“Professionalizing Affiliate Marketing” by Mark Thompson shows you how to use subscriber emails properly, and how to write them so they actually get read! Then find out if negative Affiliate marketing is still a viable option when doing PPC advertising.
“Expanding Horizons – 10 Tips for Becoming a Professional Affiliate Internationally,” by Katalin Torok , helps answer International Marketing questions.. You’ll learn how to do Market Research internationally, and get advice on dealing with payment and shipping problems before they arise.
What are “The 10 Biggest Unprofessional Mistakes That Many Affiliates Make?” You’ll find out as Kathy Jackson explains mistakes that can happen in Email marketing, product selection, website development and seven other areas.
“What Affiliates Don’t Know Can Hurt Them,” by Gracie Brown ends the magazine by explaining how Internet business rules differ from traditional business rules, and how you can avoid making big mistakes.
Find it all in the Free October issue of Affiliate Classroom Magazine. It’s a PDF publication; you can download it directly (no email address required) at:
http://www.affiliateclassroom.com/magazine.php
Whilst I agree that many affiliates make mistakes, many of the companies wanting website owners etc to sign up to their affiliate schemes do not give enough support or advice to affiliates.
They give the impression that it’s just a case of putting a few banners or text links on your site, and the money will soon be making money.
If you we’re designing a business model to sell a product or service affiliate schemes make financial sense. If the website owner promoting the product/service doesn’t make a sale – then they don’t get paid and are providing free advertsing 24/7 into the bargain for the product/service.
If I was paid 20p for every click that a visitor made on a banner of text link on my site I would have made more money than I have ever made as an affilaite.
Anyway, that’s just my experience.
Regards
Tipster