Affiliate marketing is often portrayed as “just share your link”.
Technically that is true, BUT in the background of affiliate marketing there is a LOT MORE that happens to generate sales.
Today I want to explain some of the processes behind making affiliate marketing sales. To help me explain how it works I want to take a moment to tell you what MOST beginner affiliates try to do.
Understanding Beginner Affiliate Problems
Imagine you are walking down the street on your way to an important appointment and you are running late. The only thing on your mind is how you are going to reach your desination on time. You are hurrying along when someone you do not know tries to stop you and sell you something. You don’t even know what it is they are trying to sell you.
Would you even stop to listen to what they have to say?
Chances are the answer is no….. yet THAT is what most new affiliates try to do.
THAT is why most new affiliates struggle to make sales.
They basically try to do it at completely the wrong time (and then wonder why it is so hard for them but others make it look easy).
The person walking down the street is the equivilent to someone using a traffic site.
They have just 1 thing on their mind:
Getting to their destination as quickly as possible = Earning enough ad credits to promote their offer.
When you use a traffic site to promote an affiliate offer you are trying to stop that person from doing what they are there to do.
You are trying to make YOUR goal more important than theirs.
It doesn’t work and all you are doing is wasting your ad credits by trying to work this way.
Do you understand a bit more now why affiliate marketing is hard for beginners?
How To Overcome This Issue
ALL experienced affiliate marketers who are making regular sales understand what I have explained above.
They DO NOT attempt to make an affiliate sale to someone who is busy doing something else like earning ad credits.
What they do instead is use the few seconds when someone who is surfing ads MIGHT see their ad to gain a little attention.
Experienced affiliate marketers use those few seconds to try and get someone to give them their contact details. Doing this allows the experienced marketer to contact that person when they are MUCH more likely to pay attention to what they are saying.
This is like chatting to the person on the street when they are looking in a shop window deciding what they want to buy. You get to say things like “I bought that one and I really like it”.
Do you think that person would now be interested in chatting to you about that product?
THAT is why experienced affiliates build an email list.
They get to chat to people at the RIGHT time when someone wants to hear what they have to say.
If you want to work as an affiliate then you need to avoid the beginner issues that cause so much frustration and take a little time to learn about list building. It is really not as difficult as you might think…..
THAT is why I recommend anyone who wants to learn about affiliate marketing (or any kind of marketing) joins Leadsleap. It provides the tools required to start following that same process and greatly increases your chance of success as a marketer. Many of the tools on Leadsleap are free to use as well.
Over the next few days I will begin to explain more about Leadsleap and how to use it effectively to make affiliate sales.
I will be explaining a lot more about how affiliate marketing works AND I will be giving specific examples of what I do and what I say etc.
I will provide everything you need to literally copy an affiliate marketing campaign step by step.
You can also get one to one assistance to help you set everything up in my forum.
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