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Top Six Affiliate Marketing Mistakes

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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.

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Affiliate Marketing. What You Need To Do To Succeed

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One of the popular niches on the Internet where a newbie marketer will look into when they want to start an online business is affiliate marketing.
This concept sound appealing as you get paid for promoting a company product for every sale that you made. Many people jump into affiliate marketing with little or on real knowledge of what this is all about and ended up disappointed and give up before they make their first dollar.

These are some of the reasons that will contribute to your success in affiliate marketing. Ensure that you consider these factors carefully when you intend to start this online business as it could be the difference between your achievement or doom in your endeavor.

1) Choose The Correct Niche.
Affiliate marketing is a crowded field. Everybody seems to be doing the same thing. Dont go into the niche where there are mass competition as the market will be saturated, where finding potential buyers will be an obstacle.
To ensure that you overcome this problem it is prudent that you do some research or opt for a proven and automated system to get you started in a shortest possible way.

2) Start A Blog.
Many marketers underestimate the power of using a blog. The blog that you are setting up must be related to what your niche are. Post articles on a regular basis, with a minimal of at least one a week. When people are attracted to your postings they will visit your blog regularly. You then build a relationship and when you make an offer they will be attracted by it.

3) Free Classified Sites.
This is another marketing tool overlooked by many. Sign up with those sites that are offering these free services and start posting ads about your product by driving targeted traffic to your website.Make you ads short and catchy.

4) Sales Page.
A sales page is the first impression that your targeted customers will have on you. Done professionally and you create a good impact. A sloppy layout will drive potential buyers away before they have a chance to peruse your content. Format it wisely and seek assistance if you are unable to do it yourself.

5) Write Articles.
Article marketing is another way to generate business. The major problem is that many of us do not know how to write good articles. One way is to outsource it. Always remember to back link your article to your website. Also do submit your article to authority article directories like Ezine Articles, Go Articles and many others as it can also helped you to get back links.

6) Patience.
Affiliate marketing works. But you may not see immediate gains quickly. It may take sometime before you make your first sale. Be patient. Continue to do what your are doing and eventually results will come.

John Yeo’s Bloggers Paycheck Review

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I was very surprised when the Master Blog Profits subscribers voted Bloggers Paycheck their number one choice as best overall blogging guide for making money. Bloggers Paycheck is by no means the most well known guide out on the market today so what makes John Yeo’s guide the best?

The answer quite simply is that this is perhaps the most down to earth yet detailed guide on how to turn your blogsite into one that generates multiple streams of income. John Yeo’s story is one that we can all relate to. John is a newly-web social worker from Singapore, who helps kids find hope and happiness in their lives. He also blogged part time. What happened is that John learnt specific steps that anyone can take to turn their passion into money.

One of the reasons we love Bloggers Paycheck so much is that fundamentally John holds the same philisophy that we do, find out your passions, blog and write about those and success will follow. You just need to learn some basic and key concepts around driving traffic to your blog and the correct way to monetize.

John’s own blog was specifically about his planning for his wedding day. You can visit John’s blog that started it all at: www.romance-fire.com. As you can see he has a lot of information, has a specific niche, advertising income and updates regularly, he truly has a passion and he has been well rewarded.

The Bloggers Paycheck consists of five (5) comprehensive volumes that will teach you set-by-step the methods that John has followed to make $1,000’s. The great aspect of having these five volumes is that if you are already confident in one area you can just simpy jump into the aspect that is going to give you the best return.

The Five Volumes are:

Volume 1 – Foundation and Setting Up Volume 2- Traffic Mastery Volume 3 – Maketing Online Volume 4 – Profit and Monetixation Models Volume 5 – 6 Figures Earner’s Mindset

At the moment John is even offering for a limited time a free offer for instant access to The Secretbloggers Cheatsheet that shows you how to start making money online from scratch.

Bloggers paycheck is very much a ‘take action’ kind of ebook, through the examples and many pictures John Yeo takes you on a journey to ensure that you have all the information to get start quickly making money.

The key again for us is that John takes the time to go through the importance of picking the right niche for you as a person and is not just about making money. In fact even if you have zero plans on making money and just want to look at ways you can improve you blog then you will get a lot from Bloggers Paycheck.

Thank you to John Yeo for a great guide.

