As an affiliate, did you ever go to the Clickbank marketplace one day, not see a product listed and then the very next day, you see it at the top of the marketplace with some insane gravity of like 500? Did you ever wonder how that happens? Well, you can stop wondering. This article is going to blow the lid off of those inflated gravity numbers. I know there's going to be a lot of vendors who are not going to like this article one little bit. The first thing the vendor does is he goes to the marketplace to see what's selling. No sense creating something REALLY new when there is stuff out th

In our last installment of affiliate marketing tips, I went over some general guidelines for picking a product. In this installment, I'm going to focus on Clickbank primarily because it is the most popular marketplace on the Internet and the one that most people use, at least at first until they discover there are better options. We'll get to them in later installments. Okay, so how do you go about picking a product at the Clickbank marketplace? After all, there are tens of thousands to choose from. And trust me on this...not all of them sell, let alone are any good. Unless you have a gener

My father in law has a great saying. "Patience is a virtue given by God and abused by man." I never really understood it until I saw the way some Internet marketers go about their business. It's no wonder so many people are failing at this business. Patience is a word that they seem to have no concept of. So, we're going to talk about patience in this article...for those who have the patience to read to the end. Let's take a typical example of what I'm talking about. This is probably the most common one that I can think of. I am sure this may have even applied to you at one point in time, i

In the first installment of this series on affiliate marketing, I went over some of the biggest mistakes that affiliate marketers make. In this installment, we're going to start covering the actual process of affiliate marketing beginning with the actual product selection. This is where many affiliate marketers will drop the ball. There are a number of myths regarding product selection. I'm going to cover the most common and dangerous ones here. Trust me, these only scratch the surface but are important to know in order to avoid potential disaster. First off, contrary to popular belief,

I wanted to take a short break from my usual instructional type article to cover a subject that I feel is very important. This is one of the main reasons why many marketers and home business owners end up failing. I'm talking about absolutes and how they will absolutely kill you. Kind of a paradox there, isn't it. I've just stated an absolute myself. But it may just be the only one that makes sense. Okay, maybe it's time I explained. This article was inspired by a thread at one of the forums that I attend. I'm not going to go into too much detail on what the thread is about, but in a nutshe

There are a lot of advantages of affiliate marketing over creating and selling your own product. One of them is not having to deal with the hassles of customer support and handling refunds. Plus, you don't have to wonder if you'll even be able to come up with a product in the first place. As an affiliate, there are tons of products to choose from. Having said all that, there are a myriad of mistakes that affiliate marketers make that can literally derail a campaign before it even gets started. This article is going to cover some of the most glaring of these mistakes. See how many you've made y

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