Affiliate Marketing for Beginners

Newbie Affiliate Marketers face a big challenge.

They have to work out what business model to follow, what technical issues they need to solve and need to work out which products to promote. But behind all that there is what you might think of as a philosophical  question – whether they should be guided by their love of the niche they have chosen or to look at the market research numbers and let the profit potential make the decision.

Playing into this is the movie, “Field of Dreams” which leaves a wistful echo at the back of your mind, “Build a stadium, they will come!”

I have always been doubtful of the “follow your passion” school of thought – being a Physicist at heart I just love to crunch the numbers and advise others to do the same. This is deeply unwelcome advice to many Internet beginners who view Market Research as if it is Rocket science or brain surgery!

I’m minded to start a series on Market Research for Beginners right  now but let’s just point to a recent post for now and come to the point for today.

If you are stuck with this problem right now - should I follow my passion or should I follow the money, it makes sense to listen to experienced Internet Marketers who know the answer and not just get a whole load of conflicting advice from friends and forum buddies who may not have the real success behind them that you need to give your trust to the answers you get.

So who can you trust? One of the people I trust to give sound advice is Lynn Terry, a super affiliate active in many niche markets well away from the Internet Marketing world for over 12 years. She made this short movie recently…

Listen to her perspective on this dilemma

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzhSrgrHM1U

And please leave a comment on your own

Alex