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The Number #1 Tip You’d Give To A New Affiliate

If you want to know anything, ask someone who's already been doing it for awhile. In other words, someone who walks the walk instead of just running their mouth.

So who better to ask what new affiliates should do than seasoned affiliates?

Here are some suggestions from the pros themselves:

Provide lots of value. The key to getting visitors to return to your website time and time again (and buy from you time and time again) is to provide useful content they need and / or want.

So what's “useful?” That depends on the topic. If you've got a website on how to drive web traffic, then naturally giving them lots of great info they can use on how to get more traffic is going to be useful. However, if you run a humor site, then providing content that is genuinely funny might not be “useful” in the traditional sense of the word, but it's what your visitors want. Bottom line: Give them what they want and they'll come back for

(Now where have I heard that before? ;-)

Here's a little trick: Instead of focusing on “making money,” focus on creating value and the money will come.

If you wait until you're ready, you'll be waiting for the rest of your life. Are you still “getting ready” to be an affiliate? Make the decision to just do it. So what if your website isn't perfect or your emails aren't perfect? I'll let you in on a little secret: They never will be, no matter how long you wait.

So just jump in and start swimming – the water's fine!

Do it with passion. You can be an affiliate in ANY niche – so why not choose a niche you're passionate about? It's far more fun to review a product or write a blogpost on a topic you love, rather than one you feel complete and total ambivalence for.

Watch out for the picture in your head. You imagine sending out one email and getting a 50% response rate, or doing one PPC campaign and raking in $10,000. Then it doesn't happen. Then you get discouraged. Then you procrastinate. And pretty soon you're out of the business entirely. Why? Because reality didn't match the picture in your head.

Here's the news: That picture in your head is what you're shooting for – it's not what's going to happen the first day or maybe even the first year out of the gate. Like anything else, you work your way up in affiliate marketing. You get better. Your list gets bigger. Your website gets more traffic. You become more attuned to what works and what flops like a dead mackerel. And one day, you finally match that picture in your head. But it doesn't happen overnight.

Worrying won't change the outcome. You write an email to your list and you worry you're saying the wrong thing, you worry you'll make a stupid typo, you worry no one will open it, you worry no one will buy the product you're promoting, you worry you'll get hate mail or everyone will unsubscribe... etc.

What a colossal waste. I can tell you from experience that worry has never once changed the outcome. Worry is a useless emotion that will drive you bonkers if you let it, so just let it go.

Thinking you're too late. There are affiliates out there making six figures a month – maybe seven figures. You should have jumped on the affiliate wagon 10 years ago, now it's too late. Right?

Wrong. You have to start somewhere and sometime. Right here and right now is absolutely the best place – it always is. And if you think that just because you're starting from scratch, you can't be effective as an affiliate – bear this in mind:

“If you think you are too small or too new to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.” That's a quote from Betty Reese. Mosquitoes only live for two weeks – guaranteed they don't worry that they're “too late” to bite the bejeebers out of you – they just DO it.

Think of it this way - Those who went before you have laid the ground work for you to be successful.

Comparing yourself. This goes right along with thinking you're “too late.” If you're trying to compare yourself to the mega-watt affiliate who pulls down six figures a month, you're just hurting yourself.

“Comparison is the thief of joy.” -Theodore Roosevelt Knowing and doing are two different things. Getting your first affiliate payment is like getting your driver's license - you've only just begun to become a great affiliate or driver. It's when you're driving your car every day, or getting paid every day, that you'll find you know what you're doing and you're actually DOING it.

Know your partners. Before you sign up with a network or an affiliate program, do your research. See if someone has had a problem with them, if their products are good, if their customer service is stellar, and if they treat their affiliates well.

Focus focus focus. You've got 5 different niches and 7 outstanding ideas and you're going in 12 different directions at once. Know what happens when you pull someone 12 different directions, or even just TWO different directions? They either don't move, or they get pulled off balance.

Build one website at a time. Make it profitable. Work on it some more. Once you have a very firm foundation, then and only then should you consider going in a second direction.

Optimize for ONE search engine. If SEO is your method of traffic generation and you optimize your website for Google, don't get smart and then optimize your website for Yahoo or Bing – you'll get penalized for this by Google. No, it's not fair, but it is fact.

