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Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by Nobody: 8:39pm On Jan 02, 2017
importexpert:


you can do it with your smartphone. i always recommend starting up with a cyber cafe for the first few days.
okay thanks..how can i reach i need a mentor after i purchase the e book
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by supereagle(m): 9:05pm On Jan 02, 2017
Admin401:


where can i get quality traffic from?
Forum related to your niche
Social media, join group or you create a group on niche
Article marketing
above all lay hold google traffic pump, this can help you get lazer target traffic within 15minutes.
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by supereagle(m): 9:08pm On Jan 02, 2017
nokiaba3:
importexpert i asked a question on ur other thread u didnt reply
i dont have a laptop right now buh am willing to start this AM, i only have android phone and can use the services of a cyber cafe for now...can i start? pls reply me i take God beg you
you don't have the time for cyber cafe pls. AM is a big job. Get a low cost desktop system that's internet ready.
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by importexpert(m): 9:11pm On Jan 02, 2017
nokiaba3:
okay thanks..how can i reach i need a mentor after i purchase the e book

my contact details are on the ebook. i am automatically your mentor once you have my ebook. you can always contact me whenever you have a challenge. your success is truly my pride
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by Nobody: 9:40pm On Jan 02, 2017
I seriously doubt you are making more than $800 a month with affiliate marketing. You must be those guys that only make money by selling ebooks teaching people how to make money with affiliate marketing.
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by BCharles: 9:46pm On Jan 02, 2017
[quote author=importexpert post=52468728][/quote]


sample of a squeeze page please? How does it look like?
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by importexpert(m): 9:56pm On Jan 02, 2017
BCharles:



sample of a squeeze page please? How does it look like?

below are 2 samples

Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by mattyboy007(m): 9:58pm On Jan 02, 2017
Tanx op
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by importexpert(m): 10:08pm On Jan 02, 2017
mattyboy007:
Tanx op

you are welcome brother.

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Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by Nobody: 10:26pm On Jan 02, 2017
importexpert:



A landing page is any page you direct your visitors to. it can be a sales page, home page or squeeze page. A squeeze page is a page meant specifically to collect potential buyers contact details most important of the detail is email address. i hope you get it now? for my detailed guide on affiliate marketing visit www.affiliatejaban.com/p/jagaban.html

OK.
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by importexpert(m): 10:51pm On Jan 02, 2017
your affiliate marketing related questions are welcome
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by Horlawoomey(m): 11:03pm On Jan 02, 2017
Please count me in, I will get to you tomorrow
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by Ogunleti01: 11:24pm On Jan 02, 2017
importexpert:
your affiliate marketing related questions are welcome
i have just made payment for the ebook thro voguepay using my skye mastercard but uptil now nothing has been sent to my email i have even sent you an email on ask@affliatejagaban.com with screenshot of evidence of payment from my debit alert pls do something my mail is bamiseogunleti@gmail.com
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by importexpert(m): 12:14am On Jan 03, 2017
Ogunleti01:
i have just made payment for the ebook thro voguepay using my skye mastercard but uptil now nothing has been sent to my email i have even sent you an email on ask@affliatejagaban.com with screenshot of evidence of payment from my debit alert pls do something my mail is bamiseogunleti@gmail.com

i just sent a mail to you. your success is truly my pride.
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by importexpert(m): 6:44am On Jan 03, 2017
good morning to everyone on the thread. feel free to ask your affiliate marketing related questions.
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by GGclef(m): 7:19am On Jan 03, 2017
lyk hw much is needed 2 start affiliate marketing?
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by GGclef(m): 7:19am On Jan 03, 2017
lyk hw much is needed 2 start affiliate marketing?
importexpert:
good morning to everyone on the thread. feel free to ask your affiliate marketing related questions.
lyk hw much is needed 2 start affiliate marketing?
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by Okadalifestyle(m): 7:52am On Jan 03, 2017
Thank you very much Sir
importexpert:



your smart phone and cyber cafe or personal laptop are good to go. data depends on you. 25naira mtn or airtel Night plan will accomplish much for you.
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by importexpert(m): 8:53am On Jan 03, 2017
GGclef:
lyk hw much is needed 2 start affiliate marketing?

