You came into affiliate marketing with the impression that it’s a money spinning venture, you have heard stories or probably seen videos of affiliate marketers claiming to make tens of thousands of dollars monthly from affiliate marketing. It’s easy they say, anyone can do it they say, you too can do it they said. Then you start- one month goes by, no sale,then two then three before you know it half a year is gone and you are no where near what you envisioned going into affiliate marketing. So what happened? Have you gone about it the wrong way or is affiliate marketing just another hogwash promoted on the internet?

What Is Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is, by definition, a marketing agreement in which an online shop pays a third-party website a commission for any traffic or sales it refers. An advertising strategy known as "affiliate marketing" pays third-party publications to direct visitors or leads to a company's goods and services. In the context of advertising, affiliate marketing refers to the practice of paying outside publications to direct customers to a company's goods and services. The commission payment encourages the affiliate third-party publishers to look for ways to advertise the business.

Your Journey Into Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is so easy to start, and that’s why it’s such an attractive venture for those seeking for ways to make money online, all you really need to set off on your journey into affiliate marketing is means to reach your potently buyers-a website or a blog( these days even a Facebook page or a YouTube channel will suffice, heck any social media page will do the job if you know how to go about it). Once you log into any affiliate marketing platform of your choice, you should find a long list of offers from different niche, there is literally no niche you pick where you won’t find products to promote, so getting a product to promote is not an issue but picking the right product is one of the many reasons people fail.
So have a product to promote you have the internet, you have done some marketing, probably written a bunch of articles too, maybe even spammed a few Facebook pages and groups still you haven’t made any sale, no one has even bothered to click on your link? Now, You are beginning to get frustrated…For something that ought to be such a lucrative business model why aren’t you succeeding with it in fact why are so many people failing at it?

Here we are going to examine some of the costly mistakes that are hindering your progress as an affiliate marketer.

YouTube Videos
If you started affiliate marketing because some guru on YouTube made a video where he or she claimed to be making $3000 or $5000 dollars weekly from affiliate marketing, I don’t know what to tell you- you have been scammed- it’s either you quit now go back to your regular job or buckled down and unlearn all the nonsense they taught you.
My advice; unfollow any “make money online” guru you are following on YouTube, trust me they have nothing good to offer you, use the data you waste on those videos to download cartoon and watch. Truth me there is no way you’ll start affiliate market and automatically starts making $3000 - $5000 dollars weekly, as a matter of fact even those so called gurus aren’t getting $3000 from affiliate marketing monthly. A large number of those so called affiliate marketing gurus aren’t even affiliate marketers. The only reason they post those deceitful videos on YouTube is to get more subscribers and more increase the watch time on their YouTube channel and that’s why they will tell you to smash the subscribe button hit the like button blah blah blah-Ask yourself if he/she was making so much money from affiliate marketing why bother if viewers subscribe to their channel or not.
Anybody who has discovered how to make $3000 dollars on online in one week will not crates a video to share it for free on YouTube. Trust me.

Selling To The Wrong Audience

I’ve heard so some people talk about “oh the reason why you not making sales is because you are promoting the wrong product or you chose a product with “low gravity”- but I tend to disagree with that analogy. I think it’s more of a wrong audience than wrong product. If you pick up a weight loss product and go to a group full of slim (lanky, thin) individuals who are probably more interested in gaining weight, do you think you’ll make any head ways with that product? I think not.
One major factor you must consider when picking an affiliate program to promote is this- Do I have the audience for this product? If not drop it and choose something you already have the audience for or something you know for a sure how to reach the audience for the product.

No Landing Page

A landing page is a standalone web page that potential customers can “land” on when they click through from your blog, social media page or Ad. A landing page aims to capture information from contacts in exchange for something of value, such as a retail offer code or business-to-business (B2B) insights in the form of a white paper. (As defined by google) Why do you need a landing page you ask? Why not just send the traffic straight to the sales page?
The truth is most persons don’t buy a product on first site. They like to make enquires, ask a few questions before deciding, in other cases some people tend to need a little push before they finally decide to make a purchase whatever the case may be if you don’t have a landing page to collect the buyer’s information on first visit chances are the moment that person leaves your page you’ve lost them for good but If you have a well designed landing page you can collect the potential customers email addressor phone number with which you can make follow up that way keeping the buyer within reach.

Affiliate Marketing With Zero Investment

Unless you already are some sort of influencer or you already have a blog with lots of readers you are going to find it very difficult to make money (especially as a newbie) with affiliate marketing. You need money to make money that is the simple truth about life. You need to have some sort of budget before you start out as an affiliate marketer trust me it will make the process a whole lot easier for you.
If do not already have a blog you need to invest in a good web host ( if you choose to go through the blogging route) if social media is your preferred choice for affiliate marketing you need to have a budget for Ads (Unless you all ready have tens of thousands of followers). Remember when you place Ads, Try no to link the Ads straight to the product sales page point the Ad to your landing page- it doesn’t have to be fancy, you could just write a review about the product on the page then insert some testimonials- this will give your potential buyers the assurance that the said product has worked for other people remember to attach form to collect; e-mails and phone numbers before sending the traffic to the product sales page.


Obviously this isn’t all there is to it but I believe that if you can avoid those aforementioned mistakes it will make the process of making money as an affiliate marketer easier for you. Affiliate marketing ought to be relatively easier compared to regular marketing because the internet is a global village, you can reach millions of people across the world with a single post hence your chances of meeting buyers for product becomes a whole lot easier.
That’s said, affiliate marketing is not just some plug and play method to make money, it requires a lot of work, dedication and even financial investment for you to become successful at it.
Hope you pick something positive to help you in your online endeavors yours sincerely brokeyahooboy.

O.P. thanks for your advice. Are you into affiliate marketing? If yes in what niche?

Yes I am. Mostly health and fitness but sometimes I do “make money online” it’s very saturated though

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