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If you have pondered the possibility of creating your own online storefront which delivers tangible goods, but have been deterred by the prospect of having to deal with inventory, then the strategy devised by super affiliates Steve Clayton and Tim Godfrey may provide just the opportunity you have been seeking.

Let me say straight up that if anyone besides than Steve Clayton and Tim Godfrey were 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 amazing internet marketers, as you'll see in just a moment.

Steve and Tim are better known for their 2008 product, called Commission Blueprint, in which they exposed their highly successful affiliate marketing strategies 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 an ad spend that cost perhaps a fifth 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 solutions, and schemes to run your car on water (apparently people will buy that 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, learned from their experience, and these days they are happy to earn some additional 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 an improved understanding for me as to how to sell effectively, 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 labored for two decades in, as he describes it, "Corporate America". But he got out in 2003 after deciding that what he wanted to do was establish his own lifestyle independent of anyone else. Well, he almost did that, but as luck would have it, he met Tim Godfrey and the two struck up a partnership which has worked out very well for the both of them. Tim has invested a lot of time experimenting with all the myriad ways that affiliates can earn 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 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 focused on how to sell digital goods, this time around they are providing instruction on how to be hugely successful at selling physical goods.

As examples of this, they have revealed that they have made hundreds of thousands of dollars targeting obscure niches like bird cages, sewing machines, and even train horns. Train horns? You will probably be shocked to discover that people are prepared to pay up to $1000 or more to put powerful train horns on their automobiles. Who knows why! But if there is a market for it, and the profit potential is 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 commission rates on these are usually very low. For instance, the best commission rate you can get promoting an item through Amazon.com is about 8 percent. Steve and Tim understand this. So instead of simply earning their commissions through referred sales, they have come up with a method for acquiring the goods wholesale, and then drop shipping the items through an affordable service. That way, they are able to set the prices of the products and earn more that the standard affiliate commissions. In effect, they have become vendors.

In principle, it sounds great, but what about the storefront? How do you go about finding providers of the products that you want to sell through the online store? And what about the drop shipping end of it (which allows you to bypass stocking any inventory)?

Well, Steve and Tim decided to set up their own drop shipping business so that they could eliminate 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 implement their online store, plus loads of video tutorials and PDF manuals that teach them how to do everything. Again, if it was anyone other than this pair of characters offering the product, I would likely 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, have a closer look at the Niche Blueprint. But I must warn you that Steve and Tim rarely take new clients for this product, so if you discover 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 substantial bonus in the form of companion software which can be used to generate lead-in pages for your store. You can see my 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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