In this article, I will define and explain to you what are the concepts surrounding affiliate marketing and why more and more people make money by this way. This article is not enough to help you become a top earner with Affiliate Marketing but, It will equip you with the basic idea to start making money with affiliate marketing.

1. Affiliate Marketing Definition

Affiliate Marketing is a form of online business it is almost like a collaborative model. With this form, you can find distributors who support affiliate products, sign up and promote their products, you will receive commissions.

What is Affiliate Link

Affiliate link is a specific URL, it 's provided by the merchant or affiliate network, that use to track the commission of each affiliate.

How to Become an Affiliate

Just sign up for the large affiliate programs like Amazon, commission junction, Clickbank,... there 're a lot of quality products for different niches.

If you want to promote the products you love but that doesn't have on the large networks above, you can go to the office merchant website to find their affiliate program or referral program and join it.

• For example, if you make an affiliate for Amazon, you must register with Amazon Associates, after which you will be able to advertise any Amazon product by the specific links (or affiliate link) when a customer buys through your link, you will be commissioned.

Commissions can range from 4-8%, maybe 10% in some special categories if you sell well

In summary, what you do is create affiliate links and get customers to click through them to buy, it may not seem simple, but in fact. The number of people making affiliate programs for Amazon is quite large, making a few hundred to a thousand dollars a month is normal.

The affiliate model accounts for 40% of total revenue for Amazon, so let's imagine how terrible affiliate war. Besides Amazon, there are thousands of other businesses, networks deploying this model and you can start at any site.

That is for physical product, with digital products, the commission can be up to 50-100%. For example, you can go to Muncheye to see the product coming out, of course, there is an affiliate for you to do.

Affiliate marketing has been established and developed rapidly in developed countries such as the US, UK, Japan, ... Then with many success stories revolve around affiliate marketing and ability to bring ultra-high revenue from this business model, affiliate marketing gradually introduces itself to other countries in the world

2. The Benefits of Affiliate Marketing.

The first and most important benefit of affiliate marketing that is you make money without effort to create products or have your own product.

There are dozens of available networks available for you to choose from.

For example, Commission Junction is the number one affiliate network today.

The second benefit is the ability to make money with affiliate marketing is extremely high. In the United States or other English-speaking countries, there are many people earning more than $ 100k per month. Some millionaire affiliate blogger who you can follow like Pat Flynn, Harsh Agrawal, Chris Lee, ... and a lot of other individuals.

If you want to find out how to make affiliate website, RankXL of Chris Lee is an awesome blog you cannot ignore, here are a lot of good tutorials for both newbies and enhancers:

Here're an example of RankXL Blog

The other advantages when you do affiliate marketing are:

• You can work anywhere with just one computer connected to the internet.

• No need to take care of customers (or very little), no need to worry about shipping, deliver products to customers. These jobs are the responsibility of the person who creates the product.

• It is possible to start with a low cost, even with a few hundred dollars that you can invest time and effort into learning and start making money with affiliate marketing.

• Diversification Options: Many affiliate middleware networks sprout up, they are the people who help affiliate marketing popular, introduced to the shop owner, reseller ... so you will have a lot of products to choose from a variety of different niches, both short and long-term. When making an affiliate through the network, all billing issues, performance statistics will always be transparent.

• Replication, passive income: When you know how to make money with affiliate marketing, you can replicate what you do, hire the referral team, so you have 1 passive income

3. Steps to Make Money Affiliate Marketing:

There are many different ways to make money with Affiliate, depending on the field, each type of product. However, I will say the first four steps to make money with affiliate marketing as follows:

Identify promotional products

There are many different popular affiliate networks such as:

• Physical Products: Amazon Associates, CJ, Shareasale, Linkshare, ...

• Digital Products: Clickbank, Jvzoo, WarriorPlus, ...

• CPA Network: Peerfly, MaxBounty, CPALead, ...

