Affiliate marketer

by Ricky Gaspard

You say your an affiliate marketer, but do you make a profit? Do you create your own programs to sell?

These are the most common questions I ask when I run into someone who claims to be an affiliate marketer. Affiliate marketing is one of the most sought after income makers on the internet. It seems to be the easiest way to earn an income without spending lots of money to get money in return.

How Can That Be?

I have tried hundreds of opportunities only to find out that most of them are crap. 99% of the opportunities I have tried turned out to be a flop. Most of them are created by finding things on the internet that already exist, reselling something that already exist and then trying to market them to someone who has not yet found it.

Here’s an example,

How To Profit Google Adwords

Producing Videos That Sell

How To Market Successfully On Ebay

I made $1,000,000.00 From Home

I Made $10,000 While Sleeping

Sound familiar? It should because those are the most popular headlines on the internet today. Most of the programs sell you promises that play on your emotions, and once you join you are given information that is just enough to make you think you got a bargain and not want a refund, but not enough information to really give you the answers to help you succeed and make a profit. I have found this to be the main fault with 99% of most internet affiliate programs today.

These programs sound very promising to you because they promise to make you lots of money and take you to financial freedom. Lead pages get you into believing their story of being broke, almost getting a divorce, the dog ran away and hopefully it will play into yours. Once you do, you are programed to click the buy button upon believing this is the one that is going to take you into financial freedom.

This is so easy anyone can do it.

Your emotions play an important role in getting you to click the buy button. That is why most internet marketers use them. Stop and think for a moment before you click the buy button and ask yourself, are you buying this program for the knowledge you will receive, or because you have been in the same sad story.

After failing at lots of opportunities I set out on a quest to find 3 Real Programs, with Real Products. These 3 programs must hold up to their promise of teaching me something that really does work.

What I have discovered on my journey about affiliate marketing programs is that if the sales page starts out with How Broke, Lost My Car, A Miracle Happen, Discovered, Secrets Revealed or similar statements, chances are you are aiming for a failure. In my opinion, if they have to play on your emotions to sell their product, it is probably not worth the investment.

Now if on the other hand the program avoids all the hype and starts out explaining powerful features of the program they are selling, the benefits of the program, and what it can do for you, chances are you are really going to learn something that could be profitable to you. You have to really do you homework to find programs that really work. The best part is that once you do find a good program, you can actually use it to make money.

After a loss of $5000 I finally found 3 programs that really proved to me they were worth buying. Luckily these programs were really top notch. They had everything I needed to succeed in making money. The program really had legitimate material I could benefit from. They actually showed me the proper way to make money.