I’m going to say this again. I am a NOOB. I am learning and I and making mistakes. This blog isnt being written by a pro or a company. It is being written by an unemployed…scratch that, self employed 23 year old college student. I am going through all the same things you are going through right now and I am getting taken for rides the same way you are also.
The biggest lesson I think I need to share with my readers is that in order to be an affiliate marketer, you have to be the best liar you know. Yea, a dirty… filthy…LIAR. This is good to know on both ends of the spectrum. A person who is beginning their journey into affiliate marketing and a person who has been making money with CPA advertising.
For the person who is beginning their journey, don’t believe anything you hear. Garenteed 90% of what someone tells you is either a lie or not the whole truth. I will tell you right now that when I go over methods with you that most will be things people already know and already have done. I am going to try them, but I am going to try to find the reason why it works for those people as well. You are wondering why I would need to do that. Well, it is because if you bug someone long enough they will tell you a method they use, but it will never be a method they actually make their own money with. Usually something they know other small time people do to generate some kind of money, but never anything they do on a daily basis. Another thing you have to look out for is partial methods. Ever been told to make a poll about something popular and have a lead behind it to make some money? Yeaaaah… that doesn’t work too well when you aren’t generating the right keywords, setting up the landing page correctly or using a lead towards your target. People tell you about a method, but the whole method is much more complex. In order to have a method you must know every single variable and think about it all the way through. It is not just step one… step 2… step 3 = MONEY MONEY MONEY. That is why I don’t like E-Books. Everything that you would spend 20-$200 on, you can find for free on a website like this or in other free downloadable E-Books. Most are vague and most skip the money making variables. The reason for this… SATURATION BABY!!. Smart marketers know when to sell their ideas. They are not going to sell an idea that people don’t know already. They will give ideas that have been used by a lot of people. Anything to do with Zango… saturated. Anything Myspace… saturated. yet you constantly see these E-Books being sold and people buying them. Keep the money and save it for PPC advertising. No one will give you the whole story. I think this is the best lesson you learn because you are going to look for help and you are going to find somone who knows what they are doing, but will tell you to E-Whore just to shut you up. Yea Alex, I’m talkin’ to you buddy!! All kidding aside, you need to figure it out on your own and not get discouraged that the methods you are reading about arn’t working for you.
Suggestions:
- •Read about methods, but look deeper and put your OWN TWIST ON IT.
- •Sign up to some smaller CPA companies which will be more likely to assist you when you need help.
- •If you are spening less than $50 on an E-Book, you have already heard it and it’s not worth the money.
- •Network, network, network… Make friends and do favors for those friends who may do favors for you as well.
LASTLY…
- •Think of an old method and sell the HELL out of it on digitalpoint forums… they will never know!! I Kid… Sorta.
