First of all I am guilty of this myself, but not from the reasons of lazyness, If I like an affiliate program, I usually sign up for it and then keep it in an archived affiliate file, so I can fit this promotion later on in a campaign.
I guess alot of people do not start for many reasons,but perhaps the main reasons are outlined below:
1. Not enough time in the day, we all get our time management a little unplanned here and there.
2. Too daunting, the prospect of starting an affiliate campaign that others may do better than you.
3. People sign up for it, drawn in by the earning aspect and then realise they don't know how to market and just give up.
4. They just realise affiliate marketing isn't for them.
5. They just forget they signed up!!!
There could be many other reasons, such as technical know how and just the confidence with online internet business that many people may feel they need to grasp before they take it seriously.
The process of affiliate marketing is and should be a progressive one that is your own business and a business that should be treated as such, a lot of planning should take place for each new affiliate program you sign up for, because each affiliate program demands specific promotional strategies.
So next time you sign up for an affiliate program, make sure yu take the time to plan the marketing of it and set it up, so that it runs on autopilot if possible.
This is what other affiliate marketers do and they move onto the next program, to build their income up through varying residual income affiliate programs as an ever growing business in multiple niches.
3 comments: on "Why Do Affiliates Sign Up Then Do Not Promote?"
One only needs to be equipped with the tools needed to succeed in a business such as this, and he is bound to get what his heart ltimately desires.Just what are the things needed to be able to succeed in affiliate marketing? What must one have within himself to be able to do well in this industry? There is a lot of competition involved in affiliate marketing, and to be able to rise above the norm, one must be equipped with just the right stuff necessary to propel him forward.
Tully, good post, man. I'm guilty of this same thing myself. Sometimes you sign up for a network and they don't have any good offers so you just forget about them for a while, meaning to check back.
Its a shame some of the networks or even individual affiliate programs don't email or follow up with their affiliates or they would have better responses. I love when I get emails from affiliate programs I signed up for. It reminds me of them and it shows that they actually care about the affiliate.
On another note, I think there is something wrong with your feed, it's showing stuff from November as the most recent posts.
I always try to start my campaigns with a pre planned week long strategy and make the time for it! and if the affiliates do make contact in anyway then I get on with promoting them a little sooner!
As for my feed, I do not know, I know I moved a few of my feeds over to Google on the adsense side so I'm not sure about this, I've checked the feed and it seems up to date.
Cheers now!
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