subject: Is Affiliate Marketing Really For You?
[print this page] People get into affiliate marketing for many reasons. They don't think that they can put together a product or offer. That may or may not be true, but the important thing is that they believe that they can't. If they can't, they don't really fancy having to hire someone to write it or do it for them.
They don't think that they can create a good sales page. Again, that may or may not be true and they don't want to shell out the big bucks and hire a professional copywriter. They might not want to handle the customer service.
Affiliate marketing can be a great thing. Anyone can get into it and you can make a ton of money without having a lot of resources, but it can be a lot of work.
There are reasons why people like me create our own products and write our own sales pages and handle customer service or pay the big bucks to outsource them. One of the reasons is that we can get affiliates to do some of the dirty work for us.
As an affiliate you have to realize that you may have to really roll up your sleeves and get to work. It will entail a lot of research. You have to research products that you want to affiliate. You have to see how their sales page converts, how much you can make a sale, what their refund rate is etc.
You also have to research how you're going to market this product to people or the group of people that you have built relationships with. You have to research how you're going to stick out from the crowd and the competition and just how you're going to go about this.
You have to figure out what strategies that you're going to use to promote the product or offer. A lot of successful article marketers will write between five to ten articles a day.
For most people, that isn't an easy task. Not with all the distractions that come with the proposition of working from home. I'm not saying this to discourage anyone, but it's the truth. I don't care what strategy that you use, you better realize that you're going to have to put some real time and effort into it, for it to start bearing some real fruit. The best way to stay focused is to keep a task list and work on that list every day!
