Promoting Affiliate Products

Promoting affiliate programs can be lucrative....for the people you are promoting!

When you are ready to make real money you will understand the need to promote yourself and your own products. I know a lot of you don't have your own product yet. Don't let that slow you down. You can still earn a substantial income and become an expert in subjects like content creation, website promotion, and monetization.

My point here is to pay attention to what you are promoting. If you are spending all your energy advertising affiliate links all over the place for worthless clickbank ebooks or mlm schemes you will most likely fail to make a decent income. Those types of products tend to make money for the people who own the products. Especially MLM schemes, to be successful in Multi Level Marketing you need to understand how to be a great sales person, and know the intricacies of website promotion, and how to be a teacher so that you can teach your downline sales distributors how to duplicate your efforts. I could go on and on about Pyramid scams and such, instead I refer you to a document on squidoo that speaks about the problems with MLM.

The Truth about Internet MLM Pyramid Schemes



Promoting affiliate products can be a very powerful way to make money, I use it and it is a valuable aspect of my money making strategy. However, I want to show you that your true pot of gold at the end of the rainbow will be found when you have your own e-mail database and a product that you really believe in to promote. Try to keep that in the back of your mind as you create your advertising system.

Later, when you have a niche oriented blog or website, and articles that you've written spread around the internet, you can go back to many of those tools and redirect them and tweak them to promote yourself and your own products, or a product that may not be yours, but you believe in it and are willing to invest your time to bring it to other people.

Focus on creating an internet presence that will last, and that does not destroy your credibility.

There are several major drawbacks to promoting affiliate products from places like clickbank. As I mentioned I am not against affiliate marketing or clickbank, I think clickbank is awesome, it is just good to keep these limitations in mind as you work towards your goal of financial greatness.

When a potential customer follows your affiliate link to the product landing page, clickbank tracks the hop and if a sale is made at that moment you will recieve a portion of the profits, at least if it is a decent product and the customer does not demand a refund, in those cases you get nothing.

You will notice, that on any good landing page there is a place where the customer can sign up to a double opt in mail list. That mailing list is where 80-90% of the sales are made. Using auto-responders, the internet marketer who actually owns the product can keep in touch with potential customers and build trust and loyalty. Later, 6 weeks down the road, they finally make the big sales pitch and sell a $400 product. The clickbank affiliate who originally provided this lead to the affiliate marketer gets zip, zilch, thanks for the lead, keep trying I love all the traffic you bring to my landing page.

I wanted to bring these ideas to your attention. When I began to realize these things some time ago, it completely changed the way I look at how I want to use affiliate marketing to build my own residual income streams.

-Wealth Research