What's the most difficult thing for a newbie affiliate marketer?

[cdorob]

Hi,

I just can't decide what's the most difficult thing for a newbie affiliate marketer so I could help them out to sell the products in our network. What do you think?

getting traffic?
converting?
find good niches?
making the first sale?

I'm voting for: "Keep it going"

[Linda Buquet]

GREAT poll Cristian! Thanks so much for posting it.
I'm anxious to see the replies as well.

You may want to add one more option - OTHER
so that if there are other challenges you didn't think
to mention they can be brought to light.

[cdorob]

Ok Linda, I think you should vote too

[cdorob]

Originally Posted by Linda Buquet

You may want to add one more option - OTHER
so that if there are other challenges you didn't think
to mention they can be brought to light.

Other just gives too much liberty. We will never find out what's behind the "other" thing.

Besides, I have no idea how to edit the poll?

[Linda Buquet]

Well the thing is if we put OTHER I would also add "explain below".
So we might get answers like building the site or picking the right merchants
or whatever. If you want I can edit. I'm not sure you can.
No big deal just a suggestion. PM me if you want me to add it.

I was really torn and was trying to just forget what I know and put myself in a newbies shoes. I was torn between 1,2 and 4. But I picked traffic. Because without good targeted traffic nothing else will happen.

[cdorob]

Hello? Anybody home? No votes yet?

[Rob_TID]

Figuring out how to convert the traffic - the whole concept of "buy" keywords.

That';s my vote anyway.

[yanbiz]

Hi Christan,

My vote is "keep it going". It's difficult at the beginning to keep it up because we all have difficulties the feel the small failures and the willing to learn before we start getting success.

Sometimes, people only want buttons to push on and if they don't find them, they simply give up. They want it easy but it's not necessarely.

By the way, I find your survey very interesting!

Thanks!

[Zenn]

I picked "Building Traffic".

It's the lifeblood of any website that hopes to make money.

You can't "convert" what you don't have.

But it all is kinda one process. Sorta.

[MrCat]

I voted for making the "conversion"...

There are so many ways of getting traffic to your site or landing page. The real challenge is making a customer out of a visitor. This is where this equation take its role :

Good content (info,service or product) + SEO + PPC, Paid back links, Forum posts to similar niche, banners, etc. = Great traffic and more targeted traffic!

Getting targeted traffic is just a prelude to conversion. What's essential is how you match your target's needs with what you offer. That is (on a PPC scenario), when a visitor is searching for a "cheap jewelry" - you should be able to offer the same or more. Selling for me isn't just partly making the sale, customer satisfaction should also be utmostly considered