Everyone wants to play the affiliate sales game, especially now that e-products are finally in-demand with the average consumer; but, there are some misconceptions of making affiliate sales that need to be dispelled before you can actually make an affiliate sale.

Myth 1: You need to hard-sell a product

Hard-selling a product is a sure way to not make an affiliate sale. One of the most important things to learn in the affiliate marketing world is that you are not a salesman, but a provider of information.

Why would you not hard-sell a product? Yes, your goal is to get a sale, however your job is to warm a “potential customer” into a “ready to buy customer” - the key difference here is that you turn a person who might have an interest in a product into someone who needs the product you wrote about.

Provide information then recommendations, not a hard sell.

Myth 2: You need to buy a lot of advertising to be successful

This isn’t true at all - most affiliates will get their trffic through niche keywords on the major search engines, not through advertisements.

“But Jason,” I hear you say, “why are there so many affiliate advertisements on Google AdSense?” A good question indeed, but you need to realize that AdSense is just another vector for getting your message out there, and something affiliates know how to take advantage of. It is not the only means of generating revenue with affiliate sales.

Myth 3: You need a popular site to make minimal sales

While having a lot of natural traffic already coming into your website helps a great deal, just remember this little bit of scientific truth: “correlation is not causation” - just because one fact is true (lots of traffic) does not mean that caused the other fact to be true (lots of affiliate sales). While traffic and sales are related, they are not the cause of each other.

Traffic comes from highly-optimized pages that lures search engines in with tons of backlinks, crosslinks, frontlinks, keywords, etc… the list goes on and on. Sales come from high-optimized articles that causes a human to take action. While lots of traffic means you’ll get more humans to read your page, it does not follow that this will lead to an increase in sales.

Remember: sales and traffic are optimized differently.

Myth 4: Only the gurus make money

Simple fact: I make money through affiliate sales; but, you wouldn’t consider me a guru, would you? The so-called gurus might in fact be gurus of affiliate sales, but they’re also gurus of hard selling products. A lot of people make affiliate sales in unique ways.

As a fun example, why don’t you browser around Lockergnome.com and see where we’re making some affiliate sales!

Myth 5: Anyone can do it

One of the most annoying things about affiliate marketing is the mindset that anyone can do it and be successful at it - that’s simply not true. It takes a special kind of individual to become successful at affiliate marketing: someone who is dedicated, undeterred, patient. Affiliate sales don’t come easily at first, and it generally takes a lot of time in order to really start making a living off of the sales.

There are going to be a lot of bumps in the road, and anyone who gives up easily will find it difficult to make money with affiliate marketing. Of course, if you’re too stubborn, you’ll just end up doing the same wrong thing over and over again, and never see a dime.

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