Affiliate marketing can be a good way to earn a living online. Some affiliates even progress in their business to be quite prosperous. The other thing that makes affiliate marketing so attractive is that it can be started “on a shoestring” by beginners.

As a result many people try their hand. But not all of them find the success they expected. Often, the reason is that they didn’t take time to do the little things that can turn a marketing campaign from a failure into a success. The cut corners and make mistakes that leave them with less satisfaction in their work.

Here are some mistakes you should watch out for when you market other people’s products as an affiliate.

Mistake 1: Promoting Anything and Everything

You have spent time cultivating a mailing list or a blog audience. These followers have developed a set of expectations of what they will find when they check out your content. You don’t want to disappoint or confuse them by including content that is not consistent with their expectations.

This principle applies to your advertisements as much as it does to your editorial content.
Your followers are expecting you to show them which of the many new products in your niche can help them with their problems. If you get in the habit of promoting everything that comes along, people will begin to doubt whether your advice is worthwhile.

IM NewsWatch has learned that lesson the hard way. Now, we place ads for many products, but we rarely endorse one. We value our reputation

If you are going to write authentic, genuine endorsements, you need to write your own ads and reviews. Be honest about the product. Tell your prospects both the good and the bad when you recommend a product. If you decide to not recommend a product you test, tell your readers why.

Mistake 2: Not Adding Value

In some markets, many affiliates are are promoting the latest hot product. Is there any reason why people should take your recommendation and buy from your ad, instead of from someone else’s ad?

The fact that you tell the truth about the product is a good start, but in a competitive marketplace, this may not be enough. One way to get your share of the sales of a product is to add additional value to the product by giving your buyers a bonus that complements the product you are advertising.

Your bonus is might be:
• A related report
• A list of tools that may assist in using the product you are advertising
• An application that makes the product work better
• Access to a membership site or a seat at workshop to provide training and support for the product
Whatever you offer, your bonus should be useful to buyers of the product you’re promoting, something they will perceive as both desirable and valuable.

With a good bonus, some affiliates report that they can make up to five times more sales and commissions.

Usually, you present your bonus on a page constructed especially for the purpose.

Mistake 3: Trying to Do Everything Manually

Marketers who try to continue using the tools and techniques of 10 years ago are falling behind. Social media were barely invented 10 years ago, but today, a lot of marketing depends on social media.

As a result of all this changing technology, speed is essential when it comes to affiliate marketing.

If you are late hearing about a new product (as we sometimes are, although we work stay9ing ahead of the curve), you might only have a day or two to do your work and earn your commissions. We live in a world that runs 24x7x365, with products being announced while you are asleep. You need to start promoting quickly, as soon as you hear of a worthy product.

That’s why you should automate and outsource as much work as you can. The top affiliates automate or outsource everything they can. There are a few things, but only a few, that you need to do yourself. For the sake of speed, outsource or automate the rest.

One example is the creation of bonuses and of the we page where you promote your bonuses.

(Here comes the commercial) Commission Gorilla V.2 is designed to make it easy for you to create bonus pages that boost your affiliate sales. Here’s one of ours, for example: IM NewsWatch Bonuses for Commission Gorilla, version 2. It shows you some of what this software can do for you.

Commission Gorilla V.2 was designed by two super affiliates (Simon Hodgkinson and Jeremy Gislason) who needed a fast and easy way to build their own bonus pages when they promote other people’s products. They made this software “drag and drop” so that it’s easy to use.

You don’t need to be a designer or a computer programmer. All you need to do is log into your Commission Gorilla V.2 dashboard. There you can build a beautiful, professional bonus page for products you want to promote.

You can optionally use ready-made bonuses they have created for you or you can upload your own or do some of both.

Your affiliate business can grow, and good bonus pages can help.

That brings us back to our bonus page. You get all these bonuses (we relied on their ready-made bonuses to build our page): IM NewsWatch Bonuses for Commission Gorilla, version 2. You get all these bonuses when buying through our link.

Get your own bonus page creating tool, along with our bonuses, here: Commission Gorilla V.2.

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