This affiliate marketing guide will help you understand exactly what your affiliate company should be giving you in order to grow your business. I have been online for 3 years and I have made so many mistakes when it comes to affiliate marketing.

Like so many people I thought it was great that this company would give me free websites, banners, sales letters and all the tools I thought I would need to make money. I thought they had given me all the affiliate training I would need to be successful.

Boy was I wrong!

By the end of this affiliate marketing guide you will have an understanding of what you need in order to succeed with affiliate marketing. I also want to make sure that you avoid the many affiliate marketing scams that are ever present online today.

The tips in the list below should be used in order, and if one is missing then your chances of success are greatly reduced.

• This is the most important thing and that is to build your list. The company must allow you to build your own list and not theirs. Your financial security is in that list so you better make sure you are the owner.
• They must offer you all the tools you need in order for you to succeed. Might sound a bit obvious but many offer lots of bells and whistles that don’t actually do anything. The tools you need will be the affiliate marketing tutorial videos they will provide you with.
• You need to work with somebody on a proven daily strategy that will get you the results you need. A daily plan is essential to your online success and any reputable company will have one in place.
• They must offer a proven marketing funnel that will have all of the capture pages, different videos, articles and images that you can use in you marketing. This is very useful when you are starting out as you will be able to start adding content and value to your blog while you are still learning.
• And finally they must offer you a support network that answers your questions in seconds and not days. You are working on the internet so you need to move as fast as the internet moves; you don’t want to be waiting a couple of days to get a problem solved.

Let’s just go into a bit more detail about these import points in this affiliate marketing guide. If you do not build your own list and the company goes bust, they you will have to start again. Your list is vitally important and you must own it.

All the tools and training should been provided, and it must include how to set up a blog, how to market on social media, how to do keyword research and advance SEO tactics as well as syndicating all your work.

Once you learn how to generate traffic your affiliate company must put in place a marketing funnel that gives your prospects valuable information they can use with a product at the end so you can earn your commission.

If you follow the steps in this affiliate marketing guide you will have all the success you desire. But please remember that if one is missing they walk away and find an affiliate program that offers you everything in the list above.

So you’ve decided to par take in the world of Internet Marketing? Well good for you! There is nothing like entrepreneurship and taking control of your own destiny.

In this short report, my goal is to lay the ground work that you’re going to need, in order to build a good sound foundation, to start building your business on.

There are three things that just about every Newbie (including myself when I started) struggles with. But once you figure them out, you can start making money within the next 30 days and they are;

1. Finding the right niche to market to.
2. Knowing the tools needed to build an Internet Marketing business, both tangible and non-tangible tools.
3. How to drive good quality traffic to an offer quickly.

Once you’re done reading this, you will have a solid foundation in which to start building your business on! So let’s get started!

Finding a Niche

If you’re just starting out, the first thing you need to do, is determine what niche you’re going to market to, if you don’t already have one in mind.

When it comes to choosing a niche, I’ll start by saying this. If you have a particular activity, interest or hobby that you enjoy and know inside out, then I would say that’s probably a good niche for you to start in.

Because it’s something you know well, it should be easier for you to;

• Speak the “language” of those involved in that niche.
• Create content for that niche. (Articles, blog post, etc.)
• Have a better understanding of the demographics of that niche.

Now! If you’re interest is in a niche that has a small audience, you have to understand something…
Those involved in this particular niche, may have a deep passion for it and typically don’t mind spending money on things related to the niche.

But if the niche is too small, you have to ask yourself, will there be room to scale up and grow my business?

If you don’t currently have a niche in mind, I’ll tell you right now, you can waste time, researching different niches until you find one you’re interesting in or you can just pick one in the following categories that have been proven, time and time again to make money;

1. Making Money (Internet marketing, forex, work at home, etc.)
2. Saving Money (Insurance, debt, credit cards, loans, etc.)
3. Weight Loss / Health & Fitness
4. Self Help / Development

Out of these four, I would recommend that newbies start with “Making Money” for the following reasons:

• There are plenty of resources available to educate yourself on the niche.
• There are plenty of affiliate programs and products in the niche for you to market.
• There are plenty of resources available to get traffic.

One of the biggest mistakes I made when I started out was not drilling deeper down into the niche or “vertical” that I had chosen which by the way was and still is “Internet Marketing”.

What I mean is, find a niche within the niche. With Internet Marketing, there are plenty of sub-niches for you to consider:

• Social Media (Deeper niches; Facebook, YouTube, Twitter)
• Driving traffic (PPC Pay Per Click, SEO, Search Engine Optimizations)
• List building
• Blogging
• Affiliate marketing
• Article marketing
• And on and on

Please read this next line very carefully! When you’re just starting out, pick ONE sub-niche and ONLY one to market to!

Learn everything you can about that niche and become an expert in it. Trust me on this. You don’t want to try to master everything when you first start out.

You will go crazy and I can guarantee that you will come down with information overload…

Yes I’m speaking from personal experience!

Once you have learned all you can and have a steady stream of revenue coming in from that niche, then move on to the next.

In conclusion I’ll just like to say, don’t take choosing a niche for granted. Picking the wrong way can easily cost you time and money…

So take your time, research and choose wisely!