Tips for affiliate programs

November 13, 2005

I bought a lot of ebook about affiliate programs or how to make money online. The examples are: get pay for surveys online, data processing online, EBay reselling, Google adwords, affiliate programs, reselling cd roms, rewriting ebooks.They are great ideas.

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.

—> That’s the spirit, cf05!

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.

—> >> Find a good program. Stay with it and work hard. Success is just a matter of time.

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.

—> Plan - Do - Review
Plan - Do - Review
Plan - Do - Review
Plan - Do - Review…

And don’t panic - once you find your formula, its well worth the wait.

—> cf05, you got it in one. The only people getting rich out of “get rich quick” programs are the ones selling them. A lot of great advice can be found here on these forums, and out on the www for free.

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

–> cf05,

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.

–> Inspiring words for sure. I wanted to be an affiliate marketer because I thought I had strong seo skills. On a newish site, 6 months and millions of clicks later I didn’t earn 1 penny. When I took the affils off my site, my traffic quadrupled and now I’m more interested in the money I’m making on googleads.

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 started and still am an affiliate with a multi level marketing approach. My income has increased from this to about £400 a month, which is not anywhere near enough for me to quit my full time job but Its a nice earner still.

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