| Everyday, there will be people who had heard | | | | keeping tracks of the performances of every |
| about Affiliate Marketing for the first time in their | | | | single one of them and adjusting your marketing |
| life and quickly jump into the bandwagon. There | | | | effort according to their results? |
| are also many Affiliate Marketers who are | | | | Obviously the second one may cause you to |
| scratching their head, thinking why they are not | | | | have information overload and in the end, you |
| performing as successfully as what they had | | | | might just simply give up! |
| hoped to. | | | | Lack of Determination |
| Many Affiliate Marketers failed in the quest | | | | Now that you are hit with information overload, |
| because of two major factors: - | | | | you are ready to throw in the towel. |
| | | | Wait! There are ways to overcome it. What you |
| 1. Lack of Focus | | | | need is to commit yourself on the following things: |
| 2. Lack of Determination | | | | - |
| Lack of Focus | | | | |
| Many experience Marketers are able to promote | | | | 1. Identify your niche market and stick to it. |
| many products at one time. This is possible | | | | 2. Promote one product on your niche market |
| because they have already a set of processes | | | | 3. Use this product as a test on your various skills |
| (or skills), which they gathered over time to help | | | | (e.g. traffic generation, conversion and etc) |
| them to focus on individual product. | | | | If you can identify a set of processes that can |
| As a Newbie (or someone new to the Affiliate | | | | promote your product successfully, you can also |
| Marketing scene), this is not quite possible as you | | | | use it on any product and produce the same |
| are still in the learning stage. You still do not know | | | | result. |
| what works or doesn't work for your products. | | | | Imagine how you learn to ride a bicycle in your |
| You will need a testing ground to clearly define | | | | childhood. You started with a tricycle, moving on |
| your workable steps. | | | | to a bicycle with 2 supporting wheels. Then you |
| Here is a simple example to illustrate the point. | | | | "graduate" to a standard bicycle of your choice. |
| Imagine cooking a dinner for a few people. You | | | | This is the same as Affiliate Marketing. |
| are supposed to cook four dishes and given that | | | | |
| there's no time limit and you are new to cooking. | | | | 1. Learn how to choose a good product |
| Would it be better to cook one dish at a time, | | | | 2. Learn how to generate traffic to your site with |
| taste it and confirm it is ok before going to the | | | | that product. |
| next dish? | | | | 3. Learn how to capture subscribers to your |
| Or would it be better to cook all four dishes at | | | | opt-in with that product. |
| one go and rushing from dish to dish to ensure | | | | 4. Learn how to write advertisement for that |
| that they are properly cooked? | | | | product |
| Obviously, the first one is better. Likewise, for a | | | | 5. Learn how to review that product |
| newbie in Internet Marketing, would it be better to | | | | 6. Learn how to track your results and conversion |
| promote just one product and observe the | | | | rate for that product. |
| response of this product. Taking note of the | | | | The key point is to focus on one product and |
| traffic generation, conversion and along the way, | | | | improve your performance gradually. If you can |
| adjust it to confirm that the changes made can | | | | follow these simple steps, very soon, you will be |
| improve the sales of that product? | | | | able to "graduate" from a newbie to a Full Fledge |
| Or would you want to start with a few products, | | | | Affiliate Marketer! |