Thinking of trying to start an affiliate marketing business on the internet? Or maybe you’ve already been working on it for a while. If you haven’t had this experience yet, you’ll probably soon begin to see that affiliate marketing has at least three sides: I call them the good, the bad, and the ugly. This article focuses on Part 2: The bad news about affiliate marketing.
By writing these articles, I hope to help other people interested in affiliate marketing avoid some of the costly mistakes I’ve made along the way to figure it all out.
So what is “bad” with affiliate marketing? Unfortunately, there is some bad news in this area.
For me, as a disabled teacher, the “bad” started when I quickly realized that despite having a lot of formal education and years of experience both as a teacher and as a trainee, I was a complete newbie to membership. content marketing area.
I guess I must have thought that all my experience with learning, with computers and the Internet, with finding and applying essential information, would give me a great advantage in affiliate marketing. I was so wrong!
I bought one e-book after another, always thinking that if I got “just one more book” it would suddenly all make sense to me. No.
Each book I bought had a lot of information, but very little turned out to be information that I could actually use.
So another “bad” for me was trying to make sense of all the information I had purchased. I felt like I had repeatedly paid to receive a beautiful painting and instead had been sent several 1000 piece puzzles, each with instructions to “just put it together”.
You can see that frequent frustration was part of my affiliate marketing learning experience.
Another “bad” about affiliate marketing is simply the truth: you almost certainly won’t start making millions of dollars right away. Maybe a few people have, but I don’t know of anyone who has (including me).
So what does it all mean? Should you give up the whole idea of affiliate marketing? Absolutely not!
I can tell you from personal experience that I’m very glad I didn’t give up during times when I was frustrated and wondering if I’d ever make it right (yes, those times happened!).
This is what you should realistically expect. (It actually includes some good news!)
1. Don’t plan for instant wealth. You will have to invest some time and effort in your own success. As you can imagine, the size of your reward is related to the amount of your effort.
2. One of the “bad” things about affiliate marketing is trying to figure out where to get simple, honest, and useful information to help you get started.
Here are some tips to help you make a good decision about choosing an affiliate marketing “how-to” product. Read all sales pages very carefully. Search for products sold through ClickBank (the Internet’s leading marketplace for digital information products). ClickBank has an 8-week, no-questions-asked, 100% refund policy on all products sold through them.
Look for “preview” pages of the products described in the sales materials. Check out any and all previews that are available on the sales sites; those previews should give you a good idea of whether the material you would receive in that product would be understandable and useful to you.
3. Ready for some good news? You don’t have to be a computer or internet expert (it really, really doesn’t matter). If you can check email and do a few Google searches, you can make a lot of money from affiliate marketing.
4. Do you want more good news? Once you get your affiliate marketing business up and running, it can really run on “autopilot”, continuing to generate income for you even when you’re not actively working on your business.
Fortunately, there is a good, comprehensive, simple and easy to follow guide to making your affiliate marketing business make money for you. Click here For more information on the book I wrote to summarize everything I learned starting my affiliate marketing business.