Guru's are constantly requesting your name and email address to provide the latest affiliate marketing course or the latest affiliate marketing blueprint that will earning you $5000 each month or more working their plan online.
Understanding basic affiliate marketing is needed to make any program productive, and if you do not understand the basics no guru affiliate marketing plan is going to get the job done. All that the guru is going to do is make you part ways from your hard earned cash.
Basic Internet Marketing Fundamentalsinclude the following:
First you have to have and auto-responder in order to build your email list to mail to.
Second, once you get your auto-responder you have to a acquire good landing pages of lead capture pages that is targeted to your particular niche.
Third, you must understand how to upload files to your server, where you can upload squeeze pages and landing pages to your Domains using FileZilla or cPanel. You must be able to upload files in order that you can have multiple capture and landing pages for split testing.
Once you understand these basic fundamentals, the next step is to google for "free traffic" sources and start driving free traffic to your websites.
Do not waste a lot of time and effort with clicking for free traffic ... I have found that free programs at Traffic exchanges, traffic swarm, TE Toolbox, and others provide untargeted traffic and free clicks of 70,000 to 80,000 clicks will often result in no sign-ups, nada for programs, income or email capture sign-ups because this free traffic is not targeted or sent by search engines
The only affiliate marketing activity that I have found moderately productive is Article Marketing. The biggest problem with Article Marketing is that it takes a whole lot of time to write articles, and I have written and revised affiliate marketing articles eight (8) to 16 times or more before they are accepted for publication
Get Started by going to http://homebusiness.aboutdotcom to get a basic understanding of Article Marketing. After you understand what article marketing is prepare an article in the niche you have selected and submit it. A good Article Directory to submit your first article to is ArticlealleyDotcom. Go to the site and register, then read everything you can about the submission process, like the maximum and minimum of words or characters allowed, whether links are allowed the body or bio box. After you have a basic understanding of their rules, then submit your article.
Other Directories that you may want to submit to are in no specific order are: Go articlesdotcom, ArticlesDotcom. articlerampdotcom, 365 articlesdotcom. articlealleydotcom and you can google it to find more directories.
Keep in mind that your affiliate marketing message should reflect the products or programs or services offered in your landing pages and caputure pages.
