So I’m An Affiliate Sales Idiot
So, doesn’t it make you feel stupid when everyone in the world makes tons of affiliate sales except for you?
Oh yeah, all you readers make tons of sales too; it’s only me that can’t make a sale.
I guess it’s time to learn what I’m doing wrong.
This is how I understand one method of the main aspects of affiliate marketing:
a. You find a product
b. You get a copy of said product (often you can get them for free just by asking)
c. You use the product then write a review of it.
d. You post the review online.
e. You write it up in your ezine or just begin sending traffic at that page.
SOUND OK?
Now, I can tell you all the reasons why this would never work for me, but instead of being an “impossibility-thinker”, I’m going to try to make this work.
First things first, I gotta find some product to promote in the self-help niche. I have 14,000 subscribers on my list. You ever hear people say that you should be able to make $1 per month for every sub you have? I’d love for that to happen to me!!!!
I get close to 10k page impressions per day to my self-help site and have made one affiliate sale in the last 4 years (netting me $5). Obviously, I’m doing something wrong.
You know what my big hang-ups are? Finding the “right” product (I’ll find one on Clickbank) and the next is writing the review. Man! That means I need to read the book or use the product. I just don’t have that much time.
Ok, there I go being negative.
How do all these people on the forums and podcasts do this stuff???
I’ll keep you posted…and if you know any good self-help products that are easy sells, let me know.

February 12th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
The results of the email marketing campaign depend on the quality of the list. Why the people subscribed? Because they want some newsletter? If this is your case than you need to send them more targeted offers. If they subscribed because they needed to do in order to get something for free you can’t expect good results. Such people usually use some email address which they never check out.