Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Marketing: Success is not a Goal!

Success is not the Destination in Affiliate Marketing. If you think it is, you will never be successful in your entire life!

So what is than success or the understanding of success?

Is success a positive attitude?
Is success a strong work ethic?
Is success having great wealth?
Is success always achieving your goals?
Is success always winning?

The answer is yes and no!

Success with Affiliate Marketing you certainly must have a positive attitude and knowing that when other people making good money with it, so can you. There is no place here for just wishing and hoping that when you only focus on the positive side and deny any negative attitude than you will attract success into your life. You must have the positive attitude that you can do it and that you will do whatever is necessary to get the job done. When you are really serious to be successful, you must have a good work ethic, because on the beginning you will put in a lot of hours and fail. Only a good work ethic will keep you going, and keep looking for solution and ways to figure out how it can work, and one day you will get it.

Success is all about getting out of your comfort zone, creating a new attitude of character towards success and mixed with a good work ethic. This attitude will than bring the harvest home of wining and wealth. There are people who are wealthy, but they are not successful.

This is a journey, there is no shortcut and no fake it until you make it, or you will never archive real greatness. It has nothing to do with your background or knowledge, but how you learn from your failure and turn them into success. Success means nothing else than staying hungry for more knowledge and doing it until it works and sorting out what does work and what does not work.

Success in Affiliate Marketing is the positive attitude and the work ethic to take action, to make it happen by been flexible with your goals to archive even greater results and this makes you a winner.

Gudrun Smith

Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Gudrun Smith - January 9, 2010 at 9:44 pm

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What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate Marketing is selling other people products and the strategy behind it is a win-win situation. A win-win strategy means that the vendor wins because you are selling his products while you win by making money through commission for each sell you produce.

Now the question what the most people new on the Internet doesn’t know is the different between Affiliate Marketing and Affiliate Business Opportunity. Most people think that Affiliate Marketing and Affiliate Business Opportunity is the same, but it is not!


As an Affiliate Marketer I can pick up any Affiliate product and promote it on the Internet without buying the program or products. Sometimes it is recommended to buy the product and see what it is all about so it will be easier to promote and market it better, but you don’t have to. Affiliate Marketing cost you nothing just go to ClickBank pick out the item you want to promote, go than to their website and sign up as an affiliate to get their affiliate tools, like images and some e-mail examples. Again it is free and cost you nothing.

Now Affiliate Business Opportunity cost you money, you must buy yourself into this Business Opportunity and have a monthly membership fee, plus fee for the back-office and websites, some even require that you must buy monthly products on auto shipment. Here is the main focus to recruited people into this business opportunity. Depend on the compensation plan and how many people you must recruited for your up-line before you are qualified to make any money, also called the up selling. The worst plan in my opinion is the matrix plan, which is a challenge for many to get qualified and than make any money. Sometimes people are good in recruiting, but people quitting faster when they don’t make money in their first couple of months.

Here is it where you find a lot of quick rich scams just to recruit faster people into this business with false promises and most of the time it is not the business opportunity which makes the money, they make money by getting people into the business opportunity and take their money and than drop them. Even when they claim they are direct seller, they are still Multi Level Marketing Business, because they make money from people below them. You always will hear how somebody starts and is straight ahead successful, but they never will tell you their true back ground, that they already had a down-line from another business opportunity. Businesses are coming and going and sometimes they make changes, which will make it harder for other to make any money or they are going out of business. When someone supported their team and help them it is than easy for them to take their down-line to a new business opportunity. The one story they all tell is how they were broken and into depth before they found this company and in short month now they are financial free and quite their job, and live the Lifestyle of their dreams.

But in the same time you hear how many people had their dream of building an online business destroyed, they were spending all their saving and max out their credit card and never made a dime. They failed with their online business, because they never learned the important lesson how to market successful on the Internet. They never understand that building a business is hard work and it required skills everybody can learn.

Nobody ever was born knowing all this skills, and no degree is required to be successful. What is required is education with the skills and keeping up to date with changes. The important is that you understand what is a business and what is a hobby. Serious businesses required hard work and when you can afford it you can hire people to do it for you, but as long as you can’t afford you must do the work by yourself.

So the different is that with Affiliate Marketing you sell other people products and you are in control how much money you make. You learn the skills do it one circle see the result, and than repeat it again with another product, than again with another product and so on. The first circle is the hardest to crack, but after that it is so easy just repeat it again and again. The expenses you have and must have are for domain names, hosting and auto-responder, and ongoing education every Business Owner has whether it is a local business or online business.

