Persistence
The chances that you will make millions or even thousands of dollars
overnight in internet or affiliate marketing are pretty close to zero. If
you did, congratulations! Keep doing exactly what you are doing!
If not, remember that you are building a business, and that most businesses
take time to develop solid ongoing profits. Also remember that when you are
building a business on little to no cash outlay, it will probably take more
time than if you have tons of money to throw at research and advertising.
Thousands are attracted by the possibility of generating skyrocketing
incomes through affiliate marketing and so they sign up in an affiliate
program without understanding the business. When they don’t get instant
results, they quit and sign up for another program and repeat the process of
just copying links and referring them to others.
The most successful internet and affiliate marketers have persistence as
their main tool. They keep trying! They revamp old techniques and
implement new ones. They continue posting ads week after week, and keep
learning everything possible about how to improve their businesses.
Don’t expect to get rich in an instant, and don’t allow yourself to feel
like a failure because you aren’t suddenly wealthy. Remember those hyped-up
ads discussed in Part IV? Realize that claims of overnight riches are
seldom what they seem to be. Even the few who have accomplished such great
feats have usually done so only after many years of building a reputation
and a loyal customer base.
If your first attempts did not pay off, be persistent! Work on your
advertising strategies, learn all you can, and keep improving your
techniques, web sites, and web pages. Remember that the most successful
internet and affiliate marketers persevered. The best marketers seem to
agree that time and repeated exposure got them where they are today –
earning a comfortable full time living from the internet.