Being an affiliate or associate marketer can be a tough enterprise. There is much more to learn than most of us anticipated when we first started. The learning curve is too steep for some, and many simply drop out.
If you’re reading this, I hope that you are among those who will stay committed over the long haul, constantly increasing your knowledge base and applying what you have learned by acting upon that knowledge. The most common problem among failed affiliate marketers is buying magic, secret plans and not implementing them to see if they actually work as promised. Some are no more than buyers; they don’t even read the books they buy.
There are two resources for affiliate marketers that I include in my recommendations. One has to do with using a marketing approach using blog entries, not just your blogs but the blogs of many other people. This system is a very useful membership website called My Article Network. Here I’m going to focus upon one use to which an affiliate marketer can put it, although the prior link will take you to a lengthier description of how the entire system works and may benefit you.
If you use the traditional method of article marketing, you write articles and submit those articles to article directories. With that method, your links are limited to the author’s resource box, usually published at the end of the article. In the new method of article marketing, you can use the much more effective contextual linking, that is placing your links directly within the content of the article, where they are far more likely to deliver targeted traffic to your vendor’s site. Most of the major article directories will not allow you to use affiliate links in your own resource box. With this system, affiliate links are permitted. You can check it out for yourself by visiting this remarkable unique article marketing approach that directly submits unique versions of your articles to blogs and websites in your niche from its list of over 10,000 sites anxious to receive content.
The other resource is a complete educational system established exclusively for affiliate marketers who are owners of various size businesses as well as those preparing for a career in affiliate management. It is a brand new version of Anik Singal’s well received Affiliate Classroom. Singal earned recognition as one of the young entrepreneurs of 2008 by Business Week, a top publication. Singal has spent the last two years totally remaking this ground breaking program. I strongly urge you to sign up for the complete information before all the spaces are taken. No joke, this will fill very quickly.
If you see simply a squeeze page, that means that the course has not yet opened. Fill it out to receive updated information, as it is being launched very soon. If it has already sold out when you arrive, check for a waiting list, and sign up if one becomes available. Good luck!
Anticipating a question that I would ask, yes, both of these have affiliate programs, but you can’t use your own affiliate links to purchase either membership. You must sign up for both prior to gaining access to the affiliate programs.
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This post was written by Robjohn on August 11, 2009
