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When you first start out in the world of affiliate marketing, you will realise that it is not all plain sailing. You will hear all of these fantastic stories of people making hundreds of thousands in a year and doing this with ease. There is a lot of people that will not understand why they are not making no money at all and are part of the ninety five percent that most likely never will.

Unless you have personally used the product that you are promoting or you know of the product first hand you have got little to no chance of making money unless you have got a huge list to mail to. It will take some people a long time to realise that they are pouring money down the drain promoting some affiliate programmes, and will carry on wasting money for a long time before the penny drops.

There is many ways of promoting a product as an affiliate like PPC which is commonly known as pay per click and you can also purchase leads that you can email to, but none of these methods are going to bring you success if you do not know what you are doing.

Sometimes I believe it is like the blind leading the blind when they are told that the way forward in this game is to promote your product with either the pay per click or buying costly leads to email to, because you do not know which adwords to use on the pay per click, and unless you have a pre-written email that’s going to excite your customers you might as well forget it.

Most of the big hitters in this game make money out of doing affiliate programmes because they have branded themselves in the right way, and most of all because they have got a list the size that you can only dream of.

When you start to look at the affiliate market from this angle you begin to realise that it is not worth just throwing money at any affiliate programme and to first do a little bit of research into what you will be promoting. Secondly when you have found a product or programme that you wish to promote as an affiliate, write an engaging post about it on your blog and then send the traffic to your blog. This way you will find that you can write a lot more content on a post on your blog that you can in an email,I have found this a much more productive way of making sales as an affiliate.

Not only have you got a better chance of making a sale on the product or programme that you are promoting, but you have also got a good chance of selling a different product or programme if you have monetised your blog in the right way, with putting banners and other posts with other affiliate links in them.

If you are a newbie at this game then believe me this is one of the easiest ways of making commissions that I know, and as an added bonus if you set your blog up in the right way you have got a good chance of making affiliate commissions from lots of different programmes and products. You do not have to rub shoulders with the big hitters doing it this way, it is like taking your customers to your own private little shop. Try it you might be surprised how easy it is to make a commission doing it like this.