Affiliate Marketing Plan

If you wish to succeed at affiliate marketing you need a plan. As the maxim goes,”If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.”

If you are new to affiliate marketing it is incredibly difficult to know what you need to do to get a plan. There are a million and one schemes, secret codes or ‘recipes for success and the problem for newbies is which one works.

Unfortunately the answer is very few. Affiliate marketing is not a get rich quick method of making money online as many of the above make it out to be. It takes work, a fair few failures and lots of frustration but make no mistake you can earn lots of money on the internet.

Trillions of dollars change hands every year online and you only have to get a minute piece of that pie to make serious money.

How many of us have produced affiliate websites only to have them disappear into cyber space not to be seen again?
I have websites that even I have forgotten about let alone any prospective customers.

I have found that by getting a plan into place my earnings have increased significantly and whats more important is that I know what is working for me and what I can forget about. I have a plan!

I now follow two different plans depending on what particular niche I have found. The first is Brian Johnsons Commission Ritual which I use when I have identified a micro-niche. This is a super easy way of affiliate marketing which can produce profits in a fairly short space of time.

As I have a very short concentration time on some subjects it allows me to hop from niche to niche without worrying too much about backlinking, article writing etc. Commission Ritual is perfect for this method. It is based on wordpress which I love and which makes the whole process quick and simple.

The second plan I follow is the N1Way, this method is for larger sites that I build around subjects for which I have a genuine interest. I find it so much easier to put in bucketfuls of time when there is a passion for the niche and the N1Way gives me focus and makes the process much quicker and more straightforward. The N1Way was originally designed for Build A Niche Store owners but it contains methods for wordpress sites (which I use) but the concept is easily adapted for any type of website you may wish to build.

I would recommend either or both of these affiliate marketing plans to anyone and further say that until you have taken them to heart don’t bother with anything else. Get an affiliate marketing plan!

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