Is affiliate marketing in your blood do you think you could be a super affiliate and walk away from the humdrum ritual and security of going to the office everyday doing your usual nine to five tasks.
This is going to be a very difficult task for many, especially if that is how they have existed all their normal lives and don’t know that there is something better waiting for them. That’s why the convenience of starting your own work at home business under with incredibly convenient working hours is an alluring idea to them.
Affiliate marketing allows affiliates to work from home under flexible hours and there’s no boss to scream at you and definitely no stress placing pressure on you for an impending deadline.
Can Anybody Become Successful Online
The short answer to this is yes, if you have the motivation and desire to succeed anything is possible. And the best of all there’s no clutter of messy paperwork that has to be finished at the soonest possible time when you are a super affiliate guru. Unless of course that is your own filing system and are used to working like that.
Once you realize that you can do and be what ever you want in this line of business, imagine working all day in what ever you want to wear going on three-hour lunches or spending the day at the beach all while your business is earning you money.
It is possible to be a super affiliate and we are here to show you how…
Because we are doing it right now and actually I gave up a corporate manager position with all the perks and benefits and security to do just this affiliate marketing from home.
As a super affiliate you will need to be able to promote a merchant’s product for a commission. For best results you should have your own website as an affiliate which its sole purpose is designed to advertise, market and promote the product or service of that merchant using the affiliate program that they have available.
When your website visitor clicks on the affiliate link which is embedded for the merchant’s website and promoted by the site operated by the affiliate usually with a special affiliate code for tracking purposes, and when a sale is made they’re given a percentage in recognition of their effort in helping the merchant make that sale.
The concept involved with affiliate marketing appears easy to the newbie marketer, but it also requires a lot of diligence and perseverance for you to have the ability to succeed with it. Those who want to get into that sort of business should have the needed abilities to be able tread through the industry with confidence as well as self-assurance.
Of course, different factors are required by one to have the ability to really break in. Knowledge about the business at hand is very essential since it states the acts that need to be done by people who are into it.
For those that are successful in this industry they are usually given the title of Super Affiliate Or Affiliate Guru which signifies the leading person in an affiliate promotion or network. Many of these super affiliates use e-mail marketing to collect huge databases of e-mail addresses via the use of newsletters and opt in offers such as free e-books, courses and software.
Super affiliates are those people who have a good and solid understanding of this business model and usually a much better understanding than the affiliate managers of the promotions as a direct result of time and tested campaigns that have enabled them to gather intricate knowledge of marketing products and services as an affiliate.
So What Traits Do You Need
These are just some of the many skills that you will need to be a super affiliate the first being an eye for trends in the market place so that you can launch into an affiliate campaign well before your competitors are even aware that there is a new market forming.
You also need to have some SEO knowledge coupled with link building, social networking and article marketing and this is just to give you some insight there is much more you need to know before you can become an Affiliate Guru.
Must have tools for anyone online would be your very own domain name and website (preferably websites) as well as an auto-responder series for each of these sites, although those tool will aid a great deal in the workings as an affiliate, though creating a profitable email list is quite another. You really need to be a successful super affiliate a good consumer relations plan to build a good solid customer base just as any guru has a following (and ensuring you take care of it) is one secret which successful super affiliates know how to do.
You Need To Understand The Basics
Something that many affiliate can’t grasp very well is over marketing to their email lists DON’T DO THIS if you want to succeed. Sending out quality content in lieu of promotional ads is one benefit of building your customer base rather than constantly bombarding your list with products or services that will only result in many unsubscribe requests.
It is much more efficient and effective if you use relevant and up to date information in that niche with a little promotion thrown in to hold and keep your lists coming back to your site.
Obtaining traffic to your site as an affiliate is the foremost part of being an affiliate marketer and the most essential part for the affiliate marketing industry that would allow you to build an ongoing relationship with your consumers, so that you can advertise to them repeatedly and reap the benefits, once you have the customers trust you are virtually guaranteed an affiliate sale within reason.
One thing that many affiliates fail to do when striving to become an affiliate guru is to take on affiliate marketing as a business, which in actual fact is your business. If you are capable of doing this and you accept the responsibility of this, then you will never need to return to the humdrum existence of working that nine to five job ever again.
To be completely free you will need to have a good understanding about affiliate marketing so that you can build a business that could change your life for the better.
