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Are you making money from affiliate marketing? Familiar with these phrases?

“Become our affiliate and earn 50% commission or $98.50 per sale. Sell 1 each day you’ll make $2,955.00 a month, sell 5 each day you make $14,775.00 a month…”

“It’s easy, just sign-up and promote our product to your friends and start making money!”

Those are among the common phrases that you read on the internet about affiliate marketing.

Wow, $14,775.00 is a lot of money! Tell me, who will not fall into this marketing ’seduction’. Who would not want to know
more about making money without having his/her own product, and make $14,775.00 a month in affiliate profit? You can count me in, how about you?

But the not so good part is the reality that is faced by most affiliates. You’re not making any money. You’re still struggling and not even making $100.00 a month in affiliate profit, and most of the time .. $0.00 income from affiliate marketing. It’s really frustrating isn’t it? No?

You has done everything in promoting the affiliate products. You bought traffic and promote through all sorts of advertisement channels you thought of but no one buy the product via your affiliate link. Are you wondering why you’re not making any money?

Let me ask you this question; are you really serious in doing affiliate marketing or just want to make some quick bucks?

If you’re serious and want to make money from affiliate marketing then you must treat affiliate marketing as your-own business. Until the time you take it seriously you’ll not be able to make even close to $100.00 a month.

Don’t tell me that you believe all the hypes saying that putting only 2 hours a day is enough for you to make $14,775.00 in affiliate income every month. Its B.S.
What those marketers don’t tell you is the actual ground work that you must do to put everything in place first.

Signing up and getting your affiliate link is pretty easy but then you must know and have some knowledge about the stuff that you’re promoting. Don’t tell me you’ll just paste your affiliate link and ready to make money.

Even if you’re promoting your affiliate link in a forum, it would take you more than 20 minutes to come-up with something. I mean you’ll have to ‘cook-up’ some juicy information to entice the readers to read and then click your link.

You just cannot put some crappy promotion sentences with your affiliate link in any forum and leave. People will not click and buy from our link without some sort of assurance on something that cost them their money.

They’ll ask questions and sometime lots of questions. You’ll have to answer all the questions raised, then would 20 minutes of your time will be enough? Surely you’ll not be posting to only one forum to promote your affiliate link do you?

If you post to 5 different forums to promote one or two products at any time then you’ll also have to do a follow-up the next day to answer any questions raised. This will easily eat up you time to 2 to 3 hours a day. And that’s not the only thing you need to do to succeed in affiliate marketing.

Again if you’re serious in doing affiliate marketing you must consider a few things so that what you do will pay off well.

• You must be choosy - choose to market a product with real value not just hype. If you promote crappy products people will keep away from you in the future. You mut also try to promote products with high price and high commission payout, like 50% from $197.00

• If you’re promoting your affiliate link in forums, you must make sure that the product must be related to the right forum or you’ll be accused of spamming and get banned. This also applies to ezine and articles promotion, the keyword is related.

• Sincerely share your experience and the benefits you got from using the products. If you’re just promoting without buying or using it then you must put your words in such a way as if you had been using the product. You need to do a lot of finding and reading from other sites.

• It is better to put up a review site and direct readers to your review site first and then to the product (vendor) site through your affiliate link. This method is also known as pre-sell. Give some introduction about the product and the benefits that you have (or pretend
  to have) gained using the product but not to go over board . The keyword is pre-sell.

• Marketing strategy - There are many strategies that you can choose from but I personally recommend you to adopt a more aggressive approach using Affiliate-X Strategy. This strategy needs you to use google adwords - means you have to research keywords and then do the bidding in google system. But please be warned - you need your credit-card ready and in the first phase you’ll be whipping even up to $200.00 a day in adwords campaign. This strategy is not for the ’small hearted’ marketer. (Please note: I read this book but I’m not using adwords campaign to promote affiliate products).

• You must learn the skill in finding good related keywords if you’re promoting through adwords.. and you must have at least one keyword tool. As an internet or affiliate marketer you must use highly reliable and proven keyword tool. The best is Word Tracker but it cost you recurring monthly fees. You can download Word Tracker for a free trial.

• You can also get a multi-purpose keyword tool, Keyword Elite which has also been proven to be very effective and used by many top internet marketers. Not only its give you hundreds of possible keywords with KEI also you can spy how much is the current competing bid price. It’s highly recommended by most marketers.

As marketers you must track you promotions to enable you to make necessary steps to improve the conversion (tracking is another area to look into seriously).

You must treat affiliate marketing as you own business and work up you own targets and plan. Remember the Plan-Do-Check-Action (PDCA) cycle?

To get you moving and feel excited about affiliate marketing, please feel free to download these three ebook for your reading.

The choice is always yours either to do it seriously or just to ‘play-play‘ and waste your time.

Right Click on the individual ebook and ‘ Save As’ to your PC.

You can also download these three ebooks in a single ZIP file by clicking here.

Ok.. thats what I can think of today, hope that gives you some idea on affiliate marketing.