affiliate marketing Guide
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Affiliate marketing is appealing and attractive. It promises you great income without the need to handle any inventories or product shipping. You have seen plenty of success stories which suggest to you that you could be one of them too. You bought all kind of ebooks, software and system that promises to lead you to success, but after a while, you discovered that the business is making you a loss rather than a profit. So what really happens?
While affiliate marketing is truly financial rewarding, it is definitely not an easy task. The reason why so many people fail at affiliate marketing is because many affiliates make fatal mistakes that result from their ignorance of facts concerning how the entire business runs. Affiliate marketing is not about setting up a website and recommends a few products. It is about the skill of building a real long term business that can bring you profits even when you are sleeping.
Here are the top 4 fatal mistakes that most affiliates make:
Wrong attitude
The first fatal mistake that most affiliates make is to have the wrong attitude toward affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is never a Get-Rich-Quick Scheme and should not be treated as one. What successful affiliate marketers never tell you is that they have put in a lot of effort, time and hard work before they achieve what they have today. If you want to be successful in affiliate marketing, you must treat it just like any business and possess the right attitude and mindset. Only then can you achieve result that you want.
No passion/knowledge in the product
Next commonly made mistake by affiliates is to promote a product that they have no passion or knowledge on. In other word, they are not promoting something they liked. This is going to be fatal. The reason is simple. How can you recommend a product to anyone when you don’t even know what benefits the product can bring to your customer? If you have personally used and loved the product, you will be able to share, review and even give powerful testimonial to your customer on the benefit of the product. You will also be in a great position to answer the needs of your customer. The bottom line is: if you do not have genuine interest in the product, do not promote it.
Lack of consistent effort
Consistency is the key to success in any business. This applies to affiliate marketing as well. In affiliate marketing, most affiliates do not put in consistent effort to apply the strategies they have learnt.
Lack of patient
Affiliate marketing though ideal as a business model, does not make you a millionaire overnight. Most affiliates do not have the persistency and patience to build their affiliate marketing. They often give up when they are not making any income. The truth is: it’ll take a long time to build up a full-time income with affiliate marketing and during this time, you are likely to face a lot of uncertainties and setback. The good news is, as long as you persist and consistently employing the right strategies, it is only a matter of time that you reap your rewards from your affiliate business.
All in all, affiliates that are doomed to fail in this business are those who do not exert enough effort to understand everything involved in the industry that they are in. Knowing the fatal mistakes that others make and avoiding them will prove to be useful to them.
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Could anyone help me find information about affiliate marketing?Ive been reserching about how to get started in the affilate marketing business and was looking to see whether anyone knew of any sites on the web that would help me get started. Basically all the sites I've found so far just give a basic overview of the area and and dont really give an indepth guide to getting started. Does anyone know of any indepth sources on the web? also any thoughts, advice or ideas on getting started would be greatly appreciated.
About Author
Damien Oh is an experienced affiliate marketer. He provides a free ebook to help affiliates to succeed in their affiliate marketing business. Download it at his site http://www.ecsecretaffiliateweapon.com
18 Comments
January 29th, 2010 at 8:33 am
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January 29th, 2010 at 8:49 am
There are a number of ways you can get involved in a affiliate marketing… and you don't have to spend a lot of money to get started. The one thing you do need to invest is time… time to learn the skills you need, and time maintaining your affiliate program. You also don't have to be able to build a website, as there are a lot of different options and methods of getting involved in affiliate marketing
If you're looking for an affiliate training program, we offer a free course on our website that is a great introduction with video lessons and a lot of links to really experienced people in the field. Check it out… you might find it's just what you're after.
Our lessons are at http://www.affilorama.com/lessons
Hope you find what your after, and good luck! Affiliate marketing can be hard work, but it can also be a great income, and most importantly, a lot of fun!
January 29th, 2010 at 9:06 am
There are so many ways to lose your commission but it is possible to make money with affiliate marketing. The best thing is to do your research on who you are doing business with. There are some good and some bad… With a little knowledge you can do well.
http://www.affiliate-marketing-101.com/
http://www.abestweb.com is a great affiliate marketing forum.
Good luck!
January 29th, 2010 at 9:14 am
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January 29th, 2010 at 10:27 am
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I make over $1000 a month and not that I'm all set up, I only put a few hours a month into it, you can make allot more if you put more time into it. And, they dont make you pay anything up front.
January 29th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
I really liked your video and your channel. If you really want to get your business exposed, I have a program that does exactly that. This program has boosted my business to the top of the internet. This is not a mlm, pyramid scheme or how to make money on ebay. Please check out my channel and videos. Thanks again can’t wait to hear from ya.
January 30th, 2010 at 6:37 am
Awesome Video
Fantastic Content
Keep sharing!
January 30th, 2010 at 6:51 am
Check out these websites
http://www.abestweb.com. – They have a lot of affiliate programs. They have been opened since 2001. They even have products that make you money without the customer buying any thing. I hope this helps
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January 30th, 2010 at 11:04 am
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January 30th, 2010 at 6:17 pm
Check out http://www.returnonaffiliates.com
It is a community all about affiliates.
I am currentlyrunning a program and that site helped me.
Contact me to compare notes.
There is also a great magazine called Revenue.
It is all about the industry.