Affiliate Business Opportunity you are gambling with their compensation plan, are you really getting the people you recruit put under you, how much your down-line produce and how long that Business stays in Business, and how much money you can afford to spend every month on fees, plus you still have the same expenses than an Affiliate Marketer.

As you now see and understand it is so much easier to sell other people products than it is to sell a business opportunity. Just check out the Millionaires and you easy see that they all make their money with sells on commission and that they are in control how much they make. It is all about taking the risk, taking action, hard and smart work, education and expending knowledge to reach for more and helping more people in a win-win attitude. There is no Magic Bottom for Affiliate Marketing, so stop looking for it and build your Business for a Long-Term with the right info product.

Gudrun Smith
Easy Online Marketing Coach
210-279-4317
gudrun@gudrunsmith.com

http://easy-online-marketing.com
http://momshomebasedbiz.com

Please leave your comments! Thanks

Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Gudrun Smith - December 7, 2009 at 2:42 pm

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The True About Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Marketing is the easiest way to start a home based business and promoting other people products. You don’t have to create your own products, and how many claim that you even don’t need a website. The only thing you have to do it driving traffic to that site.

The true about Affiliate Marketing


is that you don’t have to join that Business Opportunity and spend hundreds of dollars every month for back-office, website and auto-shipment for product that qualified you for your commission. It can be very hard and frustrating to recruited people into your Business Opportunity and seeing them faster leave when they didn’t make the money they hope for. Some of them even believe that the money flows to them after they signed up without any work involved.

The true about Affiliate Marketing is that it is free to join it. Some you can sign up direct on their website, while others perform Clickbank with thousands of digital products to chose from. All you have to do is to market the product you picked. You get your commission check for any product or service you sold and they will handle any issue with customers.

The true about Affiliate Marketing is that you must have your own domain name with hosting. With your own domain name and hosting you can redirect the affiliate site so nobody can see it and build capture pages, websites and to host pictures or logos. Today a lot of people get cheated out of their commission when they use the affiliate link. Yes you can! When you are promoting an affiliate product from Clickbank and I like your product, I can easy go to Clickbank, get the link than buy it through my affiliate link and I get the commission.

The true about Affiliate Marketing is that you must build your list and follow up with an auto responder. Nobody ever buys at the first time, but when they opt-in on your list they are interested what you offer. Most times it takes about seven attempts before they become your customer, and when they like what you sold them they will buy again when you offer them another product. With e-mail marketing you build a relationship with your prospects and customers; you give them information to help them with their problems. People don’t care about you, but they looking what are in for them and how you can help them, but when you mistreat their trust and just spam them with sales pitches they will opt out very fast.

The true about Affiliate Marketing is that it is crowded at the entry level. Don’t let that stop you, because so harder you work and so higher you stand up from the crowed so more successful you are, and so more you move up so more place you have. Most people never pass the entry level, because they refuse to work hard to build a successful business. They fail like they will fail with a local business. A local store is nothing else than a website, when you customer don’t know that you exist and what you sell, they can’t show up in your store and buy your product, but when you market your business, people will stop by to check your store out and when they like what you offer, they will buy and when you treat them right they will be returning customers.

The true about Affiliate Marketing is that to become successful with your business you must learn marketing and how to sell yourself and your products or service. When you fail to learn these skills and not willing to work harder than the others, you will never have a successful business. After your Business is successful, you can afford than to hire other to do the work for you, and you move into the position where you manage them.

Gudrun Smith
Easy Online Marketing Coach
210-279-4317
gudrun@gudrunsmith.com

http://easy-online-marketing.com
http://momshomebasedbiz.com

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Gudrun Smith - December 3, 2009 at 7:42 pm

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Taking Affiliate Marketing to the Next Level

I’m following up today on the topic of affiliate marketing profits. My goal is to recap what we have already covered in this series, providing you with as much information as possible to best benefit from your affiliate marketing career choice.


From the various characteristics of super affiliates to choosing affiliate networks, the leap from beginner marketer to intermediate or more can take some hard work. It doesn’t, however, need to be something which will frighten you with new things to learn, or overwhelm you with new responsibilities.

One important aspect in learning how to get those affiliate marketing programs making money for you is knowing the different ways you can go about actually earning with the program of your choice. From video broadcasts to blogging, press releases to RSS feeds, there are many ways in addition to the basics which can help you grow your business as well as your profits.

There are several steps to take towards making an informed decision on choosing affiliate networks.

