Affiliate marketing can't make you rich, but....

[cf05]

I bought a lot of ebook about affiliate programs or how to make money online. The examples are get pay for surveys online, data processing online, EBay reselling, Google adwords, affiliate programs, reselling cd roms, rewriting ebooks.They are great ideas.

I tried to follow these get-rich-quick programs. I never succeeded as the writers boasted. However, I do make additional income besides my full time job every month.

So every affilliate marketer must have a realistic goal. Don't quit your job before your program generates income 2 times than your salary. Otherwise, small revenue will discourage you to continue your program. And you will keep finding get-rich-quick programs. You try and quit. That only makes ebook writers rich.

Find a good program. Stay with it and work hard. Success is just a matter of time.

[Linda Buquet]

Hi cf05,

Welcome to WPW. Great 1st post!

Don't quit your job before your program generates income 2 times than your salary. Otherwise, small revenue will discourage you to continue your program. And you will keep finding get-rich-quick programs. You try and quit. That only makes ebook writers rich.

Find a good program. Stay with it and work hard. Success is just a matter of time.

Super good advice!

[venyar]

I gained a lot from reading your post. I am currently researching about online marketing, online marketing surveys and stuff. Sharing your knowledge on this field is a great help and I like how you present ideas as organized and as straightforward. Thanks a lot.


___venyar___
Tales From The Creeper

[MattE]

Ah but not forgetting there are those "super affiliates" out there making $250,000 or more per year - yes its true.

BUT they are NOT the ones writing ebooks - it is generally the wannabes (those who may thing they are doing well and telling you about it to sell their books- who do the writing!!

I have a few posts on by blog PlusOne - Musings of a marketer (search the word affiliate) with what I believe is good sound advise - none of which will make you rich, but will help avoid some pitfalls.

Now here is the secret of big bucks from affiliate programs...learn how to make use of data feeds and publish on your own shopping site - that is how THEY do it. I'm not a coder - I don't know how, which is why I just make wages from affiliate programs.

[Outdust_Regna]

Nice advice and nice information you got there. I absolutely agree with you. I honestly don't believe in get-rich-quick schemes. Earning money is never easy. You have to do real hard work and sometimes even with hard work all you get is still enough for your living. So patience is really the point when you are earning.

[Bartlets]

Quitting the job is wrong decision. Some time you should work hard to earn out of afiliate marketing. I never read ebooks but quite active on forums, blogs and my only observation is how others doing and constant learning. Am fairly successful and am happy and am damn sure there are big days ahead.

[akashefi12]

Of course do not quit your job...But, do not underestimate the power of affiliate marketing... If you put some time and effort into you can see substantial gains! Take a moment to do some research and you may find that it is for you!

[Bluenoser]

Originally Posted by akashefi12

Of course do not quit your job...But, do not underestimate the power of affiliate marketing... If you put some time and effort into you can see substantial gains! Take a moment to do some research and you may find that it is for you!

This is what it is all about "time and effort". If you haven't got the patience to stick with
a company and build your organization you will be at a constant starting over position.

Look at Bloggers for example, after building a reputation and being online for 2 to 3 years
they are a lot of them making $3500 - $4000 a month on Affiliate sales plus advertising
revenue from their own Blogs. They have a large list of readers and when they have a
promotion usually at a discount price or membership there are always so many of
their readers that buy the product. Some are also involved In MLM as well.

Gord

[peter250]

Good post. It is possible to make a lot of money from being an affiliate. It takes time and effort.

My advice would be start slow and read about it in full before taking any project on at all.

At least then you know what to do and what not to do.

Never quit your job until you have money saved and you are earning a hell of a lot of money. Affiliate earnings can change dramatically from week to week.


Goodluck to all.

[NetGal]

The problem is, too many people go in too many different directions. Just pick one group of people send them the quality info that solves their problem and you will have a repeat customer for life! People look down on low paying commission products, you can make a lot with that too, because many other top marketers will avoid those niches.

[aikidoroll]

I disagree. But I define rich a little bit differently.
We are rich when we are successful in life's paths, not when our wallets are full.

And a careful affiliate or niche affiliate marketer can build a good income.
There are also strategies for becoming a super affiliate for specific companies, you just
have to focus and keep working in your direction, not a thousand others.

[aikidoroll]

Originally Posted by cf05

I bought a lot of ebook about affiliate programs or how to make money online. ....

Find a good program. Stay with it and work hard. Success is just a matter of time.

That is the idea. Be realistic and stay focused.

[Andrewlyn]

Do you think that it is easy to find a good program?

[amjonathan]

Originally Posted by Andrewlyn

Do you think that it is easy to find a good program?

There are tons of great programs out there, it just depends on which niche you focus on. Try to stay diverse and focused.

