible products in the past (and even presently) and I know that the commissions on these are generally very low. For instance, the top commission rate you can get selling an item through Amazon.com is about 8 percent. Steve and Tim know this too. So instead of simply earning their commissions through referred sales, they have devised a method for acquiring the goods wholesale, and then drop shipping the products through an affordable service. That way, they are able to set the prices of the products and make more that the standard affiliate commissions. In effect, they have become sellers.

In theory, it sounds viable, but what about the storefront? How do you go about finding 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 figured out how to set up their own drop shipping business so that they could cut out the middle-man. When their clients buy the Niche Blueprint, which you can learn more about in my Niche Blueprint review, they get a free lifetime subscription to the service.

They also are given all of the software needed to set up 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 likely not pay too much attention. But these guys are simply just too successful to ignore.

So if you think you might like 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 see that they have opened up their membership queue, realize that it will only be temporary. I have also decided to make it easier for people to decide to sign up for the Niche Blueprint. I am offering a substantial bonus in the form of companion software which can be used to create lead-in pages for your store. You can see the 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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