Will You Live Or Die As An Affiliate?

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"The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows." – Socrates.

You'll excuse the somewhat dramatic start to an article that is fundamentally about the lethal mistakes that many newbie affiliate marketers make. Mistakes that I'd really rather you sidestep. So that you, like me, can see real success as an affiliate marketer. Real results. And perhaps most temptingly of the lot, all the delicious spoils that come with it.

The fact is, it IS about life and death. As an affiliate marketer, you'll live or die by your actions. Your techniques. Your ability to do certain things the right way, at the right time, consistently over a long period of time.

Will you live? Will you die? Lets find out.

The Affiliate Marketing Mindset – Don't roll your eyes. Don't you dare. One of the most under-rated challenges you'll ever face as an affiliate marketer is in getting yourself mentally ready. When we try and earn an income on the internet, there's often a time lag between doing work and getting paid. It often takes near herculean mental strength to look at a skinny, empty PayPal account after you've slogged away for what seems like days. Or weeks. There will be good times. There will be bad ones. The latter could well be the first you'll face. And, if you're not mentally ready for it, bye-bye.

Promoting Garbage – This is the equivalent of affiliate marketing suicide. There is an unwritten contract of trust between you, the affiliate marketer, and the people who you refer products and services to. If you break that trust – and promote riff raff, your long term prospects to get more business are about as good as a mistress' in a Monastery.

You may actually make a few short term sales. But, boy will those people who bought that trite that YOU said was good remember it. Your future recommendations will be ignored. Your emails quickly disposed of. "Oh him again, I'm not listening to anything that so and so is hocking". Click. Delete. Bye-bye (again).
 
Not Reviewing What You Promote – As an affiliate marketer, you'll discover pretty quickly that time runs away from you. There's always tons of stuff to do, and often not enough time. You know best how to organize your time, but whenever you associate your name, and brand, with any product – only do it after you've seen it for yourself. This is an extension of the last point, but whether you promote garbage on purpose or by accident won't matter to your clients.

Not Offering Incentives – Many affiliates still don't offer incentives when promoting products and services. This simply means, you offer your own package of products/services – hopefully ones that are exclusive to you, and cannot be purchased anywhere else online.

Incentives may just be the single most powerful weapon in your affiliate marketing armoury. In fact, if you're the only affiliate offering pedigree incentives, it's the equivalent of you fighting a war against your fellow affiliates with weapons of mass destruction, while they come at you with sticks and stones. A good incentive package is effectively a bribe. It works, and very well at that. 

Embrace these tips. Imbibe them into your very existence as an affiliate marketer. Because, grimly, if you don't, your hour of departure as a successful affiliate marketer may arrive sooner than you think. And that would be a real shame.

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[marathonman]

MARKET some where else ASS HOLE !
this is a Energy forum nut case not a place to PUSH YOUR BULL SHIT !

[the_big_m_in_ok]

MARKET some where else ASS HOLE !
this is a Energy forum nut case not a place to PUSH YOUR BULL SHIT !

marathonman has a point...Take a look at this:
http://blogelina.com/howtoguide/2013/03/will-you-live-or-die-as-an-affiliate-the-biggest-affiliate-marketing-mistakes-of-our-time/

This is commercial bullSHIT(!!!!!) if there was ever any on this site.   When I started my thread in the News Forum,   "I see an economic disaster coming..."   I would occasionally get idiots like this one above who tried to hold the thread hostage with his crappy line of greedy shit he wanted to foist on us at this site.
      I jumped on them like marathonman did above and marathonman has my full support.   This mental lame-brain can go to hell and take his business views with him to launch a sales pitch to the devil.   He's a real schmuck.

--Lee