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Affiliate marketing can be really hard, especially when you are
a newbie. Affiliate marketers are also human beings. They are
liable to make mistakes once in a while. Every marketer makes
mistakes and if they say they dont their lying to you..
Here are the most common mistakes that affiliate marketers make.
Together with these mistakes are the lessons learned.
1. Most people spend way too much time on the computer.
Networking online is great. However, it will never take the
place of meeting face-to-face or having a conversation with
someone over the phone.
Sending emails are easy, but you should be up with the ease of
this technology. Never try to break things off over email. This
will just result in useless and never-ending arguments. Try to
compliment online networking with face-to-face and phone
meetings.
2. Spending too much time on the technical side.
Most marketers try to do all the work themselves. They update
the contents on their WebPages, create new auto responders and
create new HTML pages for new products instead of farming things
out to others.
It takes them quite a long time to accomplish all this. Let it
go. Why not hire a technician expert to maintain your website.
3. Not delegating administrative tasks.
Updating documents, making them look pretty, writing content and
writing sales copy for new information products are just some of
the tasks that affiliates do. Sometimes they have to rush off
and write something quickly because they sat on it for too long
or maybe got distracted and the deadline is nearly up.
If your in this situation you might be better off hiring a
virtual assistant or copywriter to do all this stuff for you.
4. Wasting time and effort targeting the wrong market.
Ever wonder why all your traffic is not giving you the results
you expected? You are simply targeting the wrong market. You
need to target your advertising to your specific niche, then you
should see the results you expect.
5. Creating a lot of information products at once.
Just because you can bang out more than two special reports in a
weekend does not mean you have the manpower or energy to promote
them all at the same time.
In order to make sales on an information product, you really
need to market them. Until you do that, these products are going
to just sit on your website.
Focus on one product for at least three months and set up an
affiliate program to help promote each new product.
6. Attending networking events that were not producing results.
While networking is about building relationships, it should also
lead to some quality contacts.
Most of the time, networking events affiliates go to is
comprised of entrepreneurs looking for business. These people do
not yet have the will it takes to succeed in their feild.
Stick with a networking event for no more than two consecutive
events, analyze the results, then move on. Also, attend more
networking events that puts you in touch with your target
audience.
7. Not fully educating themselves.
If an affiliate is a solo entrepreneur, it seem so easy to
forget that they have to invest some time in taking courses that
can help them learn how to do things better.
Continuously educating oneself is an absolute must. Doing this
will put you in touch with how to do things better in your
business, as well as meeting some exceptional people and
trainers. This will help put you ahead of the competition.
In addition, you will notice some new changes in how well your
sales are performing.
Try to set aside at least 10% of all business income in a
savings account to spend on educational materials.
These are just some examples of common mistakes affiliate
marketers make in their business. Note that these mistakes, even
seemingly insignificant can cost you a lot of money.
And if you are just starting in affiliate marketing, you do not
want this to happen. Then again, mistakes will serve as a
valuable lesson that even the best education will not give you.
About the author:
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