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submitted: Oct 22nd 2008 | by: CharlesMcDuffie | Total views: 1 | Word Count: 579 | |

It's not just beginners who're prone to making mistakes in affiliate marketing; the experienced souls, too, sometimes fall prey to their wrong decisions and ruin their progress.

Mistake #1: Arranging Someone Else's List

Sending clients directly to your website without recording their information, is exactly what you're doing in creating someone else's list at your own expense.

You must have a squeeze page that records the names and e-mail addresses of each and every client who visits your website. This method builds you an invaluable opt-in list of individuals, that you can approach again and again to sell other products and/or services you may have in the future. The gold is in the list.

Mistake #2: Not Keeping In Touch With Your Prospects.

How can you let go of people who purchased something from you? You MUST follow up with your contacts. After all, you've spent your precious time and put in effort in finding quality clients for your affiliate marketing site. You can't let that be the end of it.

A few smart ideas to follow up are posting newsletters, articles, free reports, or valuable and updated information on products to your prospects. But, remember, there's a difference between stalking your prospect and keeping in touch with them!

Mistake #3: Being Too Aggressive With Your Prospects.

Despite having a fabulous website and/or products, you must realize that most people usually don't purchase something the first time around, for a variety of reasons such as: they don't have the money, or they may feel that your product/service doesn't meet their needs, or maybe because it's just not the right time in their lives. Remember, in real estate the phrase is: location, location and location. With affiliate marketing it's: timing, timing and timing.

Patience is the key to building up a good clientele of loyal customers. Let the customer decide for himself/herself if your product or service is what the person needs or wants. If the person has any questions or problems with your product or service, they'll tell you. The last thing you want to do, is to be pushy by making the buying decision for them. Obviously you may feel that what you have to offer is exactly what that person needs, but let the person decide that for himself, don't you make that decision for him.

Mistake #4: Posting Multiple Offers In One Mailing.

Are you teaching your prospects multi-tasking? When they've asked for information about your products, it's required that you send them ONLY the required information. Clubbing multiple facts together may confuse your client, and (s)he may drop the idea of associating with you altogether.

Mistake #5: Marketing Several Affiliate Programs At The Same Time.

If there's one thing I've learned about affiliate programs it's this. No matter what program you join, you're going to have to spend time, money and effort to build. If you jump from one program to another without giving your current program time to develop, you'll never achieve true wealth. It also shows that you can't make up your own mind in regards to what program you join. All affiliate programs require you to put some effort into it before you can get anything out of it, and if you don't give it the time to develop, and you don't have the patience to stay with it, you're setting a bad example to both you and your customers.

Don't panic if you've committed any one (or more) of these mistakes. They can be corrected, and it's not as hard as you might think.

About the Author

C. McDuffie has been in the Internet/Affiliate Marketing Industry for over a decade, and has worked withnumerous mail order, multi-level marketing and affiliate companies both on and offline. To learn more about the "One and Only" Internet Money Making System Of It's Kind, that can help you avoid the 5 Deadly Mistakes In Affiliate Marketing, click here.

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