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Can you really get rich being an affiliate?  Really?

Well, there are some who claim that you can get very rich being an affiliate, and there are others who say that you can’t.  So unless you happen to personally know someone who has gotten rich in affiliate marketing, I would say at this point that I don’t know.

Now that doesn’t help much, does it!  I must say that so far, I have not gotten rich in affiliate marketing, but I am going to keep trying! :-)  Because even though I do not know anyone personally who has gotten rich in affiliate marketing, I do “know” some people online who claim to have gotten rich being affiliates.  And unless they are lying, then I believe it is possible.

So how does one get rich in affiliate marketing?

I don’t know if I have room here to give you the full tutorial, so I will give the beginning basics.  I may give more information in future blog posts, if this gets too long.

The first step to becoming an affiliate is deciding on a niche.  What is a niche?  A niche is a category that you are interested in promoting.  It can either be broad (health, fitness, weight loss, internet marketing, getting out of debt) or it can be much narrower (how to stop snoring, 5 steps to increasing your endurance, 7 tips for losing your first ten pounds, how to market your business using classified ads, 10 ways to cut expenses).

It may be a good idea to do some keyword research to find out just how popular your chosen niche really is.  You will need to check to see how many searches are being made on that keyword, as well as how much competition there is in that niche.  If there are not many searches, then it would be harder to get prospects to your site to see your product.  If there is much competition, it will be hard to stand out from the crowd, unless you can come up with a particular twist or something eye-catching.

A good keyword tool is Google AdWords Keyword Tool.  You can find it easily by doing a Google search.  It will be the first listing.  Check it out and play with it for a while to see how it works.

What’s next?

Next, you will need to find products in your chosen niche.  These are usually in the form of ebooks or software, but you could also sell physical products that have affiliate programs.  There are many to choose from, so choose wisely – not all products being sold on the internet are good quality.  If you sell a product that is poor quality, it will affect your own reputation, as well as cause a lot of people to ask for refunds.  So make sure what you want to sell is a good-quality product before you market it.

But how does one find products to sell?

Go to a good search engine and do a search for your niche, with the words “affiliate program” after the niche word(s).  This should pull up many possibilities for both products and vendors (people offering the products to affiliates to sell).  Once again, research to make sure the vendor is reputable and treats the affiliates well.  Or you could just take the easy way out and go to Clickbank to see if there are any products in your niche for sale there.

And I am noticing that this post is getting rather long, so stay tuned next time for Part 2!

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Why would I say such a thing?!  If I am in affiliate marketing, shouldn’t I be more positive than all that?

Remember the subtitle of my blog site?  It is “Best Network Marketing Secrets.”  And one of the secrets of affiliate marketing that not many people want to tell you is that. . .making money in affiliate marketing takes TIME!

Why do the “experts” not want you to know this?

If you know this dirty little “secret,” you may not be so ready to buy their programs that claim that you can make thousands of dollars in a short period of time!  And then the people selling the training programs or ebooks would not make the kind of money THEY want to make!

Does this mean that you can’t make good money in affiliate marketing?

The answer to that is “NO!”  You can make VERY good money in affiliate marketing, but you have to be prepared to spend lots of time and energy (WORK) training; setting things up; deciding on your market, product, advertising, etc.; and then building your list before you can expect to make much, if any, money.  Once you put in the effort, once you spend the time that it takes to get everything in place, once you get your list well on its way, THEN you can start making money.

And it may not be thousands right away.  You may make $34 here, $75 there, eventually working up to $100-$250 per day.  After some more time and effort, you may then start seeing $1000 days.  But not if you want it NOW.  You will need to be patient and work hard to get there.

And if you are willing to put in the time and effort that it takes, you will make a good income in affiliate marketing.  But if you just want the big bucks NOW, than you really need to rethink going into business for yourself, because anything you do to make money from your computer will take WORK.

Stay tuned for some more tips on affiliate marketing in my next post!

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Ask yourself this at the end of the day, would I hire myself tomorrow?  Be honest.  Do you spend your time wisely and get lots done, or do you find yourself being lazy, doing busy work, and putting off what you know needs doing?

Some days you have the motivation and inner drive to work hard and get a lot of work done, and other days (like today when it is cloudy and dreary) you feel lazy and tired.  It is just so HARD to think and do any work except busy work.

