Two Steps to Successful AFfiliate Marketing

The Primary Components for Affiliate MarketingAm I accurate in concluding that you would be happy to find an affordable step by step guide to establishing a profitable affiliate marketing business?  The process of affiliate marketing is not difficult in concept, but there are many components required to achieve success, I am going to simplify that process by identifying two of the most important steps on that journey.  The First Step: Find a TeacherA good initial step to attain the goal of owning a profitable affiliate marketing business, is to find a mentor who has already achieved the success you seek. As I began the process of learning online marketing in the fall of 2008, I was overwhelmed by the number of make money from home and make money online programs that were available on the internet. I was also surprised at the prices that the proven "gurus" were charging for their mentoring programs, with the number $1997 being a common upfront requirement for joining the top marketers programs, and many of them were simply re-hashed garbage, or taped seminars. I realized that if I was able to locate a mentor, with an established successful business, whose processes I could emulate, I would decrease the learning curve by a huge margin. So began my search for an program within my means, that would teach me the spectrum of online marketing methods. Step Two: Identify a NicheUpon the successful discovery of a mentoring program that is within your means, the next important step is to identify a market that has sufficient demand and products with which you can fill that demand . It seems like every marketer wants to enter the make money niche, myself included, a result of a fascination with the process of making money ever since childhood. But you should bear in mind that the make money niche is extremely difficult to make an impression on in 2011. Rather than jump into the make money niche cauldron, it would be advisable to find a niche where a large number of searches and consumption is found, without a huge base of competition, so that you can get traction on the search engines, and generate followers and sales.It is true that it is not quite so easy, some of my pages have taken half a year to climb the search engine page rankings. Having a product that you believe in is helpful for maintaining the motivation that you will need to reach your objective. So its important to ensure the products you promote meet your personal requirements for purchase and use. You only have one reputation as an affiliate marketer, and you don't want to ruin it by promoting bad products.If you will pay heed to these two suggestions, you will have a leg up on the competition in affiliate marketing. And starting off right gives you the greatest chance of finishing successfully.You would be ill advised to leap into the cycle of  purchasing "shiny objects" that promise to create an automatic stream of income for you, it is much better to join a membership site that allows you to learn the processes at your own pace. I have a number of mentors whom I have been fortunate to become acquainted with, they are both affordable and comprehensive, you can get more information about these programs on my blog, at EliKen Marketing.