[sandis.viksna]

Great post mate!

What I found being an affiliate manager, that most affiliates (the new ones) needs to stick to quite simple thing - building a content site on the niche topic, e.g. weight loss or skin care and so on. Obviously, it takes decent amount of work as this is SEO (search engine optimization) approach but eventually can be supplemented with PPC and other means of traffic (e.g. youtube, etc)

Then the following process kicks in:

Month 1: 10 page site, built 5 links. Site gets indexed. Wow, 3 visitors visits your site. 0 sales.
Month 2: 25 page site, built 30 links. Site now got 78 visitors. 0 sales.
Month 3: 50 page site, built 100 links. Site now received 279 visitors. You made your first sale!
Month 4: 75 page site, built 200 links. Site this month had 730 visitors you made 4 sales!!!
Month 5: 100 page site, 300 links built. 1350 visitors, 8 sales made!
Month 6: 120 pages, 500 links, 2500 visitors, 20 sales made!
Month ...
Month 12: 200 pages, 3000 links, 10'000 visitors, 50-100 sales a month ($2000-$10'000) in commissions.

I posted this as an example on how the things REALLY happen. What I also have found is that many people drops out after first 2-3 months and then they complain - it didn't work! I did this, I didn't that.

But when you look at their site - all they have done is copied a template and some sample articles and built 3 forum signature links. It makes my wonder - WHY?!

So takeaway 1: don't give up until you have give it a good try - sometimes it could mean as much as 100 pages of content and 1000 links and 6 months of solid work.


Takeaway 2: if you can build one site like this. Now with the money you receive, do you think you could outsource and build 2-3 more sites? Oh, yes!!! And this is how you build your online empire.

[Sadr]

But how much cost is the hosting for 200 pages for 12 months? It takes alot of time to build 5 good pages with keyword optimized meta tages original content.....
Some people like me, caught the domain fever and bought 50 domains and don't have time to do this with all of the all at once. What should a person like me do with so many and little time. Maybee forward most domains to other more productive domains? Any advice?

[innominds]

Originally Posted by Sadr

But how much cost is the hosting for 200 pages for 12 months?

You can host unlimited number of sites with a single web hosting company. The cost may be around 4-6 USD per month.

[sandis.viksna]

Originally Posted by Sadr

But how much cost is the hosting for 200 pages for 12 months? It takes alot of time to build 5 good pages with keyword optimized meta tages original content.....
Some people like me, caught the domain fever and bought 50 domains and don't have time to do this with all of the all at once. What should a person like me do with so many and little time. Maybee forward most domains to other more productive domains? Any advice?

Well, take it as following - do you want to build business or you want to play around?

If you wont put int efforts and time, you wont get results. It is simple as that. It is like taking a half made boat in the sea - it will likely to sink.

Also don't do 10239 things at a time, find a profitable niche (there are many ways to do that), and concentrate on it for year. There are 2309842903 ways to make money, but stick with one and become master at it.

[Sadr]

Originally Posted by sandis.viksna

Well, take it as following - do you want to build business or you want to play around?

If you wont put int efforts and time, you wont get results. It is simple as that. It is like taking a half made boat in the sea - it will likely to sink.

Also don't do 10239 things at a time, find a profitable niche (there are many ways to do that), and concentrate on it for year. There are 2309842903 ways to make money, but stick with one and become master at it.

That is great advice. Some thing I have been putting into effect for the past couple weeks. Another member on another forum had said that I should concentrate on the 10 or so sites that I have a nitch for and all coinside. He said "Follow The Money" and go with what works. So this what my new plan is.

As for time put in... I work on my sites for about 5 hrs a day for the last 7 months and all I have earned is about $55.00 in adsense. Spent about $500.00 in that time. But lust like every other domainer, its the long term that we are looking at. I'm just not looking forward to the next years renewal fees for my 50 some domains. I will try to sell off all but my nitch sites so I can have less fees next year. The ones I don't sell I will let go, if they didn't earn thier way in the 12 month span, and just not renew them.

[Toni Anicic]

Originally Posted by Sadr

That is great advice. Some thing I have been putting into effect for the past couple weeks. Another member on another forum had said that I should concentrate on the 10 or so sites that I have a nitch for and all coinside. He said "Follow The Money" and go with what works. So this what my new plan is.

As for time put in... I work on my sites for about 5 hrs a day for the last 7 months and all I have earned is about $55.00 in adsense. Spent about $500.00 in that time. But lust like every other domainer, its the long term that we are looking at. I'm just not looking forward to the next years renewal fees for my 50 some domains. I will try to sell off all but my nitch sites so I can have less fees next year. The ones I don't sell I will let go, if they didn't earn thier way in the 12 month span, and just not renew them.

