Getting Started- Step 8- Rinse and Repeat

Congratulations!  These are the basic steps for success in affiliate marketing.  Once you make some money, just rinse and repeat the process.

If you’ve been following all these lessons carefully and taking action, then you should see your first money soon if you haven’t already.  Internet marketing can seem daunting at first, but it really can be broken down into less than 10 simple steps.

90% of people give up on internet marketing without trying much…they expect to make money easily and when they find out it takes work they just give up.  Remember that it takes effort to succeed in any business, online or offline.  In the words of a famous marketer, “If you’re willing to do for a year what others won’t, you can do for a lifetime what others can’t!”

Research phase:  pick a niche, select some related products to promote, and make a list of good keywords

Action phase:  make a landing page, write articles, get backlinks to your pages

Just follow these steps and remember to take action.  I guarantee that once you make your first sale that you will be pumped up!  That will give you the motivation to keep working more.  Your first goal should be to make one sale, then progress to one sale each day, then $100 a day and whatever goal you want.

And don’t get discouraged.  You may not make a sale your first week, maybe even the first month.  But just keep using these steps, and success is bound to happen eventually.  If one article doesn’t make you money, then write a few more articles.  The more articles, the better.  In the last year I have written a couple hundred articles, so don’t give up if your first 5 don’t make money.

Once an article does make money, then ramp it up and write more.  Focus on the keywords that are actually making you money.  And if you see that you have a landing page that is ranking fairly well, then ramp up the backlink building and try to get it to rank even higher.  You could even make other webpages and articles for that same keyword.

After you get your first sale, you know it is possible to succeed.  You’ve made money, so just concentrate on what worked for you and double your efforts.

I hope this short guide helped you.  I would love to hear from you after you make your first sale.  Just keep up the work, and good luck!

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There are other ways to speed up your success too.  I recommend that you start with these marketing techniques since they are all free, but AFTER you start making some money, there are some things that could help accelerate your results.

• In addition to using free webpages, you could also make your own full website or blog.  It costs a little bit of money for website hosting and a domain name, but then you have your own website.  It isn’t that hard either.
• You could outsource some work, meaning you hire someone to write articles or get backlinks for you.  There are freelance sites where you can find helpers for a decent price.
• You could buy a keyword tool to help speed up keyword research.  The two best choices are Micro Niche Finder for about $97  and Market Samurai which is close to the same price.
• After you have a successful website, you could try making your own product.  You could write your own ebook or make a video course and start to sell it.  Then you can find affiliates to help promote your product.

You could also get more specific training in whatever area you need.  If article marketing is your weak spot, then get a course on that.  If making a website is your weakness, then research that.  You could also expand into CPA marketing or Pay Per Click advertising.

The best place for any internet marketing training, in my opinion, is a site called Wealthy Affiliate.  It is a training site that has a ton of information about all the steps I’ve shown you, plus everything else I just mentioned.

It has video training, pdf guides, lots of tutorials, and a great forum where you can get personal help if you have any questions.  It also has some tools you can use too, like a simple but effective keyword research tool and a website builder.

I’ve been a member of Wealthy Affiliate for almost two years now, and I recommend it for anyone who is still struggling to make their first money online, or for people who have made a little money but really want to get some big results.

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