Thursday, December 18, 2008

Mistakes New Affiliate Marketers Will Make

By Anson Hall

A lot of people would like to make more money. It is especially true in this economic downtime. You will want to have some extra income. As a result you may want to start making money online. And you may work in the field of affiliate marketing.

Needless to say, the first thing you need to do is to join an affiliate program. There are lots of articles and e-books which will teach you how you can choose an affiliate program. However, they normally do not tell you how many programs you should join.

In fact, it will be quite impossible for a newbie to promote in more than two niches. This is one of the most serious mistakes they will make. They will try to join as many programs as possible. However, you will not make money by doing that.

What you should do is to focus on one to two niches. It will take you some time to promote the products until you can make money. Once you can make some money, you can outsource the work and you can work in more niches.

Another mistakes new affiliate marketers will make is that they try to promote the products immediately after they have join the affiliate programs. Of course there will not be any problem if they have tried the products before. However, you might want to try it at least once if this is not the case.

You are trying the products yourself because you would like to gain some knowledge about the products you are going to promote. This is a crucial step. Of course there may be some products you cannot try yourself form some reasons. In this case you will need to read a lot of product reviews so that you can gain more knowledge about them.

There are newbies who will not create their own affiliate site. They try to promote the affiliate links only instead. However, you have to understand the your affiliate is your ultimate assets. You will lose everything if you spend all the time to promote the affiliate links and the program close eventually.

In most cases you will need to prepare quite a number of articles on your affiliate sites. You will at least need to put forty to fifty articles on the site. You should make sure that the articles will be of high quality and at the same time relevant to your niche.

Patience will be very important when you are working as an affiliate marketer. Some newbies will give up after working for two weeks. However, the truth is that not many people can start making money in such as short period of time! You will need to work for some time and eventually you will make money.

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