If you spent 5 hours a day for 7 months and all you have earned is $55.00 from AdSense you are doing something terribly wrong. Seriously, you are putting way to much time and effort to get so bad results, did you ever wonder if you are doing the wrong things?

[Sadr]

So what am I doing wrong? Please Help!!!

[Glen Speckmann]

That is great advice. Your online business needs to be treated as
a real business. You must dedicate yourself, put in a good deal of time,
and stay focused on your goals. After you do this you will see results.
Until those results are large enough, and more importantly, consistent,
do not quite your day job
Great Post!

Good Luck

[Sadr]

Who is the #1 affiliate that give real results and payment? Anyone with a real experience with the affiliates they would like to share?

[Prometheus]

I need to get started in Affiliate marketing, need to find some folks doing it well and learn. Specifically automotive affiliate marketing.

[affgem]

Ii agree with you all.. It's very important to not to fell for these "get-rich-quick" programs... They never help us learn anything nor they help us making money online. Infact, we make these "get-rich-quick" programs sellers rich by buying their products. It's advisable for anyone who is new to internet business to spend some time researching on the net to get to know what is what and who is who. There is a whole lot of information available free on the net so if we are ready to spend some time then we can learn many things without paying anyone anything.

[NetGal]

Originally Posted by affgem

Ii agree with you all.. It's very important to not to fell for these "get-rich-quick" programs... They never help us learn anything nor they help us making money online. Infact, we make these "get-rich-quick" programs sellers rich by buying their products. It's advisable for anyone who is new to internet business to spend some time researching on the net to get to know what is what and who is who. There is a whole lot of information available free on the net so if we are ready to spend some time then we can learn many things.

You are so right! Don't fall for the get rich quick, because you Won't make any money HOWEVER! If you take it one step at the time and if you push forward, learn one skill at the time, you will make it.

The only way you can have an "automated" business is to have lists going! HOWEVER! The lists take time to build! The lists have to learn to trust you! and You still have to find out what a niche wants before you can make the $$$!

[BaraoVermelho]

Very good advices. This is a great forum, in did. Tks for your help.

[brandon123]

Originally Posted by cf05

So every affilliate marketer must have a realistic goal. Don't quit your job before your program generates income 2 times than your salary. Otherwise, small revenue will discourage you to continue your program. And you will keep finding get-rich-quick programs. You try and quit. That only makes ebook writers rich.

Find a good program. Stay with it and work hard. Success is just a matter of time.

Great advice! The best thing one can do is get involved with at least 2 diferent money making programs which he or she believes in and ride them until the wheels fall off.

Brandon

[chanceol]

good post. i have a ecommerce site. i need time to achieve my goal.

[kohc0004]

It's a great info. It's true that you should focus on one thing and become a master of it. Whether it is SEO, PPC, article marketing and any other promotional tactics to promote your affiliate site, learn one thing at a time and until you succeed in one of the area and become an expert, then start moving on to another area.

The key to success is consistency and effort, that's what I believe. Those who can earn 5 digit figure per month within the first 3 months period has a story behind. You saw the money they earn, but you did not see the price they pay. Discipline and effort and study cannot be neglected.

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Jerry

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[hawash]

I think should consider making money online after at least he build 400 + pages of good content

Then he can mix adsense with affiliate programs

[live2give]

Affilite marketing can make you rich!

You just need to know what you are doing and yes, be a master one of not a jack of all.

Stick to it, learn all the angles, and you will succeed! No Doubt!

Peace
Love and
Happiness

[MH Vishal]

Agreed that just by starting Affiliate marketing you cannot make it a big. As it is welknown that every coin has two sides One postive and the another one is negative.I have noticed three main reason why many people don't earn the sort of affiliate checks that they deserve for the time they invest in their business.

1) Incorrect Niche selection.

2) Promoting Low priced products without having a high ticket products waiting in the wings

3) Not having a dedicated affiliate manager to coach and support you.

[haiwasnm]

I'm a Affiliate beginner, learning more than from here, thank you guys take me info how to do them

[jlhen]

i do this job right now but i don't now much i wish you can help me in the future

[tbartsports]

The biggest mistake that new affiliates make is they find a product and then spend countless hours trying to promote it with little or no success. What you really need to do is find what people want first and make those people your target market. Then search for a product that matches that market and that has a good affiliate program and then push that product to your target market.

[mitosblog]

Hardwork and patience is the best way to succeed

[Dinghus]

I'm going to throw all of you a curve ball about those "get rich quick" scammers errrr gurus. You CAN learn from them. They do a lot of stuff right and they earn money doing it. BUT they are all doing the same things at the same time and saying they have found the next thing that is going to "blow the lid off affiliate marketing".