Analyze & plan promotions

This must be an important step that most of you just sketchy. You notice that you sell the products to others, but you have to see it as your product, because it helps you make money, so you have to carefully analyze the following;

• Products with the high or low commission

• The product will be sold to whom, what their needs

• Draw the customer avatar, buyer journey

• The product is good or not, there are many customers use it

• Affiliate competition is high or not

• The main way to earn customers

• If you do website and SEO, you have to choose keywords. If you run ads, then which direction to whom,...

• What type of website should you build?

......

For example, Nootriment is a blog specializing in Supplement. And they earn very well with affiliate marketing for Amazon:

From what you analyze, you will have a specific direction and proceed to promote base on the way outlined. For example, low commission physical products cannot run ads with Google Adwords or Facebook Ads, it is best to choose the budget savings direction as SEO (search engine)

Acting along the available way

If you build a blog to earn money with affiliate marketing then start the first set, like learning how to make a website with WordPress, how to research keywords & build content.

If you choose to advertise by running ads, conduct research on Facebook Ads, Google Adwords, Bing Ads, ... or other large advertising networks.

Optimization, measurement, replication, management.

This step only happens when all three steps are successful. With Affiliate, if you already know the formula to make money, you can expand, optimize the results obtained to bring you more profit.

When there is a lot of capital, you can hire people to work in a number of stages, to shorten working time as well as bring you passive income.

4. Promote Affiliate Marketing - SEO or Ads?

In Section 3 you can see I have talked about SEO or Ads, and there are two main directions to do affiliate marketing (of course there are many other ways but I just talk about two main directions).

• With SEO: You will build a blog/site, and optimize your website to rank high on the search results, mainly Google.

• Run Ads: You choose the network that allows ads to run and put your ads on that network (For example, Facebook Ads, Instagram Ads, Google Ads, Bing Ads, ...)

So what affiliate marketer should choose? SEO or Ads Run?

There is no answer to this question because choosing a promotion depends on a lot of factors, such as product type, product price, commission and your understanding of the product. I have the following examples:

You can not bring a $ 100 physical item on Amazon, 5% commission to promote on Google Ads, Facebook Ads, .. because you will certainly lose compared to the money spent running ads. With the physical products, you should choose SEO and build a niche site or authority site.

With the ClickBank product, you can choose SEO or Ads, because the commission is very high because SEO will be very competitive at the present time.

With affiliate T-shirts, you should not select Google Ads, because the bid in this segment is very high, and SEO is also very difficult, but Facebook Ads is the right choice.

....

So choosing SEO or Ads is your understanding of your field and your product type, you can study from the "competitor" ahead of you are doing to promote their products and then follow.

5. Thinking and attitude when doing Affiliate Marketing

Failure is the thing that "most" new affiliate marketer meet, I am no exception. Not only failed once, but this thing came to me many times.

There are always initial failures for new directions. Success will come to you when failures n times. These numbers depend on your thinking and attitude plus a little luck when you do affiliate marketing.

Affiliate marketing is about building a serious online business for yourself, but with online and offline business, the risks are unavoidable and the risks are always associated with losing money.

Earn money with Affiliate marketing is not difficult but not easy. If you succeed, you will get the results you deserve. So, improve your knowledge to get started

There are 2 articles on affiliate thinking that you should read if you want to start with affiliate:

Affiliate Marketing Mindset For Beginners by Digital Bloggers

Affiliate marketing mindset - 15 steps to success by Bogdanfiedur

 Two articles above that have the most accurate affiliate mentality from predecessors and have been successful, so you do not need to go looking for a more distorted material. However, if you are a person with a personal identity, you may have an affiliate mindset of your own. Since there is no definition, thinking that applies to all

6. "Personalized" Trends in Affiliate Marketing.

Customers are learning about a product, they will certainly believe from those who used the product, the reviewers, experts, .. in this field rather than belief in advertising of this product on the official website.

This feature will allow the affiliate to develop in a "personalized" way, meaning that you will "play" a specialist in a certain field, who has deep knowledge of the field and then promotes this product wisely.

You will build a blog to express your feelings about the products (review), compare products, buy the guide, provide tutorials, tips, and tricks, etc. with one common feature. That is: You write in personal writing.

