Comments from Internet Home Business Owners about Affiliate Marketing
There are millions of people out there who own an Internet Home Business, and my post yesterday hit an nerve with some of them. The people who started their first Internet Home Business and decided to listen to the ads and the hype, almost all of them agreed with me, no traffic, no business. The statics is, if you start a new Internet Home Business, by the end of your first year, less than 5 of you will still be business. A large part of these failures can be attributed to the fact that most new Internet Home Businesses start out in Affiliate Marketing.
What makes Affiliate Marketing such a draw is the claim that you can be up and running in minutes, literally. That should be a tip off to you, any Internet Home Business that claims it can be up and running almost instantly, that should be a warning to you. The Internet, especially the Internet, has a very long incubation period, there are things that need time to get functioning properly, if anyone says differently, all they want is your money.
Among the things that need to get done to start a real business as well as giving you a chance at being successful in Affiliate Marketing are, getting your site indexed, getting some sort of page rank, getting your keywords ranked, and most of all, getting some traffic. To do all of these tasks properly, and within the rules, the time frame could easily be up to 6 months or more. I have nothing to gain by telling this, this is not some sales pitch for a secret software program that I have to enable you to do all of this in a day, my only purpose in telling you is, that if you are thinking about starting an Internet Home Business, Affiliate Marketing is not the way you want to go.
Yes, there were people who wanted to post and said that they were doing really well, but as we all know, they all wanted to have a link back to their site , and yes, that link was advertising their Affiliate products. Do I think that there are people out there , who have an Internet Home Business and a web site, that are making money from Affiliate Marketing?, yes there are, here is there story.
First and foremost, if they are making money, it will be one or two out of a 100, that is tops. The failure rate of new sites on the web is horrendously high, take your pick from anywhere from 95% up wards to 98 %. Why so high, its the double whammy of the indexing, page rank and then traffic. All these activities take time, despite the claims to the contrary. As in almost all of the claims that are made on the Internet, the person who is making the claims, has some monetary gain to be made from making the claim, a sad commentary on the Internet, but one that is true.
For the very very few that are making money and actually have an Internet Home Business that is a business, ie making money, the reason they are is that most likely they have a mature site and already had traffic coming to it. This is the set of circumstances that you need to have in order to have any chance of making it in Affiliate Marketing. If you ALREADY have a site that is up and running, and you already have traffic, then there are some valid reasons you may want to have some Affiliate products available on your site. There is a huge difference between adding Affiliate products to an existing site and starting a new Internet Home Business with Affiliate products as your only source to generate income.
Remember, I do not make money from this post, I am not offering you any products, my reason for offering you this opinion is to save you time, money and grief and hopefully have you avoid Affiliate Marketing if you are thinking about starting a new Internet Home Business. Some food for thought, have a great day, see you tomorrow.
Bryan Beckstead, Internet Home Business, Internet Home Business Ideas
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