4. The learning never ends
The internet marketing landscape is constantly changing.
You absolutely must keep up with the changes, adapt to them and carry on.
You cannot sit still and stay with your old ways.
You will get left behind and your business will collapse.
It may seem to be a lot of trouble to keep learning and adapting.
That is why it is important to enjoy what you are doing.
If you don’t enjoy it initially, you must learn to enjoy it.
Once you are earning good money with your affiliate marketing,
you will enjoy the process and it will all seem more exciting and fun.
In fact, you will probably be trying to come up with new ways
to stay ahead of the pack and others will need to adapt to keep up with you.
However, to get to this stage, you will need to keep learning.
5. You will fail
This is inevitable. It doesn’t matter how experienced you are,
you will still make mistakes now and then.
If you look at some of the movies that hit the big screen,
there are movies with huge budgets
such as The Lone Ranger or Waterworld which flop spectacularly.
So why would the directors and movie studio bosses
continue to invest their money in big budget movies ?
The answer to this is you never really know for sure
if something is going to be a hit or a miss.
You never know till you do it.
This is true even with affiliate marketing.
You may think that a product is going to be a winner because it looks fantastic and the sales page is convincing
and the visitor must be mad not to purchase it.
So you start driving free and paid traffic to it.
But you end up with no sales. Not a single one.
So why are you failing?
The truth is, sometimes you just fail.
Sometimes the only thing you learn from failure is that you failed.
Dust yourself down and move on.
Maybe you find an ugly looking product that looks cheap and shoddy.
You decide to promote it not expecting it to do that well.
But since there is not much competition, you go for it anyway.
Suddenly, it takes off and everybody wants it.
You make a bundle of money from it.
Run with the winners and dump the losers.
That should be your mantra.
You should plan as much as you can and do your best.
If things fail, do whatever you can to salvage the situation.
If the situation looks hopeless, dump the campaign and move on.
6. No man is an island
You can achieve quite a bit of success on your own.
However, in order to take your commissions to another level,
you will need other people.
You can’t ever hope to achieve as much on your own,
as you can leveraging other people’s time and resources.
This means outsourcing certain tasks.
Of course, the freelancer may not meet your high standards
but if they are doing a reasonably good job,
you should stick with them and guide and coach them.
This will free up a lot of your time to pursue other parts of the business.
Another group of people you will need are fellow marketers.
Get to know other marketers on Facebook and Social media
and make friends with them.
Engage in discussions and offer value whenever you can.
There are many groups where ideas are exchanged often.
One idea discussed might generate thousands of dollars for you.
You can also create your own products
or have joint ventures with other marketers.
You will be able to recruit affiliates who can sell your product for you.
You need other people. You can’t do it all on your own.
Most infoproducts do not mention this but it is a very important part of your business.
These six truths should have raised your awareness
of how affiliate marketing works.
Now that you have a good idea what you’re getting into.
You can prepare yourself accordingly.
We wish you every success in your affiliate marketing business.
