This is the fourth installment of the five-part “5 Not-to-Dos for Affiliate Marketers” series. If you missed them, you can read part one here, part two here and part three here.

There are a lot of advantages for you, as an affiliate marketer, to knowing what you should not do in order to make your affiliate marketing business successful. You have a long laundry list of things you think you should do. But if you know what not to do, you can likely cross several items off your “to do” list.

You want to spend the hours you have to devote to your affiliate marketing business wisely. You want to get the most “power from each hour” you can possibly get. So the fourth thing on our affiliate marketers’ “not to do” list is …

Don’t Stick to Only Old Hat Advertising Methods

Don’t misunderstand. You shouldn’t toss out tried-and-true advertising methods that have been proven effective.

PPC (Pay Per Click) advertising is the biggest advertising bargain that the world has ever seen. You pay only when your advertisement is clicked on and a potential customer comes to your website.

Advertising in niche-related ezines can’t be wrong. Subscriber lists of these ezines are made up of the people who are most likely to buy whatever it is you are selling.

Article marketing, posting to blogs, and forum posting are top-notch SEO (Search Engine Optimization) tactics. And they’re advertising methods that work!
Don’t toss any of them.

But you also have to embrace and take advantage of new advertising methods.

YouTube

Posting marketing videos on YouTube and other similar social sites has proven to be an effective advertising method in today’s computerized world. Videos will appeal to a young demographic group that’s very likely to try and buy new products.

Facebook

Social advertising is a fairly new concept, but it’s taken the world by storm. You’d be hard pressed to find a single person in the civilized world that hasn’t heard of Facebook. You and your affiliate marketing business need an online presence on Facebook.

Twitter

Twitter is like instant messaging on steroids. After you build up a following on Twitter, you can instantly send a 140-character message (called a “tweet”) to all those who follow you at the same time. It’s free and it’s unlimited. You can send as many 140-character messages you want to send.

Tomorrow you’ll find out why you don’t want to be behind the curve.

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