What’s The Best Overall Strategy To Succeed In Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate Marketing is a marathon effort – not a quick sprint.

When you’re getting started, once you have mastered the very basics and run your first couple of campaigns, it’s vital that you have an idea of the big picture.

Key Campaign Elements: Traffic Source, Offer, Angle

There are three things that will make or break each campaign you run.

This doesn’t mean they’re the only things you need to get right. You’ll still need good banners, bids, landing pages, and so on to make a profit from your campaign.

But if you don’t have these three things nailed, it doesn’t matter how brilliant your landers are – you still won’t see positive ROI (Return On Investment).

Experienced affiliates believe that once you know what you’re doing, these three things in combination are responsible for about 70% of your campaigns’ success.

Traffic Source

Fortunately, we can choose a good traffic source straight away.

Our recommended traffic sources are huge and have space for hundreds of affiliates. That means that affiliates are much more willing to share data on the good ones, so you can choose one that is known to be high-quality.

Over time, you’ll probably want to experiment with other traffic sources, some of which won’t be as high quality. Knowing and running on a smaller traffic source can be a great competitive advantage.

However, when you’re getting started, you need to learn and find a good combination as fast as possible. So start with a traffic source that’s definitely good, and avoid that uncertainty.

Once you have chosen a traffic source, you should spy on it extensively – see What Software, Hardware, ...