Did you think that making money as an internet marketer would be so tough? After all the sales letter said all you had to do was put in a couple of hours a week and you’ll be making big money in no time. Then you found out otherwise once you got started.

It’s at this stage that a very real threat exists that could have you chasing your tail and spending money like water if you’re not careful.

What’s the threat?

The threat involves following too many peoples’ advice.

Why is this is a threat? Because following too many peoples’ advice will do nothing but turn you into a professional student who feels that they will never be able to truly get started and compete for business online without buying that new ’secret’.

Here is something very important that you have to understand in order to stay grounded and focused. What may work for one marketer may not work for another.

It doesn’t matter how nicely packaged the product is and how many people are promoting it, because soon after someone else will come up with a new way to achieve the very same success by doing it differently and they will tell you that the product you just bought is not the best way.

When you get caught up in taking advice from too many marketers you end up becoming a fly trapped in the world wide web instead of a marketer who makes money from it.

Find one path and stick to it, ride it out as far as it will go and once you’re ready to climb to another level seek out the information you need to get there.

If you’ve been working on putting out your own product but haven’t quite gotten ahead to launching it, what’s stopping you? Is it the thought that maybe someone will disagree with your way of thinking and talk negatively about you?

The only real reason that’s bothering you if that’s the case is because you’re allowing yourself to get caught up in all the drama that goes on between sales letters. Don’t fall for it. Avoid the threat and follow your chosen path to profits.

Sincerely,

Nando

Affiliate marketing looks so easy and yet so many people are struggling with it. I know, I did too in the beginning. In my travels I came across a helpful article that may be of good use to you. Here it is…

Revealed The Myth of Making Money Through Affiliate Marketing
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Ian_Canaway]Ian Canaway

Many people enter into the affiliate marketing arena with the hopes of making some quick money whilst doing the bare minimum amount work and preparation.

They expect to be making the type of money super affiliates make within five minutes of joining an affiliate program without doing anything other than send out a few ezine ads.

How do I know?

Because I was there, I did exactly the same thing, it was what the affiliate program owner’s instructions said to do; sign-up, send some of our pre-made ads out to a few ezines and newsletters and wait for the money to come in. Oh and send them straight to this affiliate link so you’ll be credited with the sale.

Ok, yes, I did make a few sales, but only just enough to break even. It wasn’t the sort of income they promised, so I thought to myself, ‘well there must be other affiliate programs out there that’ll make me more money’, so I moved on to another one, and guess what, the cycle repeated.

Does this sound familiar to you? It’s sometimes referred to as the 30 day average affiliate life span.

When you sign-up for an affiliate program don’t they just make it sound so easy?

Well here’s the truth it’s not easy if you don’t know what you’re doing! But if you do, you can make the big super affiliate type income that only a small minority of affiliates are making. But it does require, time effort and persistence!

Now ask yourself these three questions,

-Do you have your own website?

-Do you have a newsletter?

-Do you send prospects directly from your advertising to your affiliate webpage?

If you don’t have either of the first two you stand very little chance of making big commissions through affiliate programs. Sorry but it’s true.

The top selling affiliates all have a few things in common; they all have their own websites and newsletters and they also never send prospects directly from their advertising straight to their affiliate webpage.

It’s really important if you are an affiliate marketer to have your own website with the ability to collect e-mail addresses. I’m sure you will have heard that the money is in the list. If you have no list your unlikely to make much money.

If you can offer visitors to your website a free newsletter, ebook or training course, if they sign-up to your list, you should be able to build that list of prospects without too much difficulty. But you have to sell the opt-in as much as you would a product as people are much more wary of handing over their e-mail addresses these days. So make sure you offer something of good value to earn the trust of your prospect and build your credibility.

In the ebook or newsletter you can include or recommend products with which you are affiliated with. So instead of sending the prospect directly to your affiliate webpage, you send them to your website, where you collect the e-mail addresses; this allows you to follow-up and recommend products and related products which you believe they would be interested in.

Therefore you can make multiple sales from one prospect, whereas before you may have made one if you were lucky or simply lost the prospect forever.

Provide good content in your newsletters and ebooks, give honest recommendations on products for your prospects and they are much more likely to trust you and buy from you.

(Feel free to use this article online and in your email newsletters as long as you leave it intact and do not alter it in anyway. The byline and biography must remain in the article.)

Ian Canaway is an affiliate marketer, home business entrepreneur and the owner of http://www.asuccesfullhomebusiness4u.com and also http://ahomebusinessblog4u.blogspot.com He will show you the simple and proven system he uses to enable ‘anyone’ to make money online. Check us out now!

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Ian_Canaway http://EzineArticles.com/?Revealed-The-Myth-of-Making-Money-Through-Affiliate-Marketing&id=9638

Hope you found that useful.

P.S. I will be launching a video series very shortly to help put the pieces together.  Talk soon,

Nando