traffic is the backbone of affiliate marketing. if you are starting with free traffic the cost can be 0 usd. if you are starting with paid traffic the cost is 100usd. my advice usually is that you should save from free traffic and move on to paid traffic.
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by importexpert(m): 8:57am On Jan 03, 2017
Okadalifestyle:
Thank you very much Sir


you are welcome bro.
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by bassette(m): 9:05am On Jan 03, 2017
Am getting on today and would be needing all the assistance i can get.this year 2017 am ready.to join the online income earners list and it shall be by God's grace.gotten my tools ready and set to go.God help me!
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by darediamond(m): 9:19am On Jan 03, 2017
importexpert:
happy new year esteemed Nairalanders. this is Importexpert/Affiliate Jagaban praying that may this new year mark the fulfillment of your heart desires.


over the years, i have made several mistakes in online businesses especially affiliate marketing. One of the most profitable, legitimate and a longtime online business that you can indulge in in 2017 is affiliate marketing


For newbies that do not know what affiliate marketing is. The ideology of affiliate marketing is simple. Eg you sell a product, I get you buyers and you pay me commission for every single sale I brought to you. There are hundreds of millions of products to promote in the various affiliate market places and your target audience is the billions of people that uses internet daily.

Starting up as an affiliate marketer in Nigeria, below are some of the mistakes I made that I really want you to avoid.

1. Planning:

Before implementing any strategy in affiliate marketing, planning is very important. You need to have a clear picture of what you want to do. What I mean is that, if for example I want to promote a product, I will search for my target buyers and define a clear picture of the promotional method I will use for that audience. When I was a newbie in affiliate marketing, I only promote whatever appeals to me to whomever I can reach.

Remember the 6p formula. Proper prior planning prevents poor performance. The 90/10 rule says that, the 10% of the time you spend in planning saves 90% of the time and effort. Planning is critical to your success

2. Search Engines Are Enemies:

Search engines are some of the best things that have ever happened to the internet. They have made the internet a true global village. They provide valuable resources instantly and different solutions to a particular problem.

From my experience, they have a major shortcoming, for anybody that really wants to make money online, search engines are time wasters. They are very good in supplying crappy information that looks like Gold from the surface. It usually takes about a period of 2years before you know that you have been digging on craps. The end result is that you will start suffering from a popular online sickness called “information Overload”. The major symptoms of this sickness is that it will make you think you have known everything about a particular business but it can never realize into monetary value (I mean what you have been learning can’t make you money)

3. Squeeze Page is A Key

Starting up in affiliate marketing in Nigeria, i was sending traffic directly to affiliate offers. This strategy contradicts the internet marketing philosophy that says “the money is in the list”. To make real money in affiliate marketing, you need to build an email list of potential buyers.

By building a list, you already have an audience to market various products to. Remember the popular 20/80 rule: this rule states that, 20% of the customers makes 80% of the sale. Put in other words, 20% of the effort yields 80% of your result.

I simply mean that a certain percentage of your list will trust you and keeps buying the products you recommend to them.

4. Take Your Affiliate Marketing Business Serious:

When I started as an affiliate marketer, I felt I was too busy doing things that were paying less and thinks that I do not have 1-3 hours daily to do the affiliate marketing that was actually paying more. It is just like a young child telling you that he is too busy doing a 50k job and will not have 1-3hours to sacrifice for a 300k job.

You have to take your business serious and treat it like a business just like you will do to other offline businesses.

5. Traffic

Traffic is of different quality. 100 visits from high quality traffic site is better than 2000 visits from a low quality traffic site. You traffic should be both qualitative and highly targeted. My initial source of affiliate traffic was from file sharing directories. They have some of the cheapest traffic that do not convert. When I was a newbie, I calculated traffic by volume not quality. It is later on that I realized that the quality has a better impact on my bank account.

6. Review What You Are Promoting

your email list subscribers must be treated with love and respect. Only promote products that you are sure will add value to them. Starting as a newbie affiliate marketer, I promoted products based on how appealing the sales page is to me. Unfortunately, most of those products with better sales pages were craps.

Ask the vendor/publisher for a review copy of the product or search for reviews about the product on forums. Read people’s feedbacks and ask the vendor few questions to see if he will respond. If he responds within 24-48hours you are good to go. The reason why you need to ask the vendor a few question is to be sure when your customers have challenge he will attend to them.

7. You Need A Guardian/Mentor

The truth about affiliate marketing is that you need a successful insider to walk you through the inside. Without a mentor/guardian the inside is dark. The greatest mistake I made in affiliate marketing was starting without a mentor. I spent my first 2years in affiliate marketing with only 3 sales of sixty dollars to show for the 2years. I wanted to give up at a time because I felt I have learn everything about affiliate marketing and it is not paying. I never knew that if a strategy really makes much Money, they do not find their way to google and other search engines.

