If you
were to describe an Internet affiliate, what would they look like? They
look like you! Male or female, any race, any nationality, any age –
the main thing that makes someone an affiliate marketer is having a
hunger to make a success of whatever it is that they touch.
An affiliate loves to market to people’s needs! An affiliate
marketer often takes on one project after another as they accomplish
what they had hoped in each separate project. Like climbing a new peak,
a marketer takes on the challenge of digging up keywords and feeling
out the audience for which the product is intended.
Unlike the businessperson who loves to focus on one niche and become
the authority on that topic, an affiliate marketer is constantly looking
for the next great program to promote and dominate.
Is just anyone cut out to be an affiliate marketer? In all honesty,
no. Anyone can become an affiliate, but only some will stay with it
long enough to make a real go of it. It takes grit, determination,
creativity, bloodhound instincts, and love of a challenge.
You’ll also have to learn some technical tactics to ensure your
promotions see the volume of traffic that’s required to generate a
decent stay at home income over a long period of time. You’ll want to
build a list of subscribers, learn about getting your pages on page 1 of
the Google search results, and possibly discover how to operate a pay
per click ad campaign.
In the end, marketing of any kind is all about discerning people’s
hot buttons and then pushing them. If that describes you, then by all
means you can count yourself in the small, but growing class of
entrepreneur called affiliate marketers.