For example :

As I'm writing this blog, the T-affiliate site is also writing personal style, feel and your knowledge, and I think you also like and trust these blogs more than websites that provide general information

However, not everyone has enough knowledge about what they are doing to develop a website, blog or social profile in this form because if you want to be an expert then you have to be knowledgeable.

So you will have to "invest in knowledge" first. You have to understand the market you are doing, the benefits, pros, and cons of the types of products you intend to do, then you can develop in the direction of "personalization"

This "personalized" form is difficult and does not have much documentation, However, its potential is extremely large, if you do well, customers will come back to visit your site and make additional purchases again.

This is also a trend from 2017 back with the appearance of many "personal" blogs and naturally, they become a specialist in any field and is a destination of many loyal customers...

They spend a lot of time researching everything related to their field, then they will share their knowledge for everyone, and everyone will trust them, the more knowledge they have, the more trusting they will be.

Jon Loomer is a blogger specializing in Facebook Ads and Facebook Marketing. His blog is a place where I go regularly to study and update new knowledge. And it is inevitable that I have bought some of the tools related to Facebook Ads that he promoted via email.

And many other markets such as health, travel, beauty, aquaculture, ... there appear experts and they can all make money with the affiliate.

"Personalization" is an affiliate marketing trend that will continue to grow in the future, and you can also turn your blog, your website into a "personal" style rather than a page that brings general news.

7. You Will "Die Out" When Promoting.

From 2015 onwards, Google has a lot of intelligence, Google knows what you are doing with your website/blog. For example, your blog is only for the purpose of making money instead of bringing useful knowledge to the reader, Google will not appreciate.

The goal of Google is to: Push sites with useful knowledge to the reader, pull the site "high self-interest" or crap down.

You can see the top niche sites that have a page like this:

And along with this, over the years, customers are becoming smarter, they know you're making an affiliate and they will decide who they buy through. If you just say good for the product, they will find you are a fraudulent blogger and they will choose another blog to read.

All products have advantages and disadvantages, please carefully analyze them and review in the most honest way, customers will choose their own thoughts + with your suggestions, that opposite to say “all are good products, let buy a great one”.

Always choose good products to promote and honest review of the product will help customers trust you and the rate of purchase through your link that is higher, do not think customers will leave

8. Do You Dare To Accept The Challenge?

Affiliate marketing is not difficult, but it’s not easy, undeniably there are many people who have good thinking, success and have a high income with affiliate marketing, and maybe you will achieve success with this array in the future.

With over $ 6.8 billion in sales in 2016, and the number is growing every year, affiliate marketing is always a lucrative path if you have the key in hand.

When making affiliate marketing, you have to accept many initial challenges, and you also have to consider a lot as a new brand, always have the trap, trick in any field. But the most important thing is your passion.

If you want to earn money or earn a lot of money from affiliate marketing, your task must overcome these challenges, There are many people who will equip you with the knowledge, but no one will be able to help you make money, You have to do it for yourself, do not expect anything.

You can learn more about other affiliate marketing tips on my blog, including marketing methods such as SEO or Ads. However, if you are new to blogging, do not forget the Serie article for beginners.

9. Do Not Stop Creating

When you learn about the forms and the affiliate direction I mentioned above, you will probably find some guidance from the people who go online and you can follow these directions.

However, there are times when you will find some “strange” ways to promote affiliate and few people do, let me take some examples will make you more understandable:

• Smartpassiveincome is an "Expert Model" site, where Pat Flynn shares his knowledge, his path of success and revenue each month, and the Resource Page of the site has brought big affiliate revenue every month

• Promoting Affiliate Marketing through "free ebook": There are many experts who write ebooks that provide useful knowledge to customers, the ebook will recommend a number of products and of course with affiliate links.

There are many other forms that when you do, you will see it appear, but strange forms will probably come with "hard".

 You think you have enough credibility to make people purchase through your Resource Page

Or do you think you have the ability, knowledge to make an Ebook?

