5 Deadly Mistakes In Affiliate Marketing
By Charles McDuffie
It’’s not just the beginners who”re prone to making mistakes in affiliate marketing; experienced individuals also fall victim to their own wrongful decisions and ruin their progress.
Mistake #1: Preparing Someone Else’’s List
How can you create someone else’’s list at your own cost? Well, this is what exactly you do when you send clients directly to your merchant’’s main website, without recording their information. What you should do is create a squeeze page where you can record information of every client whom you direct to the seller’’s website. By doing so, you”re building a list for yourself for selling any number of products in future. Remember, the dollars are hidden in the list.
Mistake #2: Not Keeping In Touch With Your Prospects
How can you let go of people who bring you money? You MUST follow up with your contacts. After all, you”ve spent your precious time and effort in finding quality clients for your affiliate website. You can”t put a full stop to it just like that. A few smart ideas in following with them are: posting newsletters, articles, free reports, or valuable and updated information about your products and/or services. But remember, there’’s a difference between stalking your prospects and keeping in touch with them.
Mistake #3: Pushing Sales On Your Prospects
So, you wanna make your sale at gunpoint, eh? This is affiliate marketing guys, not some mafia playing extortion games. Let’’s face it, most people don”t buy the first time. Many of them will never buy, no matter how fabulous or useful you think your product is. So, it’’s useless, even bad, to send e-mails asking, “Why haven”t you purchased my product yet?” or “Don”t you want to get rich?” Such e-mails put you in a bad light. They may even turn off your prospects altogether. Patience is the key to successfully building up your clientele.
Mistake #4: Putting Multiple Offers In Your E-mails
Are you teaching your prospects multi-tasking? When they”ve asked for information about your product, it’’s required that you send them ONLY the required information. Clubbing them over the head with multiple offers together, will confuse your client and (s)he may drop the idea of associating with you altogether.
Mistake #5: Being Involved With Several Affiliate Marketing Programs Simultaneously
Can you date 5 women at the same time? It’’s highly unlikely. This is marketing — not dating. The best way to become successful, is to concentrate on one affiliate program at a time. First things first. Get loads of experience, dexterity, and money from one program, then think about expanding your operations.
If you”ve already committed one or more of the above mistakes, don”t panic. Correct it (or them) quickly, or you”ll be out of business sooner than you think.
About The Author
Charles McDuffie is an author and entrepreneur for ASB Enterprises. Click here to learn all about affiliate marketing.
