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I know from experience that beginning Internet Marketers are advised that they should make affiliate marketing a significant part of their business. Since I’ve been there and done that, I want to recommend that beginning Internet marketers avoid three common affiliate marketing mistakes.

First, I don’t mean to suggest that affiliate marketing cannot be an easy, effective, and profitable marketing model for the beginner to follow. On the contrary, you’ll find that most affiliate programs usually offer the following:

* An income opportunity that does not require much expertise
* An program that is typically easy to join and implement
* Lots of promotional materials
* A system by which new marketers can track their success
* Payment of commissions on a regular basis

However, those very same features make it easy for the new Internet marketer to make three affiliate marketing mistakes that reduce their chances for success.

Mistake #2: New Internet marketers tend to join too many affiliate programs at once.

Your first reaction to that description might be, “What’s wrong with that? Even if they don’t earn anything right away, at least they belong to the program. Maybe something will fall into their lap. After all, if you don’t belong, you can’t earn. Right?”

If simply joining a program caused the dollars to roll in, we wouldn’t call it Internet marketing, we’d call it Internet collecting. Spreading your efforts among too many programs violates the principle that focused effort accomplishes more than dispersed effort. It is far more effective to focus your learning, blogging, and marketing efforts on promoting one or two programs. The return on effort (ROE) will generate greater success and therefore greater income.

Mistake #3: Beginning Internet marketers often believe that they can effectively promote a product they don’t own and haven’t used. Experience has taught me that that is simply not true.

If your only knowledge of a product depends on information from the product’s sales/squeeze pages or from testimonials that may or may not be from real owners and users of the product, you simply cannot write and speak with authority about its value it offers to your customers.

The perception of value comes from using a product for which you put out your own hard earned cash. If the product has done for you what the marketing materials said it would do, your promotion of the product will ring with an authority and relevance that your customers will find hard to resist.

Mistake #1: Beginning Internet marketers often choose the wrong affiliate program.

The yearn to earn often leads the beginning Internet marketer to select an affiliate program that is just not right for them. This mistake typically has at least a couple of components.

The new Internet marketer gets sold on jumping on what I call a “band wagon” product. It’s a bandwagon product because it is being hyped and promoted by the affiliate program’s joint venture (JV) partners. It seems like every guru email you’re getting extols the virtues of this new product. C’mon! Join in the party, and you too can make millions.

Joining an affiliate program because you think everyone else is doing it, and because you want a piece of the action is counterproductive. Think about it! If too many other people are selling it, how big do you think your piece of the pie will ever be? You must choose your affiliate program more carefully.

This exposes the second component of this mistake. New Internet affiliate marketers often select affiliate programs with products I which they have no interest. In the same way that cannot effectively market a product you haven’t bought and used yourself, you cannot effectively market a product in which you have no personal interest. Your message will not ring true. That’s one of the reason many of the training programs on Internet marketing focus on listing your interests and passions as a preliminary to choosing your niche.

Take time to make a good choice.

The key to avoiding these three affiliate marketing mistakes is to take the time to analyze your marketing strategy and do the following:

1. Choose a niche on which you can focus your energies, and avoid the mistake of choosing to many affiliate programs.
2. Choose an affiliate program that is in a niche that is unique to you and your passions and interest. Don’t select a bandwagon affiliate program just because every new guru email you get tells you it’s the thing to do.
3. Choose a niche about which you can write and promote enthusiastically. If you do so, your message about the value your affiliate product offers your customer will have authority, will ring true, and will create profitable affiliate sales.

Avoid making these three common affiliate marketing mistakes, and you will be able to maximize your affiliate marketing efforts and earn higher profits.

I invite you to get more tips and instruction about affiliate marketing by getting Ken Evoy’s Affiliate Masters Course for FREE by visiting Internet Income Advisors. That’s where the author, Jerry Nielsen (That’s me.), serves up sound advice for making money on the Internet. That’s a good place to get my FREE super tip on affiliate marketing too.

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