At Last Some Sense In An Affiliate Article

I've been reading some utter drivel lately from people that seem to think they have an "inside scoop" on affiliate marketing.

Slim does sum up the industry quite well:

To be an affiliate marketer is not an easy task. You have to learn the techniques of marketing your product or service. You shouldn’t be looking at every chance because marketing is all about attracting you to look at this or that particular opportunity. To be a successful affiliate marketer, you should learn how to listen and to be taught because in life we need to learn skills to get by.

There are so many arrogant affiliates out there that like to flash the cash and make enemies rather than friends. In this industry there are a number of affiliates that don't have a problem talking about our failures as much as our successes. We do this because we know that that fella in your MSN messenger list will give you a heads up about a merchant not performing days before the merchant or network would.

You should also be creative. The real key to being successful with affiliate marketing is to develop a good content based website and weave your affiliate links into all your content. You have to provide your prospects with good, quality content to keep them coming back to your site.

Obviously this is one way. You can make it worth an affiliate manager's while (I so wanted to use a one word noun!) to let you stay promoting merchants via PPC that you shouldn't or let you in closed groups. But for me, I prefer to work on content sites and have done for well over a year. I'm nowhere near an early adopter in this method of affiliate marketing. But they're the one's that can pretty much weather any storm created by Google et al.