Jay Leonard
Develop the right skills and you can become an awesome affiliate marketer.
The phrase “life will pay any price you ask of it”, will always be the starting point of what I want to achieve in this life. I believe every one of us can do almost anything we really want with faith and persistence. The difference between those who have a job and those who dominate their job is clarity.
If you have clarity of purpose you can master your skills, and be one of the most successful people worldwide. This is the same for an affiliate marketer, and here are some critical skills you need to develop so you can become one of the best in the affiliate marketing industry.
Become a Great Researcher
I have a friend who holds a PhD in Molecular Biology. I remember him from childhood, and he was always in the lab doing experiments and research. Now he is a brilliant business man and I assure his success is research. An affiliate marketer should start from scratch, select a niche he is familiar with and easily can promote.
Then he needs to study the market place, define his audience and understand what their needs are. Becoming knowledgeable of your market will help you develop your strategy and create a massive action plan. Know exactly what you want to promote, learn everything about your product, understand your customers, and get prepared.With this, you are halfway to victory!
What’s Your Strategy?
After learning everything about your market place, you need to sit down and focus on your strategy. Be inspired from the most successful people on earth! Find people who already achieved what you want to achieve and model them. Where to find them? Search everywhere!
Jim Rohn said: “Finding is reserved for the searchers. Not those who hope, not those who wish, but those who search.”. Would you like to become the best affiliate marketer? Unleash the power within! No one will tell you what to do and how to do it. You’re on your own, and you are intelligent enough to create your own unique success plan. When you finish creating your plan, write it down or print it and place it somewhere where it’s visible to you all the time. I have placed mine next to my white board in my office.
Implementation – Discipline – Determination
Now that you have successfully created your plan, you need to put it into action and follow through. Here is the key of a successful affiliate marketer. Repetition is the mother of skills! The question is can you follow through and implement your strategy every single day?
As I said in the beginning, if you don’t have clarity, you can’t go any further! Most people become excited about starting something new, but when it comes down to the real process, they give up. The reason? They are not clear on their goals and lack proper focus. Be prepared for the next day. Create a check list and write down everything you need to accomplish during the day. Don’t start the day until you have it finished!
Conversion – Sales
Traffic is great but how does it convert? If you did good research on your market in the beginning you will find this less daunting. By knowing your visitor’s profile, you know exactly what they are looking for, but rather trying to attract them by offering to sell them something, you should inform them and make them understand your options provides value to them.
Most people will buy from you based upon how reliable you are and how much they trust you. If the product you’re promoting is 100% guaranteed that it will work for them, you have to convince them it has worked for you as well. Try to provide accurate and detailed information of your product, and one of the best ways to do it is by writing a good review or by creating a professional detailed video.
Communication – Connection – Bond
The most important thing you can do with your customers is to create a special bond. They have to know you in person, who you are, and a lot about your what’s personality and attitude. Create your brand, but remember to show up and represent the brand 100% of the time.
How much do you value your customers? Do you treat them like one time sale or thinking that they might come back and become regular buyers? I recently saw an interview of Gary Vaynerchuck, a successful entrepreneur who said that you must do anything in order to keep a client coming back over and over again. Email them, call them, or otherwise reach out to them. I personally use voip services for business to contact my customers qith cheap rates, offer a free gift to them,and try to bring them back in a special wayy.
It’s great when you know exactly what you need in order to be a successful affiliate marketer. Most people fail to become great marketers, not because they lack resources, but because they lack resourcefulness! These days the internet can provide full education with free quality content, free internet conferencing and seminars, professional videos and podcasts to educate and inspire you. Get inspired from successful people, create a massive plan, and put that plan into action with persistence and clarity. I guarantee that you will get the results that you’re looking for.
What other skills wouldyou add to the list to become a great affiliate marketer? Tell me in the comments!
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This article was written for Business 2 Community by Jay Leonard.
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First, I thank you for this–it is the “kick-in-the-pants” I need. I started trying to learn affiliate mktng nearly a year ago, sustained months-long interruptions (hubby’s hospitalizations,…), got stymied over technical hurdles, and each time I’ve tried to get back in the game, it seems some of the rules have changed, or there are new programs/tools that come with big promises… I’m 58, too easily distracted, but I HAVE begun the strategy of making a list and sticking to it.
(Also, you HAD me with the Jim Rohn quote–love that man!)
In answer to your question regarding what else you need, it’s GRAMMAR. When I read stuff full of typo’s and misspells, it doesn’t matter how successful that person might be, he/she loses credibility and I’m gone. Maybe that’s just me. (You had just a few. :) Thank you again!
You touched on some very important points in your article. Because of the high volume of competition in the affiliate marketing arena, I believe the area of “Communication – Connection – Bond” is a vital skill that all Affiliate Marketers need to develop. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the good advice, I am not English, so you cannot imagine how difficult it is for me to do blogging. I need to translate all the time. And as Laure said, grammar plays a big part in how you present yourself and the product to the buyers. Likely there is “word” to help me going. I think it all boils down to patience. And you need a lot of that.
Thanks
I too totally agree with Laura on her comments regarding grammar. I too am in a similar age group and have been finally able to get my first ever website up and going, tho it took nearly a year due to distractions and also having to learn all aspects of affiliate marketing so has been a huge learning curve for me.It’s good to read articles like this one to keep you on track and to know that providing we do these things then we should be successful . Thanks Lawrence
Great tips! You said it perfectly!
What can be added more is to “think big”. Don’t be happy with just some extra cash but rather set a big goal, one that worths all the effort (something like 1 sale/day or 1,000 $/month)
Hi John
“focus on your strategy”, the right Affiliate Marketing strategy is important. Try google agenda and plan day-1 blog,day-2 wordpress,day-3 squidoo,day-4 social web 2.0,day-6 mail, day-7 read and learn etc. This working. Thanks MarketAlex
This is a great article. I am a new affiliate and i can tell you it is true… no one is on the other side if the internet waiting to help. I feel truly on my own.
Excellent advice John. All of it was sound especially the part of knowing your target market. Its critical to know what your audience wants and then you can offer it them. A lot of people miss this part out which is just crazy.
Nick Squires, Paris