"There Is Only One Secret to Affiliate Marketing, Do You Know and Use It?"

Below is a basic overview of how affiliate marketing works.

It works this way for beginning affiliate marketers as well as expert affiliate marketers.

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[Image provided courtesy of the Sugarrae affiliate marketing blog.]

And it doesn’t work if we (or someone who’s working for us) doesn’t do the work required for people to find, see, click and buy from our affiliate link.

Which means we don’t get paid. Which basically results in having a lot of theory about HOW affiliate marketing SHOULD work and no profit to show from it.

Super affiliates, successful affiliates know this secret. (And I bet you think they know some other good stuff too.)

What they know most is that the work has to get done, so the work, works for them, while they’re sleeping, having fun, traveling and dealing with life.

Now there are some mighty fine excuses for not doing the work. The finest I’ve heard is “I have no interest in affiliate marketing”. Best. Excuse. Ever. Go do what you’re interested in doing.

And then there are the spectacularly crappy ones.

• I don’t know where to start. Find out.
• I don’t know what to offer. Offer something.
• I can’t build a website. Use WordPress.

• I don’t understand what affiliate marketing is. See the graphic at the top of the page.
• Don’t I need [whatever you think you need]? Maybe. Probably not though and most likely not at this particular point in your affiliate marketing game.

All those excuses and some others [it's all a scam, the economy is bad - nobodies buying anything, I'm not smart enough, I don't know enough, people won't like me trying to sell to them] are keeping you away from being successful. Believe me, I’ve used every crappy excuse available.

There is no ‘click this button and make money overnight’.

There is no ‘one single button’. There are tons of different buttons and each one requires some sort doing of work to make the work work for you.

You’re seeing all this because for the next 365 days (June 1, 2011 to May 31, 2012) of dealing with – the head trash, the what if’s, the criticisms, the what to do’s about eww I don’t like doing that and damn that didn’t work – being documented live on the blog.

There are also (not always pretty) ways to shatter, get around, over, under and through the barriers of being scared spitless of looking foolish and being called names …

It’s All Affiliate Marketing All The Time. (365 days worth anyway)

There is nothing to sign up for.  My affiliate journey, the good, the bad, the ugly and the exceptional  – is taking place live, right here.

Oh you insist on signing up for an email list? Great! And it won’t just be about affiliate marketing. What you won’t get – copies of blog posts, affiliate tech news or affiliate success stories.

What you will get, straight to your inbox, is a concise account of the steps I took to achieve whatever my most current successful result is. You’ll get to bypass all the ugly, the head trash, the stuff that didn’t work like it was supposed to. Yes I’ll still be sharing it on the blog, I’ll just be sharing it with my email peeps first. Oh and for free (for now).

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(You might want to hurry though, because, as I get smarter, it’s a guarantee I’ll be charging for this kind of access to my brain