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This thread series, has a total of nine identified deadly affiliate marketing mistakes to avoid. Please note, that only posts relevant to the specific mentioned mistake on a particular thread are welcome onto that thread; those not mentioned through the series, are welcome onto the concluding thread to Mistakes #1-#9 (the tenth thread of the series), thank you. Let’s get started - enjoy!
Mistake #9/9 – Ignoring Competition
While it’s important not to fear competition, it’s also important to be reasonable. Expecting to make a fortune overnight in a super-competitive niches like: weight loss, make money online, beauty, relationship, etc. is a sure recipe for disappointment.
What you need to do in the beginning is target niches that:
Notice #3 especially. If you have absolutely no interest or knowledge in a niche, it will be harder to create content, harder to identify with your target market, harder to sell products you know little to nothing about, and harder to get traffic.
Do you need to be an expert to conquer a market? Absolutely not! In fact, you could probably do well in a niche that you know NOTHING about, just learning as you go.
But if you have absolutely no interest in the subject, it’s going to make it much, much easier to give up. You’ll simply get bored, because your work day becomes such a grind that you’ll throw your hands up in frustration and flip on the television or head out to the lake and the like.
So how do you choose your first few niches?
Make a list of some topics you have an interest in. I’d say 10-20 topics would be enough to get started.
Now check to make sure there are:
As far as competition, you want to look for niches that have at least 50,000 existing websites. Even a few million isn’t a big deal. Fifty million might be pushing it unless you have money to pay for initial promotion.
You can find out how many sites there are that mention your topic by searching Google. I use quotes on multi-word phrases to be sure I get an accurate number.
I searched for "love" and got “About 12,810,000,000 results”. "beauty" - over a billion! A search for "skincare" came up with “About 206,000,000 results” Better, but still quite plenty. "safe skin care" came up with “About 182,000 results”. This is definitely much more reasonable.
Don’t fear competition; be reasonable about it!
Premise:
Affiliate marketing is a great way to make money, but it’s not necessarily as easy as it sounds. Too many affiliate marketers are actually making HUGE mistakes, which cost them time, money, and may even hurt their reputations permanently.
Fortunately, once you’ve identified these killer mistakes, it’s easy to correct them so you can stop making them in your own affiliate marketing campaigns.
If you’ve been wondering why your affiliate marketing campaigns aren’t as effective as you’d hoped, you might be making one or more of these big mistakes than could be seriously hampering your efforts.
In this guide, you’ll learn about the most common mistakes made by affiliate marketers (even some highly experienced marketers make these mistakes!) You’ll also learn how to keep from making these mistakes yourself, and how to keep from repeating the same mistakes over and over again as so many people seem to do.
Mistake #9/9 – Ignoring Competition
While it’s important not to fear competition, it’s also important to be reasonable. Expecting to make a fortune overnight in a super-competitive niches like: weight loss, make money online, beauty, relationship, etc. is a sure recipe for disappointment.
What you need to do in the beginning is target niches that:
Notice #3 especially. If you have absolutely no interest or knowledge in a niche, it will be harder to create content, harder to identify with your target market, harder to sell products you know little to nothing about, and harder to get traffic.
Do you need to be an expert to conquer a market? Absolutely not! In fact, you could probably do well in a niche that you know NOTHING about, just learning as you go.
But if you have absolutely no interest in the subject, it’s going to make it much, much easier to give up. You’ll simply get bored, because your work day becomes such a grind that you’ll throw your hands up in frustration and flip on the television or head out to the lake and the like.
So how do you choose your first few niches?
Make a list of some topics you have an interest in. I’d say 10-20 topics would be enough to get started.
Now check to make sure there are:
As far as competition, you want to look for niches that have at least 50,000 existing websites. Even a few million isn’t a big deal. Fifty million might be pushing it unless you have money to pay for initial promotion.
You can find out how many sites there are that mention your topic by searching Google. I use quotes on multi-word phrases to be sure I get an accurate number.
I searched for "love" and got “About 12,810,000,000 results”. "beauty" - over a billion! A search for "skincare" came up with “About 206,000,000 results” Better, but still quite plenty. "safe skin care" came up with “About 182,000 results”. This is definitely much more reasonable.
Don’t fear competition; be reasonable about it!
Premise:
Affiliate marketing is a great way to make money, but it’s not necessarily as easy as it sounds. Too many affiliate marketers are actually making HUGE mistakes, which cost them time, money, and may even hurt their reputations permanently.
Fortunately, once you’ve identified these killer mistakes, it’s easy to correct them so you can stop making them in your own affiliate marketing campaigns.
If you’ve been wondering why your affiliate marketing campaigns aren’t as effective as you’d hoped, you might be making one or more of these big mistakes than could be seriously hampering your efforts.
In this guide, you’ll learn about the most common mistakes made by affiliate marketers (even some highly experienced marketers make these mistakes!) You’ll also learn how to keep from making these mistakes yourself, and how to keep from repeating the same mistakes over and over again as so many people seem to do.
