Thursday, August 12, 2010

Why You Are Not Making Money With Affiliate Marketing

It seems like it would be easy to make money on-line. You have been at it for a while, and is just not working for you. It may be time for you to do something else.

Maybe you just are not cut out to be an Internet marketer. It does take a certain skill set. You need to know:
  • how to develop web pages,
  • about search engine optimization,
  • how to write converting copy, and
  • how to promote your site.
Maybe you are not cut out to be an entrepreneur. An entrepreneur is someone who is:
  • always looking for opportunity,
  • always working to solve a problem,
  • is out there promoting their business, and
  • works tirelessly day an night to make their business success.
They are not spending their time on the computer reading, researching, visiting web forums and mistake it for taking action. Taking action is the same thing as doing work. You need to work to become successful.

The difference between creating your own job and working for someone else is mindset. When you work for someone else, you are being paid for your time. When you are paid for your time, sitting at the computer surfing and researching appear to be work.
Perhaps as an employee you are paid for output (piece work). This is closer to what an Internet marketer gets paid to do.

In affiliate marketing, you really do not get paid for output. Output is what creates the opportunity to get paid.

What pays the bills in affiliate marketing and for all entrepreneurs is sales. You only get paid when you sell something. This is true of all business.

Salesmen for companies know this the best. They get paid commission for sales they make. These sales are what bring revenue into the company. This revenue is what goes to pay the salary for everyone else in the company, whether they are surfing the Internet or not.

You cannot make sales if you are spending all your time researching, visiting forums and otherwise frittering away your time on the Internet.

You need to be actively creating campaigns and taking action to promote. This means actively engaging in creating web sites, engaging in search engine optimization, article marketing and working an advertising campaign.

If you are doing this and still having issues. It may be time to get some help. Seek others who are doing what you are trying to do and are successful at it. Do like they do.

So, what about you? Are you someone who just is not willing to put in the work to become a successful internet marketer? Or are you someone who is sincerely trying, but could use some help and encouragement?

Training helps you become smarter with your marketing efforts and methods. Support helps you to follow through. 

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