If you have thought about the possibility of creating your own online store which delivers tangible products, but have been put off by the prospect of having to maintain 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 right now 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 awesome internet marketers, as you'll see in a moment.

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

In fact, one of their campaigns regularly earned around $100,000 per month in commissions, with an ad spend that amounted to perhaps a quarter of that. If this sounds astonishing, it should. Especially when you appreciate they were able to do this selling scores of non-internet marketing related products, like acne solutions, and schemes to run your car on water (apparently people will buy this kind of thing!).

So Steve Clayton and Tim Godfrey know what it takes to sell stuff. It's just what they are good at. They have done the work, gathered the experience, and these days they are happy to make 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 for me as to how to sell effectively, 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 two decades in, as he describes it, "Corporate America". But he got out in 2003 after realizing that what he wanted to do was establish his own lifestyle free from anyone else. Well, he almost did that, but as fortune would have it, he met 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 various ways that affiliates can make money online, including having created his own affiliate marketing products. He appears to be happy being the backend part of this dynamic duo, while Steve appears in the videos and gets his face out in front of clients.

Their first product for 2009 is called the Niche Blueprint. In contrast to their first joint product, which concentrated on the selling of digital goods, this time around they are providing instruction on how to be hugely successful at selling physical products.

As examples of this, they say they have made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling in obscure niches such as bird cages, sewing machines, and even train horns. Train horns? You will almost certainly be surprised to discover that people 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 physical goods 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 understand this. So instead of just making their commissions through referred sales, they have devised a method for procuring the goods wholesale, and then drop shipping the items through an inexpensive service. That way, they can set the prices of the goods and make more that the standard affiliate commissions. In effect, they have become vendors.

In principle, it sounds viable, but what about the storefront? How do you go about locating providers of the products 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 decided to set up their own drop shipping business so that they could remove the middle-man. When their members 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 get 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 characters offering the product, I would probably not pay too much attention. But these guys are simply just too successful 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 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 potential clients to decide to sign up for the Niche Blueprint. I am offering a sizable bonus in the form of companion software that 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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