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