For a long time, affiliate marketing was a very popular business model. Everyone wanted to be a part of it! However, little by little, people are starting to abandon affiliate marketing. They are not making the money that they thought, because they are not doing the things that they need to to be successful.

In this article we want to talk about three mistakes people make that kills their affiliate Internet marketing business.

1. The first thing you must do is you must pick your products wisely. Because almost every product is sold through affiliate marketing you will have literally thousands of products to choose from. Try to find a product that you like, purchase it, get to know the features and benefits of it, and then put together a marketing strategy that you will allow you to make money selling it.

2. Don't be a jack of all trades when it comes to joining affiliate marketing programs. This is a common mistake that you see all the time. If you want to kill your affiliate Internet marketing business try to market everything under the sun. You will never ever master becoming successful selling one thing, because you will be too busy failing trying to sell everything.

If you find a product that you like and you believe in, then concentrate on selling that first. Once you are making money and are successful in promoting that product then you can add another product to the mix. Over time, you will be able to take on more and more products and make more and more money. But you always want to be successful with the product that you have before you add another one.

3. Not understanding the importance of pre-selling. Most affiliates will just take the website that they are given when they join an affiliate marketing program. This is a bad idea because it makes them just like everybody else. If you take my advice and purchase the product and get to know it, then you can create your own webpage that pre-sells the features and benefits of it.

This gives you a huge advantage over your competition. Most of them will never buy the product before they try to sell it. Therefore you cannot build a credible pre-selling webpage, because you do not know what you're talking about.

This is three common errors that kill an affiliate Internet marketing business. Now that you have read this article there is no excuse for you to make the same mistakes.