*Choose an interesting affiliate program
*Find products that you can believe in
*Choose a program that pays well and on time
*Find one that offers a variety of marketing tools and other incentives for top-performing affiliates

There’s always the possibility of a problem or issue, no matter what business you’re in. The important thing to remember is for just about every problem, somewhere there’s a solution. Nothing needs to be written in stone when it comes to affiliate marketing. From having problems getting paid, to losing money on your investment and a variety of other issues you can easily let a product go that’s not working for you.

Be flexible. Always choose affilate programs that mesh with your niche market for easier promotion.Don’t hesitate to switch programs if the product is under-performing.

We’re happy you have followed us in this journey to be not only a better affiliate marketer, but a super affiliate marketer. Not only can the tips we have already provided help you get through each stage of the process, we are happy to offer you a special paid report called “Affiliate Marketing: Taking it to the Next Level”.

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All the best to you on your affiliate marketing journey, whether you’re in the beginning stages, or on the road to super affiliate in the very near future.


Gudrun Smith

Easy Online Markting Coach
gudrun@gudrunsmith.com
http://easy-online-marketing.com

Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Gudrun Smith - November 10, 2009 at 11:24 am

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What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate Marketing is the answer when you want to start an Internet Business on a limit budget. Understand the different of Affiliate Marketing and to become an Affiliate of a Home Based Business Opportunity.

You may ask now what is the different of Affiliate Marketing and Affiliate of a Home Based Business

Opportunity, is that not the same? The answer is no! As an Affiliate Marketer I promote other people products, which can be digital or physical products. I personal like digital products from Click Bank. Click Bank is kind of a middle man who offers thousands of different digital products from their vendor’s. Vendor’s offering here their products and marketers selling the products. Click Bank collect the payment from the customers, and than they pay the vendor and marketer their portion. As a marketer you have nothing to do with customer service, products or business.


You are just like a retailer who opens his shop and put other people product on the shelves to sell it. On the Internet I show people my website of the products and after they buy they can immediately download it and use it. This means that with a local shop you must buy the products and create Inventory which cost you money, to show your customer the products. A retailer buys products and than sell it with a profit to make money and cover his expenses. The same is happen when people start their Home Based Business Opportunity and be required to buy physical products most are Cosmetic, Health and Wellness products or others, they call themselves Independent Distributor.

An Independent Distributor pays to get involved with the company in a Multi Level Marketing System (MLM)
even when they call them Direct Seller. When ever you make money on people below you most of the time it is three level deep, it is a multi level marketing system. Most of the time their member must recruited people into the Business Opportunity and be on a monthly auto-shipping schedule were they must buy every month for a minimum dollar or points amount to be able to make money on their down-line. On the other hand, they must pay monthly fee for websites and back office, some must be qualified or pay extra to be on member training program, expenses to attend the company seminars were only the attendants will get more information, plus the advertising expenses. They are in a strict line what they can do or not, some are even not allowed to use the product by it name in their advertising campaign.

Now as an Affiliate Marketer who use Click Bank, I pay nothing to join and no fees are involves. I just get my affiliate links and start to promote it by driving traffic to my landing page and build my list, my landing page redirect the traffic to the affiliate links which shows the vendors sales page. The customer buys, Click Bank collect the money and I get paid.

The one skill Affiliate Marketing or Business Opportunity have to learn

  • is how online marketing works to drive tons of traffic to your site. Traffic = Sales and No Traffic = No Sales

    It is up to you how big or small your budget is to start as an Affiliate Marketer and sell unlimited numbers of products or you may need to belong to a community of a specific Home Based Business Opportunity to be motivated and network with other people. The point is it is much cheaper to start a home based business on the Internet than it is to start a local business or franchise.

    Gudrun Smith
    Easy Online Marketing Coach
    210-279-4317
    gudrun@gudrunsmith.com

    http://easy-online-marketing.com
    http://momshomebasedbiz.com

  • Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Gudrun Smith - November 9, 2009 at 11:10 pm

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    What is Affiliate Marketing?

    Affiliate Marketing Is Simply A Business Model Where You Recommend OTHER People’s Products For A Cut Of The Profits…Without Having To Create Any Products!


    Here are 5 simple reasons why this model completely slaughters almost every other internet business models you’ll find:

    Reason #1: It’s easy to get started IMMEDIATELY. Almost unbelievably easy and super profitable, as I’ll show you later…

    Reason #2: You don’t have to be a super-techie geek. You do need a website, but it doesn’t have to be the best out there – it just has to follow the simple formula I’ll give you.

    Reason #3: You don’t need your own winning product to sell. You’ll be promoting other people’s products…and they’ll pay you massive cash to do so!

