Affiliate Marketing - The Hard Truth
You
have probably gotten an email from someone who claims to know you and even
might know your first name that says they have a deal for you. Or how you just
won $100 free credit at online casino, poker site or sportsbook. All you have
to do is follow the link and play! Sounds great free money to gamble without
spending a dime. What this really is is a free membership where they can
harvest all your contact information in order to spam you with hundreds of
promos and freebies.
What you might not know is as soon as you clicked on that link an affiliate who probably sent you the initial email is getting paid a commission. Or the will try to recruit you to send out the emails and pitch the marketing campaign to others, while getting a residual commission from you and your downline. A downline is the guy under you, the guy under him, the guy under him and so on. Whatever you spend at the casino or the sportsbook a % goes to the affiliate, and whoever you sign up under you also gets a cut. Pretty harmless way to make a few bucks if you are good at promoting links and referring friends to opt into these programs. But how hard is it actually to promote a link? Think about it if you start posting your affiliate link on our Facebook page or Twitter daily your friends and followers are going to know what you are up to, they may even find it annoying.
The point is its very tough to promote anything these days via social media for that reason, because everyone is doing it. Even large corporations are using Facebook and Twitter to push their products or propaganda. Lets say that angle is a flop, nobody is opting into or clicking your link. You could try to join a forum related to your affiliate topic, jump into a popular sports book and power post that affiliate link. Not so fast, these forums have moderators and your post and account will be deleted immediately, you could even be banned from the site! You could create a website and forward your link to a capture page for the affiliate program and drive traffic to it.
How hard is it to drive traffic to a new website no one has ever heard of? Try it and see. It could take weeks or months for your site to populate with popular search sites like Google, etc. I think your seeing my point. There are already established sites like Clickbank that allow you to add your link or referral business to their searchable databases, this could work. But then you have to hope for marketing affiliates to want to promote your link or business, that’s a whole other topic.
The premise of this blog spot is to show you that being an affiliate or link marketer is not easy. Thus there is a reason why so many fail at making any money, which then stirs emotional responses such as "this is a scam", "I was duped", "I wasted time for nothing".
The news is not all bad of course, there are many making very good fortunes in this business, you just have to have a system.
A system is a predefined set of instructions that automatically create passive residual streams of income.
My favorite and the most proven system I have found on the web no doubt is the Five Minute Mogul.
You can go to the following link to get it now: CLICK HERE!
What you might not know is as soon as you clicked on that link an affiliate who probably sent you the initial email is getting paid a commission. Or the will try to recruit you to send out the emails and pitch the marketing campaign to others, while getting a residual commission from you and your downline. A downline is the guy under you, the guy under him, the guy under him and so on. Whatever you spend at the casino or the sportsbook a % goes to the affiliate, and whoever you sign up under you also gets a cut. Pretty harmless way to make a few bucks if you are good at promoting links and referring friends to opt into these programs. But how hard is it actually to promote a link? Think about it if you start posting your affiliate link on our Facebook page or Twitter daily your friends and followers are going to know what you are up to, they may even find it annoying.
The point is its very tough to promote anything these days via social media for that reason, because everyone is doing it. Even large corporations are using Facebook and Twitter to push their products or propaganda. Lets say that angle is a flop, nobody is opting into or clicking your link. You could try to join a forum related to your affiliate topic, jump into a popular sports book and power post that affiliate link. Not so fast, these forums have moderators and your post and account will be deleted immediately, you could even be banned from the site! You could create a website and forward your link to a capture page for the affiliate program and drive traffic to it.
How hard is it to drive traffic to a new website no one has ever heard of? Try it and see. It could take weeks or months for your site to populate with popular search sites like Google, etc. I think your seeing my point. There are already established sites like Clickbank that allow you to add your link or referral business to their searchable databases, this could work. But then you have to hope for marketing affiliates to want to promote your link or business, that’s a whole other topic.
The premise of this blog spot is to show you that being an affiliate or link marketer is not easy. Thus there is a reason why so many fail at making any money, which then stirs emotional responses such as "this is a scam", "I was duped", "I wasted time for nothing".
The news is not all bad of course, there are many making very good fortunes in this business, you just have to have a system.
A system is a predefined set of instructions that automatically create passive residual streams of income.
My favorite and the most proven system I have found on the web no doubt is the Five Minute Mogul.
You can go to the following link to get it now: CLICK HERE!
