9 Most Common Problems New Affiliate Marketers Face

Working as an affiliate marketer comes with its own share of problems. In one of the fastest-growing fields of profession in the world, it is expected that there is a high amount of competition, and hence a lot of obstacles to face too. If you’re an experienced affiliate marketer reading this, you would recognize most of the problems presented in this article.

For the newcomers of the field, these would be some potholes you would do well to avoid, or at least prepare for in advance. Knowing these are possible complications would help you limit their damage or not take any at all.

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1. Choosing A Comfortable Niche

Even before entering into the great big world of affiliate marketing, you face your first, and probably the most impactful, the challenge of choosing the right niche to work in. Instead of enrolling in several programs in different niches just to make money, select one that you have a genuine interest in while also having the opportunity to earn yourself some cash: the balance is crucial in the long term.

It is far more profitable to earn well off one business than earning small amounts from different programs: it’s time you should know what high ticket affiliate marketing is and take it to your advantage.

2. Confusing Codes

For many beginners, the technical side of the affiliate world proves to be a hurdle. Despite affiliate networks giving us easy-to-use links, there is HTML code that becomes difficult to deal with, especially if you plan on making changes to the code. Though, each network has its own documentation on how to make changes to HTML code to your needs.

3. Motivation

Motivation is a huge stumbling that all of us face without fail. Especially in the initial phase of your venture, low sales numbers or working without results is a big reason why we lose our will to continue working further. Toughen up and stick through this period, schedule your time well and only commit to what you are sure you can give time to.

4. Attracting The Right Traffic

Having many people visit your site is not the benchmark by which you should measure your success, it’s the number of people who are interested in your product who visit your website that you must count. Make sure to promote your affiliate links to the right audience so that the amount of desirable exposure and true advertising that is achieved increases. Simply put, quality over quantity.

5. Low Sales Numbers

Sales numbers are rightfully considered to be a fair indicator of one’s success in the field, and every marketer faces a period of low sales at some time in their career. Again, just like the previous solution, it is important to gain the right kind of audience for your website. A solution is to chin up and try creating better content, or using other ideas to increase your sales numbers.

6. Creating Content

Which is also a speedbump. Initially, you might have a lot of ideas and would be ready to write four to five articles a day. However, once the initial rush wears off, you would be stuck with frequent mental blocks and an inability to come up with fresh ideas.

Writing content soon becomes a burden that one has to endure, and at this stage, it is important to freshen up your thoughts and gain new perspectives: this can be done by reading other marketers’ work and observing their approach to content writing. If it is purely a matter of being too busy for it, content writing can always be outsourced too.

7. Understanding Your Competition

If you are planning to be serious about affiliate marketing and keep at it in the long run, you need to know how other marketers work and what the situation in your niche is. Instead of competing against the others, compete with them. Helping each other is always the way to go since it gains more traffic for both of you. If unsuccessful in collaborating, having a healthy rivalry never hurts as long as it doesn’t descend into a petty war.

8. Over/Underselling

Another problem that you might (have) face is that of coming on too strongly in trying to sell a product, by spamming emails or having affiliate links all over your website, which is not something you want to do. The flip side should be avoided too, being too passive about making sales and writing not-so-great content thinking people would buy if they’re interested but if not, then fine.

You need to find a good balance between the two, the middle zone where you are diligent in promoting your affiliate links without pushing them onto people, having people click on your links without forcing them to.

9. Avoiding Perfectionism

Now for a psychological bother: some of us who get into the field tend to expect the best from ourselves, and take the blame for every failure. While it is important to have something to spur us on to do better, you shouldn’t let it affect you negatively.

Accept the fact that your website will not be perfect from the day you create it, but you can always make it better as time goes on. Instead of trying to create a masterpiece on the first go, have a good structure and then sculpt your way towards it as time goes on.

Author Bio: Res Marty is a successful affiliate marketer since 2018 who is working towards his vision of earning money online and working completely from home. He is also the founder of the website, Affiliate Academy, which helps newcomers to the field with their doubts and qualms.

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