It’s worth getting an affiliate marketing mentor for a number of reasons. Firstly, affiliate marketing is a difficult thing to get right. Despite what many affiliate will tell you; it’s not easy! It’s particularly not easy if you intend to make a full time living from affiliate marketing; which can be done.
But without the proper mentor, affiliate marketing will be much, much harder.
Why Get An Affiliate Marketing Mentor?
My journey with affiliate marketing started over 10 years ago. I jumped from one ‘system’ to another, frantic to make some money from the internet. What I found was disappointment after disappointment! I don’t want the same for you! You can benefit from all the time I spent and the mistakes I made!
See 23 mistakes newbie affiliates should avoid.
A simple way to avoid all of these mistakes is to get a mentor and join an online community where you’ll get the help you need. See digital success mentoring program. You can still go wrong of course, no matter what you do. Affiliate marketing is a great business model when it’s working. But it’s a really frustrating one when it isn’t.
By joining an online community, you can learn from people who are actually earning online. One of the main problems with affiliate marketing is all the help and advice out there isn’t necessarily coming from people who have ‘walked the walk’ themselves. Often it’s from newbie affiliates themselves, trying to make a buck!
Problems With Affiliate Marketing
There’s a few problems with affiliate marketing which can be avoided with the right mentor. Here’s a short list but also see Why Affiliate Marketing Does Not Work:
- Overwhelm – there’s too much information on the internet about affiliate marketing. If you start subscribing to many lists, you’ll be inundated and this leads to information overload – then comes inactivity!
- Shiny Object Syndrome – Every affiliate marketer promises some ‘easier system’ which out performs the last. If you keep buying into this lie, you’ll be struggling forever, jumping from one product to another.
- Being a busy fool – affiliate marketers need to learn how to control their time. Focusing on money producing activities is vital to begin earning as an affiliate. Otherwise you can spend all day on unimportant takes and never make any money.
- 9 to 5 thinking teaches us that despite our productivity we still get paid. With affiliate marketing it’s different. You need to be productive or you won’t get paid. Old habits can hinder our progress and we need to start thinking like an entrepreneur, not a ‘technician’. Work on yourself and on your business, don’t get caught up working ‘in’ your business.
- Growth is aways limited by your thinking – that’s why you need a mentor. You can’t see what you don’t know; a mentor can!
How To Get A Mentor
You can join an online community and follow a number of mentors by signing up on this website for the free workshop videos. (see sign up form at the side, or bottom of the website). From there you can join The SFM digital mentor program and learn from a number of online marketers. To join the SFM you’ll need to purchase the App and become a member. See Six Figure Mentors Cost for more information.
What SFM Membership Gives You
The SFM (Six Figure Mentors) membership gives you access to an online community of marketers, entrepreneurs and business owners. Through this membership you can either use the education to learn digital marketing for an existing business, or build an online business from scratch using affiliate marketing.
The SFM offers it’s own digital business system in which you can promote digital products and services. A key to success with affiliate marketing is to use the right products and services in your promotions.
For example, digital products pay much more in commission than physical affiliate products. Subscription products pay you ongoing commissions from previous sales. Just using these two bits of information has helped my immensely with my affiliate marketing business. See digital success mentoring program for more details on what The SFM offers its members.
