| There is a fine line between outright lies and what is | | | | for the same reason that you are doing it. They |
| omitted by the affiliate marketing recruiters. I will | | | | want traffic to come to their site. They are not |
| point out some of the pitfalls before you join the | | | | interested in what you have to offer. The company |
| next Great Sounding Make Money from Home | | | | that runs the program is making money from people |
| program. Then show you some steps you can take | | | | who pay for clicks. |
| to avoid these pitfalls. Promotional tools that | | | | They Tell You, They have: |
| companies give you to promote their products for | | | | Live chat support. |
| free or a monthly/yearly membership fee. | | | | What They Don't Tell You. |
| What they tell you is included in their membership. | | | | The Live support is not online. |
| X amount of marketing websites all set up for you, | | | | They Tell You, They have: |
| with your name. To promote product XYZ. | | | | 24/7 email support |
| What They Don't Tell You. | | | | What They Don't Tell You. |
| These websites are not even indexed with the | | | | Expect to wait 72hrs for a reply if you ever get a |
| search engines. Nobody will ever find them on the | | | | reply. |
| internet. You have no webmaster permissions | | | | Some Steps You Can Take To Avoid These Pitfalls. |
| attached to these websites therefore you can't input | | | | 1. Contact the owner of the product you want to |
| any code or do anything to optimize them. Instead | | | | promote. Introduce yourself to the owner and tell |
| you have to pay to advertise them or send people | | | | him/her that you intend to promote their product. |
| to your site by giving them the URL of the webpage | | | | Ask them for promotional materials to promote their |
| you want them to view. You can however make | | | | product. This will enable you to assess how quickly |
| very good use of these sites if you have YOUR | | | | they respond to an enquiry and how helpful they are. |
| OWN WEBSITE and you link to these marketing | | | | If you are going to send them customers, you want |
| websites from your own site. Great shame that | | | | to make sure they will look after those customers |
| nobody tells you this upfront! | | | | professionally - your reputation is at stake here. You |
| What they tell you to do. | | | | should also do a Google search of the product |
| Email 850,000 prospects daily for free, never get | | | | owners name and the product name. |
| accused of spam. | | | | 2. Only promote one product, till you get experienced |
| What They Don't Tell You. | | | | in Internet Marketing. Make it your business to gather |
| The people you are emailing belong to safe lists. To | | | | as much product knowledge as possible on the |
| mail to a safe list you have to agree to receive their | | | | product you are going to promote. If possible |
| mail in return. You are told to open a separate email | | | | purchase the product yourself and test it before |
| account to enable you to receive all this extra mail. | | | | recommending it to customers. Promotion is a time |
| Nobody can read all this mail and usually it gets | | | | consuming process. If you promote more than one |
| deleted or goes into a bulk folder. Safe lists worked | | | | product at a time you will spread your resources too |
| quite well for a short time years ago but now are a | | | | thin. |
| waste of time and effort. | | | | 3. If the vendor tries to charge you for the privilege |
| What they tell you to do. | | | | of promoting their product - run like hell! |
| 100 guaranteed free signups per month. | | | | 4. Preferably promote products were the vendor will |
| What They Don't Tell You. | | | | accept payments and pay your commissions via |
| This really means that they guarantee 100 people will | | | | PayPal. |
| sign up free to your program if you agree to sign up | | | | This will avoid hefty check fees [especially if you are |
| to100 free programs. | | | | in a different country to the vendor]. Also if the |
| What they tell you to do. | | | | vendor uses PayPal it is a fair indication that the |
| Use free advertising sites. | | | | vendor has a good reputation, as PayPal does a |
| What They Don't Tell You. | | | | pretty good job of screening scam programs out of |
| Nobody ever gets to see your add. You are told that | | | | their system. Getting customers to view your |
| if you upgrade to paid advertising you'll have more | | | | promotions online is always the biggest |
| success - that's NOT free advertising. | | | | challenge.Unless you are promoting a big ticket item |
| What they tell you to do. | | | | [not advisable when starting out] paid advertising |
| Use free click exchanges. | | | | may cost you more than what your commission is |
| What They Don't Tell You. | | | | worth. Therefore to Make Money Online with Affiliate |
| Usually you need to click on 2 - 5 websites to get | | | | Marketing, you must generate free traffic to your |
| someone else to click on your website once. The | | | | promotions. To do this effectively is vital to your |
| people who are clicking on your website are doing it | | | | success. |