A Two Step Strategy for Affiliate Marketing

Is it safe to say that you would appreciate having a step by step plan to teach you a real affiliate marketing business plan? Affiliate marketing is not a difficult concept, but it can be hard and quite stressful to successfully master these concepts, so I am going to alleviate some of that stress by showing you a simple two step plan for creating a successful affiliate marketing business.

The First Step: Find a Teacher

A good initial step to attain the goal of owning a profitable affiliate marketing business, is to find a mentor who has already achieved the success you seek. As I began the process of learning online marketing in the fall of 2008, I was overwhelmed by the number of make money from home and make money online programs that were available on the internet. Not only was the quantity of programs an issue, I was taken aback by the pricing demands of the better known "gurus", whose mentoring programs were commonly offered for an upfront fee of $1997, for rehashed "systems and taped live conferences. I realized that if I was able to locate a mentor, with an established successful business, whose processes I could emulate, I would decrease the learning curve by a huge margin. So I began an active search for an affordable mentoring program, that did not limit my marketing options.

Step Two: Identify a Niche

Once you have found an affordable mentor, the next thing that you need to do is identify a niche that is commercially friendly, and identify a product within that niche. Almost everyone who looks at affiliate marketing as a business seems to be fascinated with the make money niche, I am no exception, as I have been enthralled with the machinery of revenue stream creation since childhood. However the make money niche is very difficult to penetrate in the online world in 2011. If you will take the time to identify a niche and product that is in high demand, and generates a large number of searches and consumption, without an unreasonable level of competition, you can rapidly climb the search engine rankings and generate large numbers of subscribers and sales.

As you may imagine, the entire process is not so easy, it has taken many of my pages 6 months to make an ascent up the search engine results pages. For that reason, finding a product that you are comfortable, or even passionate about promoting is necessary, so that you can maintain the motivation to do the work that is required to meet your marketing objectives. So you will want to find products that you are personally excited about, you don't want to be associated with products that are of questionable value. You only have one reputation as an affiliate marketer, and you don't want to ruin it by promoting bad products.If you will pay heed to these two suggestions, you will have a leg up on the competition in affiliate marketing. And starting off right gives you the greatest chance of finishing successfully.It is not a good idea to jump onto every "automated: system" that you see in your email in box, it is a much better idea to associate with a membership site that will provide an ongoing course of self paced learning, along with both on and off line support for the difficulties you encounter.

There are several very good mentoring programs available online today, I have found affordable programs to work with, and you can get more information about these programs on my blog,at EliKen Marketing