    Reason #4: You don’t need to spend big bucks to set up your business. All you need is some hosting for your site, and a desire to succeed to rake in a huge fortune!

    Reason #5: You don’t need the things that make a “business” a pain in the neck. You don’t even need employees, inventory or even an office – just use your bedroom!

    Do you see how powerful that is? It’s like starting and running a super profitable business but with none of the risk.

    Plus when you apply this simple step-by-step system…

    Gudrun Smith
    Easy Online Marketing Coach
    210-279-4317
    gudrun@gudrunsmith.com

    http://easy-online-marketing.com
    http://momshomebasedbiz.com

    7 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Gudrun Smith - November 2, 2009 at 2:07 pm

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    Start Affilate Marketing and Learn.

    Easy Online Marketing Tips: Start Affilate Marketing and Learn
    When you followed my Easy Online Marketing Articles you will realized that I talk a lot about starting a real Business and not to fall for a Quick Rich Scam. Now, is it time to move on and start making money without overspending your limit budget with Affiliate Marketing.


    Most people start a MLM or Direct Sale Business, and the principle is to recruiting people into your down-line and than make money from them. The concept looks great, and I done it too, but what the real problem is, that people want to make fast money and refuse to do the work. Building a real business required work, hard work to build a successful foundation! When people start an Online Business and don’t make fast money they quit or they quit when they face their first challenge. The real biggest challenge for a newbie on the Internet is, that they don’t know how market their business opportunity and most of the time they been advised to buy other service. As you may know when you don’t know how something works you easy spent thousands of dollars and may still don’t know it.

    Affiliate Marketing is the best solution to start your own business with minimum expenses. You sell other people products without buying yourself into their business opportunity, and you can choose as many different products as you like. You just sell the product and get paid, but you have nothing to do with customer service, or with the business.

    The key to make money on the Internet is to learn Affiliate Marketing and than move on to create your own products. You must first learn the basic and than follow step by step instruction and you will make money. The most mistakes people do when they start their business opportunity; they buy everything and hoping to find that power bottom to make big money. The true is that the magic bottom is to learn the skills, take action by applying the new skills and learned to get better. Never wait until you are perfect, or you will end up never making a dime. Just start and with practice you will get better and better. When you face challenges, find the solution so it works. Each business has special skills and only when you handle these skills your business will be successful.

    The first step to make you Internet Business successful is to learn Online Marketing, when you handle these skills you can market whatever you want to sell on the Internet. When you don’t have a business yet, just start with Affiliate Marketing.

    Gudrun Smith
    Easy Online Marketing Coach
    210-279-4317
    gudrun@gudrunsmith.com

    http://easy-online-marketing.com
    http://momshomebasedbiz.com

    5 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Gudrun Smith - November 1, 2009 at 1:00 pm

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    Writing Contents

    Easy Online Marketing Tips: Writing Contents

    The best and easy way to promote your home based business is to write contents. You may have heard about writing contents but don’t really know how, or you new to network marketing and this is all new for you. Lets me explain to you what contents is and why you should do it!


    What ever you promote on the Internet you have to be very specific what you promote. Like I have my moms home based business so I am looking for people who are interested to start in my moms home based business or may just want to become customers with my great products for healths, wellness and home. So I will promote my business under business opportunity as my target market to build my down line or in health, wellness and green home cleaners when I am target for customers for my products. I am looking for my target market were people are ready to buy my products, and I will not go into dog training, card trading, games or some like that to market my product, because on this site people are not ready or not interested for my moms home based business or my products. That is what we call be keyword specific for your target market.

    Now after you set up your keywords you start now to write contents for your keywords, and by the way to be more powerful have a domain name with your keywords. Like my keywords are moms home based business and my domain is momshomebasedbiz.com this makes my seo work is so much easier. I use blogs to write my keyword specific contents articles with information how to build or promote a business on the Internet and in the same time I build back links to my web site.

    Why to write contents? Well, see it from the Internet way to understand it not from your eyes! What we call the Internet spider loves fresh information and so more fresh information you feed it so more and faster it comes back and push your web site more in more to the front, in other words like the front pages of google, on the other hand when there are no fresh information or contents to your web site, the spider come less and less back to your site and this mean your site is moving more and more to the back were nobody will find it. So when people easy find your web site you make money and when nobody can find it, guess what, you are not making any money at all.