How do you make yourself get work done when you feel that way?  Do you have a schedule that you follow no matter what, and just DO what you need to?  Do you take a nap, hoping that will take the edge off so you will feel more like working?  Do you declare a vacation day for yourself?  Do you have motivational phrases posted around your office to inspire you to get busy?

I would love to hear from you what you do when you feel this way!

Are you getting work done, or are you being lazy?

Think about what you do every day at your computer, or whatever you do to start your work day.  Do you do a lot of busy work, like check email, headlines, facebook, twitter, your stats?  If this only takes you a few minutes, that is fine.  But if it ends up sucking you in and taking you half the day, this is not working hard or smart.

If you need to write an article or a blog, or write some ad copy, this should really be tackled fairly early in your day so that you can get it done while your mind is fresh and you have the time.  If you let things slide while you do your busy work, your mind will be more sluggish and you will find it easier to put things off that you really should be doing.

Once your important tasks are finished, then you can make time to do the other things, and then you can spend as much time as you want or need in those tasks.  You will feel like you got things accomplished, and you will feel good about yourself and your business.

Or if you feel some of those things are important to your business, set a time limit, do what you really need to first, then move on to your other more important tasks, returning to the emails, etc., later.

And sign up on the right for email training in affiliate marketing, if that is your niche.

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You have been reading about all that you have to do to be successful in network and affiliate marketing.  You have seen things about blogging, and are interested, but are just not sure about it – not quite ready to take the plunge.

How to Get Started in Blogging

There are several ways you can get started in blogging.

1. You can take a blogging course (I highly recommend Ty Tribble’s course – he is the one who helped me get started).
2. You can find someone else online who trains people to blog.
3. You can read blogs of those who teach in their blogs about blogging.
4. Or you can get started with a free blogging site to get your feet wet.  I am involved in a free blogging site that starts you off with 200 subscribers just for joining!

If you take Ty Tribble’s blogging course, or if you take someone else’s course or just do the research yourself, you will need to invest in a domain name (here is a really good source), and a web hosting site (here is a really good one that is inexpensive).

If you go with a free blogging site, there are some disadvantages.  The main one is that you do not own the site, and can be deleted from the site for any reason.

If you are willing to take that risk, and you would like to see traffic coming to your blog immediately, this free blog site would be a great place to start.  You can start advertising your affiliate programs you choose right on the blog immediately, and you will get traffic.

Another advantage for a beginner is that you will really only have to post blogs every few days, not daily, as your blog will only be sent out every 3 days or so.  However, you can blog as often as you wish, and promote the site other ways to bring traffic to it if you wish.  You are not limited, but it may make you feel less pressured as you begin.

You may view my own blog here to get an idea of how it is set up, and if you wish to get your own, just click on the button at the top of that page, and then have fun!

For more information on how to be successful in affiliate marketing, sign up on the right for some emails to help you!

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I read a great blog today by Katie Freiling about getting more work done in less time.  Wow!  What a great tip she had for us!

Getting More Work Done in Less Time

Katie talked about Parkinson’s Law.  I have never heard of it, and wondered what a law related to Parkinson’s disease had to do with business!

Well, come to find out, nothing!  Parkinson’s Law states that “Work will expand so as to fill the amount of time available for its completion.”  That really made me stop and think.

I don’t know about you, but I really suffer from this kind of “Parkinson’s disease!”  I can take all day to do something that should only take a little while, just because I have all day sometimes, and then I wonder how in the world I will get anything done when my son goes back to school next week (we homeschool, and he starts high school)!

Well, now I know how I will get things done – I will apply Parkinson’s law to my day, only allotting a small time frame in which to get some things done.  We will see how that works out for us!

And if you decide to try this for yourself, let me know how it works out for you!  I would love to hear from you!  If you are reading this on the home page, just click on the title of the article, and it will take you to its own page with a comment box at the bottom.

And if you would love to learn more about affiliate marketing, sign in on the right for some email and video training from my friend, Vick.

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So, what is the first step in getting started with affiliate marketing?  What do you need to do?

Getting Started With Affiliate Marketing

The first step, in my opinion, is to get some good training so that you know what you are doing.  If you do not get good training, you can try to do things the way you think they should be done, and go through a lot of trial and error.  And you don’t really want to have a lot of error, do you?  That can be costly, and it definitely will be time-wasting.

