When you first start affiliate marketing, your goal seems to be just to make money. So if you go in every direction trying anything and everything that's recommended book with no real clue about the mistakes you are making that could affect your chances for long-term success. Let's look at the biggest mistakes that can affect you negatively and cause you to fail.

Mistake #1 You Focus Is On Selling Instead Of Helping
in general the job of you as an affiliate is to sell. The Sally takes place on the sales page after your reader has clicked the affiliate link that appears on your page. It's a common mistake beginners make that screams by this now, but instead you should be teaching the reader why they need this product, and when you do a good job of this your reader will want to click the link to make the purchase. 

People like to hear what other people have to say about products this helps them to decide whether or not to buy a product. This is why reviews on Amazon are so powerful. These reviews are created by people and those giving the feedback have nothing to gain from what they say about a product. This helps consumers make choices about products that they are thinking about buying.

Would you give an unbiased review about a product rather than playing the high-pressure sales card you will find that your sales increase because people will begin to trust the advice you give on products and they will be much more willing to make a purchase of a product you recommend.
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Mistake #2 Failing To Test a Product You're Going To Sell

When you choose to promote a product as an affiliate you should be putting yourself in the shoes of your potential customer. You need to test a product and learn whether what the vendor says about the product is true. Nothing will send people away from your site faster than you promoting something is being wonderful and awesome and a must own and then you customer discovering it's crap and doesn't do what it says it would. If it was you, how would you feel? Before you offer any product or sale as an affiliate you need to buy that product test the product and make sure that you really want your name or your company name behind that product is being worthy of a consumer purchase.

Starting your affiliate marketing business is exciting after all this entirely new revenue source for your business, but if you want to be successful at affiliate marketing anyone to create a long term income stream you need to do it right. Avoiding these two most common mistakes great start success