There’s a few reasons you need an affiliate mentor. Firstly, there’s so many avenues to take as an affiliate, you can easily get lost. There’s thousands of products you can choose from and many marketing methods you can use. When you’re learning, you make mistakes. All of this adds up to a difficult experience for most people who try to earn from selling affiliate products.
If you create content and try to sell from your content, you never know how long you need to keep going for. Most quit before they even make their first sale. An affiliate mentor acts as a “touchstone” to help, instruct and guide you. A mentor can hold you accountable for the actions you take. If you’re alone with your endeavours, there’s no-one to hold you accountable except you!
Your friends and family may even try and talk you out of doing affiliate marketing! A mentor is someone who has succeeded and their presence gives you confidence in your direction.
Without belief, you’re going to struggle, because everything comes from belief. If you doubt you can make it as an affiliate, you’ll soon give up.
Why You Need An Affiliate Mentor – You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
As a beginner I started out with a couple of cheap “how to” courses. They both taught different things, so I was immediately at odds with my marketing methods. One taught paid advertising, and the other taught organic marketing . By jumping from one strategy to another, I wasted valuable time. Each time I changed tact, I lost momentum. An affiliate mentor can help you choose the best strategy for you, according to your situation.
I also sold cheap items from eBay and Amazon and barely made anything in commission even when I did make a sale! This is incredibly demoralising, when you finally make a sale but you earn next to nothing for it.
I learned the best products to sell which gave me recurring and high ticket commissions. Before I found a mentor, I wasted a tonne of time selling low value physical products.
Why You Need An Affiliate Mentor – The Traps Of Affiliate Marketing
A good mentor can help you become aware of the many mind traps of affiliate marketing. Jumping from one course to another for example is one such trap. If you think there’s an easy way to do things, a “magic bullet” for affiliate success, you’ll believe all those marketers who tell you so and you’ll keep jumping ship when things get tough looking for an easier way. That’s not going to help you in the long run. Affiliate marketing can be tough, but you need to stay the course and overcome the difficulties you encounter to get anywhere with it.
Being a “busy fool” is another one. A busy fool spends time on those actions which although perhaps enjoyable, don’t move your affiliate business forwards. A mentor will hold you accountable to the tough tasks and present the hard truths about time wastage.
Getting stuck in learning mode is another affiliate trap. It feels productive learning and indeed it can be. But once you’ve learned enough, it’s time to implement what you’ve learned and put the theory to practice. Without action you won’t get anywhere with affiliate marketing. Once you know your direction, take action and shift your learning:implementing ratio to 80% implementing and taking action to 20% learning.
Summary
For me, finding an affiliate mentor completely changed things in affiliate marketing. I learned to build an email list, whereas before I was relying on organic traffic for my sales. I learned to promote subscription and high ticket items, which gave me residual and larger commissions. Being part of an online community gave me accountability and I was able to reach out and ask for help. Two community members helped me overcome my fears when I nearly quit several years ago. This help and support is vital because you will run into difficulties and doubt the journey.
If you’re alone, you’re much more likely to quit and 95% of affiliates do so. If you’re ready to get started you can do that here.