After all, they all ask for you: knowledge & ability. And you will always have to start with the easiest knowledge and forms, materials available on the net. When you have a foundation, you can associate, create your own way, this is also a gold mine you can exploit = your potential.

Following the guidelines of successful people is always a good choice to start. But do not stop there, always be creative.

10. The End

Although it is the promotion of other people's products, however, if you decide to make money with affiliate marketing, you must always have the same attitude and actions as you are promoting your product.

And at some point, the way you promote gives you a lot of profit, you can consider selling your own product, your service instead of promoting the affiliate, many have done so.

Hopefully, through this article, you have got more knowledge about affiliate marketing. If you do not understand, think about it or ask yourself questions under the comment section. With the experience of "affiliate war" for a long time, I can forward any of your questions revolve around affiliate marketing.

There’s a lot of material out there about how to grow affiliate marketing, what’s is the best WordPress plugin, SEO, optimize Affiliate marketing business,… Which’re all critical parts of your business strategy, But what about the best affiliate marketing strategy for beginners?

 When you start you can meet some of the biggest problems, such as how and where to start?  You can also wonder that Affiliate Networks you intent to joint could be suitable for your purpose or not? Such as commission, variety, and quality of products, what’s the proven effective plan, strategies or tactics you should follow? the reason why it works? Are you make money with it? Right?

So, This article is a how-to guide that will explain in great detail every single step you need to take to become master affiliate marketing and achieve your dream income in the next few month or year.  I will explain step-by-step everything you need to do. Some people may be seeking magic tools that help them get rich overnight, sorry it’s not real, magic is what you commit to do and follow, especially at the start, so you will have to put in a few hours of time every single day, this’s a proven strategy I'm making money with it, it used to help me earn nearly 2000$ commission in the first two months, not bad for beginner, right?

Do you know why most people fail when it comes to making money online?

I will give you a secret. That’s the biggest secret I learned from the process of building my business, that’s 80% psychology and 20% skills, don’t get me wrong skills are critical, you know the skills you’re not gonna succeed, But you’re on psychology you don’t have the skills you still won’t follow through.

That’s the reason why many people see the strategy In front of them, but they still cannot follow them. So what they do is only some weak action, and if not successful, they say it doesn’t work

There are three categories of people in Network Marketing that mentioned by Eric Wore in the book Go Pro: 7 Steps to Becoming a Network Marketing Professional. I’ve seen all of them and I’ve been all of them. They are the Posers, the Amateurs, and the Professionals. [Full Disclosure: As an affiliate, I receive compensation if you purchase through the Go Pro book links.]

POSERS

Posers treat this profession as a lottery ticket. They’re hoping to hit it big with as little effort as possible. When I first started out, I was a Poser, hoping to ride on my dad and his partner’s coattails. Luckily for me, I got some results and that kept me going, at least in the short-term. But I think you can agree with me that remaining in the Poser category is a bad idea. Within about 90 days I moved out of that category and became an Amateur

AMATEURS

An amateur is someone who is looking for that one distributor that will build their organization for them. You’ve heard stories about how one person brings most of a leaders income in for him. But that is rare. They are also the people who shout ground floor opportunity and the best compensation plan ever all over Facebook and other social media sites. Basically, they are hoping for luck, positioning, and timing will take care of everything for them and they will be able to sit back on the beach and count their cash.

PROFESSIONAL

A professional network marketer is similar to other professionals. What do all professionals need? They need to learn the skills of Network Marketing and master them. They must keep learning and keep growing.

if you’re going to be involved, it’s best to become a professional  And I really hope you become one of them. The next step is recognizing that you’ll need to learn some step to start your affiliate marketing

STEP ONE: Joint an Affiliate Networks

The first step is to join an affiliate marketing networks. There are many affiliate marketing networks with different commission level such as Amazon affiliate, click bank or commission junction,… I would suggest you take some time and search for them, reading and researching different networks, products, and programs.

