aeroguy

So i just got expelled from university, so i guess i will have much needed time on my hands. Anways never really got in the affliate marketing game but now i am serious. Could you guys recommend posts or ebooks for a total noob (mostly looking for ebooks). Also could you share what steps did you take to break in to the affliate marketing game?

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kaisdavis

1. Read Nicky Cake's noob guide
2. Read the stickied posts in the Newbie Questions forum and the affiliate marketing forum.
3. Set aside some money to spend to start understanding affiliate marketing. Could be $100. Could be $500.
4. Apply to an affiliate network. I like Ads4Dough.
5. Buy a $100 Facebook Ad coupon in the Buy & Sell forum. Start testing. Keep testing. Pick an affiliate offer off of your affiliate network and make two ads for it. Which gets more clicks? Which gets more conversions? That's split testing. Now kill the ad that is performing poorly and make a new ad. Keep doing this until you have an ad that is performing well. What's performing well? I don't know. Keep testing until you start thinking you know what's going on. Then keep testing until you realize you aren't hot shit and start asking questions.

Keep asking questions. At some point start reading less and trying more. Aim for breaking even in your campaigns. How much should you be spending? Not a lot, but not more than your comfortable with. Keep trying things out. Don't take what you're reading at face value - test it. People will say lots of things work and lots of things don't. Maybe they're wrong. Maybe they're right. Test it and figure out what works.

There isn't an easy solution to this. These isn't a magic formula to understand affiliate marketing and make $1000/day overnight. There is a lot of hard work. A lot of wrong ends. A lot of testing. A lot more testing. And a lot of thinking.

So start by applying to a network, reading Nicky Cake's Noob Guide, and reading through the stickied threads. If you have a question, search the forum. If you don't find an answer (or don't understand the answer) ask a question. Be specific. Be concise. Be on topic.

Breaking into the affiliate marketing 'game' is easy. What's takes a lot of work is understanding what you're doing, getting to a break even point, and starting to do instead of read or think about doing.

aeroguy

much appreciated kaisdavis. thanks

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figgity

I started out as a Webmaster. I started a Blog. Nobody was coming to my Blog, so I started learning about internet marketing. That's how I stumbled into affiliate marketing.

My first foray into the industry was dating.

I've made $$$$ promoting sites like adultfriendfinder.

When I first got started, I had no idea what I was doing or what the hell people were talking about when they were mentioning affiliate marketing. Now that I've been in the game longer, I know that it's not complicated at all.

First think of something you would like to promote. Then do a Google search to see if someone is selling it. If there is someone selling it, sign up to be an affiliate. Start promoting the product or service you chose. It's that simple.

On another note-
I'm not sure what you did to get kicked out of school, but if you can enroll in another school, I would do that. Being kicked out of school messes with you psychologically... makes you feel inferior. (Getting kicked out of school did that to me anyways, so I ended up going back.

Good luck.

acemenace

That's good that he got expelled. He won't be disappointed when Google bans him.

bb_wolfe

I was expelled in 1999. Look at me now, pure ballin.

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