Looking for an affiliate marketing mentor near me, or you?! I was in the same boat several years ago; looking for someone to help and advise me with my affiliate business. I wanted an affiliate marketing mentor near me; someone real who wasn’t hiding behind their computer!
It took me several years of searching to find someone real, but eventually I managed to find a business community of like minded entrepreneurs who helped me earn online through affiliate marketing.
Affiliate Marketing Mentor Near Me
I might not be an affiliate marketing mentor near you, but I can help you. I can also suggest the same online community which has helped me. Over several years I took many courses in the search to find a way to legitimately earn from my laptop. Before stumbling onto affiliate marketing I tried Forex Marketing, eBay – buying and selling and even created my own ebooks. Here’s a short video explaining my story.
The main problem I found with learning from the internet was trust. I just didn’t know who to trust and I found myself jumping from one online course to another. Each one promised an easier path that the last!
When I found the community I now am a part of, I took another leap of faith. I was pretty desperate, in heaps of debt and trying to build a career as a stunt performer. But it wasn’t working and mostly I was out of work and filling in with whatever jobs I could get hold of.
After attempting affiliate marketing for several years without much success, I joined Stuart and Jay’s community in the SFM (Six Figure Mentors). Despite my initial scepticism, I was able to meet other affiliates in the UK, where I live. This was unusual since most companies I’d previously found were in the US. I was also able to meet people in person and I joined a number of seminars and get togethers.
Affiliate Marketing Mentor Near Me – Where Are You?
The SFM Mentors run workshops globally, so yes, there is an affiliate marketing mentor near you. The community has been growing since 2012 too so there will be people near you who you can meet up with, wherever you are in the world. I’m based in the UK and recently met up with other affiliates in Chester. Here’s a picture of the meet up.
Why Meet-Ups?
For me the get togethers are of real value because they make an internet business seem real. Working on your own online is hard and its difficult to really commit to a path online when there are so many to choose from. When I started researching online businesses, my inbox became full very quickly with one scheme and then another.
I jumped from one course to another – shiny object syndrome and months passed before I found a suitable strategy and plan. It’s easy to lose hope or direction with an online business too. Other people who you can trust and rely on can help you and hold you accountable. This just wasn’t something I got from many of the previous courses I had taken.
Interactive webinars have been a massive support too. With question and answer webinars you can gain support in all aspects of your affiliate business.
Mentors Near You
Mentorship is about trust. Without trust it’s very difficult to maintain a path for very long. Another problem I had with my affiliate marketing was in choosing a strategy which was right for me. No one can tell you that, people can only advise. Paid marketing is great, if you have the money. Blogging is good, if you have the patience. But ultimately it’s up to you which direction you take with your affiliate marketing business. It’s your responsibility.
With affiliate marketing too there are no guarantees. “Do this and that will happen” doesn’t always translate because everyone is different. Everyone has a different approach, different knowledge and a different work ethic. Unless you take full responsibility for the results in your affiliate business you’re putting the outcome onto someone else.
Making someone else responsible for your outcomes is a bad idea. It lets you off the hook but also disempowers you.
Affiliate Marketing And Mindset
I always thought mindset in affiliate marketing was a little bit of a red herring. But I was soo wrong! When I first started out learning affiliate marketing, I just wanted a formula – do this and make money. But what I didn’t realise is there’s lots of mistakes to make along the journey. Mistakes which either cost money or time. Here’s a few of the affiliate marketing mistakes newbie affiliates should avoid.
But once you’ve been through all of that, the other side is worth the struggle. You’ll know exactly which actions generate the best results for you. But most quit on that journey because they don’t see the bigger picture. They fail a couple of times and throw it all away. The affiliates who succeed realise this and use each failure as a stepping stone to success.
Dart Board Analogy
Let’s look at a simple analogy. You have a dart board which has a prize for hitting the bulls eye. The prize is $1000. Each dart costs you $200 to throw. The darts represent your advertising campaign and the prize represents an affiliate sale. You miss the first 10 times but then you hit the bulls eye! It costs you $2200 and you only make $1000. Most would consider this a complete failure. But if you take a longer term view, it’s actually a success. You now know which dart to throw (which advert to run) to make $1000 and only spend $200.
You can use the same analogy for any affiliate strategy providing you track all your sales. Pareto’s principle states that around 80% of your results will come from only 20% of your activities. So initially as an affiliate you’ll spend time on many things which amount to nothing. At this point most will quit. If you understand the graph below though it may give you some hope.
The “valley of disappointment” is where most affiliates quit! It’s where they try and try to no avail. They decide that “affiliate marketing just doesn’t work”. But they don’t ask themselves why affiliate marketing does not work. It’s because they haven’t yet hit upon a strategy they can rinse and repeat to generate a profit. Once they do, they are free! So it’s worth enduring the difficulties for the end goal.
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