Professional affiliate VS Amateur affiliate

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Here is a great tip if you are an affiliate marketer.......

If you send your traffic straight to an affiliate offer, this means you
are an AMATEUR affiliate. Amateur affiliates rarely get conversions
and sales.

If you want to be a PROFESSIONAL affiliate and get a lot of conversions
and sales, you need to do the opposite of what amateurs do.

Here are 3 things professionals do when it comes to affiliate marketing:

1. They send traffic to their own custom opt in page.

2. Once a prospect opts in, they are sent to an thank you page
created by that marketer that they just opted into.

3. They follow up and give their subscribers VALUE.

Traffic is useless until you do what professional marketers/affiliates
do.
#affiliate #amateur #professional
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  • Profile picture of the author Naheed
    @Talfighel,
    You made an amazing comparison between a professional and an amateur affiliate. Along with the comparison you provided super tips regarding marketing. These are useful even for a beginner.
    True, a business will flourish when what is promised is what is delivered. This is a key formula to win the customers' trust in any online marketplace and build long term relationships.

    Regards
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  • Profile picture of the author extrememan
    Sound tips by friend. I do all these things and then some. Professional marketers do what amateurs will not. I think serving instead of selling, selling, & selling all the time.
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  • Profile picture of the author football sport
    hey talfighel
    tnx for this usefull topic. its a while im doing affiliate on web but i dont know what wrong. as you did refer, i make value for users but they dont even open the product.
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    • Originally Posted by football sport View Post

      hey talfighel
      tnx for this usefull topic. its a while im doing affiliate on web but i dont know what wrong. as you did refer, i make value for users but they dont even open the product.
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      You think you are giving value, but you are not.

      The difference between most amateur affiliates and professional affiliates, is the pros are better at manipulating and misleading people for their own gains.

      Pretty much spot on.
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      • Profile picture of the author Jonathan 2.0
        Originally Posted by Declan O Flaherty View Post

        The difference between most amateur affiliates and professional affiliates, is the pros are better at manipulating and misleading people for their own gains.
        Declan: I respect your opinion and actually don't like the "scamsters" (lets call them) either ... However lumping everyone into one box and saying that all "Pro Affiliates" are just out to scam People and make money isn't a good idea. In fact many ― if not most ― of them are good, decent, honest People.

        Just saying. : )
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    • Profile picture of the author DABK
      Think of the whole process.


      Who is it who's going to like the 'value' you create, buy the product/ service you promote?


      Value is a subjective thing.



      If you get random visitors, some will not think your value has value.


      So, you need to control the process by which they come to your site.


      Once you have that taken care of, your visitors will appreciate the value you create (if, indeed, you did create something of value).


      Example:


      Say I have a website to attract tourists to the Danube Delta and I'm going after Americans and Canadians.


      I create a lot of value, in Romanian and Bulgarian.


      Most Americans and Canadians will not appreciate my value as they cannot understand the language.


      Extreme example, but it's what happens a lot of the time.


      Say you sell exercise equipment. You target everybody. Your exercise equipment is some $3000 machine. The content you create is great. All great info about getting huge pecs.



      But the people who visit your site make $2500/month. Half of them are women.


      How many sales do you think you'll make?


      Now, get men 25-35, making 7,000/month who subscribe to Boddy-bulding Enthusiast.


      How many sales do you think you can make?

      Originally Posted by football sport View Post

      hey talfighel
      tnx for this usefull topic. its a while im doing affiliate on web but i dont know what wrong. as you did refer, i make value for users but they dont even open the product.
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  • Profile picture of the author praetserge
    Actually... a decent write-up
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  • Profile picture of the author bedigital
    Affiliate marketing is really great when it comes to earning. All you need is a popular website or a YouTube channel.

    Just go to affiliates pages, register with them, sell or do some publicity of their products. Whatever sales will happen through your channel or website will have some commission.

    The most important is to select the right niche. I tried with Elearnmarkets and it went really well.
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    • Profile picture of the author DABK
      Winning the lottery is a great way to get rich. All you need is to match a handful of numbers.


      Winning a gold medal at the Olympics is a great way to boost your self-esteem. All you need is to run faster than everyone else in the world.


      Do you know how hard it is for most people to have a popular youtube channel?



      Originally Posted by bedigital View Post

      Affiliate marketing is really great when it comes to earning. All you need is a popular website or a YouTube channel.

      Just go to affiliates pages, register with them, sell or do some publicity of their products. Whatever sales will happen through your channel or website will have some commission.

      The most important is to select the right niche. I tried with Elearnmarkets and it went really well.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mabu Map
    Giving will start receiving process.

    So giving value informations is how you sell.

    Agree with you
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  • Profile picture of the author George Flm
    How can you put a bracket in one's income per the tactics they deploy?

    For me marketing in general is like surgery.

    Some are cut for this, other's don't.

    I sent them directly to the hypnosis affiliate program
    and they let me export their emails. They have a fantastic
    conversion ratio and my audience should be itchy-bitchy to
    buy - who promotes to cold prospects these days?

    The fewer the steps for the buying process, the better.

    What if the prospect's alarm goes off and they get distracted?

    ...when they would have bought already?
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  • Profile picture of the author Rory Singh
    Good post. I agree with most of it but disagree with it when you are Marketing certain products like Amazon on you Tube.

    I personally Market on you Tube daily and also do have my own lead capture page.

    But there are some very powerful you Tubers who serve viewers with value based how to videos and many of them do quite well monetarily without lead capture pages by just posting their Amazon products in the description.
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