    Now there are a lot of people out there who have the fear to write and avoid it.
    I just say, “Don’t worry, just write just like you will tell a friend about something!”, we are not here to get a English degree, we just want to write contents. There are many people out there they may just speak or write the way you do and they will be attracted to you. After you start writing and so more you write so better your writing becomes and in the same time you delicate yourself with grateful information. Remember, nobody is perfect so don’t wait until you be perfect, because you just set up to fail your business. The successful people they face their fear and just do what needs to be done, that were the success and money comes.

    I was last week on a teleconference with a guy who make a six figure monthly income. Somebody ask him what his secret is to be so successful and his answer was just to write contents daily, and when you can’t write it daily, write it ahead so you can publish daily one article.

    That’s so simple and in the same time so powerful, but in the same time you brand yourself and build relationship. Technology is a great and powerful tool to promote anything you can think about it, but people still wants to buy from people, that means you have to talk with people. Everybody must learn this skills and everybody can do it! Just do it and you will see so more you do it so easier its get, that why it said that successful people do what needs to be done, unsuccessful people refused to do the job and fear leads them to failure with their moms homes based business.

    Gudrun Smith
    Easy Online Marketing Coach
    210-279-4317
    gudrun@gudrunsmith.com

    http://easy-online-marketing.com
    http://momshomebasedbiz.com
    P.S. See I am writing and English is my second language

    Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Gudrun Smith - May 18, 2009 at 12:12 am

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    Home Based Businesses are Looking for the Right People

    It is not a matter that it is Home Based Business or Your Business Opportunity Online or Offline Businesses, you must always look for the right people. With recruiting, sponsoring or teaming up, your goal should be a win win situation, that you all are in business to make money and being a powerful team. Should be or?

    See if you looking to find the right people into your business and have the goal to expend and grow your business, and gain financial success. The Important question also should be, how can I make a different in people life, how can I help and motivate others. The other question is, did you really believe in your business and in yourself? You can not expect things from other people when you don’t believe in it by yourself.


    On the other hand when you are just looking for a body to join your home based business opportunity you already plan to fail! WOW that’s are hard words. Ok, let me show you what I mean. When you are prospecting people to join your business opportunity and they are not really interested or have a very low self-esteem, you may be good to talk them into buying your business opportunity and than nothing will happen any more! What’s just happen? Well you got the wrong person, a person who may want to have the fast ticket to riches by signing up on a home based business opportunity with the hope of a person who plays Lotto to hit the jackpot and get rich without any work. As we know there are a lot of Guru’s on the Internet they are just selling this dreams to get people into their organization and after they cash your check you will get no hold on them anymore. On the other hand the right person see the opportunity, know that there is work involved and he will go to work and make it happen.

    When I am talking to find the right people into my Moms Home Based Business Opportunity, I talking to build my business with people who are really understand the concept of a business. A Business Online is the same than a Business Offline, they are both a Business and you have to work your Business. You start with building a strong and powerful foundation, by learning all the knowledge off your products and business. What kind of business you are operating, is it online or offline, or do you bring your offline business online.

    What is your goal which messages are you sending out there?
    What is your target market?
    Is it local or global?
    Did you understand Internet Marketing?
    Are you doing the job by yourself or are you paying somebody?
    On which page of Google is your website?
    What is your desire end result?

    See having just a website means nothing when people can not find it. The same is with a offline business, you can have the best business in town, but when people can’t find your location you don’t make any business. I don’t want scarred you, but every body started out small and growth bigger and bigger like you will. The only things what is between your success or failure is, are you willing and believe that you can create a successful home based business and are you willing to do the work?

    Just remember, when you are not willing to learn and to grow by challenges that will come along in your life, you will never reach your goals and financial freedom. The person who seeks for solution in lives challenges will grow stronger and powerful with an unlimited income. Successful People are not born with this talent, they are made. No matter from were you come, but in that moment when you make a decision to change your life and take action you are on the road to success. The only thing you can lose is not willing to change your life and take action to create unlimited income. It’s all up to you, were do you want to be in 4 years.

    Always find the right people in your life, family, as friends or business associates, because you will become what you surround yourself they can help you to grow or they can brake you! Again know what you want, believe in yourself and know you can reach your goals and surround yourself with like minded people. When you really understand this, you will be able to see and can feel it, and than in that moment miracles start to happen in your life. The real secret to success is your mental work and action you take, and not your education background or from were you come from.

    Gudrun Smith
    Easy Online Marketing Coach
    210-279-4317
    gudrun@gudrunsmith.com

    http://easy-online-marketing.com
    http://momshomebasedbiz.com

    The clock is ticking —- are you ready to change your life?

    Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Gudrun Smith - February 18, 2009 at 12:36 am

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