So find someone who can teach you the ins and outs of affiliate marketing, someone who will walk you through step by step, so that you can make a minimum of errors and start making money faster.

There are a myriad of articles, ebooks, and training programs on the internet that can teach you how to get started.  So how do you know which one to pick?  How do you know the good from the bad, the mediocre from the scams?

The Best Way

The best way is to find someone you trust who can lead you to someone who is doing well in affiliate marketing and who does well at teaching it to others.  There may be many good teachers out there, but the one that I know about, who does an excellent job teaching others, is my buddy, Vick.

Vick wrote a couple of articles on my blog here recently, and I am learning a lot from him.  His teaching style is the best that I have seen.  His training videos are short, excellent quality, and very informative.  He and his team tell you everything you need to know.  When something isn’t working well anymore, he makes changes to help you be successful.

And his webinars are fun.  You really feel like you are in a community when you are watching one of his webinars.  You can interact with others in the webinar, not just the leader.

So if you are at all interested in affiliate marketing, I would highly recommend that you click on the link on the right for Global Success Club, and check out what we are doing!

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Here’s more affiliate program information for you that I promised in my last blog.

Okay, last time we covered some of the necessary but boring affiliate programs that can bring in good residual income.  But you want something a little more exciting, right?

Affiliate Programs, Part 2

There are a TON of affiliate programs out there, and I haven’t even scratched the surface in my own research!

One of the most well-known and used affiliate program sites is ClickBank.  Some of you may be very familiar with ClickBank, and others of you may be wondering what I am talking about.  So for those of you in the dark, ClickBank is a website where you can sign up for free, pick a category in their marketplace, chose a product they have for sale, and then market it yourself for 50-70% commissions.

If you can find some free or cheap places to advertise, this is a very inexpensive way to go, but there are some tricks to picking the right products and choosing where to market them.  If you sign up for my free newsletter on the right, you can learn these secrets and start making money.

Also, if you do a search for affiliate programs, you can find a lot of places that offer to let you be an affiliate.  In fact, the more you learn about affiliate programs, the more places you will notice that offer them!

Some of these programs will be for things that have monthly fees, some will be one-time fees, and others will offer other products to the customer, which will also get you commissions if they buy.

And the more you learn, the more you will find out how to do even better with affiliate marketing!  (Can you tell I’m excited about affiliate marketing?!)

So sign up today, and get started with YOUR affiliate marketing!  Then tell me all about your success!

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I am going to stop a moment and talk about affiliate program scams.  This is not a fun topic, but I feel it needs to be addressed.

It has come to my attention that there are affiliate programs out there on the internet that really are a scam, and there are good programs that are accused of being a scam.

And the only way to find out for sure about any programs you are interested in is good, old-fashioned research.  I know for some of you, research is a bad word – too much like school.  But research is very important so that you don’t end up with egg on your face, so to speak.

You need to go to one of the search engines and type in the name of the product you want to sell, or the name of the person promoting the product or program.  Then after it, type the word “scam” and see what comes up.

Sometimes you have to dig a little to find a real review or set of reviews, because the company will cleverly disguise themselves to look like they are legitimate reviews, but will be just another way to try to get business.

Then you will have to read the reviews carefully.  Some will be written by jealous people who don’t make the kind of money the product claims the person who came out with it makes.  Some will be written by those who think all network marketing and mlm are scams.  Others will be written by those who have had a bad experience with the company (which can happen in any company).  And some will be legitimate complaints.

I was doing research myself today, and discovered each of these examples above.  Some products really were scams, and you could tell that from the reviews.  But I was pleased to see that some products had complaints that were made by the other kinds of reviewers, and the products were, in fact, legitimate.  (You will have to be discerning while reading, and not get sucked up in their emotions.)

It is true that some companies will have a lot of hype to their advertising.  You will need to understand that, yes, maybe THEY made the kind of money they are quoting.  But that doesn’t mean YOU will.  Be happy about making a much smaller amount, but still be making a profit.  And remember, they are the gurus who write the programs or produce the products, and they will make a much bigger profit than the average affiliate.  Also, they have been in the business longer.  And they got there first – they got in when there weren’t so many little guys trying to get in on the market.

So research, research, research!  And hopefully you will find some winners that will give you the income you want and need!

For more information and training on affiliate marketing, sign up on the right today!

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