I have found top 1% performance in affiliate marketing requires complex marketing strategies. It's not as simple as, "if I market X company with Y offer then I win." Look deeper into the problem. Develop your own competitive strategies. You will not find the ultimate advice from affiliate managers. They usually don't know how their best publishers operate and they will not investigate in-depth. It's much easier to scale a program by adding new affiliates, preferably by poaching big ones, rather than helping someone doing affiliate marketing as a part-time job. If I'm going to hold someone's hand, if an affiliate manager, I would rather it be a small company which is more capable of delivering volume than an individual affiliate. Lastly, the top 10-20% of a merchant's affiliates account for 80-90% of their revenue. It's a myth 1% of the publishers are all that matters and secrets of success are not shared. All the 'secrets' are on the forums.

This is my advice about building traffic. Building traffic and IBLs quickly are you goal, create a website and give something away for free. It needs to be something of real value you can legally give away to visitors.

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Don't worry about the affiliate links and turnkey sites. They won't do squat without some traffic. Unless, you have loads of $$$$, your CPC budget is not going very far. If you buy premade affiliate and turnkey websites, so are 100 other guys. So, all of you will be fighting for the same keywords. My advice is: 1. Build your own website (never buy one). Don't worry about looks. Often, ugly sites do very well. 2. Give stuff free. The stuff needs to actually be worth something, for visitors to download or use or read, etc.

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3. Wait. When the traffic starts coming add an affiliate link or review to an affiliate product. If it hits, keep it. Otherwise, try the next one, until you one of the products works for your visitors. Above all, traffic is the key. Don't worry about revenues until you have traffic. Make a simple website people want to visit and link.

I was trying several different products for a couple weeks, and getting nothing. I'd wait for 100 clicks and then either drop it or see if there was something I could tweak to try to better reach buyers. Then, with a new product, I got a sale within the first couple dozen clicks. Then, another with the next couple dozen. So, I thought I was finally onto something that worked and put a little more emphasis on that one. Then, I got a sale on another product. And, I was really feeling hopeful. Then, a sale on another product.

I thought I was making some headway, weeding out the ineffective products and reaping some good ones. And it seemed just a matter of time before I'd actually start making money at it, considering I was weeding out the chaff.

But, as the number of clicks grew, the sales did not. I've spent four times what I made. :-(

Yes, it's not too unlike gambling. But, two things stick out to me. First, doing the same thing and expecting different results is a sign of insanity. And that is a perplexion, since I know I made 1 or 2 sales from a certain ad, so why not more? And, if I keep changing the ad, am I just deluding myself that I'm trying something different, when really I should be trying a different product?

The second thing is, I don't want to give up too soon, you know? If I can get a 5% CTR, I ought to be able to figure a way to get at least a 1 or 2% conversion rate, no?

On the other hand, maybe I would do better at a casino. At least there, I'll get a free meal even if I lose all my money. ;-)

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"Thank you" pages have the potential to be extremely powerful. You know... 1) The person is willing to shop online, and has the means to do so. 2) The person has their credit card out of their wallet. 3) The person is in a buying mood.