I started seeing significant difference in affiliate marketing when I decided to get coach, a coach that is making the type of commissions I want to make. Although I spent much for his course but I now make much more than what I spent in a single day.

Hold on to me if you really want to learn affiliate marketing in Nigeria and you will celebrate in 2017.

8. Think Globally

When starting up as an affiliate marketer, I had a Nigerian mentality. Anything that I felt as a Nigerian I will not buy, I use to think the rest of the world will also not buy. A typical example is that when I started as an affiliate marketer, I do not promote products on dog training and other related courses. But after a little more exposure to the global audience, I decided to give such courses a trial. The truth is that I have made some of my best affiliate commissions promoting dog training on dog training forums. my advice is to un-cap the Nigerian mentality and think globally.

Conclusion

These are some of the mistakes I made when I started as an affiliate marketer that I do not want you to make.
Their is no better time to start an online business than now, this is because if you are waiting for the right time you will end up never starting. remember the old popular adage that says "Goods tidings goes to the people who hustle while they await it". start your affiliate marketing business today.


I will show few lucky Nairalanders How to Succeed in Affiliate Marketing within a Month. Join The Lucky Few at www.affiliatejagaban.com/p/jagaban.html
Search Engine is a goldmine if you know your way around it. Combine scrapebox with it and you will build yourself a target email list of ready buyers. In Affiliate marketing, no potential buyer want to be a scapegoat so convincing them of your personal experience of the product you are recomending them to buy is a ****MUST*** . And to do this effectively you need professional testimonial givers who would do that via live video. Just upload that to your squeeze page and uiu are good to go.
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by importexpert(m): 11:10am On Jan 03, 2017
bassette:
Am getting on today and would be needing all the assistance i can get.this year 2017 am ready.to join the online income earners list and it shall be by God's grace.gotten my tools ready and set to go.God help me!

As you get on the train, i assure you of all the necessary support you will need. your success is my pride.
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by Guddyever(f): 2:01pm On Jan 03, 2017
Thanks OP for this beautiful piece.

i am a novice of this particular online business. How do i start as a fresher?
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by rhames(m): 6:21pm On Jan 03, 2017
4. Take Your Affiliate Marketing Business Serious:

When I started as an affiliate marketer, I felt I was too busy doing things that were paying less and thinks that I do not have 1-3 hours daily to do the affiliate marketing that was actually paying more. It is just like a young child telling you that he is too busy doing a 50k job and will not have 1-3hours to sacrifice for a 300k job.

You have to take your business serious and treat it like a business just like you will do to other offline businesses.

5. Traffic

Traffic is of different quality. 100 visits from high quality traffic site is better than 2000 visits from a low quality traffic site. You traffic should be both qualitative and highly targeted. My initial source of affiliate traffic was from file sharing directories. They have some of the cheapest traffic that do not convert. When I was a newbie, I calculated traffic by volume not quality. It is later on that I realized that the quality has a better impact on my bank account.


This ones will do
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by coolwas(m): 8:47pm On Jan 03, 2017
BCharles:



sample of a squeeze page please? How does it look like?
I salute you, Importexpert, and everyone hustling online. I am a squeeze page and landing page expert. I can design an awesome squeeze page integrated with your autoresponder of choice for your affiliate marketing business. Contact me for cheap and quality design. Just 3k Naira .You are good to go. Call or Whatsapp : 07055321367.
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by bassette(m): 5:11pm On Jan 04, 2017
importexpert:


As you get on the train, i assure you of all the necessary support you will need. your success is my pride.
i have since purchased and going through the materials...thanks importexpert,look forward to your support.
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by Estrada(m): 9:25am On Jan 05, 2017
If I start today by downloading your ebook and with my laptop available, how soon can I get down to business and earning?
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by importexpert(m): 12:31pm On Jan 05, 2017
Estrada:
If I start today by downloading your ebook and with my laptop available, how soon can I get down to business and earning?

with free traffic within the first month. with paid traffic within the first week.
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by afrokid(m): 1:02pm On Jan 06, 2017
importexpert:


my contact details are on the ebook. i am automatically your mentor once you have my ebook. you can always contact me whenever you have a challenge. your success is truly my pride

Where are you bro, I wanna do a transfer for the book...
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting An Online Business In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by importexpert(m): 1:21pm On Jan 06, 2017
afrokid:


Where are you bro, I wanna do a transfer for the book...

once you make your transfer kindly send your details as a text message. your success is my pride

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