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5 Common Mistakes Made By New Affiliate Marketers

Michael Cole Posted on by

You’ve just signed up for this fantastic new affiliate program. They have great products, free referral websites, training, pre-made ads for you to copy and the best compensation plan on the internet. This is the best affiliate program on the internet! Put a few ads out there and you’re on your way to becoming the next internet millionaire. Right?

Before you break ground on that big mansion on the hill, here are a few mistakes many new affiliate marketers make that you’ll want to avoid.

5. Believing the hype

And yes, I do mean the hype promoted by your own program. Those income projections that every program makes are just that, projections. You can make that much. Will you within your first few months of the program? Probably not. Look at this as a long term investment in your future, not a way to get rich quick. Believe in yourself and your ability to make your dreams come true. But don’t believe the hype.

4. Expecting instant results with little effort

Expect to work your business. And expect to work it daily. If you opened your own neighborhood store, you’d expect to have to go in to work daily, wouldn’t you? You’d expect to have to advertise and get people to come to your store. Well, you just opened your own brand new internet store, what are you going to do to make it work? How are you going to get people to come look at your product?

3. Lack of a plan and specific goals

You’ve probably heard the saying, plan your work and work your plan. You need to have a specific plan and clear, measurable goals. Many people join affiliate programs with the vague goal of wanting to make a lot of money. How much money? How quickly do you want it? (Try to be realistic here, making a million dollars in one month is not realistic.) Okay, you have your clear, specific goal. Now how are you going to get there. Again, think clear, specific steps here.

2. Advertising your affiliate link

Wait a minute, if you don’t advertise your affiliate link, how are you supposed to get sales and downline members? Create your own website that has a link to your affiliate program. Every affiliate for your program gets the same website that you do. You have to be able to make yourself different from everyone else. The way you do that is with your own website.

1. Quitting

You’ve been working your affiliate program for 2, 3, maybe even 4 months now with very little to show for it. You’re getting discouraged and beginning to wonder if this is worth it after all. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off and figure out what it is you need to be doing. Learn more. Bug your sponsor and your upline members until they help you out. Don’t quit. No one ever achieved success by quitting. Neither will you.

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Newly Discovered: Internet Marketing Weight Loss Routine

Michael Cole Posted on by

Yes, I’ve discovered an Internet Marketing weight loss routine, but it didn’t start as one. It started out as a technique for focused writing. And still is, actually. As I sit down to write this I’ve just finished two minutes on my elliptical machine but I’m getting ahead of myself. I was at WarriorForum going through a thread on writer’s block a couple of weeks ago. I read about a technique where you focus hard for thirty to forty-five minutes then take a five-minute break away from your desk, then hit it hard for another timed session. Well, I had to make … Continue reading →

Network Marketers-To Blog Or Not To Blog?

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Planning on creating a blog to promote your MLM or Network Marketing Opportunity? You may want to rethink your strategy a little. A blog is still one of the best ways to build your Brand,  Your “You Inc“, but just how many MLM Blogs are there on-line right now? 100,000, 1,000,000, or more? The rise of Attraction Marketing brought with it The Invasion of the Network Marketing Blogs. Take Mike Klingler’s Renegade Professional, combine with Mike Dillard’s MLM Traffic Formula II, add liberal amounts of Ann Sieg and Daegan Smith, mix well, add encouragement from Jonathan Budd and you have a bumper crop of  MLM … Continue reading →

Designing A New Lifestyle, Or Building A New JOB?

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Why are you On-Line? What keeps drawing you back day after day? Most people come On-Line looking for something, a friend, a friend with benefits, entertainment, money, the list goes on. If you’re here you’re probably looking for money, at least an honest and ethical way to earn some. You’ve heard about the Internet Gold Rush going on and you want to stake your claim. What was the lure? Was it the dream of setting up automatic money making systems, pay a small one-time fee , spend maybe half an hour setting it up once, and forgetting about it, then have hundreds of … Continue reading →

Internet Marketing From Scratch

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Take a look around you, everywhere you look you see hundreds, possibly thousands of people clamoring for your attention. All of them making the same basic claim, “Click Here for Private Access to my Revolutionary, Copy And Paste System, Absolutely Guaranteed to take your Internet Marketing Business To The Next Level!” In fact, you probably get the same message from several of the lists that you are on. It makes you start to wonder, “Is there ANYBODY out there that isn’t either offering or being offered Private Access, just how private can it be?” Yes, private access is one of those buzz … Continue reading →