Key to Affiliate Success - Try, Test, FAIL & Learn

[footballshirts]

Just to reiterate the above post - i've spent so long working on my own now and felt that i was never really getting anywhere. Posts like this are so helpful to see how others deal with situations and run their businesses.

Extremely glad I signed up

[6PackAffiliate]

There is a ton of hype out there that leads many new affiliates to believe that it is easy to make millions online overnight, but a long term consistant approach is always best. With any challenge that has a worthwhile outcome, it will be a long and hard road. Study the game, learn all you can, and get up when you fall down. Of couse some people might strike gold with their first campaign, but for others it usually takes a few failures.

Great post and some very good info in this thread

[salmant]

Good points... frankly speaking when i've started with affiliate marketing I didn't make any money in my first 6 or 7 months so i gave up ... but some how because of my day job stress i thought i should give it an another try becuase i was just sick of daily job stress but this time i've planned everything like what programs i'll worked with and how i'll promote them ... I didn't sign up with hundreds of programs and learned from my previous mistakes .. and only worked with few but quality programs ... in short ... after approx one half month of my website launch i've made my first sale which was $35 and it was a very big motivation from me to go ahead and try harder ... now i am making decent money online with affiliate marketing ... only thing don't give up in couple of months ... and i m sure you'll get all the answers to questions here... which will help you to get you your first success .....

[JanEJG]

I love the tip of working with only high quality affiliates and keeping it to a small number. It seems to me that if concentrating on a few you would attend better to the needs of the market and also be able to track and follow our own progress.
How is a newbie to tell if the affiliate is of great quality?

Jan

[KirkhamsEbooks]

Much like a face to face sales force, people's lives change, thus you should gage the sales and talents of your affiiates all the time as your primary sales force could change

Rick

[carolver]

The main thing is to stay motivated and understand that success won't happen overnight. Affiliate marketing is not a get rich quick scheme. You need be put some effort in for it to work

[mexia]

Yes you should learn from mistakes. An ebook can't really help you deliver what it is that you want, you just have to get out there, get your feet wet and learn from your experiences

[iLuxuria]

Creating financial success is as varied and different for each of us that any of the following can work for you and have for others.

You could buy a lottery ticket or try painting a masterpiece and waiting until it becomes valuable? You could inherit it from a long lost relative or perhaps win the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature (approx $1.5 Million). You could steal it (not recommended) or my personal favourite, marry it .

Now I'm not discounting any of the above method, however in my own personal life experience, if you really want to gain success you should do the following.

• Get on with it - don't wait start NOW!
• Believe in it,
• Be passionate about it,
• Follow it,
• Give 100% to it
• Never be satisfied.

And finally, you should not listen to others, including me. Especially me.

Find what YOU need, learn what YOU need and DO what YOU need.

Live Life with Passion and Enjoy every minute of it, Good Luck for the Future

Nigel

[Jimmy0713]

Great post Linda. I reckon mindset is the foundation in IM. Although mechnic parts are also important. But without the mindset (never give up and learn from errors), all the tools and techniques from ebooks and training courses will be much less effective.
Just need to get it going rather than get it right. Then adjust and improve along the way.

[noslermarketing]

Well I've got the mind set because after 2 years of not making any money I'm still trying to make this work. I have three big problems. One, my credit sucks. Two, I have no money. Three, I can't get traffic to my website. A lot of help would greatly be appreciated.