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"Would You Like To Discover The Correct Approach To Affiliate Marketing?"
There is a common misconception surrounding affiliate marketing and it's a misconception that might be costing you a significant amount of money.
One of the main things that most people don't realize about affiliate marketing is that it isn't something to do when there's nothing better to sell.
Affiliate marketing is used by some of the world's biggest companies and has provided the type of financial benefit that people like us can only dream of.
Affiliate marketing isn't just for newbies. It isn't just for people too small to make a bigger dent in the world and it isn't just for people unable to create their own products. Affiliate marketing is one of the ways the Internet's biggest earners make their living and if you aren't doing all you can to profit from affiliate marketing, you are literally not taking the money that's dangling out in front of you.
I've always looked at affiliate marketing as sort of the shy kid in the corner of the high school dance that girls would dance with, if only he got the courage up to ask one of them. You can have a lot of success with affiliate marketing, if only you could summon the courage to realize that it's a skill that you need to learn to do correctly.
I think that one of the problems with affiliate marketing is that anyone can surf over to clickbank, sign up for an account, sign up for an affiliate program, build a website and start selling. For people who haven't learnt how to correctly sell products, such a scenario could be devastating. Statistically speaking, the overwhelming majority of people who attempt to sell affiliate products never make more than a few sales (around 95%) and more than a handful of those who fail do so because they never learnt how to succeed.
Affiliate marketing is something that needs to be learnt. It's a skill like riding a bike, painting a house or designing graphics. It's not something you can learn on your own easily. I'm sorry if I keep harping on this point, but I'd really like to see you avoid making the same mistakes I've made.
You see, long ago I started making money online. I think I started long enough ago that it was easy to make money. I had some AdSense sites and they were doing pretty well. I knew though that the big money wasn't in AdSense and that I needed to start selling products to really turn my hobby into a business.
Naturally, I gravitated towards affiliate marketing and tried out my luck selling products to the traffic I already had.
I knew that the process wouldn't be quick, so I wasn't nervous when I wasn't making any sales.
I really had no idea why I wasn't selling any of the products I was promoting, but I had a million different theories. Mostly though, I figured I needed to give my new business time get started. No one makes a million dollars overnight and I knew my sales would eventually come. All that I had heard for the previous couple months was how profitable affiliate marketing was, so I knew that I shouldn't be worried. I continued doing what I was doing and I was confident that things would pan out.
A couple months later, I was depressed, angry and exhausted.
In the few months I'd been working with affiliate products, I hadn't made more than a half dozen sales.
I was working around the clock to try to improve the way I marketed my affiliate products, but still, nothing was working. I became obsessed with optimizing my sites and I often would work throughout the night making as many small changes as I could, but still, no sales were coming in.
Eventually, I reached my limit. I wasn't selling squat and I'd had enough.
I took down my sites and stopped selling completely. I unsubscribed from all the different affiliate marketing email lists I joined and decided that everyone who claimed to be making big money from affiliate products was either a liar, a cheat or both.
Apparently, I hadn't unsubscribed from all the lists, because a couple days later I got an email from one of the affiliate marketing 'gurus' promoting some new affiliate product.
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