6 Mistakes Affiliate Marketers make and how to avoid them for success!

It’s always one of those “I can’t believe its true” moments for new affiliates once they discover the world of affiliate marketing. When they realise you don’t have to worry about product development or shipping. They immediately jump on board, forgetting to perform their due diligence on the company they are joining. Then soon afterwards they expect to start making  money within  weeks of starting, but  reality always strikes. They are yet to be millionaires. Here are some mistakes and tips on how to avoid them.

1, Lack Of Patience: Patience is a Virtue like they say. It took years for MacDonald’s to be a successful; it took years for Microsoft and other big companies to take off to success. Infact most business takes up to 5years to start seeing profit.  Treating your affiliate business as a real business is important.  Super affiliates that earn $20,000 a month took years to get to that point.  Research a program before signing up. Commit to stick it out. If they offer guides and training take advantage of it. Update and maintain your site with fresh contents. Don’t jump ship when the going gets tough.

2, To Many Programs: Avoid the temptation to subscribe to too many programs. When the going gets tough, its easy to think the grass is greener the other side.  The problem about subscribing to too many programs at the same time is that you’ll fail to give them the attention and focus they deserve to make you money. I recommend two or three programs at the same time to enable you turn your hard work into cash.

3, Wrong Choice Of Program: When it comes to choosing affiliate programs, choose the ones that have a generous commission structure, and that pay their affiliates easily and on time. Have affiliate products that fit in with your target audience. Choosing programs that offers products that might not interest people means no commission or money for you. If you join a program that offers products that are “hot” you will be competing with thousands of others who are promoting the same product. Choose a niche you KNOW information about! Check the profitability of that niche.

4, Generalized Marketing: Focus on Niche Marketing: Focus on a tiny niche, the tinier and narrower that niche is, the better. Try improving on a single key aspect of your business at a time. Putting your efforts in one of two ways will help you achieve your affiliate program goals. Try getting people to join your list. Then keep in touch with them by sending out valuable info.

5, Organic Traffic Only: Another mistake most affiliates makes is the idea of generating only organic traffic. This form of traffic that is naturally generated by a website, is a myth. There is no such thing! Organic traffic is the one that is created by the website naturally. This concept is nothing but a fairy tale story and this is not a reality.

6, Link Exposure: Hiding your affiliate link on your website is crucial nowadays. Most affiliate marketers still make the mistake of making there links visible. The truth is that internet users have become more sophisticated and the honest truth is that most web users won’t click on an affiliate link or anything that looks like it. You’ve got to learn how to hide your affiliate links to ensure click through’s. Also, stories of people’s affiliate links being changed to divert traffic has happened and is still happening.

There are many big mistakes made by affiliates that can be easily avoided, but these are just a few of them. However making mistakes in business are inevitable and important. I recommend failing and making mistakes fast and early in your business than learning from them. This would move you forward towards success.

All About Internet Marketing Lesson # 10

 

In the last lesson we talked about improving your internet marketing

results by offering value. In this issue we are going to talk about

simple things that will make internet marketing work well for you.

The way internet in marketing works is becoming clearer and

clearer from day to day. Like many things, advertising and

marketing strategies are only beginning to scratch the surface of

this rapidly expanding force. Whatever baby steps we’ve taken to

fully utilize it are still very powerful in their own right after all, there

has been nothing like the internet in the history of mankind.

We may not have yet fully realized just how deep or how far the

internet can go. Despite its penetration into the idea of a

household it is still not as every day as the television or the radio.

As a canvas for marketing, it’s the baby boy or girl of the media

world.

Only recently have references to the internet in media been made

realistically most references make it out to be some magical thing

that can answer anything and anyone. Now, people are getting a

good idea of how it works and want to try internet in marketing for

themselves.

The first step and possibly the most commonly known method of

internet in marketing has been through email newsletters and the

like. Through an easily accessible method like email, people have

been staying in contact with their customers as if they were simply

in the neighborhood except now, that neighborhood has been

extended to anything with an internet connection. Currently, it is

also the prime method by which scams and spam are delivered,

making people look at it with a grain of salt.

Internet in marketing took on a whole new level when Amazon.com

created the idea of web affiliates. This is the internet equivalent of

the infomercial after all, where else could an entire site or

channel be used as an ad?

Affiliate marketing is essentially when people promote certain

products or services for a commission of the sale price. In doing

so, they also offer their viewers the chance to click on various ads

or links to the “money” site.

This is why they need similar or related content the more similar

the sites, the better the chance that the viewer or user would

actually be interested in clicking the link.

Payment here varies, but for the most part requires actual action

from the user for payment. It takes more than viewing the ad the

user needs to either click, or act on the ad in such a way that is

beneficial for the main site. In this way, the advertiser only pays for

conversions, leads or click that benefit them, putting some of the

work into the affiliate’s hands.

Marketing on the internet can be very profitable, if done correctly

and like actual advertising, there is no magic formula to get

everyone into your site, but the effort will probably pay off.

Research and knowing how to actually do the marketing is vital

this allows you to weed out those who can and those who can’t

promote you. Internet in marketing a new concept, but one you

can’t pass up.

Make sure you look for your next lesson soon. We will be talking

about whether or not being an affiliate can change your life.

See you next time,

“WorkatHomeBizBuzz”