This document provides a 20-step checklist for creating a free report and using it to drive affiliate sales through content marketing. The checklist involves selecting an affiliate product and niche, creating 7-page report content around that product, setting up a website and autoresponder to host and distribute the report, optimizing report pages on SlideShare and YouTube, and linking content together to drive traffic. The goal is to use free content and links to drive people to an affiliate offer related to the report's topic.

1. Stephen Pierce Money Maker Cheat Sheet #3 of 5
The Free Report Cash Flow Creator
# Done Activity
1 Select a target market
2 Select a micro niche and an affiliate product geared towards your micro niche market.
3 Select 1 keyword related to that product to focus on
4 Get a url shortening account like www.budurl.com or www.bit.ly
5 Put your affiliate url for the affiliate product offer in url shortening account.
Create or outsource content (PLR not preferred) for a 7 page report you can give away
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free.
Add a keyword optimized question with affiliate link in footer of all pages. (exp:
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“Want to get rid of cellulite in 30 days?”)
Add a keyword focused “If this, then that” statement at end of report on last page. (exp:
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“If you want to get rid of cellulite in 30 days, then you will love this!”)
9 Get a keyword focused domain for your report www.CheapCheapDomainNames.com
10 Host your domain at www.GetGatorHosting.com
11 Install WordPress and optimize it for your keyword
12 Open an account at www.Aweber.com
13 Create your autoresponder and optin code
14 Upload report to your website and place link in your autoresponder.
15 Put autoresponder optin code on your blog with teaser copy.
16 Ping the report page on your blog at www.Pingler.com
Submit 2 pages of your report to SlideShare and Docstoc with a link to your optin page
17 for access to the full report. Optimize the listing for your keyword and then ping the
results page of your document.
Create video teaser with www.Animoto.com with a call to action like “Claim Your
18 Free 7 Page Report On How To Get Rid Of Cellulite In 30 Days!” Limited Time Offer!
Instant Download!
19 Upload video to www.YouTube.com and ping results page.
Create a Link Pyramid and/or LinkWheel to your blog posting, your SlideShare listing
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and your YouTube listing.
Checklist Revision History
Ver. Date Author(s) Reason for Change
1.0 130612 Stephen Pierce Initial Version
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