The Biggest Mistake of a Fresh Faced Affiliate Marketer and How to Avoid It
By Jamie Holt
I'm not here to look down on you if you are just getting started as an affiliate and if I am completely honest I would have made this exact same mistake if I had not found a mentor that would show me the reason why it is the biggest mistake to make when you start out on your affiliate marketing journey to success and financial freedom.
It seems like the obvious path to take, promoting to the make money online niche, it is such a vast market and is not only evergreen but it also contains a plethora of niches and sub-niches for your attention.
But the real issue comes from those people who you are to be promoting to, unless you have made money online, how can you show people how to do what you have not yet done yourself?
It's a stupid thing to do, but all so easy to fall into the trap. For a starting point you realise that you are the target market in this niche so you know exactly what the target market is looking for and you think you can cater to the needs of that market, when really there is much more to this market than is on the surface, things like social proof and credibility come into the sales process and if you are unknown you have very little chance of establishing credibility in the first place in order to encourage people to trust you and purchase products on your recommendation.
And then you have the added struggle of finding traffic in a market that is jam packed with experts who know how to generate traffic in such a saturated marketplace, not only do you have to find sources for the traffic, but you have to compete with people who have been doing this for years already. My tip here is to target real niche markets, ones that are not so saturated, niches that you can target with less competition and therefore drive traffic easier, I have found that the tighter you are in your targeting, the more chance you have of gaining exposure to your platform for promotion.
If you can put your focus into a smaller niche, you will soon come to realise that it is much easier to get positive results and you can feel more comfortable putting your content out there for the market and receiving traffic.
Jamie Holt is a full time internet marketer and entrepreneur, and author of the 25 page how to guide for internet marketing -
Affiliate Xtreme, You can find it for free at: http://www.reviewtime.info
And don't forget to check out his daily drop guidance tips over at: http://www.affiliatextreme101.com
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