So you want to start an affiliate site?
Affiliate marketing is the latest craze in making money online. Affiliate marketing is a web-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate’s marketing efforts. 10 minutes into a Google search to find more information on affiliate marketing you will be inondated with promises of thousands of dollars in what seems like an overnight time frame! How do you filter through the hype and half-truths into the real truth of what your affiliate marketing experience will be?
My first suggestion is STOP! Pause before diving in head first and take a solid week (a month if you can) and read and research as much as you can. Look at as many case studies as you can. Find a handful of resources you trust and get through as much of their material as you can digest. The problem with taking in too many different angles is that you will start to have too much conflicting opinions mixed in to the facts. A good start is this sub-site I assembled with great articles written by REAL people who are going through and have gone through the beginnings of an affiliate marketing business.
Affiliate Marketing Resource Site
One of the biggest mistakes NEWBIES make with affiliate marketing is that they bite off way more than they can initially chew. Find one or two focused niches that you are passionate about and concentrate on those for your first 6 months. The only thing that should trigger you from picking up other niches is either dramatic success or complete failure. If you are getting good results and feel you can repeat them on other niches, go for it. If you feel you choose a poor product nich, scrap the whole project and start over. Just be careful of getting bogged down with too many marginally successful sites.
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