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3 Myths About Affiliate Marketing

Written by: Jeff Casmer

Article Overview: Lies about affiliate marketing spread faster than a Britney Spears rumor. Myth: Affiliate marketing is a get rich scheme Myth: You can be successful as an affiliate marketer with little or not work Myth: You will make a full time income in matter of days

3 Myths About Affiliate Marketing

Lies about affiliate marketing spread faster than a Britney Spears rumor.
Myth: Affiliate marketing is a get rich scheme Myth: You can be successful as an affiliate marketer with little or not work Myth: You will make a full time income in matter of days.

The fact is every new affiliate marketer has had to overcome the misconception that affiliate marketing is a lazy mans get rich quick program. Among the thousands of affiliates out there only about five to ten percent are truly financially successful. The other ninety percent are lucky if they make a hundred dollars a month.

The only way to make it as an affiliate marketer is to work. There I said the dirty word. Many affiliates don't want to put the work in their work at home business. But becoming a high earning affiliate takes a lot of it. It involves:

1.Building a website, one that converts

2.Becoming proficient in search engine optimization and other means of traffic generation because only 2 percent of visitors will buy your product. Hence why affiliates are obsessed with getting traffic.

3.Picking the right merchant. This is usually a trial and error process, and once you have your merchant you need to learn and carry out the best marketing strategies to promote their product.

The assumption that affiliate marketing is a walk in the park is one that should be put clear out of your mind. Although having a ready made product is appealing, marketing is not an easy task even for the pros. So imagine how a new comer with no marketing skills or business sense is going to struggle.

I'm not trying to deter anyone from affiliate marketing; if you have a web based business or are looking to make money online affiliate marketing should definitely be undertaken. However, if you, like so many others, sign up with intention of putting up banners and becoming a millionaire be prepared to be disappointed when a month goes by and you've only made a few sales.

That course is assuming your lucky since the hardest challenge is the first few months when you are tying to build traffic, trying to build your opt in list, and are susceptible to information overload.

Overwhelmed, confused and discouraged many marketers quit. In order to be successful you need to decide how much effort you are willing to put into pleasing your visitors. This involves knowing your visitor and being able to determine their needs and how to meet them.

Depending on your marketing skills it may take months or even years of trial and error to become a financial success. Fact is affiliate marketing is a challenge, a rewarding one, but a challenge none the less.

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Re: Affiliate Marketing - Open for Discussion - Carol, Mary and David - thanks for your great input and insight on Affiliate Marketing! This is the kind of discussion I was hoping for in this thread. There are pros and cons to Affiliate Marketing, just as there are to any business. As has been suggested, he best policy is to proceed with caution and do some research before jumping in. As Carol has recommended, this topic thread in the EvanCarmichael.com forum is the ideal place to ask questions and seek further input on available Affiliate Marketing programs. If a person is serious about building an online business and is interested in Affiliate Marketing plans, they should approach the process as they would any other form of business. Research, ask questions, compare opportunities, participate in forums on online business and Affiliate Marketing. GT :-]
Re: Affiliate Marketing - Open for Discussion - Hi GT Affiliate Marketing is one of the easier ways to get started making money online, but it does take quite a bit of work before you see any great results as you have to keep promoting constantly. It does teach you one hell of a lot about all aspects of Internet Marketing though as you will need to learn how to write and submit articles, create and maintain a blog, social networking is a great help to affiliates too..the list goes on and on. In fact from what you learn from Affiliate Marketing you can apply to any niche and be sure to succeed, take care, Carol
Re: Affiliate Marketing - Open for Discussion - You made some very good points here Jeff and I agree with you, Affiliate Marketing should not be something that you concentrate all your efforts into. As i said earlier I have learned a lot with Affiliate Marketing and continue to do so, and it has helped me tremendously to understand what I am going to have to do in my chosen niche(s). I am also being coached by the same group of mentors as GT and we are all moving forward daily to achieve our ultimate goals. Take care, Carol
Re: Should Evan add a "Social Media Marketing" category to the f - Hi, Online Marketing would be a great title, and having sub categories would make it even better, there would plenty of categories to choose from, Social Media, SEO, Article Marketing and yes even Affiliate Marketing to name just a few, great looking site btw Jeff, take care, Carol
Re: Internet Marketing is the best business in the world - No problem. I am also interested in creating an ebook one day and am glad that I can finally contribute to someone who is, maybe not so up to date in an area that I have some knowlege of. Also I forgot to mention Affiliate Marketing from my previous post. Getting others to sell WhyNot's ebooks for him is a great way of promoting as well.


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