Successful Affiliate Marketers

My advice: research.

Your post here is likely to attract approximately 378 private messages. And not your typical private messages, either. The eager, throw money at me, look at these bogus stats, ignore that chap, look at this, amazing, huh? type of private messages. In short: the kind you should avoid with as much zeal as yours truly avoids household chores and episodes of Devious Maids. Avoid, then.

Whenever someone comes looking for a mentor or coach, since the two are very different, they tend to make a common mistake. Which is: the potential student is unaware of the direction they'd like to take. You, on the other hand, know you'd like to learn affiliate marketing. This is good for a number of reasons, but one very pertinent one is this: no coach is a master of everything. We have our specialisms. I, for instance, am likely the most adept person on Warrior Forum when it comes to finger-dancing in my office to AC/ DC. It took many decades to not only acquire the knowledge but to make that knowledge my own. And this, in a decidedly less than succinct nutshell, is what you need to consider when looking for a coach. Does he or she appear to have a mastery in the given subject? Be it finger-dancing or affiliate marketing or anything else.

What I suggest:

1. Take stock of the recommendations that follow.
2. Ignore all unsolicited private messages from mentors or coaches.
3. Read affiliate marketing topics on Warrior Forum.
4. Make note of the WF authority figures in affiliate marketing.
5. Discover if they coach.
6. Examine their websites, their testimonials.
7. Compare program features and pricing.
8. Take a while to get a feel for them by reading their posts.
9. Contact "them" for a chat.
10. Are they eager to accept you?
11. Or are they choosy about who they accept?
12. You want number #11.

Warrior Forum is, in many ways, an ongoing resume of sorts. Every post we lay down speaks volumes about us, and the posts in their entirety form that resume.

Hold onto your money, is my suggestion, and research. Consider, also, if you even need a coach. There are pros and cons to having one. You might prefer the DIY, go it alone approach, or you might flourish as a marketer with the aid of instruction.

Cheers! - Tom

You can follow Pat Flynn from Smart Passive Income

Rosalind Gardner has been successfully affiliate marketing for some time and has some titles available on Amazon as well as the blog I linked to.

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No matter what path you take, make sure to learn to build an email list, so you can follow up with potential prospects, as very few will convert the first time they see your offer. Also, by building a list, your building an asset that you can later generate traffic at a very low cost for other offers.

I actual do things a bit different then most here. I acquire data(email) that's targeted...I know what the person was interested in and that a (PPL: pay per lead) offer exists that matches what they were interested in. I also generate co-reg data based on the same principle.

With leads, there's nothing to buy(no credit card required). All the user has to do is fill out a form for me to make make money VS having to make a sale. So conversion rates are typically much higher. There's decent leads that exist that pay $20-$60 that work well on a front-end campaign, so in many cases, I'm making as much if I had made a sale.

When I acquire data, all I care about is breaking-even on the cost. Not making a profit once I get to break-even is slim to none, because I now have an asset that is fully paid for that I can continue to market to(generate traffic) for very little cost and obviously promote additional offers to as well.

This is what I have been doing for 15 years because it works. However, there is far more involved than what I wrote, which is just a very basic outline. Just something to think about.

Thanks all for the helpful replies.

mmmmmm isaktheim really? Anyway, how does this answer my question about successful affiliate marketers exactly?

Neil Patel, he is the greatest marketer ever. Go to his personal blog and subscribed to one of his products.

I would recommend Anik Signal and Mark Ling to my friend s and family. These are the guys who have mastered the art of teaching Internet marketing and do 1 on 1 coaching as well. Most of all both are millionaires from being successful in that area.

This pm made me smile

"So if this is something that interest you please let me know. I only ask for a few hundred investment upfront and thats it. Hope you see the value in what I am offering but either way its great to make a new friend here on the forum. Look forward to your reply my friend."

I'm not saying that he's not genuine but it does raise a red flag when someone says they have some valuable info to offer makes contact privately.

I will recommend you these webinars from Anik Singar:

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