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5 Affiliate Mistakes to Avoid
that will Increase Your Sales
by Trent Brownrigg
Affiliate Marketing is one of the best ways to make money from home and
affiliate programs provide anyone with internet access a chance to make a
living on the internet. Affiliate programs are usually free or very cheap to
join, easy to get started and typically pay commissions on a regular basis,
so more and more people are turning to them as a means to start a home based
business. However, there are a few mistakes affiliate marketers tend to make
that hurts their business tremendously.
Avoiding some of these common mistakes made by affiliate marketers should
quickly and easily improve your chances of making sales and increase your
affiliate commissions. Here are five of the top mistakes made by affiliate
marketers:
1) Not researching the affiliate program before your start promoting it
It really is amazing just how many affiliates grab the first affiliate
program that comes there way or signup simply because it has a high
commission rate or promote it just because every other marketer is promoting
it. If the program does not compliment the overall theme of your site, you
will find it difficult to convince your visitors and subscribers to purchase
the product. Why would they want it if it does not have anything to do with
the area you are targeting?
2) Not using your signature file correctly
Many affiliates add a signature file to all of their out-going email
messages and forum posts but they do not do it correctly. Twenty lines of
text full of affiliate links to a bunch of different products is not
considered a good signature file! In fact, it can very easily be considered
spam. Try keeping your signature file under five lines with an attention
grabbing or intriguing first line and overdo it on the links.
3) Not writing your own ad copy
There's nothing worse than seeing the exact same advertisement all over
the internet or in email messages from ten different marketers. How much
perceived value will your message have when it arrives and the reader is
seeing it for the tenth time? Take the time to tweak the ad to suit your
target audience and subscribers before sending it out. Personalize it to
make the ad your own so it doesn't even seem like an advertisement anymore.
4) Not paying for your own domain name and hosting account
Even novice internet users can tell a free hosted site when they see one.
It's very unprofessional and suggests to your visitors that you haven't made
any money online and probably don't know what you're doing. If you haven't
even taken the small step towards setting up your business properly then how
can your visitors trust you? Less than $10 a year for a domain name at
GoDaddy.com and maybe $5 per month for a small hosting account won't break
your bank account. In fact, it will probably help to add to your account in
the long run.
5) Not capturing your leads before you send them on to the affiliate
product site
If you spend your time and money marketing to get someone to click on one
of your affiliate links then they leave the product site without purchasing,
what have you gained? Nothing! You have just lost the time and money it took
to get that one click-through in the first place. Set up a squeeze page so
you can capture your lead's email address before you send them on to the
product site. That way if they don't buy you can follow up with them later
and try again (and again and again and again). This can be priceless!
Now that you know these five affiliate mistakes to avoid you
should be able to make more sales and increase your affiliate commissions by
a significant amount. So get out there and become the super affiliate
marketer you always knew you could be!
About the Author
Trent Brownrigg is a successful affiliate marketer and home business
consultant. Achieve your
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