What Is Your Affiliate Marketing Business Needing?
February 8th, 2010 | by admin |Being an affiliate marketer is often a difficult business. There is much more to learn than most of us anticipated when we first started. And the learning curve can be so steep that many simply give up.
The most frequent difficulty among failed or failing affiliate marketing enterprises is buying magical, secret strategies and not putting them into action to see if they actually work. Some are no more than buyers; they don’t even read the books or watch the videos they buy. I hope that you are among those who will remain committed for the long term, constantly updating your knowledge base and actually applying what you learn by taking action. If not, please just stop reading, because you’ll simply waste money, and your business will fail, regardless.
There are two resources for affiliate marketers that I include in my recommendations. One has to do with using a marketing approach using blog entries, not only your blogs but the blogs of many other businesses. This system is a very useful membership website called My Article Network. I have described the way it works elsewhere (see that link). Here, I am going to describe one way that it can be used creatively by an affiliate marketer.
If you use the traditional method of article marketing, you write articles and submit those articles to article directories. With that method, your links are limited to the author’s resource box, usually published at the end of the article. With this new system, you can put up to three links directly into the article itself. Contextual links are much more effective. Furthermore, the top article directories (those with the most traffic, which are most likely to show up in the search engine directories) will not allow you to place a direct affiliate link into even the resource box. With this system, affiliate links are permitted. You can check it out for yourself by visiting this remarkable article marketing system that directly submits unique versions of your articles to blogs and websites in your niche from its list of over 10,000 sites anxious to receive content.
My other top recommendation is a total learning system for affiliate marketers. This is a completely revamped reissue of Anik Singal’s famous Affiliate Classroom. Singal, who was named as one of four Business Week Magazine’s young entrepreneurs of 2008, has spent two years, along with his partner, revamping the critically acclaimed program to make it even more expansive and comprehensive. If you are truly serious about improving your affiliate marketing business, at least sign up to receive the full information.
As I write this, the product has not yet launched, so all you can do is sign up on the squeeze page to be continually updated. Depending upon when you read this article, it is possible that it will have already sold out. Check to see if they have established a waiting list. If so, sign up and hope that a space for you opens.
Anticipating a question that I would ask, yes, both of these have affiliate programs, but you can’t use your own affiliate links to purchase either membership. You must sign up for both prior to gaining access to the affiliate programs.