Wealthy Affiliate Academy

Affiliate marketing is one of the toughest way to make money online, also one of the most rewarding. Most affiliates FAIL in their quest to make money with affiliate marketing simply because they are doing it wrong. What do I mean by doing it wrong?

Let’s define the word Affiliate Marketing back..

Affiliate means partnership. This is a very simple term, you partner up with me to sell my product, and I give you commission based on your sale performance.

In definition, marketing is:

Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large.

When it comes to marketing, most affiliates tend to take the shortcut and focus less on the required work to be done. Some affiliates who take the shortcut would build multiple money sites with scraped content all over their site and dropping affiliate links everywhere. This is just the easiest way to get people click your affiliate links and HOPEFULLY buy that product.

Well, it works for some people a long time ago…but these type of sites are getting penalized by google because lack of quality and website administration. That means that, no one is taking care of that website anymore..in other words, no one is there to update the site with fresh and new content.

Putting up a lot of articles on your website does make your site looks bigger, and potentially get a lot of traffic. But traffic alone is not the key to make money with affiliate marketing. You might get people to click on your affiliate link, but they might not buy it.

So what is the answer to this problem?

Relevance

In Wealthy Affiliate, we are always taught to FOCUS on RELEVANCE. Make sure every article you write is targeted to a specific audience, and provide a solution. Show that you understand their problem and you can help them solve it.

That is how you should make money with affiliate marketing.

The second point that most affiliate marketers fail is they lack FOCUS.

If you are online most of your day, you will find lots of offers across the web and you will be eager to join each and every program there is. This makes you stray away from your MAIN GOAL.

How to get more focused?

It is very important to be exceptionally focused when you are in business. Business is not for lazy people..and I know there are a lot of people who claims that they are making money online while relaxing on the beach and all that BS…but trust me, building a business is VERY HARD..harder than working for a job. If you don’t have a huge purpose or motivated enough, I bet you won’t be doing this next year.

First of all, you MUST know what you are doing. How do you know what you are doing is right?

The simple answer to this is to get a coach. One of the best coaching for internet marketing is Kyle & Carson from Wealthy Affiliate. I’m not here just to tell every good stuff about WA, but the truth is, if you don’t have someone with a proven formula to show you the way, you might be wasting your time…maybe months or years of your effort to make money online.

This coaching can be accessed if you are a Wealthy Affiliate Member, plus you are eligible to attend the Wealthy Affiliate Clubs, the WA Clubs is perfect for beginners and advanced marketers as it helps you to focus your time on the most important things to do as a marketer.

You will get daily tasks to your inbox, and there will be forum supports for each task so that you won’t get lost.

The way we learn at WA is not by reading or watching a video, we learn as we do it. Of course our work is not perfect…who the hell is anyway? We learn by making mistakes. If you are afraid of making mistakes, that means you are afraid of success. To me, success is a line of failures.

I FAIL every day…trust me.

But the worst people who fail is the person who never learn from their mistakes.

Establishing an internet business is NOT a quick fix to your financial problem. Although it does require less capital to start an internet business, but you still need the motivation and dedication to run your business to make it profitable. So that is pretty much it for today…

Stay Relevant…Stay Focused..

Please leave a comment below..I’m interested to know what you think about “FOCUS” in internet marketing. Don’t forget to share this post if you like it. =)

Cheers

K.A