By Warren Wooden, Published December 23, 2011 www.netkaup.is

Do you know what the difference is between being successful today compared to being successful 10 years ago? If you said competition, then you are right.
The reason competition makes being successful today a little bit harder is because there is always somebody competing with you no matter what niche you are in or where you are promoting your affiliate products.
The Keys To Being A Successful Affiliate Marketer
1 Use Different Platforms
As an affiliate marketer you can’t just promote products from a website, you need to utilize the many platforms that are available to you. Some of the different platforms that I use and you should to are; Blogger, Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Youtube and my own website. If you want to be successful, the it is a must to use every platform that you can to promote your affiliate links.
Something that I highly recommend is that you don’t just use one platform for a certain product and another platform for something else, you need to test out which platform will work best for each product. If you can do this, then making sales will come a lot easier for you. Just remember that with affiliate marketing, everything needs to be split tested in order to get the best conversions.
2 Email Marketing
One thing that you need to understand is that you don’t just find an email address and then send an email, you need to make sure that person is interested in what you have to say.
If you want to make money with email marketing, then you need to get people to sign up for your email list by offering something related to what you are going to promote.
I believe that affiliate marketer should practice continued education so that they know everything about their industry as they possibly can.
3 Planning
Something that a lot of people totally forget about is the entire planning stage of affiliate marketing.
4 Never Quit
I should not have to tell you this but I will anyway, you can NEVER QUIT. The reason why I say you can never quit is because you can’t become successful if you don’t put all your time and effort into something. Trust me on this one, anybody will tell you that in order to be successful as an affiliate marketer you must keep trying and never give up.
As you can see, being a successful affiliate marketer will take some work but if you follow the keys to being successful, then you should have no problem. Just know that in order to be successful you will need to put in a good amount of work upfront.
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