I was watching Max and Ruby with my daughter the other day on Treehouse. It’s a dumb cartoon with a couple of bunnies that talk. My daughter seems to love it, so I put up with it.
Anyway, it caught my attention when one part of the show was taking place in a store, and the store owner was saying that “You can’t sell your customers something, unless you know it’s good.”
This is where so many affiliate marketer fail. They recommend products that they’ve never tried, and a lot of them are just crap.
It’s ok to write an article and link directly to some site with your affiliate link, but if you’ve never tried the product, and you’re not sure if it’s even good, you won’t get as many sales as you could.
You’ll also lose credibility if you recommend something that doesn’t deserve any recommendation. Someone else’s bad product could reflect badly on you.
Instead, try a product that you’d like to market and give honest reviews and feedback to your customers and readers. The’ll appreciate you for it, and they’ll be more likely to buy it.
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It’s all about going back to the basics. A lot of people are just throwing darts blind-folded, though, and they eventually give up and become one of the sheep who like to say “you can’t make money on the web”.
While I have promoted plenty of products I never purchased in the past — I was never successful until I tried the basics and tried to just “make a sell”, rather than trying to become an overnight millionaire.
It IS amazing what a normal person (i.e. a writer for a cartoon) can teach someone on the web, though.
I’ve also promoted products that I haven’t purchased, but I made sure to do as much research as I could about the product before hand, just to make sure that I wasn’t promoting something that wasn’t worth anything. I should have mentioned that!
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