A Trek in the Affiliate Marketing Jungle.

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 at 9:47 am

Now that I have the previous post off my chest which I really needed to do I’m just going to provide a fairly brief account of what I’ve done so far.

Like many budding internet entrepreneurs, when I first looked into the idea of internet marketing, I fell for yet another ploy which I can’t really condemn as being a scam but the only thing I got from it was the realization that I was wasting my time and money with it.

It was one of those “ready made” web sites you see so often in the search engines and fluttering around social media sites such as twitter etc.

The general idea for most of them is that after paying a membership fee, you are then provided with a custom built website on which you can market any or many of thousands of online products usually involving sites like clickbank, paydotcom, eBay etc, etc, etc.

While I’m not suggesting there’s anything wrong with selling these products and indeed a lot of people do so very successfully, doing it through a prepaid membership site with a pre-fabricated web site etc, is not something I would recommend to a new starter.

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More often than not with the majority of these sites, once you’ve paid your money, all the promises about providing ongoing training and support 24/7 dries up within the first couple of days. I tried several of them as a short cut to success with the same result.

So regardless of how good their sales pitch is or how enticing their promises, I’d advise anyone reading this to stay away from them. You’ll lose your money and become discouraged. It happened to me and it will happen to you!

I know this through experience but 99.9% of genuine mentors and marketing tutors will tell you exactly the same thing.

Nope! I found that there are no such short cuts by traveling those roads. What I did find however was that there is just so much free information and tutorials available on the internet for beginners, there is really no need to be spending money on these courses when so many are free.

In saying that I also have to say that there is lots of absolute garbage out there as well. There is so much outdated and ineffective strategies being offered by unscrupulous “gurus” who will offer products to you in exchange for your email address in order to promote more up to date products for which they are paid a commission. 5 years ago you would have been expected to pay as much as $2000 for a course which is now being offered free because the internet is changing so rapidly.

There are just too many out there to even attempt to list but there is one in particular I do recommend and was certainly a great learning platform for me as a rank beginner affiliate marketer a little more than a year ago.

I’m not going to go into any great detail other than to say that New Zealander Mark Ling has an excellent site jammed with great free stuff which you can find by right clicking on the link below and clicking on “open in new tab”.

Afillorama.com

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