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This week I’ve been banging on about affiliate marketing as a model of online business.
I haven’t been too complementary about it. Generally I had found it time-consuming, reactionary and it had left me with the feeling I was ‘not getting it’.
Being an author and marketing are often mutually exclusive activities.
Not unusual.
Authors are writers and that puts them in the creative camp. Their heart is in weaving words to tell a story. To let the voices that inhabit their soul to speak through and enchant the page. To express themselves through the power of writing. The focus is internal.
Affiliate marketing turns out not to be the crock I thought it was. I guess that’s a typical response: when things don’t work out as expected we blame the thing that we can’t conquer. Ok. I am inclined to!
There is a bucket load of advice around the web on how to do affiliate marketing. I found a lot of it contradictory and confusing.
Affiliate marketing is not as easy as many would have you believe. There are a lot of steps involved and decisions along the way. Get them right and you’re on your way. Miss any or make a poor decision and you’re stuffed, or at least making it harder than it could be.
Last week we talked about how to make money from a blog. I thought I’d cover off in a little more detail how those business models work. So, let’s look at affiliate marketing.