Most beginners look upon the super affiliates in awe.
The super affiliates making five and six figure sums seem to be in another league.
The beginner who is just starting out may look on this as an impossible task.
How can I even catch up with them?
They must be way smarter than I am?
They’re earning five figures a month and I am not making a cent yet!
The hope is to be like them.
Reality is telling you that you never will.
So what do you do?
The first thing you do is to stop comparing yourself to them.
If you’re too busy worrying about them,
you’re not focusing on yourself and what you should be doing instead.
Every super affiliate was once a beginner.
They probably didn’t know very much either.
They worked long and hard to build the skill sets
and develop the strategies required
to take them to super affiliate level.
This is a learning process.
Your first goal is to learn all that you can.
However your learning must be focused.
Since you want to be an affiliate marketer,
you’ll need to know how –
to source products,
pick a profitable niche,
set up a landing page,
build a list,
build a relationship with that list,
drive traffic,
and related skills.
These are the skills you need to learn and you must focus on these.
Do not suddenly run off and try to learn how to sell on eBay
or decide to write books for Kindle.
These are unrelated to what you’re trying to do as an affiliate marketer.
These will sidetrack you.
Time is limited and you must focus on your affiliate marketing.
And put all your efforts into that.
A rough guide of the process is the following.
• Learn how to pick a profitable niche. This is crucial.
• Do your keyword research and find the best keywords for your niche.
• Target the long tail keywords
• Set up a website with a landing page to capture email addresses
• Drive traffic to your landing page with a few traffic building methods.
• Build a sales funnel so that after opting in, the subscribers are taken to an offer.
• Have a sequence of emails to offer value, build trust and promote offers.
This is it simplified.
It may look simple but it has a lot of moving parts.
Almost every affiliate marketer started off with this model.
They made tweaks along the way to boost their profits.
If you follow this model, you will be on the right track.
Only by doing the work, testing and making adjustments
to your processes will you find out what works
and once you know what works, it’s just a case of replicating
and scaling your processes.
This will take time, but in time your commissions will start to roll in.
Keep persisting in your efforts and you too will soon be a top earner.