Feb
18th

Affiliate Marketing Is Not Easy

Files under affiliate marketing | Posted by Clint Lenard

I know there’s a ton of Affiliate Marketing information out on the web, but I’m tired of the crap being sold, lately.

Look… Affiliate Marketing is NOT easy to learn if you’re looking to become really successful. BUT… don’t let that stop you from learning, if that’s what you’re looking to do. YOU CAN make money in this business, and if you’re persistent, you WILL make money.

There’s a lot of information, though, and you don’t want to become stuck in a rut due to information overload. I’ve been there, I still am in some areas of “the web”. I am very familiar with so many subjects of Internet Marketing, but there’s new junk hitting my inbox each and every day with claims that ’such and such is dead’, or ‘this is the newest way to get MASSIVE TRAFFIC to your site’. Yeah, that might work for some people - but not for me…

If you want to really get going in this business, do yourself a favor and take your name and email off of the list of all of those gurus who don’t teach you anything new for free. If you get an email with the subject line of “newest ___” or “massive traffic” or “____ is dead”, unsubscribe! They’re only worried about asking you to open your wallet for their own good…

Think about the “Gurus” in this way…

Have you ever seen one of those guys/girls/kids that always ask for something, yet never want to WORK for it? They’re constantly EXPECTING you to do something for THEM, but they never want to do sh*t for you!?

That’s them… that’s the Internet Marketing guys who send you all of that junk. Are they sending you any FREE tutorials? No, I’m not talking about Video Sales pitches or Ebooks trying to get you to optin to yet ANOTHER list… I’m talking about REAL TUTORIALS, free of Affiliate links. They don’t care about you… they’re the Veteran Car Salesman who do not think of you as a person, they think of you as another Sheep!

If they provide you with nothing, get off of their list… they’re going to drive your mind crazy with their latest marketing hypes. The fact is - they’re not doing ANYTHING to change your life, besides making your bank account get slimmer. If you can’t trust them, dump them.

I don’t push the fact that you can join my Email list, but I enjoy the great feedback I get from people who find the free downloads to be useful and helpful. I try to make sure I don’t give out too much information at once, but I can’t always help that as everyone learns at their own pace and some have more thought process than others.

This business is not EASY to make a living, but it’s not hard to make money.

Learn the basics. Don’t get caught up with any intermediate or advanced subjects before you fully understand what the basics are about.

I am still working on several “reports” or “ebooks” for my List, but they won’t be available for the next few days. The first will be basic information, but I’ll slowly build upon that first ebook. I promise.

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One Response to “Affiliate Marketing Is Not Easy”

  1. By Betty on Feb 27, 2008 | Reply

    I am just getting starting with affilliate junction,and
    google adsense.
    My main concern is that I don’t know the best way’s to
    drive traffic to my cj site.
    I need to make good the first time out and continue.
    I don’t have a lot of advertising dollar’s.
    I read your article and appreciate your honesty.
    Please email me with any help you can tell me of.
    Thank You.
    Betty Lay

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