Martin Lee Affiliate Marketing

Only a small percentage of people who try out affiliate marketing actually make money. Even a smaller percentage make a decent amount of money.

These could be due to many reasons:

• Information overload
• Lack of action or focus
• Difficulty with the technical aspect
• Not having enough desire to succeed

The Black Ink Project

In business terms, everyone knows that red ink means losing money. Black ink, on the other hand, means that the company is profitable.

The Blank Ink Project is the brainchild of a very successful affiliate marketer, Jeremy Palmer.

It is a course which will help you get over some of your affiliate makerting difficulties. It will help you to:

• Set realistic goals, based on your budget and time.
• Develop and launch a campaign from start to finish. At the end of the course, you’ll have a complete action plan and checklist you can use for future sites.
• Research prospective opportunities and find the right niche. Learn out how to avoid potential pitfalls.
• Learn some of the software, scripts and tools that will help you create and manage your affiliate site.

Jeremy is offering admission to the Black Ink Project for free. However, it is only available to 1000 participants.

Click here to register for the Black Ink Project.

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In this post, I’m going to share with you some of my past (and unfortunate) experiences in promoting other people’s product. These are some of the silly things that has happened to me. Watch out for these pitfalls and don’t let it happen to you!

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As promised in my previous article on your task as an affiliate marketer, today I’ll talk about what are the criteria you should consider when you go about selecting an affiliate program.

Depending on your strategy for promoting the program, the criteria might be slightly different. Let us first look at the common ones.

Niche - You select a program based on the niche you are in. It has to be at least fairly related to your niche. For example, if you promote an investment product on a dating website, your conversion will be very poor.

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As an affiliate marketer, your task is mainly to do two things: traffic generation and preselling. Generate tons of traffic to the website of the affiliate program that you are promoting, presell the traffic (if possible) to get a higher conversion, and let the merchant do the rest.

Traffic generation is going to form a big part of your work and with 101 ways of getting traffic, you are probably going to have to focus on a few main ways that suits you best. Develop competency in that few ways and use the other methods as a reinforcement.

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When you decide to use affiliate marketing as your revenue model, more often than not, you have to acquire knowledge in many areas. There are two major pitfalls that you have to avoid if you want to become a successful affiliate marketer.

The first pitfall is in becoming an information junkie. By this, I mean a person who spends all his time reading about the latest strategies or tactics. This person is subscribed to many newsletter by various internet marketing gurus and spends a lot of time “checking out” the latest product launches, etc.

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Affiliate marketing is really about two things. The first thing is traffic generation. I will not be discussing about traffic generation techniques in this article as I will be covering them elsewhere. Instead, I will talk about the second thing which is the system that you use to send visitors to the merchant’s website. There are three approaches to doing it.

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Depending on how a merchant structures his affiliate program, the compensation model could vary.

The two most common models are the pay-per-sale (PPS) and the pay-per-lead (PPL) model. Let’s look at the different methods in more details.

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