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I tried to follow these get-rich-quick programs. I never succeeded as the writers boasted. However, I do make additional income besides my full time job every month.
Every affilliate marketer must have a realistic goal. Don't quit your job before your program generates income 2 times than your salary. Otherwise, small revenue will discourage you to continue your program. And you will keep finding get-rich-quick programs. You try and quit. That only makes ebook writers rich.
Find a good program. Stay with it and work hard. Success is just a matter of time.
And btw, welcome to WebmasterWorld.
I find a lot of people entering into independent web publishing for the first time set out by monetising their site first with CPC and CPA creatives and only then start looking into how to increase traffic and get people to click and / or buy.
I took a different approach.
I spent ten months trying to work out how I could get traffic levels to increase month by month and how I could maximise repeat visitor numberss before I really looked into monetising the site.
I'm not saying this is the only blueprint for success.
But to my mind it's better to find out what people want and what will keep them coming back to your site before you start to look for content-related-creatives which will monetise your site.
Above all, know when to cut your losses. Some ideas have always been loosing propositions, no matter how much time and effort you spend on them.
Define your exit strategy.
And don't panic - once you find your formula, its well worth the wait.
Trial and error, some effort and lots of testing will find what works for you. When you find it, you could even launch your own "get rich quick" scheme ;)
READ, STUDY and APPLY the training materials an affiliate provides you. If one doesn't provide you enough training then it may be time to move on to someone who does.
Don't forget to APPLY the info you learn. If a product or service is important enough that you would invest your time, effort, money and resources into promoting as an affiliate, then it should be valuable enough to be of some significant use to yourself. So, make it useful by applying your training.
Use the products and services. If they aren't worth using yourself, then they aren't worth spending time promoting the darn things. After all, if YOU as someone who openly endorsing the product isn't even using it, why in the world should someone else buy it?!
If you don't learn as you go, you won't go. Whereas, if you learn more, you will earn more.
Find a program that will properly and continually train you and keep you up-to-date on web marketing and APPLY what you learn along the way.
Good luck.
How do affiliates deal with this type of thing? Google warns of penalties for 'thin affilate sites' (what exactly does THAT mean?) so I assume thats what was going on with my site (google is full of affiliate driven, even scrapper sites)
Do afiliates live exclusively off the backs of yahoo, msn and adwords until the site matures and gets indexed by google?
How does this work.
I like the post above about study and learn. I don't know what I did wrong but all I got was junkmail. I tried cj and another big one. The only time I've made money on an affiliate is when its directly thru the site and not a broker. Who does this training? Are you talking about CJU?
Per the WW policy, I think I cannot expose the url of the affiliate programs here (correct me if I'm wrong). Please stickymail me, if you're interested to have a look at them.
Cheers,
I've had to open a business account and declare my income to the Inland Revenue.
My own bususiness from a cheap and simple affiliate scheme!
When you find the right one your laughing!
Lisa
