5 Deadly Mistakes In Affiliate Marketing

Its not just beginners whore prone to making mistakes in affiliate marketing; the experienced souls, too, sometimes fall prey to their wrong decisions and ruin their progress.

Take a look at these mistakes and resolve to never make them.

Mistake #1: Preparing Someone Elses List

How can you create someone elses list at your own cost? Well, this is what exactly you do when you send clients directly to your merchants 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 sellers website. By doing so, youre building a list for yourselves for selling any number of products in future. Remember, the dollars are hidden in the list!

Mistake #2: Not Keeping In Touch With The Prospects

How can you let go off people who bring you money? You MUST follow up with your contacts. After all, youve spent your precious time and put in effort in finding quality clients for your affiliate marketing site. You cant put a full stop just like that. A few smart ideas to follow up are posting newsletters, articles, free reports, or valuable and updated information on products to your prospects. But, remember, theres a difference between stalking your prospect and keeping in touch with them!

Mistake #3: Pushing Sales On Prospects

So, you wanna make your sale at gunpoint, eh? This is affiliate marketing guys, not some mafia playing extortion games! Face it: most people dont buy the first time. Many of them will never buy, no matter how fabulous or useful you think your product is. So, its useless, even bad, to send mails asking, Why havent you bought my product? or Dont you want to get rich? Such mails put you in a bad light. They may even ruin your prospects. Patience is the key to successful build up of clientele.

Mistake #4: Posting Multiple Offers In One Mail

Are you teaching your prospects multi-tasking? When theyve asked for information about your products, its required that you send them ONLY the required information. Clubbing multiple facts together may confuse your client and he or she may drop the idea of associating with you altogether.

Mistake #5: Grabbing Several Affiliate Marketing Programs Simultaneously

Can you date 5 women at a time?! NO! (We wont argue with those who attempt to say Yes; but this is marketing guys, not dating!) The best way to become successful is to concentrate on one affiliate program at a time. Get loads of experience, dexterity, and money from one program and then only think of expanding your venture.

If youve already committed any one or more of the above mistakes, dont panic. Correct it quickly or else remember, youll be out of the web scene soon.

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