Want to Make Money with Affiliate Marketing -
Take it Seriously

Published on this site: December 15th, 2006 - See more articles from this month

When it comes to making money with affiliate marketing, there are a lot of ways not to make money.

When a typical website owner hears that they can make money with affiliate marketing, they go out and decide to put some affiliate links up on their website. Since all the hype makes affiliate marketing sound easy, they figure people will click on those links and buy, buy, buy.

Two months later when they still haven't made a single sale, they decide that affiliate marketing doesn't work. The problem with affiliate marketing isn't that it doesn't work. It's just that it's not quite as simple as all the hype makes it sound.

If you want to make money as an affiliate marketer, then you're going to have to put some effort into making it work.

Here are some tips to making affiliate marketing work for you.

First, you need to treat affiliate marketing like a real part of your business, and not just some extra links you put up on your website. Put some thought into what you're promoting. Does it mesh well with what your visitors or subscribers want? Next, you need to take the time to review the product you're promoting.

Yes, that means you're going to need to buy some products.

Yes, you may buy some products that turn out to be garbage. If they are, you can return them. That's the point of a return policy.

Your job is to find the products that will actually be useful to your visitors and subscribers. Once you've found some good products, you're ready to promote them.

No, you still can't just throw the links up haphazardly. Take the time to write a review of the product. Make sure you explain in detail your opinions about the product. Tell them the good points of the product. Also, try to find a part about the product that you find to be slightly negative. Not a point that will break the deal, you are after all recommending this product because you thought the product was useful and beneficial. The point of saying something slightly negative is that you don't sound like a sales pitch. You sound more like a neutral third party.

When you send your visitors to the sales page already thinking that this is a product they want, you'll find yourself making significantly more affiliate sales.

Gary Ruplinger - is an Internet Marketer. To learn more about affiliate marketing, visit http://www.projectxresults.com. If you want to see an example of a page that presells the visitors, go to http://www.salehooreview.com