So, you’ve decided to try your hand at affiliate marketing?
You’ve been told that affiliate marketing is a good way to get started online because all you need to do is drive visitors to an affiliate offer and take the commissions when you make a sale. You don’t need to develop any products, you don’t need to build or even learn how to build a website, and you don’t have deal with unhappy and angry customers.
But if all you do is send visitors or leads to an affiliate offer, are you building your own business or simply building someone else’s business?
Think about that for a moment.
What happens to every visitor you send to your chosen affiliate offer?
Well, whilst you may make a small commission if that visitor buys the product on offer, you may never see or hear from them again.
The point I’m making here is that once you have sent that visitor to an affiliate offer, whether they buy the product or not, you are unlikely to earn anything more from that lead that you generated. They no longer exist for you, unless of course they see another one of your affiliate offers and go through your link and buy that product, but the chances of this happening are low at best. If you want to continue earning commissions you will have to keep generating new leads, and more new leads, again and again.
This is the total opposite to what happens for the product vendor once that lead lands on their website. If they buy the product, they will become another customer on the vendors mailing list and a prospect for further offers the vendor will present to them over time. Offers they will possibly buy, so the vendor wins over and over again, whilst all you get is a small commission on the first sale.
If all the leads you generate are going into the vendors mailing list and all you are collecting are a few small commissions, then you are not building yourself an ongoing business. All you are doing is building someone else’s business.
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not telling you all this to put you off affiliate marketing, definitely not. Affiliate marketing is still one of the easiest ways to get started building a business online and is usually still part of many successful online business entrepreneurs’ portfolio.
Let me ask you a question: Why did you want to work online?
Almost certainly you thought about building a business, so that you could earn some extra money or maybe even give up the day job completely. This is never going to happen if all you do is spend time and money sending visitors and leads to someone else’s business.
I’m here to tell you that there is a better way to build an online business that includes affiliate marketing but from another angle. You need to be the product vendor who markets their own products and employs their own army of affiliate marketers to promote and sell those products.
In short you need to create your own products.
Right now you’re probably thinking about the very first paragraph of this blog post. You remember where we said that you became an affiliate marketer because you didn’t want to develop any products, you didn’t want to build or even learn how to build a website, and you certainly didn’t want to deal with unhappy and angry customers.
Well if you really want to build an online business then the only way to really become successful is to have your own products and your own army of affiliates promoting your products for you and to build your own mailing list of prospects.
If you are not creating and selling your own products and don’t have you own army of affiliates promoting your products, you are not building a business, all you are doing is promoting someone else’s products and building their business.
If all you do is send leads to someone else’s business and build their mailing list without building your own mailing list, you are definitely not building your own business. All you are doing is building someone else’s business.
To change that you need to learn how to create your own products. You need to learn how to build an online business where you collect the leads and where you promote your own products and where you recruit your own army of affiliates to promote for you.
You can learn all of this when you join John Thornhill’s Partnership To Success program.
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