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Affiliate Marketing Newbie

March 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Are you an affiliate marketing newbie? Whether new or experienced, there are some tips of the trade that you should follow, and the Affiliate Marketers Club wants to help you out a bit with some honest and free advice, Cool?

For starters, the lure of working from home in your pajamas with nothing but a computer is almost too much to resist. In fact, more and more beginners get started for this very reason. But in order to be successful in your efforts, you do need to spend some time and at least a little bit of money. It is hard work, so be prepared.

 

Advice For The Affiliate Marketing Newbie

If you are a newbie to affiliate marketing, start out promoting something that you are familiar with and, even better, something that interests you. As you get more experienced, this aspect will not be quite so important. You will be able to promote things that you know nothing about or care nothing about and still be successful once you have a better idea how to do things… but in the beginning, it helps to start with something that you will be committed to as you go through your learning curve.

Keep in mind that taking this route may not be the best converting method or gain you the highest commissions, but it will be easier for you to build a website and to stick with what you are working on and as a beginner. I can NOT stress this point enough!

When you do get your site up and running, promote more than just one product in the same niche (and by the way, a WordPress blog is a very fast and easy way to establish a reputable website). I suggest starting out with about 3 to 5 products at first, this gives your visitors a choice and also allows you to track which products are selling more or less.

 

The Affiliate Marketing Newbie Club

Always remember the tried and true saying: content is king. “Content sites” are the ones that offer educational, instructional and topical content about whatever it is they are promoting. And the best of these types of sites actually make the promoted product or service seem like an afterthought. This is another reason that it is easier if you are new to the “affiliate marketing newbie club” ( :) ) to start with something you are familiar with and/or interested in. While content is important, your main goal is to drive visitors to the sales of your affiliate products, so make it as easy as possible for them to get there.

 

Never Give Up

Do not give up! There is a lot to learn with this stuff and it takes a lot of work in the beginning. It’s also important to keep up with rules and regulations that change in the field of affiliate marketing. The income that you generate can end up being passive (meaning you don’t have to do anything to earn it), but it takes a while to get to this point. Most people will take months to make enough money to cover costs. Keeping these tips in mind will help you in achieving a profitable online business.

 

I hope you found this free advice valuable and I sincerely wish you all the best in your future affiliate marketing newbie success! ;)

 

Gary.

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Ridiculous Affiliate Marketing Guru Case Studies!

 

 

 

 

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Ridiculous Affiliate Marketing Guru Case Studies!

March 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment

I don’t know about you but I’m getting pretty darn tired of all these Internet and Affiliate Marketing Ridiculous Guru Case Studies! The Affiliate Marketing Guru’s sell you stuff to teach you how to make money online as an affiliate marketer and then they show you several case studies of their customers who made $50,000 in their first nine minutes online! But I’m pretty sure it takes hundreds of their customers before they are able to find these unusually successful people to show off to you so they can get you all fired up to buy their stuff before you pass out with anticipation!

Make Money Emotional Hot Buttons

Yup, this is all about pushing your emotional hot buttons. They know YOU want very badly to make money from home, so they show you these rare case studies of people who are making TONS of money from home using their make money products that costs you $300 to $3000. That reminds me, never forget that the very best Internet and Affiliate Marketers are well versed in psychology too! ;)

How many of their customers – students are they showing you that are making a more realistic $2000 to $5000 per month? Hmm? Anyone? Can anyone show me? I would assume they are out there somewhere, but I’ve not seen any that I can think of. Well, there was one making $4000 per month, but that one was actually another Guru, so that one doesn’t count.

Seriously though! For me, $3000 to $5000 extra per month would be enough to change my lifestyle tremendously! How about you? Would just $2,000 – $3,000 or $5,000 extra per month be enough to change your lifestyle for the better?

Too Many Unrealistic Case Studies

I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of seeing all these crazy, unrealistic case studies of people making $542,861.37 in their first six months! Theses extreme examples are ok once in a while, but I would just love to see case studies of their new students, regular people like you and me, making $3,000 to $5,000 per month. Heck, even $2,000 per month examples would be fantastic to me!

Do people really make 50,000 – 100,000 or even millions of dollars in a short period of time? Yup! But then again, people really do get rich over night by winning the lottery too! Are you getting my drift? Personally I would think that for every Guru’s student that has made something like $32,439 in their first 30 days, there must be many more that are making $2,000 to $5,000 per month too… or are there?

The Real Truth

I wonder if this is not the case… I wonder if the real truth is that for every 100 customers that buy these $300 to $3,000 “Make Money Online” products, that there are actually only 2 or 3 people who took action and  had an unusually good streak of luck (much like the lottery winners) and that’s about it? Are there any people making a realistic few thousand dollars per month?

Ok, that’s my rant for now, thanks for allowing me to vent my frustration. But then again, maybe you feel the same way as I do about these constant ridiculous internet and affiliate marketing Guru case studies.

Gary.

 

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Affiliate Marketers Club Introduction

January 13, 2011 By 3 Comments

Affiliate Marketers Club Dot Com is intended to be a very private club for a special group of people. For the time being, no one can join the private addition of the Affiliate Marketers Club except by invitation only. Again, the “private club” is for a specific group of affiliate marketing entrepreneurs.

Please “do” however explore the blog as much as you want! (more later)

Gary.

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