Are you making these 3 fatal errors in Affiliate promotion

As a marketer your main goal is to make more affiliate sales with the program you decided to promote. But many newbies make the mistake of choosing the program first without knowing if the market is profitable for them.

Another mistake is that they try to start in markets that don't have any competition. It is called an untapped niche. This can be a lucrative choice, but most of the time, if there is no competition, that means that there is no money to be made in this market.

When you think about it, thousands of affiliates use tools like affiliate elite, spyfu and keyword spy to find the highly profitable niches.

Although the Internet is a huge marketplace, it's relatively easy to see what's going on there on a daily basis. there are countless tools that allow you to find exactly what people are searching for and how many times they are searching every single day. Wordtracker and Wordze help you to do this very easily.

When you start affiliate marketing your best bet is to start in established markets with proven and repetitive buyers, You want to tap in markets with millions of visitors because you will make some commissions.

I am not saying that you should start directly in the weight loss market for example, but you need to target a sub-niche of this big market. An example of sub-niche could be Weight loss for women.

The product you are promoting would not appeal to men in this case. Don't make the mistake of trying to sell to everybody. This is the best way to make affiliates sales!

Let's recap...

Mistake #1: choosing the affiliate programs before the niche

Mistake #2: Promoting in markets with no money and no competition

Mistake #3: Trying to sell something to everybody.

Avoid these three mistakes and you are well on your way to earn your first affiliate sale.