Maybe you can hear some people say you should join an affiliate network that you’ll get high commission. Many people will disregard programs such as Amazon because “their commission percents are too low”. But In my opinion, when you start you should choose an affiliate network that has a huge number of different quality products like Amazon. Because according to my experience most people flock to the programs offering 50% or even 90% commissions! Such as Click bank, Mobe,.. but these programs tend to be fly-by-night products. So if you want to join Amazon, you can add something like Clickbank and Shopify to the mix. By this way, you have a good mix of things to offer, you also can concentrate your earnings at one place and build up potential profit from the other program.

Here’re some of the affiliate programs you can joint

Amazon Associates

Click bank

Commission Junction

Shopify

eBay

ShareASale

Rakuten

 

STEP TWO: Choose A Product

Over the next several years, as you are building your online empire that will generate a lifetime of financial freedom, it is important that you learn to choose a product to add to your new brand. You should keep a list of the products you are promoting and sort by type and price range. Some products are under $ 100, other products over $ 1000. Some products should be physical such as DVDs, printed books, machine,… Other products should be digital or downloadable, such as ebooks, software, online services, etc. The most important thing is that you build a large portfolio of all different types of products and price ranges.

When you choose products to add to your services, make a decision based on the quality of the product and the sales pages of the company that actually supplies the product. Even better you can buy and test this product and give your opinion about the pro and cons of this product.

Example: If you have joined several affiliate marketing programs, like Amazon Affiliate or Click bank, you will be able to browse through the many products and services they offer. Look around and find a quality product that you want to put them in your store. Ensure sales pages, reviews, testimonials and other sales and marketing details are the qualities you want in your business partner. And make sure it’s a product that other people will need, like, or want

STEP THREE: Attract Your Customer

The next step is to attract your customer buy to build a beautiful store, the first thing you need to do is to ask yourself if your website is attractive. The design of an online store is crucial, You have to be aware that a user ‘s purchase decision, Customers having thousands of online stores to choose from, will pick the one whose design is the most modern and aesthetic. And the reason for this is simple: a beautiful store is considered more reliable and trustworthy, the second way that’s to attract your customer through social media.

Social media is one of the channels that enables you free promotion. Of course, if you publish ads among networks, you will pay, but the mere presence is free. And it can bring lots of benefits too. The key to success in social media is providing marvelous content. You have to be interesting and outstanding so that people will want to follow you. If you manage to do so, you will have a great marketing channel at no financial expense. So what actually should you do to attract customers using social media?

• Post regularly– at least on a daily basis, so customers can’t forget about you (but not at all costs – if you post just because you should, it may have a reverse effect!)
• Engage your users: ask them questions, reply to their comments, try to catch their attention
• Choose the best channels for your business, but always focus on Facebook and Pinterest, because those drive the most traffic to online stores
• Use graphics– posts with images usually get 50% more engagement than others

*You can send some tips or stylizations related to your products – this way you will inspire people and make them visit your store.

STEP FOUR: Build Your Highway

The next step is to Build Your “Highway” This idea I learn from  David Ruebush.

Now, You have a beautiful online store, and that makes money for you, next you are creating an online “street” or “highway” that pointing customers in the right direction.

According to David, your online business can become a major highway, where shoppers travel to find where to shop. Businesses set up shops along the highway so people can find them. As customers go along your highway, they may exit to purchase goods in one of the businesses along their route. And each business along your highway pays you a small of money every time someone exits from the highway and buys something in their store. Instead of owning a shop (one product) where people shop before, you own a highway and make money every time someone buys something in any store along the route. To earn more You can make your highway longer and build more store (your product) to set up along the route. And you can do this over and over and over again until you’re too rich you are tired of money

So now you may be asking an important question. How do you create a highway where people will travel to find things to buy on the internet?

