When you first took a look at affiliate marketing, the concept seemed so simple you figured you give it a shot. Nothing wrong with that, after all it doesn’t really cost anything to get started or so you thought. Now you’re at it for awhile and you’re thinking, where’s all this money people are talking about?

If you want to start making money as an affiliate, you ‘re gonna have to keep it simple. I know, easier said than done right? Actually it can be if you can wrap your mind around focusing on doing basic things over and over again.

As an affiliate you have to find a product people are looking for and sell it to them, not too difficult right? So how come it’s not working? There are a couple of reasons I can think of off the top of my head.

One, maybe nobody’s looking for the product your offering. Let’s face it, no matter how you promote it, if nobody is looking for it, you ain’t gonna sell it. Did that sound a little hard? Sorry, but it’s the truth.

The other reason that comes to mind is maybe you’re not driving enough traffic to your offer to begin with. Sales is a numbers game, plain and simple and if your numbers are low then you can’t reasonably expect to make any money.

If you want to start making money as an affiliate, stick to the basics. Promote products people are looking for and take a focused approach to driving traffic. Don’t try to do it all, because you’ll only be shooting yourself in the foot.

Now there is another reason why you could be struggling to make money and if you want to find out what it is, join me over at: http://copynprofitmarketing.blogspot.com to see what you need to do to start making money as an affiliate now.

If there is one bone of contention that sticks out often, it’s the question of whether the Guru’s are out to swindle you out of your hard earned money. People at all different levels of marketing ability have alluded to some sort of conspiracy theory as to whether the internet marketing Guru’s have your best interests at heart.

What Do You Think?

Before we get to that, let’s consider what the word guru means for a second. According to the dictionary ( pick any one of em’) guru means to be a teacher or an intellectual guide in matters of fundamental concern. Let’s just go with the first definition, because the second one is a little too expensive for me.

If a guru is supposed to be a teacher, then by now you should’ve learned something about the internet marketing game even if it’s only one thing. If you’ve been buying a lot of internet marketing or affiliate marketing products, then by now you should be a trained expert in the art of recognizing crap a mile away.

Is it all the Guru’s fault?

Well, while the truth may be stranger than fiction, fact is that thousands of people get on the internet everyday looking for a magic solution to any number of problems that they desperately want solutions for. Because the desire for a solution is so strong, they’re willing to try almost anything that even remotely caters to that desire.

So whose fault is it when the consumer feels like they’ve been jilted out of their hard earned cash for a product that didn’t cut the mustard? Can you really blame the Guru’s for that?

Well truth be told, the Guru’s are not telling you all of their closely guarded secrets. As a matter of fact their is one secret that’s not even a secret at all and yet it’s so blatantly obvious that the majority of people who get involved with internet and affiliate marketing totally overlook it.

If you want to find out about this secret the Guru’s aren’t sharing with you join me in continuing this conversation by clicking over to: http://copynprofitmarketing.blogspot.com

Welcome to another edition of the inbox, today there was an interesting post that I’d like to share with you . Everyone involved with internet and affiliate marketing receive hundreds if not thousands of emails a day.

The noise can be deafening, well check out what one marketer had to say:

” Don’t you just hate it when you receive emails almost every
day from the same guy pitching all kinds of products.

And to make it worse…

It’s usually not just ONE guy, it’s 5 or 10 guys promoting
the same product every day.

One day it’s about Google bla bla bla (insert the product
name here) and the next it’s about Squidoo or MySpace
marketing.

Whatever…

And they use the same storyline “…my good friend bla bla
bla has just released bla bla bla and you need to get it now
because it’s the only one thing you need to buy”

…when a few days later they say the exact same thing but
this time referring to a different product that they’re
promoting!

My oh my.

Seriously, do these “gurus” think we’re stupid or what?

I mean, here they are sending us sales pitch email after
sales pitch email and they expect us to still be opening
their emails?

This is absolutely CRAZY!

Who in their right mind will open their emails?

I don’t have a problem with them doing sales pitch once in
a while. But to do it every day without providing any value
to their subscribers?

Come on…

I’ve made a post about this and I call it “Crazy Guru Promo
Emails”. See for yourself here:

==> It’s Us VS. The Crazy Gurus

Chat soon…

Welly Mulia

PS. Oh I forgot to mention. If you’re a guru, please don’t
read it because this is definitely not for you. PEACE.

PPS. I may get some hate mails flowing to my inbox from the
gurus, but who cares! I just want to tell my side of the
story (and I’m sure you’ll be able to relate to how I feel).

Go check it out:

==> It’s Us VS. The Crazy Gurus”

Welly’s got some good stuff on his blog. Check it out.

Cheers,

Nando