Affiliate Marketing 101: Your Most Valuable Affiliate Marketing Resource Is Your Brain

Every day professional affiliate marketers and super-affiliates receive dozens, often hundreds, of e-mails touting this or that as the ‘most powerful affiliate marketing resource ever created’. While many, even most of these tools and resources may be truly beneficial to you in your online quest, none is even remotely close to your most valuable and powerful affiliate marketing resource – your own brain!

 

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This isn’t about your mental capacity to handle the day-to-day operations of your online business; let’s assume that’s not an issue since you’re obviously able to read and comprehend this article, ok? Most routine affiliate marketing tasks are fairly simple, merely requiring repetition on a regular basis.

But the creative abilities of your brain can make you a super-star online if you manage to harness your creative abilities and focus them on your various efforts. Think for a moment about the e-mails you received today… How many had an imaginative and clever subject line that got you to open the e-mail and read it?

How many of those e-mails were sufficiently imaginative to get you to take action, to click through on the link to read on? And the pages those links took you to – how many had a sufficiently creative headline that intrigued you, involved you and go you to read the entire page. And if you read the entire page, did it inspire you to take their desired action? Did you join the mailing list or purchase the product? If it was a blog post, did it get you sufficiently motivated that you left a comment, bookmarked the site or picked up it’s RSS feed?

Right there you’ll recognize the recipe for success in affiliate marketing – and see the value in being creative instead of one more ‘me-too’ copycat marketer. Successful affiliates think outside the box – super-affiliates don’t acknowledge that the box even exists. While they’re quick to note what’s working and what isn’t in their own efforts and affiliate marketing in general, they simply absorb it, alter their parameters to incorporate the new materials and go on creating their own unique affiliate strategies.

So before you buy another tool, pay for another resource, join another site or even send out another affiliate marketing offer, do a self-diagnostic examination to be sure you’re already using your number one affiliate marketing tool to it’s fullest, and best, capacity!

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PowerStart Marketing Mentor Doug Champigny

A recognized expert in how to market a product online or offline and master of these new affiliate marketing strategies, Doug Champigny is the creator of the Affiliate Marketing PowerStart coaching program and offers private 1-on-1 consultations and mentoring as well. Doug provides more information on starting your own affiliate marketing business at the Start Affiliate Marketing site. Marketing mentor Doug Champigny is a regular speaker at many of the live marketing events and conventions around North America – watch for him speaking live onstage in your area soon!

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4 Responses to “Affiliate Marketing 101: Your Most Valuable Affiliate Marketing Resource Is Your Brain”

  • Mike Paetzold - Follow this person as on Twitter
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    Creativity and using your own brain. Some do it naturally but for most it is something you need to be aware of and work at consistently. It is without a doubt the most powerful tool we all have.

    Doug Champigny says…

    Especially when first they start affiliate marketing it’s a tough choice as to how much you have to stay within areas known to work and how far afield you can take it – we’ve all had supposedly-brilliant ideas that went over like a lead balloon – and that’s putting it mildly in some cases! LOL But with practice and experience people will learn fast when they start affiliate marketing, especially if they test and track their results from each promotional method. -DC.

  • Andre Arnett - Follow this person as on Twitter
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    People underestimate their own ability sometimes because they are all looking for that credibility and hopefully the creativity. It can be hard at first but eventually I think we all will see that we have something to offer and where do those ideas and that confidence come from, that brain of course. Thanks for the confidence builder.

    Doug Champigny says…

    Well said, Andre – people often underestimate their own talents. -DC.

    Andre Arnett´s last [type] ..Finding Ways In Internet Marketing For Becoming An Expert

  • Joel Osborne - Follow this person as on Twitter
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    I think a lot of beginner affiliate marketers also have a lot of knowledge which they are not aware of yet. After reading even just a few good ebooks, there can be many great ideas which can help them boost their commissions.

    So like you said, before going out and buying more ‘stuff’, they should re-think of everything they really do know already.

    Doug Champigny says…

    You got it, Joel – often just doing a ‘brain dump’ on paper will bring out a lot more information than marketers realized they’d already learned – and that leads to new revelations caused by the synergy of seeing what they’ve written down. Brainstorming with another marketer also usually leads to creative ideas neither had thought of on their own, which is what makes mastermind groups so valuable. -DC.

    Joel Osborne´s last [type] ..Market Samurai – Take Action!

  • Earl Netwal - Follow this person as on Twitter
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    Great message and great audio presentation. Loved the content, gave you a tweet, glad to have my twitter friends get a chance to read.
    Earl Netwal´s last [type] ..Write an eBook



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