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Affiliate or associate marketing is frequently a difficult business. There is much more to learn than most of us anticipated when we first started. And the learning curve can be so steep that many simply give up.
The most frequent difficulty among failed or failing affiliate marketing enterprises is buying magical, secret plans and not putting them into action to see if they actually work. Some are no more than buyers; they don’t even read the books or watch the videos they buy. I hope that you are among those who will stay committed over the long haul, consistently improving your knowledge base and actually applying what you learn by taking action. If not, please just stop reading, because you’ll simply waste money, and your business will fail, regardless.
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 only your blogs but the blogs of many other businesses. The system is called MyArticleNetwork. I have described the way it works elsewhere (see that link). Here, I am going to describe one way that it can be used creatively by an affiliate marketer.
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. With this new system, you can put up to three links directly into the article itself. Contextual links are much more effective. Furthermore, the top article directories (those with the most traffic, which are most likely to show up in the search engine directories) will not allow you to place a direct affiliate link into even the resource box. With this system, affiliate links are permitted. You can check it out for yourself by visiting this remarkable article marketing system 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 as an affiliate manager. This is a completely revamped reissue of Anik Singal’s famous AffiliateClassroom. 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.
As I write this, the product has not yet launched, so all you can do is sign up on the squeeze page to be continually updated. Depending upon when you read this article, it is possible that it will have already sold out. Check to see if they have established a waiting list. If so, sign up and hope that a space for you opens.
By the way, both have affiliate programs, however you must sign up before you get access to the affiliate programs.