10 Deadly Mistakes Affiliates Make and How to Fix Them – Part 3

Here’s the 3rd and final part of this affiliate series. If you missed the first 2 parts, here they are again:

10 Deadly Mistakes Affiliates Make and How to Fix Them – Part 1
10 Deadly Mistakes Affiliates Make and How to Fix Them – Part 2

On with the show…

Mistake #9: Not “owning” the process as much as possible

You can just get your affiliate link and advertise it as is. You can make money doing that. But you will make much more if you become a “part” of the process. Here are two quick tips to do this:

- Register a domain and redirect it to your affiliate link. Then, advertise that domain where appropriate. It looks much less tacky and opens up more promotion opportunities for you (Like Yahoo Answers or forum posting for example).

- Set up an optin form on your website and try to collect the emails of your visitors – especially if the market you are targeting has a lot of back-end potential. If there are more similar products that your visitors may buy down the road, why not have them buy those products through your own affiliate link? They will buy anyway – you may as well get paid for it.

Mistake #10: Just reading and never doing :-)

The biggest mistake many affiliates make is that they constantly “educate” themselves (which is a good thing), but they NEVER take action.

Action is the bridge between knowledge and results.

Here’s what to do:

Based on your current understanding of affiliate marketing, create a step-by-step approach that you need to follow – and get busy. You can do this on a piece of paper, a text file or even use mindmap software. Whatever you like best.

Then, every time you come across a new technique, include it in your system at the appropriate place. That way, you will understand how it fits with what you want to do and it will become INSTANTLY USABLE information – and integrated that much faster in to your plan.

May the Super Affiliate Force be with you…

- George