Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Affiliate Newbies - Avoid Making These Mistakes

By Anson Hall

You may want to earn some extra cash during the economic downtime. In fact, one of the ways to do so is the make money online. As you may know, affiliate marketing can be one of your options because it is considered one of the best ways to make money online.

In order to start working, you will join some affiliate programs. I will not talk about how you should choose the programs here since they should be well illustrated in a lot of other articles or e-books. Yet, you will need to be careful about the number of programs you join.

Some of you may think that you can make more money if you join more affiliate programs. Of course it is totally possible for you to join fifty programs and promote all the products. However, it will be very difficult for you to make money if you do so.

What you should do is to focus on one to two niches. It will take you some time to promote the products until you can make money. Once you can make some money, you can outsource the work and you can work in more niches.

Some newbies tend to start promoting the products right away. However, it will be difficult for you to promote them if you know nothing about the products or services. As suggested by a lot of other affiliate coaches, you should buy the products and use them.

You may want to know why you will need to try the products before you promote them. This is because you will understand the products a lot more after you have tried them. If you cannot try them for some reasons, you will read some product reviews of them so that you can learn more about them.

Some newbies may try to promote the affiliate products without having affiliate sites. Yes it is totally true that you may still be able to promote the products in places such as forums. However, you should still create your own sites. As a matter of fact, some forums will not allow you to post affiliate links. From this you will know the importance of your affiliate site.

Some new affiliate marketers will create a website with no content at all. They just put all the affiliate links on the site. They will think that they can make money by doing this. However, you will not make money if you do so. It is important to create an information affiliate site.

One last thing you need to know is that you will need to work for some time before you make money. You will just fail if you do not have the faith and patience. Of course you will also need to learn new tactics to promote while you are working.

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