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resource box and author information are included. - Isaiah HullKnocking The Mythology Out of Affiliate Network Marketing
If you have worked as an Internet marketer for any amount of time, you have probably heard repeatedly that affiliate network marketing opportunities are most lucrative, cleanest, quickest way to make an income on Internet. And if you have actually tried affiliate network marketing for any amount of time, you more than likely ended up broke or never achieved more than modest, fluctuating success. . .like almost everyone else who goes into field.
So what prevents you and 97% of all other affiliate marketers from succeeding while 3% continually rakes in 70% of profits? Are they smarter than you are? Do they work harder and longer than you do? Do they know a bunch of obscure secrets that you do not?--No, but they do have a totally different mindset.
In order to become successful in affiliate network marketing, you must destroy mythological mindset that most people bring to business. You must stay firmly grounded in reality if you ever want to succeed.
How many times have you heard about some little old lady that only spends 3 hours a week on her computer and somehow earns $50,000 a month? And how many times have you read an ad that tells you how you can make $10,000 in one month from now if you sign up right away?
We have all seen these ads and we have all responded to them at one time or another. Chances are, if you're in an affiliate program now, you were hooked by a line like that. But what separates "gurus" from people who make little or no money is that gurus understand what this really is: mythology. These stories, while they might be true, promote mythological thinking that tricks people into trying every opportunity that looks good at moment, rather than focusing on a single opportunity.
These "opportunities" not only prevent you from succeeding, but they have an even nastier byproduct: they promote mythology that you either succeed on Internet in 15 minutes or you will never succeed at all.
This is simply not true, yet it is reason why almost no one succeeds with affiliate marketing: they can never stay with one opportunity more than a couple months. If they do not have instant success, they give up and move on--restarting same building process they abandoned. They never reap profit of cumulative efforts. They build a foundation, they leave before starting actual building--and then they move to another company, start foundation, and then leave once again.
Without exception, every successful Internet marketer has spent an enormous amount of time both researching and experimenting with online business. Most have failed miserably a number of times and most have spent a significant amount of time working their way to top and achieving profit. It really is pretty hard to earn an income on Internet, but it is entirely doable if you are following a proven plan and if you are willing to abandon lofty mythology for a plan rooted in reality.
Affiliate marketing is one of best places to start making a profit online. In fact, almost every successful Internet marketer I know started her career selling affiliate products. Many of them still do. What made them successful is that they found a legitimate opportunity to make money (whether or not it was best one available), they found replicable processes that got them visitors and profit, and then they repeated those processes and reinvested those profits until they got to where they are now.
