The whole point of affiliate marketing is that you resell products, you don't sell them. Trying to sell affiliate products, for more detail go to: www.master-affiliate-marketers.com. with banners and ads that scream 'Buy Me' are some of the biggest mistakes I see being made by affiliates. As an affiliate, your job is to get the prospect to the merchant's site, and let the merchant do the selling.

Be careful, though, when selecting banners and text ads from merchants. Some do not understand the need to resell either, and they will offer sales material rather than pre-sales material. Don't use it, write your own. That, then, is the first important tip for this year.

Many affiliates do not have a website, and rely on Ad words to make money. This used to work, and can still work with impulsive buy products, but not with many products. The problem is simple - they don't trust the seller.

This has nothing to do with the internet; by the way, it is just a fact of life. People like to feel comfortable with firms they deal with, and need to have been in contact with them five to seven times before they are ready to trust them enough to buy their products.

If you send someone directly to a merchant's site from Ad words, you are invisible, and they merchant is a complete unknown. So you have little chance of making a sale. It is true that many seasoned marketers do, for more help visit to: www.affiliate-windfall-secrets.com. but believe me; the bulk of their income comes from elsewhere.

As an affiliate, you need to set yourself up as an expert in your niche, and that means you need a website. It does not need to be big. Five to ten pages are enough to do the job. Here, you give information, and get the prospects to sign up for your list so you can send offers to them.

My third affiliate marketing tip is to write a blog. This can be added to any site that has Panel and Fantastic, which will install Word press for you in less than a minute. You can also get a blog at services like blogger and word press. but these have less authority than one you host yourself.

Straight away you can start posting to your blog, and you can write anything you like related to your topic. Not only is this useful, but it is fun.

So here are my three affiliate marketing tips for this year: Resell doesn't sell; get a website to support your affiliate business; and set up a blog.