"The Problems Of Affiliate Marketing..!!!"

Since the last installment was about all the advantages of affiliate marketing, I figured it
would make sense for today's section to cover the disadvantages. Yes, there are a few!

But don't worry, I'll show you how to avoid all the problems as well as beat the ones you
simply cannot steer clear of!

• Two Is OK, Three's A Crowd

Affiliate marketing became its own worst enemy when everyone started realizing
how good it was to have an affiliate program.


It seemed that for every product to come out, a new affiliate program also entered the
market in order to reap the mass amounts of traffic that affiliate programs typically bring.
So naturally when a million products came out, a million affiliate programs were soon to
follow creating a huge messy problem for all beginning affiliate marketers.

Even master Internet marketer Corey Rudl cashed-in on the trend and began selling
affiliate program software to the many new affiliate program owners on the market.
Although his software is excellent, the people buying it did not always adhere to the same
high business standards that Corey or his software did. And that's where problems
began.

With the good came the bad!

The Internet flooded with poorly run affiliate programs and shady merchants
who steal commissions or don't pay on time. They run bad customer support programs
and don't keep their sites up-to-date and professional-looking.
Affiliate program empires where built up with toothpicks and bubblegum and many of
them fell apart under the weight. And there they remained trapping many newbie affiliate
marketers in their ruins.

I don't want you to be one of them.

• One Is The Loneliest Number

If making a living over the Internet is your goal, then affiliate marketing needs to take on
a whole new meaning for you. Here's what I mean:

You can't possibly think of creating an income substantial enough to live on by
simply selling one product or service over and over again can you? I mean even if the
product has a recurring monthly income, it can be very hard to build up a large enough
income stream to live off of. Affiliate marketing product commissions just normally
don't allow for one product to create the kind of wealth that many Internet marketers are
after.

So naturally the best thing to do is get a portfolio of affiliate products/services that
you can advertise.

Ian's Insight:
Your portfolio of products/services puts you into a bit of a
"Catch-22" situation. You need to promote more then one
affiliate program to make a good-sized income, but with
each new affiliate program comes a whole new set of
responsibilities. Your challenge is to balance the two
sides.

Remember only to promote certain affiliate program which you have deemed worthy of
your time, effort and income level! Try starting by advertising only one or two
affiliate products or services at most. Once you have a good handle on those two, add
slowly and steadily until you are making a profit big enough to purchase the Taj
Mahal!

• There's Safety in Numbers…and Some Problems, Too

If your promoting 10 different affiliate programs to make sure you're earning enough
income from affiliate marketing, keeping track of your new found revenue streams can
get tricky. 10 different affiliate programs means 10 different places that you'll need to
visit regularly to see how each affiliate program is doing.

You could drown in this tidal wave of income if you're not careful!

Ian's Insight:
To help keep things "sorted out," I suggest you save all
the welcome messages that are sent to you when you
join the affiliate program. They will usually contain the
link to where you can check your affiliate statistics, your
username and password.

If you really want to get a handle on things, go to the login page of each affiliate program
and bookmark it into a folder called affiliate stats. If you are at the login area for
Internet Marketing Secrets, then name the bookmark accordingly either by name or by its
initials. Just use something that you will recognize easily.

That way instead of always searching for links to your affiliate areas, you'll have them in
one easily accessible place. And what about all those usernames and passwords...yikes!

Ian's Freebie:
There's a neat piece of software that will remember all
your passwords for you. It comes in really handy when
you are a part of 15, 20 or 30 affiliate programs! It's free
and you can download it instantly here: RoboForm.

• Share the Wealth…and the Advertising Costs

I think that the biggest disadvantage to affiliate marketing is the cost involved in creating
a large income.

For each affiliate program that you join, there will be an additional cost in advertising
that program. If you're promoting 20 different affiliate products, you'll have to pay for 20
different advertising campaigns and that can get really expensive.

Ian's Insight:
The only way around this disadvantage is to promote
slowly and build up your wealth over time. Re-investing
50% - 75% of your earned profits to cover
advertising costs in order to make more profits is a really
good idea. It's just that it takes a little longer to do.

But not many people did get rich over night!

Okay! I've got a reward for you. Your next lesson -- The Most Ingenious Marketing
System in the World -- is simply going to blow your mind. You'll learn a proven
system that exploits all the advantages of affiliate marketing while avoiding all the
problems!

It's a system I have personally used to generate an income of $5000 per month…and
I'll tell you all about it tomorrow!

Thanks for reading!