The Biggest Mistakes I Have Made in Affiliate Marketing

Well shared. I share the same sentiments.
Biggest mistake: In my earnest to get started, I am often distracted by the swarming of "new techniques" and often it diverted my focus.

Atleast you have now found a system that you are happy with.

All the best

Yeah I was in the same boat, always buying the "new" product in the search of the magic bullet

@richgrad..please explain to this newbie, what list? the newsletter list?

thanks.

Lisa this is very true and happens to many newbies.

SilentX,

Thanks for suggesting this.

I will take time to write about my PPC mistakes in a new thread.

Look out for it,
cheers,
zenji

Here is a list of my mistakes:

• not taking action after learning something new
• not being consistent
• not starting outsourcing earlier
• not treating my sites like a real business

My mistake is to have to much information (scripts, ebooks, blog...) and can not decide where to start.
Still couldn't find out what is the right way for me.

But time will show me my way....

I've made all of these except for the first one. I have never concentraited on more then 2 sites at a time.

I would also like to add, spending too much time questioning myself. If I'm making progress I should just keep at it instead of woundering if what I'm doing is really going to keep working in the long term. I worried about more competition, Google Penalties, etc. Instead I should just keep at it because it is working now.

That's the way to think about it. You'll never fail at anything, but you will pay for education with either time or money at some points.

I'd suggest that the above post ought to be re-read. The more details you're involved in, the more likely you'll get bogged down in them and have your energy drained by them.

Like can you imagine a millionaire internet business person registering at sites to get profile links? It's so cheap to get technical stuff done by others and puts speed, power and momentum into your hands to actually develop your business. One good site I've used for backlinks is fivrr.com, where everything costs $5.

In other words, get some altitude above your business. Everything looks so much clearer and its like managing a process instead of getting overwhelmed IN one.

Good luck all!

I think setting AdWords limits too high is a serious reason for failure from the outset. From what I've learned so far, you don't need to set your PPC limits high in order to receive more clicks!

I think the art of most PPC affiliate campaigns is to create as many diverse ads and keywords as possible for the offer your promoting. This gives a good picture of what's working and what's not, from there you start to fine tune the campaign and concentrate on your most yielding.

Am I right?

My biggest mistakes:

1. Working on too many sites at the same time. Most of them end up half-finished.

Solution: To work on them in a more organized way, implement Getting Things Done techniques (contexts, next actions). Use project management and time management tools to put things in order. Also hired an extra hand who does the repetitive tasks, giving me more time working "on the business"

2. Stopping work on some affiliate sites at the peak of their success. The pressure of having to deliver new content on a regular basis, push new products and keeping up with the latest trend can take a toll on your time and energy.

Lesson and solution: Learn to deliver under pressure. Don't just leave the kitchen because it's hot. Also use tools that aggregate and route information into "containers" so you don't feel overwhelmed by information overload.

3. Not building a list early. Relied too much on RSS subscribers, not being able to followup on site visitors via newsletters.

Solution: Started to build email lists with MailChimp. Subscribed to popular and successful newsletters to observe how they do it.

4. Too many tools and too many resources.

Solution: Just stick to a few that actually get the job done and become a master at them. Learn to balance time spent on learning and time spent on actually doing what you learn.

What i think is that the failure to have a proper plan and to have the commitment and discipline to push through the plan is certainly very important. Most of us who first started affiliate marketing will have still been new to it and hold a full time day job. The discipline to be able to commit a fix number of hours per day to take action on internet marketing is the most difficult. Also, not following the right mentor and sticking to what you learn from one person.

My biggest mistakes were having too many things on the go too early. No clear plan. I mastered none and became just average in all.