Affiliate marketing is one of the most well known way of making money online, but only a few people is able to make money with affiliate marketing successfully. Don’t get any wrong impression that affiliate marketing is very hard way to earn money online, no its not it’s one of the easiest ways of making money online if you do it in a right way. The only reason behind few people is able to move on with affiliate marketing is because they know the actual meaning of affiliate marketing and the secret of promoting affiliate products and all of the above they try to avoid all silly affiliate marketing mistakes that we normally make that play an important part behind our affiliate marketing failure. So what are those silly mistakes that they avoid to be a successful affiliate marketer?. Stick your ideas with the below points and try to execute them in your own strategies.
1. Affiliate Product
The product that we select to promote as an affiliate is the key to affiliate marketing success. If you choose a wrong product to promote on your blog then it’s obvious that you are not going to get single penny. Its same situation like you have a mango store and you are selling apples, it’s completely a negative situation. Then how can you think that the person who will come to the store is going to buy apples, it’s not possible. So if you have a blog which is about social media then select the products related to it to promote if you want to be successful with affiliate marketing.
2. The Audience
Another mistake that almost every affiliate marketer makes is promoting their affiliate product in front of wrong audience. If you really want to gain some penny through affiliate marketing then you have to take care of the audience to whom you going to market your products. Let’s take the same situation that I have chosen for exemplifying above point, you can’t promote mangos in front apple loving audiences, if you are promoting it then you are not going to make a single cent. So if you want to make lots of bucks from affiliate marketing than make sure that you consider the type of audience you are going to target.
2. Promotional Tactics
The methods you are using to promote your affiliate marketing products also matters a lot if you want to be succeed in affiliate marketing. Better stay away from the normal promotional tactics to market your affiliate product if you really want to make some serious amount of money from affiliate marketing. Try to use promotion tactics that are most effective like social media integration and which deliver you a better amount of traffic to your affiliate product if you want to fill your pocket with lots of money by affiliate marketing.
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This article is written by Jimmy. He is a full time blogger who is passionate about automobiles and gadgets, he blogs at Auto News 24×7
Hi Jimmy,
Indeed an excellent post, You have shared some amazing information about affiliate marketing mistakes. All the above mentioned steps plays a very vital role in affiliate marketers.
Many thanks for lovely share 🙂
Keep writing
Mairaj
Hi Jimmy
Indeed a great post about internet marketing mistakes.
I am glad that you have covered the major internet marketing mistakes which almost every internet marketers do.
Internet marketing is the best way of making money online and the best part about it is, It allow internet marketers to earn with few but potential visitors. We don’t need huge amount of traffic to earn. We only need 10 targeted visitors who can purchase the product.
The most common mistake which internet marketers make is, they promote so many products at once without having any experience with them.
To earn more, internet marketers pick every high paying product and start promoting them but don’t get any sales from them because they don’t focus on each product correctly that’s why they are unable to makes sales.
Every successful internet marketer suggest to promote only those products which you have personally used.
I would like to thank you for sharing such a great piece of content. 😀
affiliate marketing is very easy when we have good website with decent traffic
first we need to create audience and then choose a related product
this will make us lot of sales hence the profit
i think targeted traffic is very important before trying affiliate marketing .. affiliate marketing is very easy when we have good website with decent traffic .
Thanks for the promotional tips of affiliate products, we should avoid some simple or normal way of promotion as there is too much competition and they may not be effective too.
Agree with you, social media can prove to be beneficial to get to know which products to promote according to the reader's choices. The selection of the product to market should be proper otherwise it will be a total failure. I am not completely involved in affiliate marketing, but planning for debt affiliate marketing. Getting overnight success in affiliate marketing is never possible. One has to strive for getting success in a right approach. Putting efforts in right direction is very important. The tips which you have posted here are very good. These tips direct to the right approach of affiliate marketing. Thanks for sharing it with us!
Nice tips Jimmy, definitely will serve a lot of beginner affiliate marketers. But it could have been more elaborate, like where to choose the affiliate products from (Clickbank or CJ.com and so on) and places to conduct market research and so on which would have added more color to your post. Anyways nice try.
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can anybody guide me how affiliate marketing works? If suppose I put some affiliate links on my website, how would I know if a person has clicked my referral links. Is there some way to know this? Can a company cheat with its affiliate marketing program by not giving payment? How will I keep a track on the no. of visitors following my referral links? I hope you getting my point.
If you are using a blog then you have lot of options indeed. Suppose for WordPress there are plugins like Pretty Links and GoCodes for analyzing the clicks. If you are using a normal website, then try Bit.ly for that.
this affiliate-marketing steps are very helpful for every marketer and i think product choose is very important to make more profit.
I am thinking of trying out affliate marketing, I guess these are gonna help me 🙂
Jimmy, great intro to affiliate marketing. Although I am not new to this area, but I must admit I too have learned a few things today! Thanks pal.
Affiliate marketing is not that easy what i have experienced it we need to provide really a great content with lots of details and yeah very true every time audience is the most crucial..anyways thanks for the article..
Jimmy,
affiliate marketing is one of the best business models on the internet. Like you say a marketer must target the right audience and promote their product.
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Choosing of Affiliate Product is the very useful and first imp step i thin. nice tip.
For me there is no success in affiliate marketing till now hardly made 5$ till now 😛
very nice explanation Jimmy 🙂 i'm new to affiliate marketing .. very helpful 🙂