subject: Guide To Fixing A Failing Affiliate Marketing Business [print this page] So you want to be the next Internet millionaire, huh? You saw all those guys online bragging about how much money they make and telling you how easy it is so you jumped in and bought their shortcut program. But that one didn't work like they said so you jumped to the next guy who said the other guy was lying but he had the answers to all your problems. But that one didn't work either did it? Do you see the pattern? The problem is that those guys are making money, a whole lot of money by selling you on the dream that there are shortcuts to making money online. So where do you go now? Your affiliate marketing business is going nowhere and you don't know where to turn. Well read this article and let's see if we can't get your failing affiliate business back on track.
Now the first thing you need to understand and believe forever and ever is that there are no shortcuts to making money online. Sure, there are things that will be easier than others, and there are tricks to simplifying certain tasks, but there are no products on the market today that will do everything for you. Do you know why? Its because there is no replacement for a lot of knowledge and a little hard work. So if you think you are ever going to buy a product that will do everything to make you money with no effort on your part, you are dreaming.
Affiliate marketing is a simple business to start but a difficult one to make a "real" business. So, take a step back and look at what you have done with your business so far. Is it set up properly to grow with you as your knowledge of the business grows or does it limit you? Is it set up so you can duplicate successful patterns to maximize your income or are you even aware of what is making it successful? Do you have every step planned out from start to finish? Do you track every move?
If you don't have a business that can grow with you, you will only end up starting over again and again. Don't be limited by things that take up too much of your time or resources. The goal is to set it up once and make money from that set up, not to have to continually be searching for customers.
When and if you ever do something that makes money, you need to be able to duplicate that process easily. If you can't, how will you continue to grow your income? If you have ever heard the term used in Internet marketing, "rinse and repeat", you know that it is referring to the process of duplicating a successful process with another product. Rinse the product out and repeat it again with a new product. It should get you the same results if it was truly a good process.
Now, how about your business plan? Did you take the time to structure a plan for your business or are you just flying by the seat of your pants? The latter is not recommended but it is most common by those of us who do not know better. While it is not a critical element of making money online, you have no way of determining whether you are achieving you goals and objectives other than the amount of money you seem to be making. A well thought out and executed business plan will not only keep you focused on tasks that need to be done but will also help you to treat your venture more like a business than a hobby.
While your business plan is not a critical element of making money with your affiliate marketing business, tracking is. You need to know, without a doubt, which things are working and which is not. The only way to determine that is by tracking. If you don't know how to set up tracking, you need to learn how quickly.
So why is your Affiliate marketing business failing? Hell, I don't know. There are any number of reasons why it could be. That is kind of the problem, many of the so called "gurus" are setting you up to fail. Their products usually give you only part of the equation but somehow they keep you coming back for more. The dream of becoming the next Internet superstar is within your grasp, or so they say. What is say is STOP! Stop listening to the lies. Stop dreaming that something productive is going to happen today. Stop hoping that someone will buy something from your weak website or advertisement. Stop hoping something will happen and start making it happen.
You are in control of your own destiny. Affiliate marketing is the easiest way a person can make money on the Internet. But as I have shown, if you don't know what you are doing or don't have the right business plan set up or are jumping from one guru product to the next, you are doomed for failure.
by: JB Young
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