Great Opportunities for Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is often a challenging enterprise.  We need to know a lot more than we thought when we first entered the field.  And the learning curve can be so steep that many simply give up.

If you’re reading this, I hope that you are among those select few who will stay committed over the long haul, constantly updating your knowledge base and actually applying what you have learned by acting upon that knowledge.  The most common problem among failed affiliate marketers is buying magic, secret plans and not implementing them to see if they actually work as promised.  Some are no more than buyers; they don’t even read the books they buy.

There are two resources for affiliate marketers that I include in my recommendations.  One of those is a new article marketing approach that automatically forwards your articles to many blogs as well as traditional websites, not just those you run yourself.  The system is called My Article Network.  I have described the way it works elsewhere (see that link).  Here, I am going to describe one way that it can be used creatively by an affiliate marketer.

If you use the traditional method of article marketing, you write articles and submit those articles to article directories.  With that method, your links are limited to the author’s resource box, usually published at the end of the article.  In the new method of article marketing, you can use the much more effective contextual linking, that is placing your links directly within the content of the article, where they are far more likely to deliver targeted traffic to your vendor’s site.  Most of the major article directories will not allow you to use affiliate links in your own resource box.  However, this new, vastly improved approach allow you to use affiliate links that will go directly to the vendor, without having to send your traffic to your own site as a costly intermediate step.  You can get a feel for the whole process by visiting the site for this article marketing system that directly submits unique versions of your articles to blogs and websites in your niche from its list of over 10,000 sites anxious to receive content.

The other resource is a complete educational system set up exclusively for affiliate marketers of various size businesses as well as those preparing for a career in affiliate management.  This is a completely revamped reissue of Anik Singal’s famous Affiliate Classroom.  Singal, who was named as one of four Business Week Magazine’s young entrepreneurs of 2008, has spent two years, along with his partner, revamping the critically acclaimed program to make it even more expansive and comprehensive.  If you are truly serious about improving your affiliate marketing business, at least sign up to receive the full information.

If you see simply a squeeze page, that means that the course has not yet opened.  Fill it out to receive updated information, as it is being launched very soon.  If it has already sold out when you arrive, check for a waiting list, and sign up if one becomes available.  Good luck!

Anticipating a question that I would ask, yes, both of these have affiliate programs, but you can’t use your own affiliate links to purchase either membership.  You must sign up for both prior to gaining access to the affiliate programs.

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