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I’m trying to start into affiliate marketing but wondered if this is the best way for me to go. I am also learning HTML and CSS coding, so I thought whether or not I should creae my own landing websites as this would be alot cheaper for me. Is Affiliate Theme worth going for or should I learn the skills myself? Do the affiliate theme last for a year or what? Cheers.

I got into affiliate marketing in 1997. I never learned to code a site from scratch. I started out using the free FrontPage Express that used to come with Windows. Then I upgraded to the paid version and stuck with it for years. Also bought Expression Web when Microsoft completely rewrote FrontPage from the ground up. I had a lot of money invested into software.

Then I started getting involved with WordPress and when I saw how easy it was to deploy a site and NOT to have to mess around with creating web pages, I shelved all of my old website building software.

However, since I’m not a coder, I was stuck with other peoples’ free WordPress themes and that was frustrating because I didn’t always like the colors and especially didn’t like the header graphics.

Then I found some WordPress theme builder software called Artisteer http://goo.gl/VV02Y and I started building my own WordPress themes and never looked back.

So in answer to your question about learning the skills yourself, don’t do it unless you plan on making a career out of it. Simply because you’ll have no time left to promote your affiliate products. But, therein lies the magic with Affiliate Theme…it’s all about getting those sites up fast without having to code.

Affiliate Theme seems like a pretty powerful theme. I thought it was a little pricey at $147. Artisteer is less than $50 and you can make endless themes for both WordPress and Blogger. (The pro version also makes Joomla, Drupal, DotNetNuke, ASP.net and CodeCharge Studio templates.) That’s more creativity for less money.

Affiliate Theme is heavily geared towards images and a lot of affiliate offers don’t allow you to copy images from their home website, you have to use the banners they provide. I think Affiliate Theme would look a little sparse if the images where missing or if you didn’t have offers to place within all of the cells. Not sure what you do with blank cells as in that 4-column layout.

All in all, I think Affiliate Theme is a great theme, just plan ahead when chosing layouts for the products you’ll be promoting. It’s cool that you can use it on unlimited domains. A lot of paid themes require you to purchase a developer license to be able to do that. One thing that I don’t like is that you don’t get access to the documentation in their resource center unless you buy the theme. I’d like to know what happens if you start off with one layout and then later on want to switch to a different one. Questions like that should be answered upfront. They also say they have a support forum, but it’s a dead link. Same with suggestions for web hosting companies. Another dead link.

Hi,

I’m a newbie to affiliate marketing, and have been learning a lot by following Andy Michael’s blog (www.andymichaelsblog.com). Nonetheless, I know that there’s always more to learn. Anyone have any good suggestions for other useful resources for the newb to pick up ideas?

Thanks!

sign up with the major affiliate programs.

Okay, so a family friend has experience in affiliate marketing (advertising for websites in order to get commission payments when people click her ads and buy the company’s product), which is fine and totally legal. However, she has offered to teach me (and is looking for others) how to make websites for affiliate marketing and how to make money off it, and in return she would take a portion of what I earn. So, what I want to know, is this a pyramid scheme? I don’t think the friend would intentionally plan something illegal like that, but I don’t want to get involved in something potentially rocky. I also feel like I would rather just learn to do affiliate marketing on my own, and keep 100% on what I would earn from commissions. So I guess I’m looking for advice on if it would be wiser to learn affiliate marketing on my own or with someone’s help, and also if this would constitute a pyramid scheme or not. Many thanks.

The way you have described it, this is not a pyramid scheme. A pyramid scheme is where your you pay money to join a business opportunity and your friend gets part or all of that payment.

In your situation your friend gets paid based on what you eventually earn, not just for you taking part. Your friend is getting paid for ‘teaching you’ and is suggesting a fee based on success rather than charging a set fee.

So I very much doubt that the arrangement is illegal. If you think that you could learn a lot from your friend and if you are willing to pay for that teaching you could perhaps agree a set fee if you feel better with that.

Some affiliate marketing programs offer pretty good training and instructions.

I know that SFImg ( http://www.sfi4.com/11258707/FREE ) provides such training and is one of the most renown AM system. And they’ve been in place for years, which is also a pretty good indication.

I’ve been loosely reading up on affiliate marketing over the last few days and was interested in getting into it. I don’t have a website, little money but I’m not bothered if I don’t make all that much money I’m more interested in learning the ins and outs of it the best way possible, by doing it. What would be the best place to look and start.

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I created a website with my amazon astore in it, I had 12 page views today, as of 2:10 am. I may have some hope, but yesterday and prior, the four sleepless nights I spent learning from scratch and making it happen, or at least hoping to, and never having done this before posed a big challenge to me, but I am not giving up, I just hit a point where I am confused. I had zero sales in my astore, and no clicks on any google adsense advertisements, where could I be going wrong? I would like to know some promotional strategies and techniques for gaining the favor of a potential customer, and what markets I would have the best shot at as a beginner. I have submitted my website to every place I could find online yesterday, how long does that usually take to bring traffic ?(beyond 12 people today so far and about 70 yesterday). or is it an ongoing battle? I need help developing a solid business plan, and review real websites of affiliate marketers to learn from their sites as well, know of any examples?

This won’t happen overnight for starters. Firstly, forget affiliate marketing, doesn’t work… Go for just Google Adsense. Make directories and information websites, you need many hundreds of pages to each site, you need to understand good basic optimisation and marketing techniques. 12 visitors to a site will do you nothing. You need several hundred thousands of people a day to make a site work for you inthis way. OR you need many sites with thousands of visitors. It took me 6 years to get my Adsense earning me a full time income and 15+ sites! Take your time, work hard and use common sense and you’ll get there.

There is really no "fast" way of learning affiliate marketing. How fast you earn money with affiliate marketing all depends on the product you pick and how much time you put into it. As for learning affiliate marketing, your best bet is to do some research online and see if you can find some free resources or low cost ebooks.

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I have a blog and affiliate marketing business and I am creating two ebook systems on growing your business online and getting social media traffic. I want to approach possible JV partners but I need the best approach – I want to learn from an internet marketing guru who walks the talk. What do you recommend? Thanks

The approach I would take is to simply start emailing them. I have done it in the past with decent success, and I have found that many successful marketers are very nice people!