Saturday, October 4, 2008

3 MISTAKES AFFILIATES MAKE

Hello Dear,Are you an affiliate marketer? Then read this...Affiliate marketers are a great breed. They sniff out the best products and promote them with a flair that you just can't top. That is, the affiliate marketers who know what they're doing. Then you have those who don't have a clue. The mistakes that they make could fill up a book the size of "War and Peace" and still have plenty of room for a short story. Maybe you're one of those affiliate marketers. Well, if you're not having any success at all, you might very well be making these three mistakes. If you are, correcting them WILL get you on the road to riches.Mistake number one is in the actual choice of the product itself. Many affiliate marketers seem to think that heading to the Clickbank marketplace and just picking out the product with the highest gravity in their chosen niche is going to produce a winner. The problem is, if you're a brand new marketer, the competition is going to kill you, plain and simple. You have as much chance of making a sale in such a crowded area as a snowball in hell. You're much better off choosing a product that has proven to sell but doesn't have quite as many affiliates selling it.Mistake number two is not tracking your promotions. Let's face it, when you promote an affiliate product, you do use many avenues of promotion. At least I hope you are. If not, that's another mistake, but we'll leave that for another time. Point is, if you don't know which advertising mediums are working for you, how will you know whether or not to continue using them? So you absolutely MUST use some kind of ad tracking system. Google Analytics is free and it's excellent. Use it!Mistake number three is not cloaking your affiliate link. Look, like it or not, theft exists. If somebody sees an exposed affiliate link and they're not exactly the most ethical person in the world, they're going to insert their own affiliate ID into the mix and end up getting credit for YOUR sale. Hey, it happens. Burying your head in the sand and pretending this doesn't exist isn't going to help. So cloak your links. That's the least you can do.There are other things, naturally. But these three will avoid you losing a fortune in sales. Leave them out at your own peril.To YOUR Success,

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