Sales has long been regarded as a numbers game because your success depends on selling small amounts to many persons or selling large amounts to a smaller number of people.
It would not be incorrect to conclude that marketing is also a numbers game, and this is especially true of Affiliate Marketing. You also need large numbers of targeted prospects to see your offers and click on your affiliate link so you can make money online. How does the Know, Like and Trust factor encourage others to click on your affiliate links?
It has often been stated that people do business with those whom they've come to know, like and trust. So while Affiliate Marketing is great for beginners to internet marketing, you'll become more successful as you build relationships over time.
An effective starting point is with a blog where you provide posts and articles that offer answers to questions and solutions to concerns your readers may have. Through your posts, your readers will get to know you as your personality and authenticity are reflected in your writing style and quality.
Over time when your readers see that you're willing to provide valuable content for free, they are more apt to click on your affiliate links and purchase products through you. This is because they now trust you that you would recommend only what you've personally used and got benefit from, or at the very least know the quality of previous work produced by the marketer you are an affiliate for.
How has the know, like and trust factor proven to be helpful in your online business? Please share.
If you are just starting out online, or maybe in the first three months you may be considered a ‘young online entrepreneur”. You probably feel intimidated much like a young child who starts attending a new school in the middle of the semester. Everyone seems to know someone else or have a large following, but no one knows who you are.
I can relate to how you feel because I felt the same way when I started my online business. What I found out, through observation and training, is that if you are willing to do what it takes, you can expand your reach and establish your credibility online fairly quickly. Unfortunately I was not aware of some of the points I'm about to share until quite some time after I'd started my first blog.
1.  Start or re-commit to your blog: Many people, including offline small business owners or entrepreneurs, hear the word blog and it conjures images of what blogs originally were: somewhat like an ongoing diary of events, or blurbs of what you're doing. Not anymore. Blogs have evolved into valuable websites managed by people who have information to share with others.
2.  Your blog is your hub or can be compared to your ‘home' on the internet. Just as you would want to keep you home attractive and appealing so that guests will want to visit with you and return, so you'll want to make your blog visually appealing and easy to navigate. Make sure that your name is somewhere on your blog as the author. It can be frustrating to visit a blog and find no information on the owner and the posts just say “by Admin.”
3.  Creating great content is essential. Build the “wow!” factor by giving your readers valuable information in your posts.
4.  When your readers leave a comment, acknowledge and thank them. They did not have to do this. If someone asks a question, no matter how trite it may appear to be to you, make sure to reply as this will show that you really care about people and respect those who choose to visit your blog and are looking to you for more information. At the same time, you establish your own credibility when you do so.
5.  Become a part of the blogosphere. You may find this confusing because it's understood at this point that you have a blog; but there is more involved. The blogosphere is made up of many bloggers in various niches where people with similar or complimentary niches connect or link with each other.
To be part of the blogosphere you will need to leave your ‘home' and visit other people's ‘homes', which means visiting other blogs, leave meaningful comments, and place your link on their blogs. You'll find that many of these bloggers will reciprocate by visiting your blog and leaving comments as well.
This is a great way to establish your credibility and help others to get to know you. When I visit other blogs I often take the time to read comments on a post. I'll sometimes click on the name of someone whose comment I found interesting to learn more about them and I'm usually taken to their blog. The same will be true for you. Think of this as one aspect of networking on the internet.
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Millions of people turn on their computer every day with the hope of making a good income online. Many do so for the very first time because they've heard stories of people making money online and they want to capture their share. The statistics are rather alarming as to the failure of many of these start-ups as it's been said that 90 percent of these new businesses fail within the first 120 days.
People are making money online, but in order to be sure that you are not one of those who fall into those statistics, let's look at three myths and how to avoid them:
Myth #1:When I work for myself I have total freedom; I no longer have a boss:
True, when you work for yourself you do enjoy more freedoms, but freedom is relative, not total.  You will have freedom to choose the hours that you work, but you do have to work at and in your business. You may find that in the beginning you may need to put in almost 40 hours in working for yourself to get your business to the point where you can work only 2-3 hours per day.
Regarding the myth that you no longer have a boss, you would be highly mistaken. YOU are your boss! You will no longer have someone else prodding you and telling you what you need to do, but you will need to adopt the mindset of a boss very quickly. You will be required to make decisions that will affect your business, yourself, and your family, if applicable. Developing management skills (more…)