What they are doing is using psychology to try and get you to buy. It is also known as "marketing". But they are still in Marketing 101. They have not advanced beyond that.

To advance you need to look at eBooks like Psychology Of Advertising. Not a get rich quick scam but a solid course in advertising, no matter what medium you are using. Every "trick" the "gurus" use is covered in there in one way or another. It is heavy reading tho so you have to have patience to get through it.

Another thing is that the "gurus" do come out with some nuggets on occasion. Like they will find an online tool that really helps ease the burden of some part of getting ranked or noticed.

The biggest thing you need to do is stay on track. It IS a business and you must treat it like one. Just think if you were opening a store, would you open 500 stores with 1 or 2 products in each and then wonder why they all failed? Or would you open 1 store that focuses on 1 area (unless you are a dept store but that is a whole other area). When that 1 is self sustaining you go to another.

To the person who has all those domain names, don't give up on them. What I have done is get a template so all I have to do is drop in content and new graphics and slap it up on that site. You can even outsource your content creation to a freelancer (make sure it is ORIGINAL content).

The key to these sites is focusing on 1 product or using a data feed to stock up the site with many products. It is quick and easy.

[ps3pro]

I I have put in effort and its paying off . Like the old saying if you graft it will pay off

[Stupot52]

It can add to your income, but be careful, don't get scammed !

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Like many of us, especially in this day and age, I have tried my hand at several money making schemes
found on the internet and probably in a similar fashion have ended up spending my hard earned money
on worthless ideas, which "hoik" you in with promises of a wealthy lifestyle with little work involved,
and little or no experience needed.
My "piece de resistance" was an affiliate marketing scheme which sold me a series of "manuals" over
a period of time and provided "freebies" such as a stock of DVDs. These films whose subjects were on
"self-improvement" are still sitting in a box in my garage. Part of the marketing was to purchase
advertising space in newspapers and magazines and advertise my website with an attention grabbing
headline. The manuals read,"At little cost of the adverts, you can place an ad on Friday and have
it paid for by Tuesday of the following week with the revenue from your sales"....Er...No!! I ended
up spending a fortune on adverts,which netted me very few sales indeed over the following months.
Advertising regularly in publications is an expensive business, whether you are making sales or not,
I learned.
I therefore decided to perform as much research as I could with my limited internet knowledge in
order to find one legitimate method of increasing my income online. Once again I tried a number of
them, but most failed miserably in a similar fashion to that described above, apart from a couple I
found which I decided to market via my own website.

One of the methods of making money is simple. You receive envelopes which have to be filled with
circulars and posted. Each envelope you receive $5 and you get a commission for every sale which is
generated from any of your postings. There is obviously some work to do with the envelopes, but when
I started to put away those $5 bills and counted them at the end of the month I was very pleasantly
surprised. In my first month, while still performing a day job (which I hate with a vengeance) I
made just under $1,800.00
Another idea I tried was Quick Paid Surveys. This one seems completely legitimate
and I started making a few dollars per survey within hours !...Basically, you get paid for completing
surveys online about such things as retail outlets, utilities, media, travel, dining out etc. etc.
Now I run the Easy Home Job scheme and the Surveys simultaneously along with my day job, which I plan
to quit in a month or two. I have so far, managed to accumulate sufficient income from evening and weekend
working to meet my basic overheads and just require a little more to start making me feel totally comfortable.
Once I have quit the day job I intend spending more time online throughout the days, thus increasing the
volume of work and revenue from the online businesses. Of course, I'll not have a boss forcing on me
impossible sales targets and bullying me into getting fired if I don't achieve them. I'll also rise
in the morning when I want and have no travel to and from work,apart from bedroom to my home office, i.e.
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Contact me for more information...Stupot52

[3dmagicaldesigns]

In my own Experience... I would never quit my job to start working with affiliate sites. Last year I purchased 3 insurance related domains, I affiliated myself to insureme and I worked on these 3 sites for over 3 months all my nights ( about 5 hours per night) The results were not as good as they promised, I started earning 50 monthly and my last earning was $ 250, I was hoping to make at least $1000 to motivate myself and contine, I decided to stop.

Affiliate marketing generates income but you never know how much and you will only know if it was worth to try after you spend a long time involved.

[joyblogs]

I don't really expect that affiliate can make me rich but I hope it can support my currect financial..even it can cover me to pay debt also make me happy..

[ekta74]

ya we can't expect to be rich with these programs but atleast can try to overcome some terrible bills..

[knotty]

nice advise

[jason146]

yes its right that you can never be successful by joining the only one affiliate program or product so for this you need to have alteast Ebay&Amazon both combined into one system where you have all opportunities to promote the product of your choice without any limitation just like a solution provided by dynamixgate about which you can get more info by searching on google with
"dynamixgate affiliate store builder" keyword