How to Finally Be Successful with Affiliate Marketing
October 4, 2009 by Gerber
Filed under Internet Marketing
If you are anything like me, you probably have bought a lot of products from all kinds of internet marketing gurus promising you easy money with little to no work. Most of this is sales hype and if those products contain good advice it is not always easy to follow through. Because just when you begin to start implementing that advice, some new product will come along and you give that product your full attention.
Unsubscribe
The first thing you want to do is to unsubscribe from all internet marketing newsletters. Those will only make you lose your focus. You probably know enough already to succeed online. And if that is not the case, read further below.
Confessions of a Lazy Super-Affiliate
I have studied internet marketing for a couple of years now and there is a lot of hype in this business. It can be hard to find a product that gives great advice, is enjoyable to read and inspires you to take action and follow through. A few weeks ago I read Confessions of a Lazy Super-Affiliate by Chris Rempel. I was so impressed with this book that I also bought all of his other books. My absolute favorite is about something called the Conduit Method. I read about this method on the Warrior Forum (an internet marketing forum) and this thread is one of the most popular threads ever. His books are simple but very effective. No hype, just simple techniques that you can repeat over and over again. Internet marketing does not have to be hard, but it takes time. Most of the work consists of finding out what already works and doing that same thing over and over again. A lot of people think that it can’t be that simple, so they complicate things and eventually lose interest when the results do not come right away.
Start Now
If you want to be successful with affiliate marketing, I suggest you invest a small amount of your money by buying the following books:
- Confessions of a Lazy Super-Affiliate – This book will give you the foundation to finally be successful with affiliate marketing.
- VIP Confessions #1 – The ‘Conduit’ Method – My favorite method for making money with affiliate marketing.
- VIP Confessions #2 – The ‘Reverse Selection’ Blueprint – Do not try to be inventive when you are just starting out. Find out what already works online and then do the same. If you combine the advice given in this book with the first two books you are miles ahead of the competition.
- VIP Essentials #1 – Site Layouts That SELL – With this package you have no more excuses to start. Now you have everything available to start in affiliate marketing and achieving success.
Work on the advice given in those books and work on nothing else for the following months. Follow through and don’t get sidetracked by the next big internet marketing product launch. That will only make you lose focus and not follow through.
Mindset
Because achieving success is also about mindset, I suggest you also (re)read my article about Making Money Online and EFT. This article discusses some of the blocks you may encounter on your way to success and how you can eliminate those blocks.
And before you start you might want the watch the Tony Robbins video again as he inspires you to take massive action and follow through.
The combination of good advice on affiliate marketing and the right mindset is the perfect formula for online success.
To your success,
Gerber
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