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Becoming a successful Big Selling Affiliate is all about having the right mindset.

It’s a mindset of approaching affiliate marketing as a business, it’s not a matter of showing up and here’s $2,000. In fact there is no limition on how much you can earn as an affiliate, it’s only the limitations you add yourself that can hold you back.

You need to put in the same kind of time and effort as you would in any kind of business. This is only part of the whole picture because you also need to have the determination and belief that you can and will succeed.

It’s a case of if you believe you can or you believe you can’t either way you’re right! You really need to “believe” you can become a successful Big Selling Affiliate marketer.

It’s no use thinking I don’t know how to do HTML, or I don’t know how to build a list or whatever the obstacle might be. You need to have the attitude that whatever stands in your way can be overcome with your positive mental attitude.

Being an affiliate isn’t a 9-5 job where you have a boss to answer to, instead you need to formulate your own plans and goals for achievement.

So before starting out as Big Selling Affiliate you need to have a plan of action to follow which includes knowing the following:

1. How and where will you be driving traffic from?

2. How will you position yourself and your product in the market place? (I wrote an article about branding yourself here which is all about positioning yourself in the market place).

3. How much money do you have available to spend on advertising?

4. What is your expected return on investment for your first month? You need to plan for the 30 day delay in affiliate commission payments.

5. What are your mid and long term goals? Where do you see yourself in 6 months time, 12 months time?

It’s critical that you take forward steps each and every day that help build your business, no matter how small those steps are. It might only be 1 hour writing an article or a blog post, it’s all about long term results being built by consistent action over time.

You might consider writing and submitting 2 articles a week, or a short blog post every other day, or commenting on several related blog posts each week. As long as it’s consistent action that helps you build your business.

Being patient is critical! It takes time to build subscriber lists and becoming established in the search engines. So during your first month it might seem like you’re not making any progress at all. This is where you positive attitude and your long term plan comes in to place. These are the things that keep you focused and motivated.

This takes me back to what I mentioned earlier about taking consistent forward moving action with your business because as you move forwards 1 step at a time you build momentum. Imagine pushing a car from standing still, it takes a lot of effort to get it moving but once it’s moving it gets easier and easier to move quicker and quicker, this is exactly what I mean about being patient.

It’s all about being patient, staying positive, being consistent and being strategic.

To help you get on the right track here are 7 points you must take careful note of before you start your affiliate business:

1. Take one step at a time (this is all about patience)

2. Take massive action and put in the required effort until your plan works, but don’t forget to keep your plan fluid as you sometimes need to make course corrections to hit your target.

3. Focus on one proven business system at a time, if this is affiliate marketing stay with it until you have it working for you. Then grow your business using other systems.

4. Treat this as a long-term business, not as a hobby or something to pass the time. Seriously commit to being a successful Big Selling Affiliate.

5. Commit to learning basic internet marketing skills like traffic generation, article marketing, copywriting and testing and tracking. Don’t be distracted by all the other latest and greatest marketing systems and opportunities you’re going to see.

6. Create a plan for your business from day 1, decide what your goals are then work backwards from where you want to be to where you are now, then follow that path.

7. Give yourself deadline to work to because this prevents the urge to procrastinate and teaches you how to accomplish anything you set your mind to.

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Writing a review on products you’re an affiliate to is a great way of becoming a successful Big Selling affiliate marketer.

The beauty of writing an affiliate review is it helps to establish you as an expert in the market place, it helps to give you credibility.

Your role is to act as a credible information provider of information people want.

Now another benefit of using this approach of writing an affiliate review and combining this with a series of optin forms positioned strategically throughout the review is you can use Google AdWords to help you drive traffic to this page.

At the moment Google is penalizing markers whose optin pages are low on content so including valuable information on your review web page is going to give you a huge advantage and improve your AdWords “quality score”.

Writing a great affiliate review is very simple when you know how, the review is essentially a short article that explains the benefits and drawbacks of the product you’re reviewing.

The biggest question to ask when writing reviews is do you own a copy of the product you’re reviewing?

Obviously if you own the product and have tried it out your credibility will be so much higher, but I realize that buying every product you review isn’t always possible when you’re first starting out.

Let’s assume you don’t own the product you’re reviewing in which case you need to consider things like:

1. How relevant is the product to the market (end customers)

2. What are the potential benefits to the market

3. Find other reviews about the product you’re reviewing, when you do this you can sometimes find useful pieces of information you might have otherwise overlooked.

4. What reputation has the product creator/owner for quality. If their reputation is great you can mention that what they’ve created before has been of excellent quality.

5. Search through the sales letter of the site for the product you’re reviewing looking for benefits and features you can mention in your review.

6. Search through forums and blogs for any other information you can find about the product.

Google.com can help you with this kind of research, just type in the “product name” + review or just search for “product name”. If there’s anything negative this is how you’re likely to find it.

7. Write to the people in the testimonials featured on the products sales letter to see if they can give you some feedback on the product.

8. Contact the product owner and just ask them for a review copy of the product you’re reviewing. You might have difficulty with this until you’ve established your reputation online, but it’s always worth a shot.

Eventually you could be in a situation where you have people approach you with a copy of the product for you to review.

The basic formula for writing an affiliate review is this:

1. Gather information
What are your impressions of the product before and after you bought it?
(Your answer):

(If you didn’t buy the product look for other reviews in forums and blogs, if you can’t find anything give your opinion based on the content of the products sales letter).

What are the top 7 things you learned from this product?
(Your answer):

What one thing did you find most useful?
(Your answer):

Who would benefit the most from this product, who is it not for?
(Your answer):

What was left out of the product?
(Your answer):

How quickly can this product help you?
(Your answer):

What other skills or tools do you need to get the most benefit from this product?
(Your answer):

Lastly can you recommend it?
(Your answer):

By writing out your answers you’re building the ideal structure to your affiliate review.

2. Flesh out your answers
Now just follow through with each of your questions adding to it some more with any other relevant information you might have.

Be sure to introduce the product you’re reviewing quickly.

Give a compelling reason for people to read your review, this could be a strong headline and/or you start with a major weakness.

By starting out on a negative note it’s easier to grab attention, it draws the reader in because it’s more compelling than this is a great product. When you do this be dire to spin it into a positive.

Keep your writing conversational balancing out the pro and cons in the same sentence or paragraph.

Add something personal about yourself because it helps people to warm to what you’re saying.

Make it clear that you’re recommending the product, how strong is your recommendation. Why not use a star or points system to show your rating of the product?

Lastly be sure to work in clear calls to action, tell people what it is you want them to do.

If you’re already a big selling affiliate I have a special offer for you…

The next 5 people who write a review on one of these products and use the formula I’ve given you above will get the product you’re reviewing for free.

www.BigSellingNiches.com/workbook.html
www.BigSellingConversions.com/onetime.php

Just add your review of one of the products above as a comment to this post and I’ll send you a copy of the product you’re reviewing free of charge.

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