You’ve just signed up for this fantastic new affiliate
program. They have great products, free referral websites, training, pre-made
ads for you to copy and the best compensation plan on the internet. This is the
best affiliate program on the internet! Put a few ads out there and you’re on
your way to becoming the next internet millionaire. Right?
Before you break ground on that big mansion on the hill,
here are a few mistakes many new affiliate marketers make that you’ll want to
avoid.
5. Believing the hype
And yes, I do mean the hype promoted by your own program.
Those income projections that every program makes are just that, projections.
You can make that much. Will you within your first few months of the program?
Probably not. Look at this as a long term investment in your future, not a way
to get rich quick. Believe in yourself and your ability to make your dreams
come true. But don’t believe the hype.
4. Expecting instant
results with little effort
Expect to work your business. And expect to work it daily.
If you opened your own neighborhood store, you’d expect to have to go in to
work daily, wouldn’t you? You’d expect to have to advertise and get people to
come to your store. Well, you just opened your own brand new internet store,
what are you going to do to make it work? How are you going to get people to
come look at your product?
3. Lack of a plan and
specific goals
You’ve probably heard the saying, plan your work and work
your plan. You need to have a specific plan and clear, measurable goals. Many
people join affiliate programs with the vague goal of wanting to make a lot of
money. How much money? How quickly do you want it? (Try to be realistic here,
making a million dollars in one month is not realistic.) Okay, you have your
clear, specific goal. Now how are you going to get there. Again, think clear,
specific steps here.
2. Advertising your
affiliate link
Wait a minute, if you don’t advertise your affiliate link,
how are you supposed to get sales and downline members? Create your own website
that has a link to your affiliate program. Every affiliate for your program
gets the same website that you do. You have to be able to make yourself
different from everyone else. The way you do that is with your own website.
1. Quitting
You’ve been working your affiliate program for 2, 3, maybe
even 4 months now with very little to show for it. You’re getting discouraged
and beginning to wonder if this is worth it after all. Pick yourself up, dust
yourself off and figure out what it is you need to be doing. Learn more. Bug
your sponsor and your upline members until they help you out. Don’t quit. No
one ever achieved success by quitting. Neither will you.
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