Keys to Success in Affiliate Marketing
Categories: Entrepreneur
Written By: Koka Sexton
I get asked many times as to what the most important ingredient for succeeding online are. I have to say that there is no single key and that in my opinion there are at least 4 keys for succeeding online. There may be other factors which contribute to online success but in my opinion these are the ones that matter and I have listed them below.
One of the secrets to being an online success is being organized and disciplined. Even if you are the smartest person on the planet but cannot sit down and do a single day’s work, then it really would not matter in the least. There are many people with high IQ who have not gotten anywhere with their lives and all because they lacked the necessary discipline and organizational skills to do anything much about it. Take my mother for example, she was a brilliant pianist and a great opera singer and as a result of her poor organizational skills, her career pretty much met a dead end. That really sucks for me but then again, that is the truth.
The key to online success is to start creating your own products or services .One can make money online as an affiliate marketer by promoting the products of others. But remember, you would be competing with hundreds of other affiliate marketers who will be selling the same product. By creating your own products you would not only eliminate the need to compete with other affiliate marketers but you can also use them to promote your product for you. Having done this, I ended up quadrupling my income within a year.
One of the key factors to any online success is advertising. Your site may well be the greatest one but if no one knows about it, then you will find it difficult to make even a dime off it. I am not going to give an explanation as how setting up an online site without any promotion is useless. I shall save that for a later article. But the point being that until and unless you utilize the proven methods for promotion, the chance of you succeeding is minimal, to say the least.
Finally there’s communication or rather, writing. This is one important tool, one that we all use at all levels of our business. From the sales pages to the page contents, from the auto responder emails to responding to customer inquiries, they all have to do with writing in one form or the other. If you cannot communicate effectively then the chances of you capturing the attention of your target market is slim. You can always outsource such ‘writing’ tasks, but they will prove to be expensive.
These are my 4 keys to success. There may be many others but these are the ones that really deliver as far as I’m concerned.
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January 3rd, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Just stumbled on this site and must say it is quite informative. I’m considering putting together a few of my own products too, good tip.
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January 12th, 2009 at 6:09 am
right, we have to create our own products beside selling products belong to another person
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January 27th, 2009 at 2:23 am
Couldn’t agree more, its like telling a friend to come and pick you up and not telling them where you will be waiting, having a site with no one knowing or hearing about it. Great post, will come back. Thank George
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March 31st, 2009 at 5:23 pm
I must admit, I was long resistant to the idea of creating my own products. I had the same type of excuse as anyone else, “I dont have time, I dont have the knowledge etc. WHat finally clicked, is that I spend hours a day promoting somebody elses products. I have tried and spent thousands on these products my self, and if I haven’t learned something about these products, then I am doing something wrong already. THese products have tought me a lot, so I do have something that I can develop and market for myself.
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September 22nd, 2009 at 3:36 pm
I agree with the comment above in that it’s easy to feel that others are more qualified to create products – and especially to charge a lot for them. So thank you Koka for sharing the fact that you quadrupled your income by creating products alongside your affiliate marketing. I’ve been meaning to create my own product(s) for years, but now I feel a little more motivated to do so. After all, even sharing experiences can be very helpful to others.
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November 9th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
I could not agree more! I have been online for a few years, but never serious about it until this year, so advertising is where its at for me.
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January 18th, 2010 at 9:56 pm
Great advice however you need to start from somewhere to gain experience and confidence before you can develop your own product. Sure laziness and lack of motivation play a role but for me there is always the doubt that who in thy right mind will buy a product that I create but until I try I will never know.
If it going to be it is up to me, so one of these days.
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January 18th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
Great advice however you need to start from somewhere to gain experience and confidence before you can develop your own product. Sure laziness and lack of motivation play a role but for me there is always the doubt that who in thy right mind will buy a product that I create but until I try I will never know.
If it going to be it is up to me, so one of these days.
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January 19th, 2010 at 11:45 am
Great advice. My problem is lack of confidence, wondering who would buy something created by me. In my head I know I can do it but then that damn small voice that puts negative thoughts in your mind to make you doubt yourself, goes to work. Laziness plays a part also, I have to confess but I do know that if it is going to be it is up to me.
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