There are three reasons beginning marketers should join an internet marketing affiliate program rather than trying product creation. Affiliate internet marketing is fast, easy and free. Product creation is time consuming, hard and costly. Your chances of marketing success as a beginner are significantly higher if you start making money as an affiliate before trying your hand at product creation.
I've studied internet marketing for several years. And I still get a little pit in my stomach when I hear one of the big time marketers in the industry claim that you must have your own product to be successful.
The thought of product creation overwhelms me. I've studied what goes into it. The time, the knowledge, the money, the experience. I've purchased ebooks, courses, and audios with enticing titles such as "How to Create Your Own Information Product in 30 Minutes." Not.
Maybe these "courses" work for people who just want to make a little quick cash and don't really care about quality or long term success. Or maybe they work for really experienced marketers to whom product creation is easy. But that's not what you hear. The big name marketers always talk about the chaos the week before a product launch. About being up all night. And, inevitably, about how their server crashed during launch day or how Paypal cut them off after they brought in too much money.
I've joined more than one internet marketing affiliate program. I've also done product creation, although I've yet to venture into product launch. I've found three reasons beginners should chose an internet marketing affiliate program over product creation.
A good internet marketing affiliate program is FAST, EASY, and FREE.
Product creation is time consuming, hard and costly.
Which one sounds like an easier path to successful marketing?
Affiliate internet marketing is FAST. You can be set up in an hour. Go to Clickbank. Find a niche that interests you and run a search using a relevant keyword. Pick a product with a high gravity and nice pitch page. Boom, you're on your way to affiliate marketing success. It's not possible to create a quality product and convincing sales page in the time it takes to join an internet marketing affiliate program through Clickbank.
Affiliate internet marketing is EASY. You don't have to come up with the product idea. You don't have to figure out how to create an ebook or how to produce and deliver a physical product. You don't need copywriting skills. You don't have to possess the technical knowledge necessary to put up a website. It's all done for you. How much easier could it be?
Finally, affiliate internet marketing is FREE. There's no cost to sign up with an affiliate program. There's no cost to create, set up, and host a web page, or to hire someone to do it for you. It's all done. Product creation involves all of these costs. Even if you're good, you can't realistically do it alone. You'll need to pay people to help with some aspects of the creation, promotion, and launch of the product.
If you are new to the internet marketing business, start with the fast, easy and free method. Your chances of affiliate marketing success are way greater than your chances of product creation success. Save that for when you are making a little money, able to quit your j-o-b, and have some time on your hands and some experience to ease the pains of product creation.
Too many people quit trying to make money online because it "doesn't work." The fact is, they just didn't know HOW to make it work. They didn't follow the fast, easy, free method that can result in affiliate marketing success with just a little persistence. Now that you know the method to follow, you have no excuse for failure.
One caveat. Having said all this, I think the commonly asked question: "Can I make money on the internet if I don't have any money?" is a different issue. I'll answer that question next time.
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