The Keys For Internet Success Hard Work Or Smart Work

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Hard work was once the building block of every fortune, whether it was a successful online business or a remarkable internet business. While hard work certainly plays a part in any form of business success, its role in success for internet marketers and entrepreneurs is often overstated by people looking to make the barrier to success higher than it needs to be. There are really two schools of thought on this one; one believing that hard work and hard work alone is the key to success, and the other believing that a combination of determination and hard work, mixed with a massive amount of optimisation and smart work is the key to building a successful business, income, and lifestyle.

So, which side is right? There’s a large debate around this issue, with those who’ve made their fortune already keen to report the extremes of either side. We’ve all seen the gurus professing that you can make your million dollars in ten minutes, and we’ve also seen the hardened entrepreneurs and marketers that claim it takes years and years of hard work to get to that level. Both sides are packed with their fair share of scam artists and dishonest people, but the messages are real in both cases. Many businesses are built slowly over the years, and many snowball to success and large profits very quickly.

By far, the most common and important factor amongst successful online businesspeople and marketers is their ability to work smart, instead of just working hard. The smartest and most successful people all share the ability to hugely optimise their work periods, and selectively eliminate (or outsource) the irrelevant and unimportant work and information that often gets thrown towards busy people. In order to get to that level of success, a huge level of smart work is required, rather than just aimless hard work. The real problem comes down to definition. By definition, hard work doesn’t necessarily need to have a result tied to it. Smart work is the direct opposite. Smart work absolutely requires that you have a goal in mind when you begin it, and it actively requires you to remind yourself of that goal as you go on.

So, in terms of motivation, success, and optimisation, smart work wins out every time. With many simple tasks able to be outsourced or automated, it’s entirely possible to create a lucrative and highly profitable online marketing business without the need for any boring, uninteresting grunt work. With the massive possibilities available online for internet affiliate marketers, it’s very possible to focus entirely on the big picture and see incredibly lucrative returns. Don’t feel discouraged when you have a big pile of work in front of you, instead be selective in how you approach it. 10 minutes spend researching and understanding your workload can save you 10 hours in actually completing it, and make you free to focus on the most important aspects of your marketing. Don’t fall for the old maxim — hard work falls short of smart work every single time.

Affiliate Marketing The Difference Between Publishers And Advertisers

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There is some confusion about affiliate marketing and it is important to know that there are two sides to affiliate marketing. Typically the terminology revolves around publishers and advertisers. While the ultimate goal of making money is the common theme among these titles, there are several differences that you must know about before diving into affiliate marketing. Do your research and decide before you select an affiliate marketing company network, which relationship you are going to have with the company. All affiliate marketing companies make big promises so it is important to navigate carefully and weigh all of your options.

The advertiser relationship consists of some sort of initial investment and most likely a discussion with the affiliate marketing companies campaign specialists. Building relationships within the affiliate marketing company’s network of other site owners or “publishers” who will advertise your product is an important element to remember. In return for this service, the “publisher” receives a commission that has been predetermined as well as a set commission rate given to the affiliate marketing company. The affiliate marketing company enabled you to build the relationship with the publisher and gave you access to their sales tools and tracking software so they are due a cut of the sale. As an advertiser, you are able setup the commission for the publisher and even offer performance incentives as a result of higher production.

One thing you must remember is that you are most likely not the only company selling your product type in the affiliate network. Be prepared to prove that your program is better than your competions, in order to gain the trust of publishers. If your site goes down often or your product is not converting, the publisher reserves the right to move on to another advertiser within the network. Publishers can be fickle so keeping them happy tends to be a challenge. If a publisher does not feel like things are working in their favor, they will easily turn thier back on you.

Affiliate marketing companies will let anyone join their networks but watch very closely how the publishers are playing in their network. A publisher signs up and gets access to millions offers and it can be pretty easy to scam sites by creating false leads or sales with click fraud and false submissions. Affiliate companies are constantly monitoring their network and will blacklist anyone who is defrauding advertisers. Remember that it is impossible to keep the network 100% free of fraud so you should be careful and watch transactions carefully. Ideally you want to put an ad on your site that you think will convert because this is the only way you get paid. For example, if you are a realtor, it would make sense to have an affiliate ad on your site for a mortgage lending company.

Affiliate marketing can be rewarding if you know what you are getting into and if you willing to keep up with it. The best practice for affiliate marketing is to have a combination of being both and advertiser and a publisher. Let affiliates sell your product or service and try making a little money as a publisher as well by placing an appropriate affiliates ad on your site.