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I've been reading about affiliate marketing for months now and have been waiting till I knew enough to go ahead and do it with almost no initial capital. I think I'm about there but I have some nagging questions.

My problem is that I everytime I look at affiliate offers to try sell, my brain just starts alerting me saying "DONT BUY IT DONT BUY IT" because I've been trained for so long to avoid them like the plague.

So how can I expect someone else [granted its probably some random who thinks AOL is the full extent internet] to buy anything?

So far I have only really checked out one or two affiliate sites, clickbank and azoogle [which I was accepted to, which apparently is hard?].

The clickbank products were mostly ebooks [argh] and software that probably wouldn't work. Obviously a great landing page with a good copy would help increase the conversion rate but are there actually any affiliate companies that convert well with good products? Or do you just have to rely on the naivety of inexperienced web users to buy slightly shady products off you for a premium?

Another problem is that I live in the UK meaning the likes of azoogle dont really target their products there. So should I try market them I'd need to geo target the US, which im guessing wil be harder for me as Im English.

So if anyone has any advice on what kind of mind set you have to be in, along with maybe a good company to start to use that'd be great.

Anyway, feel free to help if you can, or kick me in the ass. [Felt I had to chuck in some filth :P]
 


So you wouldn't buy a book from Amazon?

A DVD from Blockbuster?

A ringtone from Verizon?

There are plenty of "good" products that have affiliate programs.
 
Hmmm.
I never actually thought about doing that.
I always thought there would either be too much competition for something like that or that it wouldn't be worth it.

Man I need to loosen up my brain!
 
Think about this...

People like you and I are not the "average" internet user. We work behind the scenes. We know how things work.

Before you ever learned about affiliate marketing, internet advertising, etc.... did you ever really care about what an affiliate link looked like, or even knew what an affiliate link was? The answer is probably "no".

And that's why affiliate programs work. Most people don't even know that they're clicking on an affiliate link. They just see some nice, flashing banner or enticing text link and want to click it.

Most internet users are clueless. Which is why we make money.

So stop thinking so hard and just focus on promoting your links.
 
LOL

Great advice, I suppose I have to start thinking more like my mum.
Cheers dude, might be worth observing some normal folk surfing.

Does anyone actually do that? Observe normal people surfing to better tune their landing pages / offers etc?
 
MyOwnDemon said:
And that's why affiliate programs work. Most people don't even know that they're clicking on an affiliate link. They just see some nice, flashing banner or enticing text link and want to click it.

Most internet users are clueless. Which is why we make money.
Click to expand...

And on that note, maybe it should be kept a secret, before everyone figures it out... Maybe newbies should be offed? Not including myself, of course...
 
Maybe Phre0nBurn

Except Im pretty sure that for every Affiliate Marketer who "comes of age" there are probably 20 other people buying PCs with a hundred "G" "B"s or something...is that how fast it goes?
 
Once upon a time I used to think the average internet user was quiet smart, I mean there are well over 100 million internet users now and their are 9 billion people on the earth and china is the next major increase in internet users, anyway I figured hey most people know what Google is, what Adsense is, what a link is.

Guess what.....I was the dumb one for thinking that the average internet user knew any of these things.

You know what the average internet user knows, they know that if they use piczo they can create a website by dragging images here and their, they know they can store information, they know they can search for information, but other then that their clueless.

If you don't believe me then you've never seen an average internet user in play, my mom for instance or my dad are average users, they know how to get to Google and do a search, they don't know what certain links mean or do, they only know it brings them to another resource.

The moral of the story is you need to stop thinking about things like this and get down to work, from their you test your work and if your tests fail you tweak or move onto something else until you find something that works, simple as that.
 
Rob_TID said:
So you wouldn't buy a book from Amazon?

A DVD from Blockbuster?

A ringtone from Verizon?

There are plenty of "good" products that have affiliate programs.
Click to expand...

That's my main problem with being an affiliate: thinking with joe public's brain..

I can buy that same amazon book 1/5 of the price from Ebay

I can get any DVD for free from the net and don't even bother to do that

I make my own ringtones

about clickbank, my experience is:

1) if you know how to search the net, you can get any of those products for free.
2) Joe public doesn't know how to search the web so they simply get a refund. Or perhaps it is just what I pick that get refunds but I tried loads.It is 1 every 2 or 3 sales.
3)Clickbank pay by cheque, and one in 3 cheques gets lost. A reissue cheque cost $20.
4)Explaining to the morons that you never got your cheque is kind of difficult, they do speak english but they might as well be aliens.
5) when/if you do get the damn cheque, your bank will charge you to exchange the currency into UK money, for me it's $8.

haven't even tried Amazon as they pay by cheque too.
 
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