Wednesday 10 September 2008

10 Affiliate Marketing programs Mistakes You Want To Avoid Part Ii





During the last article, you knew that thinking big, copying your mentor and not having enough effort can bring you failure in affiliate marketing program. Do consider the following mistakes so that you can reap your affiliate marketing success.

4. Not making any investment

There is no free fancy lunch in the world. If you want to earn from affiliate marketing, you must first invest in it. As simple as that.Is true that you can find free hosting and autoresponder but you have to live with the consequences each of them brings. You can use their service but please stop complaint about their ad or service. Quality service need payment, they have a company to feed after all.Still, there are companies offering good services with reasonable price. With $20 a month you can enjoy good hosting service. Some of them even offer discount if you pay them annually.

5. Treating your subscriber as cash register

Your subscribers are real people. They can think. What will you do if the webmaster kept sending you email "buy this...", "grab that..."? Annoyed? Where is the valuable information your subscribers suppose to get?Put yourself inside your subscribers' shoes before you send out anything to them. Remember, share with them what you know and nurture a genuine relationship with your subscribers. You can build credibility and reputation by just doing that.

6. Not keeping your promises

Affiliate marketing you to earn your income without meeting your prospect. However this can be a huge disadvantage if you exploit it.Your prospects sign up to your list because they trusted your offer in your landing page. If what you deliver to them was crap instead of promises, your reputation will plunge to unseen bottom.Yes, it can happen.You can change your name on the web and continue your marketing but is that really what you want to do?It is always easier to sell to happy and satisfied customer than to create new one. You should aim for the repeat sales rather than a fly by night income.

7. Not having a proper plan

You might think you can just buy a few domain names first and then decide what you want to do with them. But where is the logic of it? You are wasting your money and may be other people opportunity because they might have better use for the same domain name.Be logical and considerate.You must plan first before you buy any domain name. Decide your niche, research your market, and look for the proper merchant product to promote. Affiliate marketing is like a huge and deep ocean, you are going to drown yourself if you just dive in without proper gear.Remember, have a plan and keep researching your market needs.The affiliate marketing mistakes listed so far are just some of the mistakes you can make and you might make more mistakes as you are more involve in the business. But the most important thing is that you learn from your mistakes and revise your approach in the business.

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