In our previous session, we established that in order to thrive as an affiliate,
you would need to learn the basics thoroughly before moving on.
This is true for any skill whether it’s dancing, swimming or karate.
You must master the fundamentals before moving on.
One step leads to the next.
How do you learn these basic steps ?
Google and YouTube are your best friends.
If you need to learn about niche research,
Google “niche research tutorials”.
Do the same thing in YouTube.
In a week or so you will be an expert on your topic.
You can also invest in online guides on affiliate marketing.
When buying such products in the internet marketing niche,
find topic specific products
rather than general theory products.
For example, a guide on niche research is topic specific.
A guide that shows you how to make $20,000 in a day is too general and theorical.
Therefore purchase a guide on the specific topic that you need to learn right now.
This method of learning should be applied to every step on your journey.
until you have built up considerable knowlege about each topic.
At each stage you must take action.This is key!
All the theory in the world will not help you if you do not take action.
Too many beginners try to learn all the theory first.
What you must do instead is learn a particular step
and straight away implement it before moving on.
You will avoid information overload and make rapid progress.
For example once you have learnt,
all you can learn about niche research,
go and find some niches that you are interested in.
Put your knowledge to use and find the one you like
and also one that you can make money in.
Then move on to the next step,
study the theory and take the action
and so on and so forth.
This is the sure and proven pathway to success.
Do not bite off more than you can chew.
Choosing one to three profitable niches is ok.
Choosing fifty is pointless and you’re overdoing it.
The same applies to affiliate products and programs.
Do not choose so many that you can not do justice to each one.
Focus your effort on a small amount of products.
Maybe three to six products in the beginning.
And stick to one or two affiliate networks.
Do the best you can with these
and you will have enough time to get to know each product.
Then you can review and recommend them honestly.
Do not tackle a dozen or more products
because you can not give your best focus to each one.
Learn to drive traffic from forums, videos, articles and social media.
Focus on the free methods when you are starting out.
Traffic generation should be done on a daily basis.
The efforts will accumulate over time and the traffic will come pouring in.
Try and master one or two highly effective ways of driving free traffic
and refine your technique until you are able to make commissions from this traffic.
By driving free traffic to your landing pages
you will have a good idea about how well
your pages and products are converting.
This information is priceless and will help you
when you do start to use paid traffic.
Monitor your stats, traffic, sales and commissions in detail.
Dont forget to count the time you spend working.
You must place a value on your time. Never forget that.
Initially, you will be working for free.
Hopefully soon you will be able to earn enough,
to justify all your hard work and effords in front of your computer.
If you follow the steps covered here,
you will be way ahead of most other affiliate marketers who are struggling.
This is a business. Always remember that.
This takes time, effort and money.
As long as you know and accept that, you will do very well.
