I Have Learned So Much This Week...Sharing With You...Share With Us

You are never too old to learn. You have never been in this game so long
that you know everything. I have been so humbled this week by so many
things that I don't even know where to begin. I am going to share just a
few things that I have learned this week. At the end, I'd like other warriors
to share what THEY learned JUST in the last 7 days.

Here's my first lesson.

Affiliate marketing. I used to think that promoting a product, as long as
the product itself was great, was enough. That's all that mattered, that
the product itself was of quality and that it did what it said it did.

This week, I have learned that this is not true. There are other things to
consider when promoting a product as an affiliate, no matter how great
the product is.

1. The reputation of the seller

If the seller's reputation is spotty, or flat out poor, you risk 2 things. The
first is that you probably will put a lot of effort into selling a product that,
even though it is good, won't sell. The second is that you might end up
getting a bad reputation yourself because you're associated with this
person.

2. The delivery system

Not all delivery systems are the same. Some downright suck. The last thing
you want to do is piss of your list with a crappy delivery system, no matter
how good the product is.

3. The sales system

Now I know this is subjective, and there are going to be people who will
say that you have to suck out every last dime out of every prospect with
OTOs, upsells and what not, but if you know you're list is not used to
that sort of stuff and you send them to a sales page that puts them
through multiple OTOs, upsells and whatever, you are risking alienating
these people who you worked very hard to gain their trust. There is no
right or wrong here. Just do what you think is best for your situation but
keep this aspect in mind.

4. The affiliate tracking system

Again, some of these just plain suck and you could be putting in your
efforts into promoting something that's going to lose you lots of sales
because of this.

Here's my second lesson.

Don't assume!!!!

I'm talking in both directions here. Don't assume good and don't assume
bad.

I got a PM from somebody who I thought for sure wanted nothing to do
with me because of a recent incident. This person wanted to do business
with me. I was almost speechless.

Unless you get a yes or a no from a person, a prospect, a list member or
whoever, don't assume the best and don't assume the worst. This will
keep you from getting too high and too low. Deal with facts. Facts are
the only thing that matter. Everything else is just YOUR imagination
running wild with you and that is BAD for business.

Here is the final lesson I learned this week.

Don't take anything for granted

I'm not going to go into details on this one because it's personal. Let's just
say I got news that will completely change my life...and not for the better.

So many of us wake up each day thinking that we've got all the time in
the world. And then suddenly something happens and our lives change
overnight.

I have so taken so much for granted for so long. As a kid, I thought I was
indestructible. Yeah, so much for that.

This last lesson, for many, is a hard one to learn. Most don't really learn it
until they're confronted by a life changing event. And then in too many
cases, it's too late.

I think you get the point, so I'll leave it at that.

Okay, your turn.

What did YOU learn this week?

Certainly you've learned something or you're not growing. So I'm inviting
you to share what you learned with the rest of us.

Maybe we can all learn something as well.