I was very honoured to be asked by Norb at Niche Choppers for an interview as I have been recognised as “Affiliate of the Moment”!
This may sound silly, but I was genuinely chuffed to be asked. Norb has been intrumental in me making a success of Affiliate Marketing and the majority of the money I have made this year has been from promoting his products. For him to feel that I am doing a good job means a lot to me, don’t forget he can see how many hops I send and how well I convert, he knows if I am doing well or not in relation to others.
Norb sent me a list of questions, including my Top 5 NOTs for Newbies and my Top 5 things for Newbies to follow. The full interview is here but I thought the Top 5s would be useful to quote here.
Q: If you could give newbies five tips on what NOT to do – what would they be?
1) Do NOT start with PPC until you make some organic sales, you need to know that the products will convert before throwing money away.
2) Do NOT expect an easy ride to riches, whatever the Gurus say, making consistent money online takes a lot of time and effort.
3) Do NOT spend too much time reading and not actually taking action. There is a fine line between research and procrastination.
4) Do NOT worry if ezinearticles reject one of your articles and then you don’t get Platinum Status!
5) Do NOT buy domains when you are drunk, you will convince yourself it is great and then in the cold light of day when you check out the competition or the keyword searches it might not so good! My best one has to be when I bought accomod8.com about 10 years ago (thought it was great then realised I was missing a “m”, doh!)
Q: And now the five most important parts of your ‘make money’ ventures that newbies should follow.
1) Pick a high paying niche to start with like Forex, the time, effort and PPC costs will be more worth it than busting a gut for $10-$20 commission.
2) Buy your own domains and hosting, more flexibility, more credibility and more control than free sites. I also use squidoo, blogger, wordpress, synthasite as they rank well in Google results. I find it a good combination.
3) Pre-sell, I don’t think I have ever made a sale by direct linking to a product page, that is not to say that the sales pages are no good, but if you can give an independant view on something and explain benefits I have found it helps.
4) Focus, this is still something I am struggling with, especially with Norb releasing so many good products at the moment. Try and focus on one campaign or product at a time, even if it is for a day or a week. I find myself all over the place and have to reign myself in.
5) Choose products from Publishers who help you (like Norb) and I mean by providing great quality graphics, landing pages, email campaigns, videos. These help soo much with the pre-sell. I cannot believe how bad some publishers are at assisting their affiliates, especially as most give you less % per sale than Norb. They don’t seem to get it, an affiliate sale is one that they probably wouldn’t have had otherwise, so give us a better share and more assistance.
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