OK today I am going to share with you another affiliate marketing mistake. This is the 5th mistake that I am give away for free on my blog.

You Are Promoting The PROGRAM Instead Of The PRODUCT

Many affiliate companies offer a two-tier affiliate programs. In a two-tier affiliate program, affiliates earn commissions on their conversions as well as conversions of webmasters they refer to the program. The first tier of commission is the same as in a regular affiliate program. The only difference is the additional tier(s), whereby marketers also earn a commission on sales generated by people they referred to the program. Sometimes compensation will be written in shorthand as tier1/tier2 (ex. 10%/5%)

Well yea, you can make money by using this technique however I will highly recommend you NOT to use this.

A reason it’s because it is harder since you have to market the “affiliate niche” and find thousands of sub-affiliates to sign up.

However the main reason is because none will actually promote the product and just consecrate signing up more affiliates. If you get some people sign up from your affiliate link most of them will just copy you and try to sign up more affiliates.

Who’s going to actually SELL something and earn commissions?

Exactly!

It’s like the worst aspects of MLM (multi-level) marketing. Almost all affiliate marketers will wait for the other affiliate marketers to make sales so that they can make money.

The affiliate marketing niche (NOT affiliate marketing) is a very tough market. The competition is a very high. After making a quick search on Google you will see that there are millions of pages on affiliate marketing. Just think on how much time and effort you have to give so that you can compete with all these people.

What you should do is learn affiliate marketing and promote products to people that are looking for solutions on specific problems. Find affiliate products that have an incredibly good value and that will help people. Don’t even care if they offer a second tier program.

This is a mistake that many newbies make. I was making this mistake too a couple of years ago. All I was doing was promoting the two-tier affiliate program and dreaming about the BIG and EASY $! Well by now you know that you should avoid this.

So always remember. Promote the PRODUCT! NOT the service.

Thanks for reading. I would love to  read your comments and hearing from you!

Andreas

Today I am going to give you one of the biggest mistakes in affiliate marketing. The 4th affiliate marketing mistake is:

You Are Selling Instead Of Helping.

Let me ask you a question. Why do you promote different affiliate products?

What is your main reason that you are advertising affiliate products and services?

“To make money of course!”

Well not exactly…

If this is the only reason that you promote affiliate products then you will not succeed with affiliate marketing. You will FAIL!

The main purpose of promoting an affiliate product or service is to help people.

Yes to help people. If you help people solve a specific problem then you will become a successful affiliate marketer. An affiliate marketer that his main purpose is to help people instead of making the most money is the one that will make the most money with affiliate marketing in the end.

There are affiliate marketers that do not care about their visitors or subscribers.

Many newbies all they do is selling, selling and selling without giving any real help. Their only reason of promoting a product is to make money. If you are doing this then you will not become successful (at least in the long term).

You might make a few thousand affiliate sales now but what about next month or next year? Will people trust again your recommendations? Will they listen to you?

Most of them will not. You have to help your visitors and buyers so that you can build trust and credibility. Help people learn how they can solve a specific problem. Give them some tips and other free information.

For example if your niche is “golf swing” you can help the golfers by giving them a free ebook about golf swing. Give them some tips on how to better their golf swing on your blog or website.

Is your website or newsletter just selling, or is it helping people learn something? If so you have to immediately fix it.

Remember to help people before selling an affiliate product or service.

Thanks for reading. As always you can leave your comments.

Andreas

Ok today I am going to give you the 3rd worst affiliate marketing mistake which is.

Not Using The Product Or The Service You Are Promoting.

The most important reason of doing affiliate marketing (other than making you money) is helping people to find the correct solution on their problem.

For you to achieve this purpose, you must be able to relay to the customers that certain product and service. It is therefore difficult for you to do this when you yourself have not tried the product or service yourself.

Try the product or service personally first before you sign up as an affiliate to see if it is really delivering what it promises. If you have done so, then you are one of the credible and living testaments aware of its advantages and disadvantages. Your customers will then feel the sincerity and truthfulness in you and this will trigger them to try them out for themselves.

“But this will cost me money, Andreas!”

I am not saying to buy all the products that you recommend. This will cost you hence a lot of money! I understand that this will be very hard if you are a newbie. However it is one of the most important things that every successful affiliate marketer has to do. So what can you do?

Contact the vendor and inform him that you are going to promote their product. Ask him if you can have a look on their product so that you can make a review. Some vendors will not allow you. However if the vendor understands the power of affiliate marketing he will give you a sample of their ebooks or a trial version of their service. Some will even give you 100% access on the product or service!

On the other hand if he refuses but you believe that it is a great product I would advice you to buy the product and use it your self. Remember that people are looking for honest reviews of a product or a service from other persons that have used the affiliate product.

Take care!

Andreas

The second affiliate marketing mistakes that many newbies make is:

Joining Too Many Affiliate Programs

If you want to make a lot of money with affiliate marketing then you have to promote multiple affiliate products. However one of the biggest mistakes that newbies do is joining multiple affiliate programs!

Huh? I know that this sounds strange, but let me explain.

Having multiple sources of income is a great way to make a lot of money. All super affiliates that are making thousands of dollars every month are promoting many different products by using different methods and strategies. They are joining and promoting hundreds of different affiliate products and get different affiliate cheques every month.

However if you just started affiliate marketing or made a few affiliate commissions online I would advice you not to join several affiliate programs.

Joining and attempting to promote them all at the same time will prevent you from concentrating on each one of them. What most newbies do is start promoting a product and before making a sale they start promoting a second product, a third, a forth and so on. They spend months and months trying to promote all that great affiliate products they have found. They dream of all the huge commissions they will earn. But after a couple of months they haven’t earn any money.

Does this sound familiar?

The maximum potential of your affiliate program is not realized and the income generated will not exactly be as huge as you were thinking initially it would.

The best way to get excellent result is by joining just one program. Then give it your best effort by promoting your products enthusiastically. As soon as you see that it is making a profit, it is time to join another affiliate program.
The correct method is to do it slowly but surely. There is really no need to rush with affiliate marketing. With the way things are going, the future is looking real bright.

Many newbies in their rush about making a lot of money with affiliate marketing make a lot of mistakes. One of the biggest mistakes is.

Choosing The Wrong Affiliate Product/Service.

Affiliates promote a product just because it is “hot”. They choose the product that is in demand without actually considering if the product appeals to them. Because some affiliate marketers make money with a certain affiliate product this doesn’t mean that you will also make money with it.

You could promote a product that gives you the best commission. However this will not guarantee you that you will make the most sales.

Instead try to choose a really good product in which you are truly interested in and appeals to you. For example if you don’t know anything about the “weight loss” niche then do not promote a weight loss product! Select products in a niche that you have some knowledge or even better something that you are passionate about.

Also don’t promote a product just because it gives you a high commission! Trying to presell a product for the sake of the earnings only is on of the biggest mistakes. You want to select a really good product that will help your visitors solve a specific problem.

Always try to think what is the best solution (affiliate product) for my visitors? That way you will make more commissions even if you promote a product that doesn’t gives you the highest commission.

Comments are always welcomed…

Andreas