Top 3 Mistakes every newbie Affiliate Marketer makes.

Great advice if you are giving a graduation commencement address, although hardly original. Hit them next with, “follow your dreams”.

Basically, this dud is doled out to newbie marketers all the time. Let’s take a scenario where your passion is the mating habits of the lesser known speckled Andean moth wasp. Obviously, you are a serial killer but leaving that aside.

You write up an ebook/opus on the above, spend hours perfecting your site, obtaining your keywords, having your cart setup and you sell, brace yourself, precisely the square root of zero copies.

Yep. Shocker. So, don’t do that. Instead, sell what is already selling, what people want to buy. It doesn’t matter if you have never heard of it, sell what is selling.

“I have sooooo many interesting hobbies. Should I just build a niche site around all of them individually or one per utterly fascinating passion?”

“No”

“I see. So, I should focus on something that’s trending right this very second and then monetise that because that’s sure to succeed. Did I mention my interesting hobbies?”

“No and yes”

“Hmmmm. Ok then. So, what you’re saying is that I should just jump straight into e-commerce dropshipping and plough all of my money, which I am sure to make back obviously, into Facebook ads?”

“No”

“Right so. I see what you are saying with your monosyllabic replies and pained expression. Man, I’m glad we sat beside each other on this long distance flight. So, what you are really saying is that I should build a massive authority site that takes four years to put enough content into, teach myself both HTML and advanced SEO in the evenings, and then hope Google doesn’t deindex it and build up enough views to someday get an adsense cheque in?”

“No”

“Interesting. So really then, I should illegally tap into the main power grid of my city and start mining bitmoneycoin, is that what its called?”

“Noooooo. (Ad infinitum)

Find one thing that you know will make money. Stick to it until it does. Repeat and scale.

You know the type of email.
You know the type of sales page.

Breathless prose outlining how Mr.X, its always him, was broke and living under a bridge with his seven children on Monday but thanks to a small investment in (insert nonsense here) by Friday he was living in the Maldives and all seven of those children are now Nobel prize winners.

How can you not believe him? He is standing next to a photoshopped Ferrari in front of a stock image of a mansion. How dare you think twice, hit that payment button, NOW, because copies are limited.

If it feels like BS, chances are, it is high grade farm animal BS.