Affiliate Marketing Success
Making money with affiliates is, if you ever tried, not easy. The reason for this is pretty simple: it was never meant to be easy! A lot of people think they can just go right at it, set up their Adwords account, make some Adgroups, throw in a couple hundred keywords and let the easy money come in.
Wouldn’t it be just too good to be true if that worked? I believe the main reason people think affiliate marketing is easy, and of course give up when they realize it actually takes work, is its simplicity. When you think about it, what’s really in affiliate marketing? You set up a page, on that page you have to put your affiliate link, and if people buy after clicking your link, you make money. The whole process of opening an account with an affiliate to make money and setting up the links takes no more than 5 minutes. Then there’s the marketing part, which most users just open an Adwords account and make their ads, this could take 20 minutes.
So after 25 minutes of work, our great marketer is now waiting for the money and a lot of sales. A day passes, no sales; 2 days pass, no sales; a whole week later, still no sale, but the Adword bill is now in the hundreds of dollars. 0 conversions after hundreds of clicks, what went wrong? Easy answer: NO WORK!
Despite it looks, affiliate marketing is nowhere close easy. It requires constant work, deep research, lots of trial and error, countless hours, and a good amount of money to start.
What you need to do is to learn, read and never stop! NEVER. You never know when the profitable niche market you are in can fade out. General and broad markets are less and less fructuous as they are saturated markets. Don’t become another one of those.
Another thing, learn from the best! There are very competent and successful marketers out there who are not only good at marketing, but also share step by step their success stories. ShoeMoney has a great analysis and discusses it in great detail.
The $10,000.00 experiment with ppc Part 1
No matter how you put it, there are 2 areas in affiliate marketing that will take you considerable amount of work.
1)Researching Your Target Market
This is by far what will determine a big part of your success. What markets convert well these days? What are the products that people are buying? How many competitors do you have?
2)Your Landing Page
A good landing page is a page that is at the same time attractive, brings in curiosity, and ultimately convinces the reader to become a buyer. This one works with trial and error and tweaking. Again, it takes time and good energy. You might need to fail 5,10 or 20 times just to succeed once, so do not be disappointed and do not give up if you are not making money right away.