If you have an infoproduct you want to promote – whether it’s your own or an affiliate product — there’s no better place than social media. At any given moment there are literally millions of people using social media to communicate with their friends, update their status, watch videos, and other activities.

This is a lucrative market that you can exploit for the benefit of your online marketing program.

Read moreTop Techniques for Promoting Your Info Product on Social Media

Up until now, you have been learning about the right ways to set up your affiliate marketing business and how to maximize the amount of money you make. Now we are going to flip that on its head and show you how to avoid some of the most common mistakes that affiliate marketers make so that you can preserve the integrity of your business.

Selling to the Wrong Audience

The first mistake most newbie affiliate marketers make is to try to market your products to people who don’t want them.

Read moreThree of the Biggest Mistakes Most Internet Marketers Make

One of the fastest and easiest ways to get an online business up and running so you can earn recurrent income hands-free is by promoting affiliate products.

What are affiliate products? These are products that other people own and that you simply promote. These can be actual, physical products — such as bicycles, cars, homes and so on. Or they can be digital Information Products — such as an eBook or a video course.

When you promote affiliate products, every time you make a sale you get a commission on that sale. In other words, when you lead a customer to the product owner’s website and that customer spends money to buy that product, you get some of that money.

Automatic Sales Commissions

Read moreTop 5 Benefits to Promoting Affiliate Products

Did you know that the “impulse items” you see at the checkout line of your local grocery store are some of the best-selling items in the store? It’s true. And the reason why holds some important lessons for your online marketing efforts. 

Read moreGet Your Online Customers to Strike While the Iron is Hot

Modern marketing methods such as email marketing, social media marketing and other web-based marketing, offer huge advantages over more traditional marketing methods. They are faster, more specific and less expensive, often free.

But they have disadvantages as well.

Read moreA Professional Approach to Maximizing Your Online Revenues

Affiliate marketing is a real and legitimate business model that is used by more than 1.5 million people on Clickbank alone. Affiliate marketing has always been around, but it has erupted into enormous popularity because of the Internet.

The reason why is because besides entertainment, people use the Internet mostly to search for products and services that they want to buy. With the World Wide Web, there are no international borders. People living in Katmandu can buy from you just as easily as people down the street.

Read more5 Ways to Find the Best Digital Products that People Desperately Want

If you have created an original info product, you have completed about half your task as an Internet marketer. The remaining part of journey toward marketing success is promoting your product so that highly-targeted customers can find it. For that, you are going to need a sales page.

A sales page essentially is an advertisement for the product you have created. But unlike traditional print advertising like a newspaper or magazine ad or a television or radio commercial, your sales page has to not only explain what your product is all about, but also convince the prospective customers reading it that it is essential that they buy your product. As such, sales pages don’t so much suggest as they demand.

Read moreTop 5 Ways to Convert Customers with Your Sales Letters

Forums are a great place to post articles that include links to your web pages. Forums are places where people interested in a particular topic can go to read posts by other people interested in the same niche.

All of the big internet sites – such as Google, Yahoo and Bing – offer forums on every topic imaginable. Even social media sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn host forums where you can post your articles. Your articles can even be broken up into smaller pieces and posted as comments to other people’s forum postings.

Read moreUse Forums and Social Media Marketing to Drive Traffic to Your Web Pages

Once you have identified groups of prospective customers, if you want them to give your links social approval signals, you have to take the time to build relationships with them.

One great way to do this is providing free valuable content related to your niche. So sending them links to websites related to your niche that you find helpful or other information they can use in their everyday lives.

Read more5 Ways to Build Personal Relationships with Your Customers