They expect to be making type of money super affiliates make within five minutes of joining an affiliate program without doing anything other than send out a few ezine ads.

How do I know?

Because I was there, I did exactly same thing, it was what affiliate program owner’s instructions said to do; sign-up, send some of our pre-made ads out to a few ezines and newsletters and wait for money to come in. Oh and send them straight to this affiliate link so you’ll be credited with sale.

Ok, yeah, I did make a few sales, but only just enough to break even. It wasn’t sort of income they promised, so I thought to myself, ‘well there must be other affiliate programs out there that’ll make me more money’, so I moved on to another one, and guess what, cycle repeated.

Does this sound familiar to you? It’s sometimes referred to as 30 day average affiliate life span.

When you sign-up for an affiliate program don’t they just make it sound so easy?

Well here’s truth it’s not easy if you don’t know what you’re doing! But if you do, you can make big super affiliate type income that only a small minority of affiliates are making. But it does require, time effort and persistence!

Now ask yourself these three questions,

-Do you have your own website? -Do you have a newsletter? -Do you send prospects directly from your advertising to your affiliate webpage?

If you don’t have either of first two you stand very little chance of making big commissions through affiliate programs. Sorry but it’s true.

It’s really important to get basics right whenever you run an internet home business or any business for that matter and it’s very important to your long term business success that you know your customers and where they came from. Ideally you also should know what pages they click through and visit on your website and where they leave your website.

If you have this data it will enable you to modify and test new approaches to your website design, your sales copy and your headlines. For example if your website has a very low click through rate you probably need to test new headlines and/or sales copy to draw prospects further into your website. This should bring you a higher click through rate, if not test again, and keep testing.

I came across an African proverb recently and it has some relevant lessons in it, that we can all apply to our day to day lives and our internet home businesses.

"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle awakens. He has only one thought on his mind: To be able to run faster than fastest lion. If he cannot, then he will be eaten.

Every morning in Africa a lion awakens. He has only one thought on his mind: To be able to run faster than slowest gazelle. If he cannot, he will die of hunger.