Posted on 2 October, 2013
With a recession breathing down everybody's neck, and threatening literally hundreds of thousands of jobs, there's never been a better time to work for one's self and earn a living online. There are, however, three major stumbling blocks to successful affiliate marketing that many people fall prey to. Constantly trying the next big thing. This is perhaps the biggest mistake of the new affiliate marketer. There are a variety of ways to make money online, and they all look tempting (especially in their sales letters). Quite often, newbies who don't achieve immediate success in one niche or with one method are ready to try the next big thing in hopes that it works quicker. Not to mention, being a budding marketer can be a lot like being a kid in a candy store--there are just so many good-looking ways to run an online business and so many great niches out there to mine for gold. But it's important to pick a niche and a method and stay with it for a while before jumping to the next thing. Persistence will help your efforts take off. Failing to maintain your efforts. Once you pick a niche or method to focus on, it's important to maintain your efforts in that niche or with that method. Putting up a niche site with good articles and some fine product links is just the beginning, yet many new internet marketers act like this is the "be all and end all" of internet marketing. Once you get your new site up, you need to treat it much like a plant; it can largely grow on its own, if healthy, but it still needs water and sunlight every day. Water it by adding new content and blog posts. Give it sunlight by exposing it to the world and driving traffic with organic SEO, article marketing and web directory submission. Maintaining your efforts will include testing what you're doing to see how well it works, tweaking it to see which one of your tweaks works best, testing that new tweak, and on and on. This keeps you constantly in motion, getting better all the time. Giving up. This might seem like a big "duh," but many people give up right when they're about to really make it. Sometimes, new affiliate marketers start seeing a steady trickle of sales come in almost off the bat. More often than not, however, successful affiliate marketing takes a little more than just that--it takes persistence and the courage to never give up. It usually doesn't take an extraordinarily long time to make money online with an affiliate marketing website or other online business, but it usually doesn't happen instantly, either. The important thing to remember is to not lose heart. If you stay consistent in your efforts, and try something until you either learn to do it successfully or else learn everything you need to learn and apply it to your next effort, you are sure to eventually succeed! |
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