These days everyone is on the gold rush of affiliate marketing, very few understand the challenges that are involved. For me my biggest challenge was having the time to devote to it, after that I had the challenge of not knowing what to do. So I set out buying countless books that promised the moon and the stars. I ended up more confused than when I had begun. The reason for that was that I had lots of information and did not know how to go about implementing it in a way that would generate the most return for my time.

One also develops this enormous expectation based on the sales letter you read before buying the product. Then when you have bought and read the information you go and try and implement the strategies you are given to find out your numbers do not add up.

For example you are told make five sales a day and you could be making $100 a day starting tomorrow. With that you are given a set of keywords to promote a certain product, along with many others who like yourself have the dream of working from home moving towards financial freedom.

To make the five sales a day you need to have 500 targeted clicks or targeted traffic to get those sales, if you convert at 1%. Let's say the product you promote has a profit of $30 a sale and your per click costs are 25 cents, with 100 clicks you have made one sale making you a profit of $5. That sounds pretty good but then come to find out you do not get 100 clicks a day and some of your more general keywords get blocked by Google along with that you find you need to pay more for better position.

Then they say keep promoting products until you find one that is profitable. You could potentially have 10 bad campaigns to get to one positive campaign, if you do the math that does not work out to be very good along with the time it takes to develop all those campaigns alongside working a full time job. To learn more on how to improve your position as an affiliate select the link in the signature box.