subject: Are Your Affiliate Marketing Mistakes Costing You? [print this page] Are Your Affiliate Marketing Mistakes Costing You?
It's not just beginners who are prone to making mistakes with affiliate marketing. The experienced marketers, too, sometimes fall prey to their wrong decisions and ruin their progress.
Here are just five of the most made mistakes among newcomers to affiliate marketing.
Creating Someone Else's List
Why create someone else's list at your own expense? Well, this is exactly what you are doing when you send visitors directly to your merchant's main website without recording their information. What you should be doing is creating a squeeze page where you can record information of every visitor whom you direct to the seller's website. By doing so, you're building a list for yourselves for selling any number of products in future. Remember, the money is in the list!
Not Keeping In Contact With your leads
How can you let go of people who make you money? You MUST make sure you follow up with your contacts. After all, you've spent your precious time and put in effort in finding quality clients for your affiliate marketing site. You can't just let them slip through your fingers. A few smart ideas to follow up are posting newsletters, articles, free reports, or valuable and updated information on products to your prospects. But, remember, there's a thin line between stalking your prospect and keeping in touch with them!
"Pushing" Sales On Prospects
So, you wanna make your sale at gunpoint, eh? This is affiliate marketing people, not some mafia extortion game! You need to face facts. Most people don't buy the first time. Some of them will never buy, no matter how fabulous or useful you think your product is. So, it's useless, even bad form, to send mail asking, "Why haven't you bought my product?" or "Don't you want to get rich?" Such mail will put you in a bad light. They may even ruin your prospects. Patience is the key to successful clientele building.
Posting Multiple Offers In One Mail
Are you teaching your prospects multi-tasking? When they've asked you for information about one of your products, they expect you to send them ONLY the required information. Clubbing multiple facts together may confuse your client and he or she may drop the idea of associating with you altogether.
Grabbing Several Affiliate Marketing Programs Simultaneously
Can you date 5 women at a time?! NO! (We'll I can't not these day's anyway but this is marketing guys, not dating!) The best way to become successful is to concentrate on one affiliate program at a time. Get loads of experience, dexterity, and money from one program and only then think about expanding your venture.
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