January 30th, 2010 at 7:39 pm
If you want to promote a affilite link online, you need to establish a website first. Here is a guide to properly getting your site going – http://www.richkahmer.com/build-a-website.html
Once you have a quality site with decent traffic you can push a product on there. CJ.com is pretty good if you get a lot of traffic. (they will cancel your account if you don't produce enough traffic)
January 31st, 2010 at 3:12 am
I became a millionaire years ago. And since then I’ve met lots of other people who could have duplicated my success. It’s all about desire.
January 31st, 2010 at 6:51 am
There is no definitive guide as such, but there are some great resources out there to help. There's a site called utalkmarketing.com which has a digital section- http://www.utalkmarketing.com/Speciality.aspx?nav=speciality_digital
It has a best practice section with case studies and also a basic info section if you are starting from scratch. The great thing is, they are all written within the last 6 months or so. Another way in is to look at some books although a lot of these are too old as online marketing is constantly changing. There's one i use called 'Marketing Through Search Optimization: How to Be Found on the Web' which is a good jumping off point and was written in the last 2 years. I hope this helps.
January 31st, 2010 at 6:40 pm
Awesme Vid, Very helpful, Check out a few of mine
February 1st, 2010 at 2:20 am
It is a lot more money. I've made $4.00 on my adsense this month, but I've made over $150.00 with my affiliate links for about 30 minutes of work.
There are many good programs listed at http://moneybakery.com/affiliates
February 1st, 2010 at 1:21 pm
I don't know anyone who is affiliated in affiliated marketing. So I can't really answer that. but I do know, that you wouldn't be owning your own business unless you invest money into it. By means of a start up cost, or buying products yourself and re selling them, advertisement or something along those lines. Owning a business is not free. I wrote some things down that might help you to see for yourself if this is a good business to get involved in, using my business as an example. If on the list it checks out (you may have to do some research) but if it all checks out, then you can chose to do it. IF it's a business, don't just try it. You need to devote time and effort into it and build it. If your going to just try a business, you will most likely fail! So here's a few things that you should take a look at before getting involved in any company.
1. How long have they been in business? We checked to see how long our company was around, at the time it was nine years old and now it's 15. Do you know when they started? If it's under 5 years, then their is a risk factor
2. Are they registered with the BBB. Ours is registered. I think this is important one.
3. Who's involved with the company? Like in ours Donald Trump, Robert Kiyosaki has endorsed our company. Many actors and actresses, business owners, government officials etc use our products. Check to see if anyone has endorsed this company. Also, meet with the co-founders. We've personally met our co-founders and found from our first meeting that they were incredible people with incredible visions. See if their's a time where you can meet them. If your going to be doing business, there should be a time where you should have the chance to meet with them.
4. What is the compensation plan now, and what was it like before.
See the history of the comp plan and see if increases and never decreases in it's history. We checked with the records in our business and found that in over the years, the compensation plan had only gotten better each year. As long as we've been involved, we've now witnessed the compensation plan always increasing. Check the history on yours.
5.Have they been featured in magazine's? For instance our company has been featured in several magazines Like Success, Fortune, USA Today etc. Check to see if they have. You can get a lot of information on the company by reading about them.
6. Has Inc 500 rated them? This magazine or slit rated our company the 22nd fastest growing company in revenue in it's first 5 years. Inc 500 shows the top 500 businesses in revenue growth. Check to see what Inc 500 rated the company your looking at.
7. Do they have a physical address that you can go to? Check for an address not just a P.O. Box
8. Where are their headquarters? Our world headquarters is in Farmington Hills Michigan, Personally been there, (If your here in the states) Other headquarters in different countries. and US headquarters in Charlotte.
9. What does the start up cost take care of? If there is no start up cost, what will you have to be dishing out and for what? In my business headquarters takes care of all the billing for my customers, Inventory, Customer services, Order Entry, Employees, workman's comp, Cross referencing, Licensing, Insurance, paperwork, accounts payables, accounts receivables etc.
10. What is the product and service you would be selling.
Is the product and service in high demand? For instance we offer services that people are already using every day and paying for anyway, but at a lower cost. Things like Local and Long distance telephone services, Internet, video phones, digital phones, cellular phones through all the major cellular providers. We make a percentage every single month they pay their bills. Everyone uses them and everyone pays for them. When money gets tight, would they keep your service or be able to run to the store and be able to purchase them on sale? Leaving you to have to wait until they run out of what they just purchased, or wait until their finances get settled? This is what I mean by high demand.
So many different things to check out in making sure a business is a good one to get involved in. If the business feels right to you, and all questions are answered and you feel good about it, then I'd say jump in. Running a business is different then a job though. You have to treat it like it's your child and not just something your going to "try" you have to believe in the product and service and go at it full force. This is your future your talking about, no one else's.
I hope my examples of what we looking into with our business helps you be able to find the same answers in the business your looking into. Forget about asking the common question and asking someone how much they make in their business to determine if you'd get involved in this or not. In a business, it doesn't matter what one business is making over another. It only matters what you do in "YOUR" business. I hate it when people ask me how much I make. Because they're not going to walk into and start up their business making what I make. I've been involved with my business for over six years. So yeah, I will make more. If you tell someone how much you make, then it's a psychological thing that they expect to make that amount in a week, and that is just not going to happen. Six years of building a business verses 1 day. So don't even ask. Look at the possibilities for YOURSELF.
If you have any further questions or need help,feel free to contact me at kaiden4@aol.com