Because affiliate marketing continues to have a high failure rate it should make you want to step back and analyze what successful people are doing. One way to do that is to consider things that do not work when it comes to affiliate marketing.
Here are my top five tips to help you avoid affiliate marketing disaster.
1. Choosing the wrong market to start an affiliate business in is a sure fire way to affiliate marketing failure. One thing we do know today is that it is easier to sell a product in a market where people are already spending money.
It is somewhat amazing that some of the top markets never reach saturation. You see people starting new websites and begin making money almost immediately in certain niches such as weight loss or diet, sports such as golf, work at home, health, and many others.
You stand a much better chance to succeed if you choose affiliate programs to represent in these types of niches.
2. Not focusing on a specific product initially can create a disaster for you as well. There are many affiliate websites that have so many products on them that they never make a sale.
Initially you are better off to focus on one product and create a profit from it before adding more products.
3. Be sure and get one website up and running profitably before adding another. This is a common mistake affiliate marketers make where they jump around from one to another and never ever make money in any of them.
4. Using the website provided for you by the affiliate merchant is a big mistake too. There are many different reasons for this, but the main one is you are not going to differentiate yourself from your competition when you use the same website everyone else has.
5. Not using landing pages and sign-up forms is another common mistake you see affiliate marketers make. The most successful affiliate marketers understand the importance of building a list for future follow up regardless of the niche that they are in.
An email marketing list is an asset you can continue to tap into for many years to come. Therefore you want to build as large of a list as possible, and get to know your subscribers before you expect them to purchase from you.
If you see a failing affiliate marketer there is a pretty good chance they are not doing these five things. If you want to avoid affiliate marketing disaster follow these five tips and watch your affiliate business grow.