So What's Affiliate Marketing? 2012 Update.

Welcome Back Fellow Network Marketing Associates!

Hello.  Happy 2012!

Thanks for visiting me here today. 


While some of you are in a hurry to move your MLM, please allow me to share this reality with you.  Take your time.  Find out what your company is really doing.  Set a monthly limit on what you buy from your MLM.  Don't let anyone in your company pressure you into purchasing their 1) corporate websites..., 2) their systems...3) a garage full of products you can't yet move.

One of the biggest questions I get from a lot of people is this --


"Barbara..., So What's Affiliate Marketing?"


Affliate marketing is a way of putting the consumer in touch with a product.  Affiliate marketing is one way of moving products, but there are larger numbers of people who use many different marketing methods.  Methods vary based on the type of audience that's being reached...where that audience predominantly resides (how people tap into information), and how that audience will be grown by individuals/companies.
 
1)  Affiliate marketing is NOT all there is. 

If you are researching what affiliate marketing might mean to you, but you are confused about what it entails, keep your wallet on ice!  Do NOT run a random search online because you'll be found by major gurus promising you the moon.  Some deliver.  Many do not.  I touch on this core reality across my blogs...simply because there are people out there who want one thing from you -- your money. 

2)  There are offline marketing methods.

3)  There are offline/online marketing methods designed to advertise...say a movie star or a rock star or say...a department store...or an individual.  Their methods may/may not use affiliate marketing, depending on the way they're growing their businesses moving their wares.  Mainly, those folks create their own products and they create their own affiliate systems to move their stuff.

Companies may not have full market reach so they pay other people online commissions for connecting consumers with products.  That's pretty much the skinny.

4)  Common ways of advertising what you most likely purchase happen through --

A)  paid offline ads
B)  paid online ads
C)  free offline ads
D)  free online ads

It's obvious...and it's not.  If you are a frequent purchaser, and you have not operated your own business before, it can be tricky to shift your mind in owner mindset ways. That's because this kind of thinking usually has to be modeled and taught. 

What you're looking at are ads.  You stop purchasing at higher levels to just see what's happening.

5)  To understand what I'm saying regardless of whether it's affiliate marketing...MLM marketing...or just paid ads, spend a year doing nothing but looking at these things ----

*  ad copy -- the simple sentences you see on magazine covers
*  ad copy -- simple content you see appearing in articles
*  ad copy -- store signs
*  ad copy -- book titles and book reviews
*  ad copy -- MLM flyers and other handouts
*  ad copy -- affiliate online headlines

Are you seeing something appearing obviously? 

All purchasing is emotional.

So don't get roped into the idea that affiliate marketing is different from MLM marketing...or standard business advertising.

IT'S ALL THE SAME THING

I'll prove it.

How does marketing essentially work?

*  You put your image (photo) online
*  Go into the social networks
*  Pick up a free blogger.com blog and start writing about some subject that really gets your juices flowing (it has to be something that keeps you very excited day after day...and no...I'm not talking about sex).

Your topic could be clothing...or shoes...or a specific vitamin regimen designed to alter acidic PH levels in the body...

Or...refortify calcium levels...

Or...reduce aging and sun-spots...

Or...make yourself more attractive to the opposite (or same) sex...whichever may be your preference....

Or...cure toenail fungus.

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The Point Is --

Human beings have needs based on immediate problems.

No matter how you package it, a solution can be re-designed and re-stated...

but it's all the same in the final end... people helping people.
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WHAT ABOUT SPIRITUAL STUFF?

That's another topic for another day...but if you sat in your heart for any length of time...you would eventually see that much of what we think is real in this world is actually an illusion....save for true love.

That is a topic that can only be addressed from within.  As far as I know, very few human beings know what this is as long as they motivate from egotistical levels.  Even then, if you master the mindset connected to this audience, you can move true love.

I'll stop there.  There's plenty of content to examine, process, and understand.

Feel free to post your comments, and suggestions.  Because the Internet is a massive subject, there are massive areas of online learning split into mastered arenas.  I can't possibly cover every minor detail on my blogs or I'd be 120 years old.

Toasting Your Success Online,

Barbara Brinkmeyer, MBA
Internet Marketer/Mentor