Don't work at home in affiliate marketing unless you are ready to put in time.
Affiliate marketing has taken the world by storm over the past few years, and a lot of people have been able to make a lot of money.
It is the dream job of course, since you don't have to commute, answer to a boss, or deal with any of the typical headaches of owning your own business.
There is virtually no overhead, and the money to be made is sickening - thousands of people are earning thousands of dollars per day.
What more could anyone ask?! OK, how about security, the ability to be creative, getting paid according to your effort- not just what someone has predetermined you're going to get.
But beware.
There is a down side to all this warm, fuzzy, hyperbole.
Yes, making money at affiliate marketing is simple, once you know what you're doing, but it does take time to learn and get going.
If you believe you can find a program will teach you to start making thousands of dollars within a few days or weeks, you will be scammed.
It just doesn't work like that.
Think about it.
If it were THAT easy everyone would be doing it.
Especially in today's economy! Affiliate marketing is an extremely complex field for someone to learn on their own, and depending on your current computer skills, can be downright impossible to learn without help.
For instance, in order to start making money you'll have to know the inner workings of Internet & affiliate marketing, including:
Please remember that each of these steps involves a lot more than it sounds..
..
Step 1 - Choose an affiliate product and niche (Make sure there is a good gravity percentage, the company is reputable, and that there is a low refund rate on the product.
) Step 2 - Choose your niche - who is the segment of the market you want to market to? Step 3 - Research, research, research Step 4 - Choose your marketing technique Step 5 - Choose your keywords (find high demand, low competition keywords or longtail key phrases).
Step 6 - Build a website, blog, or landing pages.
(ensure SEO) Step 7 - Set up your auto responder, squeeze page and email campaign to build your list, Step 8 - Choose your marketing type, and begin marketing by writing and submitting (ie.
ads, articles, etc, etc) Step 9 - Track your links and analyze results Step 10 - Build back links Confused yet? This article is not meant to scare you, but to make you aware that if you choose to work at home in affiliate marketing, you have a lot to learn, and a lot to do.
If you learn to do it right, get help, and put in the time that is necessary, you will make a lot of money.
But it is these ingredients that will make you successful, not how wonderful the program sounds and the promises that some program makes to you.
Affiliate marketing has taken the world by storm over the past few years, and a lot of people have been able to make a lot of money.
It is the dream job of course, since you don't have to commute, answer to a boss, or deal with any of the typical headaches of owning your own business.
There is virtually no overhead, and the money to be made is sickening - thousands of people are earning thousands of dollars per day.
What more could anyone ask?! OK, how about security, the ability to be creative, getting paid according to your effort- not just what someone has predetermined you're going to get.
But beware.
There is a down side to all this warm, fuzzy, hyperbole.
Yes, making money at affiliate marketing is simple, once you know what you're doing, but it does take time to learn and get going.
If you believe you can find a program will teach you to start making thousands of dollars within a few days or weeks, you will be scammed.
It just doesn't work like that.
Think about it.
If it were THAT easy everyone would be doing it.
Especially in today's economy! Affiliate marketing is an extremely complex field for someone to learn on their own, and depending on your current computer skills, can be downright impossible to learn without help.
For instance, in order to start making money you'll have to know the inner workings of Internet & affiliate marketing, including:
- How affiliate networks work
- The different kinds of affiliate marketing
- The different affiliate marketing techniques
- Becoming an expert - not a generalist
- Choosing your affiliate program and niche
- Understanding the consumer
- How to conduct and use market & keyword research
- Keyword tools
- Leveraging your competition
- The importance of relevancy
- How to build website, landing pages and blogs
- SEO
- Building landing pages that convert
- Building a mailing list
- Email marketing & auto responders
- Customer service
- Social networking
- Tracking your links
- Split testing
- Using Squidoo
- Analyzing and Testing
- Spying on Your Competition
- And so much more..
..
Please remember that each of these steps involves a lot more than it sounds..
..
Step 1 - Choose an affiliate product and niche (Make sure there is a good gravity percentage, the company is reputable, and that there is a low refund rate on the product.
) Step 2 - Choose your niche - who is the segment of the market you want to market to? Step 3 - Research, research, research Step 4 - Choose your marketing technique Step 5 - Choose your keywords (find high demand, low competition keywords or longtail key phrases).
Step 6 - Build a website, blog, or landing pages.
(ensure SEO) Step 7 - Set up your auto responder, squeeze page and email campaign to build your list, Step 8 - Choose your marketing type, and begin marketing by writing and submitting (ie.
ads, articles, etc, etc) Step 9 - Track your links and analyze results Step 10 - Build back links Confused yet? This article is not meant to scare you, but to make you aware that if you choose to work at home in affiliate marketing, you have a lot to learn, and a lot to do.
If you learn to do it right, get help, and put in the time that is necessary, you will make a lot of money.
But it is these ingredients that will make you successful, not how wonderful the program sounds and the promises that some program makes to you.
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