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Your Own Money Making Machine

As you (hopefully) have already discovered, making money online isn't difficult, but it does take some knowledge and the ability to put that knowledge to work.

I'm going to outline a rather simple and straight forward system that I believe anyone can use to make income. It can be scaled up as large as you like, depending on how much time you want to put into it and what you want out of it. And it's easy enough for even new marketers to do.

Mind you, this is not my invention, but rather a system that has been working for many marketers for years. It's not a shiny new bauble – instead, it's a proven method that brings home the paycheck week in and week out – if you put in the time and effort required.

Ready? Let's get started.

1. Choose your niche. I'm going to make it easy for you here by recommending that you choose one of the following 3 niches: Money and finance, health and fitness, or relationships and dating. All three are evergreen and bring in a ton of money.

For purposes of this training, we're going to focus on health, because I believe it's truly the easiest of the 3 niches in which to make money. True, there's plenty of competition, but that won't really be a factor for what we're doing. That's because people who are desperate for a health related solution such as alleviating pain or losing weight are ready to make a purchase now.

Google “most common illnesses” and you'll find acne, allergies, ADHD, arthritis, asthma, back pain, bad breath, bursitis, etc. And that's just a few from the A's and B's. $320 billion is spent on prescription drugs in the U.S. alone each year, and that doesn't include over the counter medications and remedies.

This is a HUGE market full of desperate buyers. So forget selling granny square patterns or children's bedtime stories for now – focus on where the money is.

And if you want to focus on money or relationships, those are always hot, hungry markets as well.

2. Choose a product to sell. This is going to be your OTO after they opt in to your squeeze page. Most people will tell you to create your free report, then create your squeeze page, and then find an OTO to offer after they opt in.

This is good advice. After all, they found your squeeze page, they filled out the form and they pressed the button – they are eager for a solution to their problem! Logically this is the time to offer it to them. But I do things just a bit differently. I find the product I'm going to be promoting as my OTO first. Preferably I also find a second, similar product to use as my back up, in case the owner of the first product pulls it (yes, it happens.) The reason I find the product first is because I want to tailor my squeeze page and my free report to that EXACT topic.

For example, if my OTO is how to cure adult acne, I will write my report on ADULT acne, not teenage acne. But if I had done things the way most people do, I could have had a report on teenage acne and an OTO on adult acne. Sure it's the same problem, but it's two entirely different markets and my conversion rate on the OTO would have been terrible. That's why you want to find the product you're going to be promoting as your OTO first.

What product should you choose? Here are criteria to look for:

ñ Low price – something less than $15 is ideal because it becomes an impulse purchase. And that's exactly what you need here, because you haven't yet established a lot of credibility with your new list member. ñ Excellent product – you've got to buy the product and make sure it really delivers on whatever it promises. This is no time to be selling junk. Actually, there is never a time to be selling junk.

ñ High conversion rate – okay, this is a no-brainer. You want a product that converts really well so that you're making

The ADVANCED ALTERNATIVE to promoting an affiliate product is to create your own product. The drawback is you need to create it or hire someone else to do it for you, either of which takes time. The benefit is you keep 100% of your sales, rather than splitting them with a product owner.

The CHEAT METHOD to creating your own product is of course to use some high grade PLR.

If you are using your own product, here's a trick I like to use: At the top of the sales page, let them know that their free report is on its way to their inbox. This builds consistency and credibility and shows them they're at the right

3. Next you're going to create something to give away to your new niche. Here's the key – you're not going to slap together any old report or re-purpose some PLR. Instead, you're going to create something so awesome, people would PAY YOU to get it. Best of all, you don't need to reinvent the wheel or come up with some brilliant insight to do this. Instead, you're going to let others do the research for you.

Head over to Amazon and search for your niche in the book section. Write down titles that grab your attention. Search inside the books and look at the table of contents. Take notes.

Now do the same with magazines in your niche. Look at the headlines on the magazine covers – these can be a goldmine. You'll need to change them to accommodate your exact niche (and not plagiarize) but that's easy. You want to pay attention to what the hot topics are and what headlines are used to sell those topics.