The Misleading World Of Affiliate Marketing

By Russell Howe


Affiliate marketing isn't entirely what it seems. From the outside, it's easy to see it as an easy way to make money online. Companies such as Mary Kay or Empower Network are all too keen to boast about how quickly you will be able to build an income from home. This causes many people to make rash decisions which they ultimately regret.

Today, we are going to look at why you shouldn't rush into an affiliate marketing opportunity as well as revealing why most people fail to make it work.

Too many people jump head first into online businesses without taking any time to set out a plan or write down some long-term and short-term goals. One of the biggest reasons for this is that people get too excited when they read or hear about the success of other people. If they see somebody else who appears to be a regular person, but they hear a story of how they became their own boss and changed their life, they get overwhelmed with a feeling of confidence and jump straight in. [
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Dreaming and doing are two different things, of course.

If you want to go into business for yourself then you need to think the same way you would think out in the real world. You wouldn't start a new business if you didn't have any financial power to begin with. Most affiliate marketers are not in that situation and they are hoping that the opportunity they have discovered is going to act as a golden ticket to success.

Sometimes this even leaves the affiliate in a worse financial position than when they started!

The idea of being your own boss is probably very appealing but, sadly, the reality is not like the fantasy. You'll need to work on building your business or your brand every single day. The whole 'get rich quick' genre is a false promise designed to take advantage of those who are looking for a quick fix which does not exist. If you are genuinely serious about achieving your goals, you need to show how serious you are by putting in some hard work for yourself.

All of the success stories you see online did just that.

Affiliate programs and MLM opportunities are looking to tempt you to join their opportunity over all of the others in their niche. So, naturally, they are going to make outrageous claims in order to trump their competition and sign you up as a member to their program. Once you get inside, however, you realize that all of the claims about generating an automatic income were just nonsense.

Once somebody has decided upon a company and joined, they are hit with reality like a ton of bricks. The realization is too hard for most to handle. They wanted a quick fix, what they get is actually a real business which is going to require hard work and dedication, just like any other business would. Suddenly all the hype is gone.

Most of the individuals who claim they would like to make money online never truly adopt the right type of mindset to make it work. This is why it's easy to see such a vast difference in the results of various affiliates within one company. A good example of that is Empower Network or Avon, where some are able to reach their goals and others don't know how to get started. 90% of becoming your own boss is mental.




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