There's a good chance you won't succeed in affiliate marketing.Why? Affiliate marketing is hard work! If you took a job tomorrow, you'd go there expecting to work hard.Why? Well your new employer would want to gain maximum from you, right? So it amuses me when people show up for there first day in affiliate marketing and don't want to work hard. They want to plug in and sit back and see those $$$ come rolling in. That's funny! If the advert told you that and you believed it, then I already know the end to that particular story.
Affiliate Marketing is hard work, generating targeted traffic to you opportunity or blog is tough. No point sending someone interested in a sit back, spoon feed me program to your genuine opportunity. Why? Because affiliate marketing is hard work! Affiliate Marketing is comparable to running a small business i.e if you don't invest a lot of time, energy and money, you will fail. The only difference is you'll be able to blame the program you joined. If you don't learn how to promote, no program will work. That is the most important line in this whole article.
If you are serious about affiliate marketing, you're going to have to learn how to promote. Affiliate marketing is all about promotion.If your starting point is 0 then boy you've got a steep learning curve ahead. Get ready to learn about blogs, article writing,ppc campaigns, forums, free advertising, Seo, back links and Keywords. Any program that tells you you can make money without this knowledge isn't genuine. Affiliate marketing is hard work!
Writing articles in sufficient numbers to make a difference isn't easy, nor is creating a good blog and maintaining it with fresh relevant material. Ppc campaigns require an understanding of keywords otherwise you'll throw your money away. List building, forums,press releases and traffic exchanges are all labor intensive and hard work.
So,are you still interested in affiliate marketing ? I for one am happy I made the journey. I'm glad I made the effort to learn about techy stuff (that I hated) blogs and all the different methods. Above all I love the results I'm getting now. I'm glad I created a valuable income stream for my big family and I'm proud I've lightened my load by effectively learning stuff I thought I was allergic to. You can follow my footsteps, but do me a favor, be realistic when have you ever made loads of money from doing nothing? That's right, never. If you're prepared to learn and work hard you'll do ok, otherwise you can go back to dreaming of all those big bucks.
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