One of The Biggest And Deadliest Mistakes Affiliates Make

Being the affiliate marketing director for one of thenets most popular affiliate programs I tend to see justabout every type of problem an affiliate could run into.One of the biggest problems if not THE biggest problemI see again and again is what we refer toas "Affiliate Gluttony"And no, were not talking donuts here!All jokes aside, affiliate gluttony is a very real andserious problem among the affiliate marketing world andyou may be surprised to see that your own webpage mightfall into the gluttony category. Don't worry though, it'sonly partially contagious and there is a cure!So what is affiliate gluttony?Glad you asked! If you can recognize affiliategluttony, you can avoid it entirely and increaseyour affiliate promotion revenue.Affiliate gluttony is really greed in disguise. It'san "unfocused" attempt at earning multiple incomestreams. Don't get me wrong "multiple" income streamsshould be one of your "biggest" goals but trying tocreate them on ONE website is just asking for failure.No wait... it's BEGGING for it!I am sure you have seen it plenty of times online.You come across a website while looking for a productor piece of information and you get dumped intogluttony land.Let's set an example here...Sally has a website on ebook marketing which promotes"Big Companies Super Duper Ebook Marketing Guide"affiliate program. But hold on a minute, while we arewaiting for the page to load ridiculous amounts ofneedless images we also see that Sally is promotingthe "Dandy John's Nuclear Powered Orange Juice SqueezerWith Email Attachment Interface" plus don't forgetthe "Romance or Bust: Hitch Hikers Guide To FindingA Soul Mate On The Open Desert Road In 7 Days or Less"affiliate program and several "hundred" other greatbargains that we all have been looking for our entirelives! Wow, everything from fruit baskets to rocket fuel.Damn, we found the gold mine here! I better call mycredit card company right now and request a creditextension because daddy's going to be ordering up astorm today! Sally will be on her way to a tropicalparadise by the time I'm done shopping at her site.S T O P ! ! !Ok Sally, it's time to wake up! In reality I'd hitmy browsers back button faster than you can say:"What's a nuclear powered orange juicer look like?"How many affiliate ad's do you think you can fit onone webpage? Are you trying to break the record?This is killing your sales!Sally has been stricken with a sever case of affiliategluttony. All is not lost though, with a bit of work,Sally will be able to create several income streamsout of her website and all without losing any of heraffiliate programs she so enthusiastically promotes.If you're already stuck in this rather popular ditchit's not hard to dig yourself out. Slowly modifyyour webpages with a personal touch and you will soonsee your click thru rates and sales referralspleasantly increasing!Our best advice to Sally is to take each of hermost popular affiliate programs and create uniquewebsites for each.It's not as hard as you think it is. Imagine if Sallybought up nuclearjuicer.com and created a 3 to 5 pagewebsite that totally focused on promoting "Dandy John'sNuclear Powered Orange Juice Squeezer With EmailAttachment Interface" Do you think her sales wouldincrease? You better believe it! Adding pictures,personal testimonials and quick load times will helpcreate a total marketing machine focused on sellingone product! When a targeted visitor comes tonuclearjuicer.com looking for a juicer they will havenothing interfering with their purchase decision.Whether you promote software or lawn mowers, if youfocus on your target market, you willincrease your affiliate referrals.Sally can immediately put this idea into play with verylittle out of pocket expense using these resources:Domains can be purchased dirt cheap at:http://www.000domains.com/Webservers are very inexpensive and easy to find:http://www.hostinvestigator.com/http://webhostdir.com/http://www.hostcompare.com/"Targeted" Traffic can also be purchased dirt cheap at:http://www.virtual-imagination.com/payperclick/Need help with HTML, uploading and graphics? Here is justabout everything you would possibly need to create a site:http://www.htmlgoodies.com/http://www.obscure.org/~jaws/htmlhelp.htmlhttp://www.webmonkey.com/With a little time and patience, you can literally createas many affiliate income streams as you want! Each oneshould be focused on one specific category or concept togenerate the most revenue. When you leave your targetedvisitors with fewer purchasing choices and keep themfocused on one product, you will create many moreaffiliate sales.Remember, a glutton's ugly on the eyes...DON'T BE A GLUTTON!