Much has been written on the subject of affiliate marketing, but sometimes until you see specific examples ideas just don’t click.

In this post, I’m going to show you a very creative affiliate marketing example created by Tissa Godavitarne of ACME People Search.

People searches represent a huge market, and affiliates have substantial opportunity to generate income from this niche. What most affiliates do in this niche is just throw up a review landing page and send traffic to affiliate partners.

But Tissa created an “out of the box” business that combined two highly profitable markets and drives massive affiliate profits.

Market # 1

Tissa’s business model began by recognizing the huge opportunity in the people search niche market. To dominate the niche, Tissa created a very unique way to capture the market with his own search engine.

The ACME search engine is simple. When you search for a person it returns results just like Google does for keyword searches.

But unlike Google keyword searches, the Acme People search engine only provides partial data about the person being searched. If you want to unlock all the data, the search engine refers you to affiliate partners where big affiliate commissions are earned.

Another unique aspect of this business model is the auto responder feature.    Before referring you to an affiliate partner, the Acme search engine is setup to capture your e-mail address.   Your e-mail address is then placed into an Aweber autoresponder for future follow-ups on the person you were searching about.

In total there are 4 streams of affiliate commissions generated from the search engine. But those 4 income streams are only part of the story, market # 2 is where Tissa really distinguished himself.

If you want to see the search engine live and play around with it click here.

Market #2

The true power of Tissa’s people search engine is centered around another massive affiliate market, the online business market. Tissa recognized there is a huge barrier for people entering the online business market. That barrier is the technical skills required to get an online business running and actually making money online.

Consequently, Tissa, built his AMCE people search engine so that anyone at the “push of a button” can start their own affiliate earning search engine for FREE.

That handles the technical hurtle, but what about making money. Well Tissa did not stop short, he built lots of money making opportunities in his people search engine.

First if you follow Tissa’s 3 steps (1. Affiliatize 2. Monetize 3. Advertise) and flip his super affiliate switch, you will have access to your own people search engine which can earn money from 7 unique affiliate programs.

Four of the affiliate income streams are in the people search market itself and are earned when people do searches via your search engine.

The other 3 income streams are in the make money online market and have high conversions since you must complete the affiliate offers to get the maximum benefit from your search engine.

For each person you refer to start a free ACME people search engine, Tissa pays the below 3 affiliate commissions to you.

1. Referral Fees – If a user completes the 3 steps (1. Affiliatize 2. Monetize 3. Advertise) your referral earnings are as high as $30 per signup.
2. Global Domain International (GDI) Affiliate Commissions: Each time a referral sets up a free people search engine a domain is needed. When the domain is purchased from Global Domain International, 100% affiliate commission is paid. As an Affiliate of GDI you can also make money for every person who signs up under you or someone in your downline 5 levels deep.
3. HostGator – When you follow all Tissa’s steps and flip your super affiliate switch, you can earn as much as $125 per sign up from HostGator hosting for all your referrals. If people you refer want to flip their super affiliate switch then they must first get HostGator hosting from your affiliate link. A win win for driving hosting affiliate commissions to you.

Please don’t misunderstand this post as me selling Tissa’s system, because I am not.

What I want you to see is that with a little bit of creativity, you too can create value in any niche that will drive big affiliate profits.

If for some reason you want to learn more about ACME people search,
click here.