Affiliate agreements are typically long-winded legal documents, often making them tedious and difficult to read, let alone understand (without multiple reads). But as affiliate marketers, we must read and understand those agreements! Case in point… One afternoon about a year ago, I spent a couple of hours logging into affiliate accounts to look for products […]
Affiliate Marketing Mistake #10: Not Paying Attention to Affiliate Program Emails
Over the past almost 20 years, I’ve used a multitude of different email addresses to sign up for affiliate programs and affiliate networks. In 1997, I used the address linked to my first Internet service provider, which became unusable when I left Prince George, B.C. a couple of years later and signed up with a […]
Affiliate Marketing Mistake #9: Being Afraid of Email Marketing
Are YOU afraid of email marketing? Then think about this… how many emails do you get everyday day as a result of having signed up for newsletters about topics in which you are interested? Ten, 20, 50… 100? (I get WAY more than 100). Are you often curious enough about the topic discussed in certain […]
Affiliate Marketing Mistake #4: Not Owning It
When you have don’t have much to invest in your new online business, it may seem prudent to build your business on a site like WordPress.com, Blogger.com, Weebly or some other service that offers free domains and websites. However, choosing a free domain or hosting is a HUGE affiliate marketing mistake. While I’m all for […]
Affiliate Marketing Mistakes: The Series
In January 2016, I started a year-long series of articles about affiliate marketing mistakes. Here they are in order of publication date: Affiliate Marketing Mistake #1: Blindly Jumping Off a Cliff Affiliate Marketing Mistake #2: Choosing the Wrong Niche Affiliate Marketing Mistake #3: Bad Writing Affiliate Marketing Mistake #4: Not Owning It Affiliate Marketing Mistake […]