I was telephoned two days ago, by an “Associate Marketing” company guaranteeing that within 90 days i would start making money (or my money back) if i paid the sum of US$477.00 to get started, they would set up a complete web site for me which would include such companies as Amazon, Yahoo and two others as well as their own promotions tab. To be honest i am no Guru when it comes to computers but i am no slouch either, i had to listen to an 8 minute recording of how it works, but the recorded voice spoke so fast that it was difficult to keep up with all the facts!!! a person then came back on the line and asked me which package i would like to sign up to there and then, there were 3 packages 1 at US$149,00 that would give you one company of the 4, the standard package at US$250.00 that would give me two of the companies and finally the 3rd package ( platinum) at US$477.00 that would give me all four companies . . . which of course they recommended!!! i turned them down telling them that i would like a couple of weeks to research this idea, they could then get back to me and discuss this further, If they do get back to me at all!!! i have always been a skeptic about easy money making ideas, but maybe i am being a little too judgmental? any help and/or advice would be greatly appreciated.
many thanks
Kind regards & best wishes
Alan Hicks
Hi Alan
Thanks for posting this on our site it is always good to know what others are doing online when it comes to offering such things as this. Personally I would stay well clear of them regardless of who are what they are.
If somebody else builds the site for you and at such a low price what is really in it for them, Can they show you anyone else they have done this for, can you speak with that person yourself.
They are just two questions I would be asking and I would also ensure that they are phoning you make sure you check your phone bill to see what you have been charged to listen to that recording, this is really the way they are making their money online.
You might also want to see our post on Affiliate Scams.
While a legitimate business MIGHT cold call, the very best are too busy doing to be prospecting via email or phone. Most of the people who will try to sell you over the phone or via email ARE scammers.
There is simply NO fast, easy way to make money online. ALL of the people I have ever met who are actually making a living have worked very hard over many years to build a business. If these people could actually make money that easily from their Web sites they would not need to sell them to you.
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Everyone wants to be financially stable and when you join an affiliate program online, you will earn commission and have some extra money available to you. But what about all these people who have found ways to make thousands of dollars online at a time? How do you get a piece of that particular pie? Super affiliate guru Ewen Chia has found a way.
Hi Aiping
Yes Ewen was for many years what you would call a super affiliate and still is in some promotions that happen online. However Ewen also develops and promotes his own products and services which is why he is still going strong. As an affiliate marketer this is one area in time that you want to move into having your own products and controlling your own future.
Here is one of Ewen Chia’s products that he has created as the vendor not the affiliate Opt-In Profits
Working from home is always nice and relaxing when compared to the typical 9-5 job. But, people get too comfortable with the freedom and tend not to work as hard, so if you take this road just be sure to put in a certain number of hours a day dedicated to building your business and promoting your website.
Hi John
What I find is that I can put in the hours but the people around me can’t seem to get their heads around this working from home business, they are forever calling me asking if i can do things for them and actually get very upset if I say I am working.
You are right however about working at home it is very easy when things are good especially to put in the work required to stay on top of your game.
There are several valuable points you mentioned in this blog really worth noting, however I want to tell you because you did mention this too, that the biggest problem, the most demoralizing, the most depressing is the continual onslaught of emails I receive per day and many of them multiples from the same marketers.
I get them on the weekends which I abhor, I get them on holidays, I get them at 6am and I get them at midnight, to the point there are more and more days that I do not want to even open up my computer, nor do I have the love of doing an Internet business as I once had. I have deleted and unsubscribed my brains out.
I have blasted them for sending me emails on the weekends, and still I face an onslaught that I find rude and inconsiderate. I can’t tell you how many of them that have changed their ways and are blasting me in multiples everyday.
I have gotten to the point that I virtually do not watch webinars anymore because I know what is coming in the end, and I am knocked out by the amount of strange names that come up everyday of which I know I did not subscribe to, meaning my email address is being given away, much to my dismay.
My point to this, as by your advice, do not nor would I ever dream doing to my subscribers that gets done to me.
Paul
Hi Paul..
Firstly I could not agree with you more there are so many people now sending out emails that i believe this abuse has made them a lot less effective than they were a year ago. Once it would be emails giving you valuable and useful information to help grow your business or solve a day to day problem.
Now however it seems everyone has jumped on this including some very big name marketers which i use to respect but now have done as you did, “Unsubscribed”.
And yes the same path is also now being followed by those doing webinars where they try to get you all hyped up and then drop the bombshell that it will cost you this much to find out more. For me if a product is beneficial and can help me solve a day to day problem then I would buy it. But with all the sneaky marketing practices now overwhelming everything online I too am becoming immune to this sort of advertising and usually just delete the email and never go to the site to see what the product is ll about.
In actual fact what these marketers are doing is creating a huge black hole for themselves where nobody will have any trust in what they are receiving via email, especially from them.