Affiliate marketing is a roller coaster ride that I’m glad I’m on, I believe the trick to being successful is experience.
Now my mother always told me “Experience is expensive” I never really got this concept until it really hit true in this career, Gaining experience in other jobs and skills is normally fairly easy and is a few good tutorials on the internet away, Affiliate marketing on the other hand is different.
You can read for days, Study countless blogs and tutorials, but when it comes down to it you are going to get the most knowledge and understanding from just DOING IT!
Now I do have a few advantages that others may not, I have been in the “Web Development” business for quite a while, so xHTML and normal web techniques really hit home, but when it comes to marketing I’m a bit rusty (Damn you keggers during my 2 years of marketing classes) but Its all starting to get clearer every day.
So as of right now my advice would be, get a OK understanding of how to get campaigns up and running on Yahoo, MSN and Google and get to work, Watch the markets and do your best to find profitable campaigns, even though that might include throwing up campaign after campaign trying to hit something with profit margins (hey it happens).
Happy AM’ing…
