Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Find Out Why these Mistakes Can Kill Your Affiliate Business

By Fatima Raled


Affiliate marketing is a brutal arena not meant for everyone. If you want to make a killing out of it, you have to give your best and make sure you don't make the simple mistakes that most of the affiliates make. The best part about learning from the Internet is that you can study and learn from others mistakes. If you learn from those who really know, and take note of the mistakes other marketers - you'll put yourself way out in front. There are a hundred ways to shoot yourself in the foot when you become an affiliate marketer. There is one mistake that is pervasive: Failing to fully explore one method of marketing and rushing off in a million directions at once. Sticking to a method, product plus having patience to see it through is the prescription. Learn from reputable sources, and ignore those who feed you hype about making money online. Let's move on to discuss the more commonly seen mistakes marketers make, and what you can do to avoid them.

If you want to guarantee that you'll never make money, do this: Pick the wrong product to market as an affiliate. Picking a product that has some demand by a market will put you on the right path. Market research will solve that problem for you. The herd mentality dictates that you choose a product that's currently enjoying popularity, and you market it. If you're experienced and know exactly what to do, then that could be a good choice.

The trade-off is you will encounter a ton of other affiliates, and you'll all be vying for the same marketing and advertising space, most likely. The work-around for this is to find a similarly high quality affiliate product that is not as popular as all the rest - less competition, easier to succeed. Truthfull, there are probably millions of affiliate products to promote, but taking the time to make the right choice will be time profitably spent. It's also a great idea to do marketing tests with different products. If you're new to this, don't let your eyes get bigger than your wallet - avoid promoting a bunch of offers all at once. It takes a lot of proven knowledge to do that, so only do it if you've had successes to your credit. Your only goal, if you're new, is to make one affiliate campaign successful, then you move on. Nothing wrong with testing more than one product at the same time, but just small test campaigns, then you scale up from there. After it starts doing something, then ramp it up and continue testing with others.

Not knowing about the market you're getting into is another mistake that you should aim to avoid as an affiliate. Good market research will determine if you even want to try to sell something to them. Your research will indicate whether or not you should even try to sell anything to it. So, you don't want to try to sell to people who don't buy, and that's the risk you'll be taking if you don't do this research. If they do buy, lack of reseach will put you at a disadvantage because you won't know what they really want. Effective communication involves speaking in their terms and knowing what matters to them, and what does not. Doing research will reveal all that and more, and you want to do it before trying to sell anything to them.

Only market products you have some kind of good feeling about, never one you don't like or don't believe in. One really great thing to do, that most affiliates never do, is to buy the product and check it out, then you'll know for sure. What this will do for you is better protect your online reputation.

As with many things, learning how to sell affiliate products is a learned skill. Much of it is about generating targeted traffic and preselling your offers as you build good relationships with people.




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