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8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by importexpert(m): 9:05pm On Feb 28, 2017
over the years, i have made several mistakes while trying to start affiliate marketing business. Now that Nigerians have begin to realize that affiliate marketing is the way forward and a gold mine, i will share with you few mistakes i made while starting up so that you can avoid those mistakes and skyrocket your success in affiliate marketing. beyond every doubt, one of the most profitable and legitimate online business that anyone can indulge in 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 sales. 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. Your 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 feedback 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 Allow Few People To Have A Glance At My Affiliate Marketing Strategies At
www.affiliatejagaban.com/p/jagaban.html

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Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by Femsmart(m): 9:58pm On Feb 28, 2017
FTC to bad!
You wan compete with Usain Bolt?

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Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by nurez305(m): 11:53pm On Feb 28, 2017
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Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by eph12(m): 1:42am On Mar 01, 2017
Noted!
Been reading it's better you choose a niche and not just promote anything.

Does Nigeria market really pay affiliate marketers?
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by pabon(m): 2:04am On Mar 01, 2017
Nice read though I will suggest adding sticking to a particular niche to that list.
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by importexpert(m): 2:22am On Mar 01, 2017
eph12:
Noted!
Been reading it's better you choose a niche and not just promote anything.

Does Nigeria market really pay affiliate marketers?

run for your life. Nigerian affiliate programs are not worth it

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Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by Vickiweezy(m): 2:39pm On Mar 01, 2017
Ok
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by Yusfunoble(m): 2:39pm On Mar 01, 2017
Ok

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Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by virus05(m): 2:41pm On Mar 01, 2017
Yes aff marketing is hot. I'm planning on dropping out to focus on aff cpa/Seo/marketing. Sometimes I make some people's monthly salaries in a day. One thing with Nigerians is that we are scared to invest.. I wasted lot of cash and time(100k+) doing testing(Bing ads/google AdWords to collect leads/seo). But now I've made lot of cash from aff marketing and planning to relocate to US to continue.

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Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by JohnieWalker(m): 2:43pm On Mar 01, 2017
I need your affiliate marketing course

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Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by Young03(m): 2:44pm On Mar 01, 2017
Truth is that i dont even have a clue of how to start an affliate biz
tell me. Money dey yab me now
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by Rick9(m): 2:45pm On Mar 01, 2017
If e no be importexpert e no fit be another
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by ITbomb(m): 2:49pm On Mar 01, 2017
First two years, you had 3 sales and $60 = about 24k to 30k for two years.

Clearly, the truth must be told, if you have no other job, don't try affiliate marketing. It is only good as a second source of income cos you need extra patience

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Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by virus05(m): 2:58pm On Mar 01, 2017
ITbomb:
First two years, you had 3 sales and $60 = about 24k to 30k for two years.

Clearly, the truth must be told, if you have no other job, don't try affiliate marketing. It is only good as a second source of income cos you need extra patience
Lies my broda. Send me an email and I will send you one of my friend's Skype(USA) that makes $2000/day through affiliate marketing. He will show you via remote desktop . This one no be screenshot. So u go see and touch everything by ur self. To dey sure say no be lie. He's the one that made me to start aff marketing and gave me some tips. So stop discouraging others okay?. I think it should be part of the courses we can study in university

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Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by CellTabRepairs: 2:59pm On Mar 01, 2017
Incisive

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Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by CellTabRepairs: 3:02pm On Mar 01, 2017
Incisive

**Click My Name & View That Resource You Need!**
Don't wait in perpetuity for job invitations after applying! March is here already today! The thief you harbour is PROCRASTINATION! Therefore don't wait until the whole year runs out!

Great dreamers don't stay idle at home. They take steps!
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by importexpert(m): 3:05pm On Mar 01, 2017
feel free to ask your affiliate marketing related questions.
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by importexpert(m): 3:09pm On Mar 01, 2017
virus05:
Yes aff marketing is hot. I'm planning on dropping out to focus on aff cpa/Seo/marketing. Sometimes I make some people's monthly salaries in a day. One thing with Nigerians is that we are scared to invest.. I wasted lot of cash and time(100k+) doing testing(Bing ads/google AdWords to collect leads/seo). But now I've made lot of cash from aff marketing and planning to relocate to US to continue.

why will you want to relocate to u.s? i am investing all my online earnings in Naija n everything is going very fine.
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by Dosmay(m): 3:11pm On Mar 01, 2017
ahbeg gimme some affliate websites
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by BiafranBushBoy: 3:13pm On Mar 01, 2017
Young03:
Truth is that i dont even have a clue of how to start an affliate biz

tell me. Money dey yab me now

oya go and meet Oga Import expert... He will put you through....

Begin run!!... Before space go finish
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by importexpert(m): 3:17pm On Mar 01, 2017
JohnieWalker:
I need your affiliate marketing course

kindly refer to www.affiliatejagaban.com/p/jagaban.html for instructions on how to get it
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by boykas(m): 3:23pm On Mar 01, 2017
virus05:
Lies my broda. Send me an email and I will send you one of my friend's Skype(USA) that makes $2000/day through affiliate marketing. He will show you via remote desktop . This one no be screenshot. So u go see and touch everything by ur self. To dey sure say no be lie. He's the one that made me to start aff marketing and gave me some tips. So stop discouraging others okay?. I think it should be part of the courses we can study in university

Can I have ur mail.. Or can isend you pm
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by henryobinna(m): 3:23pm On Mar 01, 2017
This affiliate marketing thing has been one nut I've been finding hard to crack.
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by castrokins(m): 3:25pm On Mar 01, 2017
How Can You Help a Newbee?



[quote author=virus05 post=54171722]Yes aff marketing is hot. I'm planning on dropping out to focus on aff cpa/Seo/marketing. Sometimes I make some people's monthly salaries in a day. One thing with Nigerians is that we are scared to invest..
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by enemmo(f): 3:31pm On Mar 01, 2017
Following....
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by virus05(m): 3:38pm On Mar 01, 2017
importexpert:


why will you want to relocate to u.s? i am investing all my online earnings in Naija n everything is going very fine.
I believe I'll do far better there
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by Ellieanna: 3:42pm On Mar 01, 2017
virus05:
Yes aff marketing is hot. I'm planning on dropping out to focus on aff cpa/Seo/marketing. Sometimes I make some people's monthly salaries in a day. One thing with Nigerians is that we are scared to invest.. I wasted lot of cash and time(100k+) doing testing(Bing ads/google AdWords to collect leads/seo). But now I've made lot of cash from aff marketing and planning to relocate to US to continue.
Please I really need someone to put me through I'm at the verge of giving up
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by Kenturkey048(m): 3:45pm On Mar 01, 2017
please how can one start affiliate marketing?
Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by SyberKate(f): 3:45pm On Mar 01, 2017
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Re: 8 Mistakes I Made Starting Affiliate Marketing In Nigeria That You Should Avoid! by castrokins(m): 3:49pm On Mar 01, 2017
How can You Help A Newbee?




importexpert:
feel free to ask your affiliate marketing related questions.

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