Undoubtedly, affiliate marketing is the easiest and the most lucrative ways to earn money online. It doesn’t need any prior experience or a lot of capital. If you have nothing else to do, you can become an affiliate marketer and start earning money like crazy.
Before you become an affiliate, make sure you do not repeat the 3 critical mistakes new affiliate marketers make discussed below. These are the same mistakes that affiliates make over and over again.
1. The Mindset Problem
In my point of view, this is the biggest mistake that affiliates make and unfortunately, it is the least talked about issue.
Affiliate marketing is not a get rich kind of business model. If you are of the view that affiliate marketing can turn you into the third richest person on this planet in a couple months, you are at the wrong place. Period.
When I started my first affiliate blog, I thought that my life will change overnight. People will start coming in, will subscribe to my email list, will click on the links, buy the products, and I will be rich by the end of the month.
It never happened.
It only happened when I realized that it is a damn serious business model – just like any other business.
If you have this very mindset, better change it now or else you will have no other option than to quit affiliate marketing after a month due to demotivation.
Be realistic.
Change your mindset and point of view about affiliate marketing. You will make money but not right away. I mean you can make money right away but that’s a rare case.
Just change your point of view, attitude, and mindset about affiliate marketing and you will be all set.
2. Being a Salesperson
Almost all the affiliate websites that I see in my niche (my competitors) are blatantly selling the affiliate products. It seems as if they are salespersons and trying to sell the product.
I don’t do this.
You shouldn’t do this either.
As an affiliate, your job is to help people by showing them the true picture. Your job is to help them.
Don’t be a salesperson.
Don’t sell the affiliate products on your blog and websites. Don’t beg people to click on your affiliate links.
New affiliates usually have this habit of assuming that their job is to market the affiliate products and bring in as many sales as possible. While this is true, your job is to bring in sales but the way you do it makes all the difference.
You should try being helpful by telling people why they need the product, by sharing its pros and cons, and by sharing a realistic picture of the product. This is one way of doing it, and it is the right way too.
The other approach works absolutely well for short-run where you make false claims, hide product issues, present it as the best product that ever existed, and do whatever it takes to generate sales. There will be people who will believe you but once they will buy the product, they will never come back to your website.
You can decide yourself. Do you want to make one sale a person or multiple sales a person?
Affiliate marketing is more about building relationships with the customers and guiding them.
3. Too Many Products
While you can choose to promote as many affiliate products as you want, at any given instant but as a new affiliate marketer, you shouldn’t overload yourself with too many products.
The number of affiliate products has nothing to do with sales or commission. There is no association between the two. So don’t assume that promoting too many affiliate products will boost sales.
All the top affiliates promote one affiliate product at a time. They just focus on a single product at any given time.
If you want to become a successful affiliate marketer, choose one affiliate product, do your homework, and focus only on that product.
Switching products too often, promoting multiple products at a time, and signing up with multiple affiliate networks will not going to help rather it will create confusion, stress, and dissatisfaction.
Choose one affiliate product, study it, and stick to it. Keep promoting it for a good number of days.
Conclusion
These are just the 3 critical mistakes new affiliate marketers make. There are many other mistakes on the list but these are the most critical ones. Avoid these mistakes to be one of the top affiliate marketers in your industry.