1. Lousy sale pages
Designing and writing lousy sales pages not only that but doing it half-heartedly with the hopes of making a quick buck. Plus spending money buying expensive software to build landing pages not knowing I can do if for free using software like Brizy.
2. Spending money on ads
Oh, it still stings a little. Once again I jumped head first and threw money at Facebook like they deserved it by running ads to affiliate offers whilst having no idea how the advertising platform works or even how to effectively create a high converting landing page.
This is a big affiliate marketing mistake to avoid.
3. Spamming Facebook groups
If I could slap every affiliate marketer who gave me this advice it would bring me a lot of satisfaction. Please refrain from doing this. You will get banned and look like a complete idiot.
People can see affiliate marketers a mile away, plus it is such a newbie thing to do. Here are 8 strategies you can use to get affiliate marketing right.
4. Being to pushy
Another affiliate marketing mistakes to avoid is to try not being too pushy with your links in blog posts. It does not work and people hate when you tell or force them to do or buy stuff. Instead, make your visitors aware about the products by teaching them the benefits and show them the upside of using the products.
5. Not selling my links
Ok, this might sound complicated but this is a major problem for most affiliate marketers. They simply slap a link in a post, social media or on YouTube with a cringe worthy title like – “Want to lose weight? “ Click on the link!
This has beginner written all over it. You have to properly sell your links by telling people why they need it, what the product is, where they can find it and the most importantly – THE PROOF.
You need to prove the product works, if you have proof, you have a sale.
Simple as that.
6. No intention to promote products
This is obviously not as bad as the above mentioned, but I find myself every now and again applying for affiliate programs with almost no intention to promote it.
Why? I don’t know really. Maybe it is just to see if they will accept me?
This is not a big issue but is still creates a negative impact mentally when you get monthly mails from programs with your affiliate sales at 0
Don’t apply if you have no interest in selling.
7. Applying but have no idea how to promote.
This affiliate marketing mistakes to avoid is sad but true. I will find myself joining multiple affiliate programs but have no idea how to promote them.
For example – I joined Kicksta (company that helps build your Instagram page) but I don’t have an idea how to effectively promote their service to make a decent income. I know what to do, but I don’t have the platform or the audience to promote it too.
I can write a review, but I am not an active Kicksta user, so I don’t have the experience to write a review.