The secret to building a highway that is to create three to five points along your shopping highway is what we call “article marketing”. You will create three or five separate but related articles around each product you offer. These five content articles will each have a specific purpose, but work collectively to attract people from different “angles”

A Sales Pitch

An Honest Review or Report

A Features, Benefits Or Solutions Manuscript

An Educational, Informative Article

An Entertaining Story

Inside each point, you will include links to the website that sells your relative product or service. After each point is created. It will guide people from where they are to where they want to be. And they will cause shop owners along your highway to pay you over and over again for your product/service, instead of building a small road, you are building super-highway that will drive exponentially more sales commissions and profits to your account

Remember when you build each point, make sure you choose tags for targeting. These are keyword phrases. For example: If you offer a lose weight book, you should select “ lose weight without hard exercise”, “ lose weight without diet”, or “ lose weight fast” . you have to choose keyword phrases that show actual customers may look for something. And if your product fills these prey, you will attract more buying customers.

 

STEP FIVE: Follow Up

When you are promoting a product through your high way, you should always build a mailing list via an opt-in page. You can do it by giving away a free report, ebook, useful tip, or product trying to exchange their email. All you need to build a mailing list is an autoresponder, place some opt-in forms on your page to capture subscribers to your mailing list.

Now maybe you can ask why you should do it, right?

Because when your customer has just bought a product from you, he or she is in a buying mood and is likely to make more purchases from you, so you can create backend marketing to promote more product/service with them. With these people just visit without buying, it’s essential to reselling your product to them via email marketing.

E-mail marketing. It is both a cheap and effective solution to attract customers. people have the more positive attitude towards companies that send them e-mails. 71% of respondents stated that when shopping they always remember e-mails that a company send to them. These results confirm the importance of email marketing. But what actually can you do?

Some of the most common ideas are:

• send emails about new products
• send emails about sales and promos
• send emails after purchase with similar or recommended products, so that people are eager to make another purchase
• send emails to clients who haven’t been active in your store for a while with discount coupons to make them revisit your website

 

STEP SIX: Repeat

The final step in your business plan is essentially the “repeat” stage. Once you have three or five points published around your product or service, it is time to choose the next product or service you want to add along with your highway, nothing new, you repeat the steps before. You find a new product, you research the product, you choose three or five tags, you write three to five points, and you start over again. If you want to expand your profit from your current business You can repeat from step five and add more products to your current high way.

Or if you want to build another business that offers products completely different from your current business, you can come back from step one, choose suitable affiliate network, choose your new product, research the product, select three to five tags, and you create three/five points about the product (new high way).

Conclusion

I share with you my strategy, my business plan that I’m using. You can use it or leave it. It depends on you. You can start your business right now and build an income as you wish today.

Or If not, how much money have you lost in the last three year because you have not started your business as you want? Don’t choose affiliate net worth fit for you? don’t promote any type and price range of product? don’t build your “high way”, don’t follow up? How much is the total you lost?

How much has it cost you emotionally in additional frustration, regret, anger, upset and lowered self-esteem by not start your business? What has been the emotional cost for you?

If you continue for the next five years not to start your business what will the cost be?, How will you feel about yourself?

If you were to consistently utilize what are you learning here now and start your business—by changing your physiology like professional, start commit to learn some skill such as research for suitable affiliate net worth, add a product to your business every week, or month, expand your income by create your own”high way”, leverage sell with your current customer and reselling your product with those people who say ”no”? How much money would you make? How much fun would you have?

If you follow the plan I set out here for you, you will see that it works. It takes time. It will not make you rich overnight. But it does work. If you do right, you will eventually look up one day and realize you have a very profitable, very reliable business. And I will be here all along the way to help your business better and more profitable.

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When you think of starting an online business, what comes to mind? Build a beautiful website? learn some of the tactics from the expert? Or create a powerful ad?

Yes that's right, but that’s not important, starting an online business begins with filling a need and building credibility, if you ignore it, that will be very dangerous for your business especially when you just start, there are a lot of mistakes that you can get into, especially when you’re new to eCommerce and don’t have much experience.

So I decide to do a lot of research and find out the five biggest mistakes that are over 80% small business make, they ‘re repeated in many different posts with different interpretations,

But they all talk about the same problems, and if you know them, that will help you go ahead of 80% remaining

Now let start 

NOT HAVING A PLAN

Many People think it's just only for big business, because they do not know if their business is going to be there or not, and they think they just to start, when their business grows they will find out what to do next, but that's not true, you have to build a plan before you start. 

