Saturday, December 23, 2006

12 mistakes affiliates make---part3

10. Are you learning from mediocre sources?
 

Because conditions are changing so fast on the Net, you need to learn fast and grab the opportunities which exist now.

One way to save time is to learn from Internet experts. You won't make so many mistakes that way.

Learn from people who are earning a very good living from Internet marketing.

Neil Shearing persuaded 10 Internet experts - some of whom are earning millions of dollars - to reveal what it takes to make huge profits on the Internet. These aren't "magic bullets". They're valuable insights for serious business-building. They could change the way you do business and change your life.

http://www.AssociatePrograms.com/diamonds

Learn from experts.

11. Have you forgotten to add a dash of personality?

When Chris Pirillo published his Libera Manifesto on his site he received a huge flood of responses.

Chris received that outpouring of support because he injects his personality into his writing and because he's acknowledged as a hard-working expert in his field.

Too much of the Internet is cold and anonymous. Your visitors appreciate knowing that there's a real person running the site they're visiting.

Inject your personality into your site.

12. Are you failing to PLAN?

 received an email from someone who had bought a domain name and was trying to decide what to do with it.

Whoops! That's getting things backwards.

First you have to decide what you want to do. Here are three main options for affiliates. They all work.

Option 1: "Go where the money is," says the highly successful Marlon Sanders.

Do research on what is popular and sell that. Do a survey, find out what people want and sell it to them.

Want to know what's hot? Here's a really fast way. Keep an eye on Yahoo! Shopping - http://shopping.yahoo.com/ . Yahoo! has done lots of research and endless experimenting. It knows what sells.

Look at the "What's hot" list, where you'll find such things as digital cameras, MP3 players and Razor scooters.

Option 2: "Follow your passion," says Ken Evoy. Choose a topic in which you are passionately interested and build a site around that theme. That way, you'll enjoy what you're doing and derive a great deal of satisfaction from it. It won't seem like work.

"Everyone, absolutely EVERYONE, has a special interest... a passion," he says.

Having trouble choosing a topic? See Ken's free "Affiliate Masters" course. It shows you how to brainstorm your concept.

Option 3. Become passionately interested in something. Immerse yourself in all the little details about a topic and suddenly you'll become so absorbed that it's like a hobby, not a business.

That's what affiliate programs have become like for me. Perhaps for you it could be digital cameras.

If you become passionately interested in products which are hot sellers with little competition, that's even better!

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