If you have pondered the possibility of creating your own online store which delivers physical goods, but have been deterred by the prospect of having to deal with inventory, then the method devised by super affiliates Steve Clayton and Tim Godfrey may be just the opportunity you have been waiting for.

Let me say at the outset that if anyone other than Steve Clayton and Tim Godfrey was trying to get my attention with promises of niche domination using what sounds like eBay-seller type storefronts, I'd not be interested in listening to their proposition.

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

Steve and Tim achieved fame with their 2008 product, called Commission Blueprint, in which they detailed their highly successful affiliate marketing strategies for promoting ClickBank products through PPC advertising.

In fact, one of their campaigns consistently earned about $100,000 per month in commissions, with an ad spend that amounted to perhaps a fifth of that. If that sounds astonishing, it should. Especially when you consider they were able to do this selling multiple non-internet marketing related products, like acne therapies, and schemes to fuel your car with 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 revealing 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 on my part for how to sell efficiently, then that's all I care about. I am sure the same is 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 left that life in 2003 after realizing that what he wanted to do was create his own lifestyle independent of anyone else. Well, he almost achieved his goal, but as fortune would have it, he chanced to meet Tim Godfrey and the pair struck up a partnership which 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. In contrast to their first joint product, which concentrated on how to sell info products, this time around they are explaining how to be massively successful at selling physical products.

As examples of this, they have revealed that they have made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling in obscure niches like bird cages, sewing machines, and even train horns. Train horns? You will probably be surprised to learn that people pay up to $1000 or more to place powerful train horns on their automobiles. Who knows why! But if there is a market for it, and the returns are good, then it is clearly something that should peak the interest of any serious affiliate marketer.

Now, I have promoted tangible goods in the past (and even presently) and I know that the commissions on these are usually very low. For instance, the top commission rate you can get promoting a product through Amazon.com is about 8 percent. Steve and Tim know this too. So instead of simply making their commissions through referred sales, they have come up with a method for acquiring the goods wholesale, and then drop shipping the products through an inexpensive service. That way, they can set the prices of the products and earn more that the standard affiliate commissions. In effect, they have become merchants.

In principle, it sounds viable, but what about the storefront? How do you go about locating suppliers of the goods that you want to sell through the online store? And what about the drop shipping service (which allows you to avoid 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 non-expiring subscription to the service.

They also are given all of the software required to set up their online store, plus lots of video tutorials and PDF manuals that explain how to do everything. Again, if it was anyone other than this pair of marketers offering the product, I would probably not pay too much attention. But these guys are simply just too good at their game to ignore.

So if you think you might want to leverage their success, take a closer inspection of the Niche Blueprint. But I must warn you that Steve and Tim rarely open the doors to 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 generate 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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