You don’t need a formal 20-page business plan to successfully plan a business, but you still need a plan. A business plan will help you know what's working and not, divide available funds to reach specific business goals.

For example, if you sell fitness machines and you’ve identified 20-year old males as your target audience, a marketing approach built on social media marketing like facebook, twitter and Instagram might be more effective than using magazine ads.

Your marketing plan will help you understand the amount you’ll need to spend, how many people you can reach, and how many potential customers you’ll have to convert to generating a profit. 

FAILURE TO DO RESEARCH TO SEE WHO IS YOUR CUSTOMER

This mistake will lead to identifying the unimportant problem and target wrong audience, Imagine if you created a great product, spend an amount of money to promote it but no one buys, How do you feel?

Simply because it's not their problem, Remember customers are buying for themselves, not for you

Take the time to do research to identify who you are trying to reach, what are their important problems and the actual gap in the market before you take things further.

NOT DIFFERENT ENOUGH

You have no idea what your competitors are doing with their marketing, that’s a mistake. In most markets, customers have different options to choose from. Your business needs to be distinctive. 

If your business has competition and you then realize that your business idea isn’t unique. You have to ask the reason why people should do business with you instead of your competitors.

If you can not create a different product, you could change the way of marketing, like Guy Kawasaki explain in the book The Art of the Start: “Most of the new companies use the same terms to describe their product or service. 

It's as if they all believe that their prospective customers have been living on a desert island and have never before heard a product or service referred to as "high-quality," "robust," "easy-to-use," "fast," or "safe." [Full Disclosure: As an affiliate, I receive compensation if you purchase through The Art of the Start link.]

A better way to distinguish your product is to offer concrete proof points so that people can deduce its unique qualities.

Find unique language or offer scientific proof points, and don't be tempted to think that you have the only product described with such overfamiliar adjectives as intuitive, secure, fast, and scalable.

BUYING A BUNCH OF LITTLE STUFF

When you have a business, you need a some of the promotional tools, that will help your business look more professional and more attractive, right? Yes, but you don’t want to go overboard. 

In most of the market, maybe except for the fashion industry, your customer just care about: Can you solve their problems and how do you solve it?.

So instead of spending a lot of money and focus on things like how your business cards look or the design of your logo, founders are wasting valuable time and money. You should concentrate on your content that will help your business go to the next level.

But don’t make me wrong, you should still buy some promotional items because it’s also a factor to attract your customer, but keep the quantities and your budget on the small side.

Here is my suggest

·         Business cards

·         Marketing materials

·         A cheap giveaway item

NEGLECTING GOOD CUSTOMER SERVICE ON THE SITE

Businesses lose as much as $41 billion a year from bad customer service, don’t let yours join those notorious ranks, you’re selling on the web and rarely meet face-to-face, that’s the reason why customer service becomes more important. 

A good customer service will help you educated potential customers to realize the benefits of your product, that help you know to reason the ones who ask for refunds or buy your product but don’t use it and why the people who tell you they won’t buy, and find out why.

You should establish your contact info which displayed on your site, so your customers can always reach you with feedback, questions or complaints. 

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How many times you see the great strategies from the other but you fail to follow?

How many time?.... ok, I guess that is A Lot

If yes, there are 9/10 people like you

Your answers are right here, But you still can not follow, Why?

Because it is your Scenarios,….you have a scenario that says this Thing will not work because your scenarios are built from your experiences, you use to read a lot, apply a lot but nothing work, Really? Are you use all techniques? are you use it in a powerful way or weakly, half-confidently? 

And when you fail you say it does not work, right? and this goes on until you use the new tool and like before, you do weakly and hope the miracle appear, and when the magic does not appear you will blame this method is useless, so your beliefs gradually and eventually you conclude that nothing works, All are just cheating, and you do not want to try anything . It just wastes your time and effort.

