subject: How to Choose Affiliate Programs – A Godsend for Any Affiliate Marketer [print this page] How to Choose Affiliate Programs A Godsend for Any Affiliate Marketer
How to choose affiliate programs that actually make you any money at all maybe the single toughest challenge aninternet marketer will face.
Now I'm only mentioning that I went to University and received an honors Bachelor's degree in Business Administration to make my point that from experience; I can tell you thatinternet marketing is not easy, despite what so many self-serving folks will lead you to believe.
When somebody is telling you that it's a fast and easy way to make money with little or hardly any effort, I can assure you that they haven't spent any real time at this game or they simply lucked out big time!
In poker, a wild stroke of luck is called hitting lightning in a bottle. It happens. But not often and certainly not to most of us. The same can be said forinternet affiliate marketing.
True affiliateinternet marketing is all about the painstaking process of searching for small pockets of hungry buyers called market niches, then satisfying these markets with products that match the chosen niche and finally selecting various methods to promote these products to attract that hungry swarm of customers to buy the products.
It's a sweet formula and really does work but there are so many variables associated with this process and so many places to get lost along the way.
And that's if you supposedly know what you are doing!
If you are aninternet marketingnewbie then the chances are quite high you will rarely, if ever know where you are in the process. In fact that's whynewbie's are so vulnerable to get rich quick products and schemes. They're so daunted by the process they choose shortcuts.
If you're not making any money during your affiliate marketing efforts you will be constantly wondering:
Did I choose the correct market niche?
Am I really promoting to a starving crowd of buyers?
Did I choose the right product for my chosen niche?
Does the product have affiliate support from the owner necessary for me to compete and succeed?
Am I using the best methods to promote the product?
Am I choosing the best keywords for my promotional campaigns?
Will I ever rank in Google with my keyword selection?
Do I really have a handle on my competition?
Do I even know who my completion is?
Am I getting the best back links?
And really the sad part of all this is that you can be doing all the mechanics associated with affiliate marketing perfectly. You can be listing and completing all the required tasks expertly; but miss just one of these 10 points and the chances are high you're all but doomed.
And folks, this is really just the tip of the iceberg. There are countless other variables associated withinternet marketing that are not even considered for this article.
Now, what if there was an opportunity to all but eliminated the 10 variables listed in this article. There would be absolutely no more guess work for you. You would just enjoy the support and concentrate on the mechanics and tasks that you already know how to perform letter perfectly.