Here you need to know one thing that nothing is easy in this business, no such thing like one size to fit all, because each business is unique, to succeed you need to change your scenario, strategies/ tactics they’re just a tools, they will not help you get rich overnight, it's all about YOU, what you have to do is practice it fiercely, and will it help you succeed?, I Do not know, because No one can predict the future, but one thing is for sure, if you commit to practicing in a consistent way, you have the success rate higher than the others.

Nothing is Perfect in this business world, a hundred million dollars advertising strategy does not guarantee you get the results you want, as Ford cars spend billions of dollars for advertising on American Idol and then they realize it's a big waste, the most successful entrepreneurs, or the athletes who reach the highest goal are those who have unbelievable “stamina”. 

And it comes from their scenario, and all things are built by beliefs, all these things help them committed to following the strategies in the most intense and consistent manner and when these things are not working, are they disappointed?, No, they're ready to change the strategies until they reach their goal, Why they can do THAT?

Because they have a scenario that says they are going to succeed, they will practice aggressively without hesitation and therefore they will have a higher chance of success than anyone else, and in most cases, the results will accurately reflect your process

So the scenario is very important, at the beginning if it says this thing is useless and time-consuming or you fear that it will not work, then maybe you will do nothing or do in a weak, half-hearted way, and that will not lead you where you want to come.

Sometimes people consider too much about the cost of doing without considering the cost of not doing. Usually, when you think carefully, you will realize the cost for doing that ‘s not scary at all, the worst, you will lose a time with friends or coffee or you need to learn some new skills, but what will you pay if you do nothing? 

Your business will be stuck in place or worse going down and declaring bankruptcy, you will do boring job 8h per day and expect a retirement amount, look past monotonous, boring and worried about the future

So you can see the scenario plays a very important role in our success, different scenarios lead to different actions and then lead to different results.

And if you have not felt enough motivation or are hesitant about what you do because it seem to does not work, try writing down the answers to the following questions. I believe they can support you very well

These are the questions from Tim Ferris the author of Four Hours Work Week [Full Disclosure: As an affiliate, I receive compensation if you purchase through this link.]

1. Define your nightmare, the absolute worst that could happen if you did what you are considering. What doubt, fears, and “what-ifs” pop up as you consider the big changes you can—or need—to make? Envision them in painstaking detail. Would it be the end of your life? What would be the permanent impact, if any, on a scale of 1–10? Are these things really permanent? How likely do you think it is that they would actually happen?

2. What steps could you take to repair the damage or get things back on the upswing, even if temporarily? Chances are, it’s easier than you imagine. How could you get things back under control?

 3. What are the outcomes or benefits, both temporary and permanent, of more probable scenarios? Now that you’ve defined the nightmare, what are the more probable or definite positive outcomes, whether internal (confidence, self-esteem, etc.) or external? What would the impact of these more-likely outcomes be on a scale of 1–10? How likely is it that you could produce at least a moderately good outcome? Have less intelligent people done this before and pulled it off?

 4. If you were fired from your job today, what would you do to get things under financial control? Imagine this scenario and run through questions 1–3 above. If you quit your job to test other options, how could you later get back on the same career track if you absolutely had to?

5. What are you putting off out of fear? Usually, what we most fear doing is what we most need to do. That phone call, that conversation, whatever the action might be—it is fear of unknown outcomes that prevents us from doing what we need to do. Define the worst case, accept it, and do it. I’ll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice.

 6. What is it costing you—financially, emotionally, and physically—to postpone action? Don’t only evaluate the potential downside of action. It is equally important to measure the atrocious cost of inaction. If you don’t pursue those things that excite you, where will you be in one year, five years, and ten years? How will you feel having allowed circumstance to impose itself upon you and having allowed ten more years of your finite life to pass doing what you know will not fulfill you? If you telescope out 10 years and know with 100% certainty that it is a path of disappointment and regret, and if we define risk as “the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,” inaction is the greatest risk of all.

7. What are you waiting for? If you cannot answer this without resorting to the previously rejected concept of good timing, the answer is simple: You’re afraid, just like the rest of the world. Measure the cost of inaction, realize the unlikelihood and repairability of most missteps, and develop the most important habit of those who excel and enjoy doing so: action.