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There are several wrong places to promote affiliate products – blog, subscriber lists and social networking sites are the most important of them. Don’t get me wrong here. They are powerful marketing channels. However, done the wrong way, you can land all the troubles you can’t manage.

They become wrong marketing channels when you try to push your products to uninterested audience. If your blog is about affiliate marketing and you try to push your e-book on weight loss, you can potentially lose your blog readership. When you post promotional messages at others’ inboxes at social networking sites, you will be labeled a pest.

Doing so is wasting your time and energy. You also waste others’ time. Others will also start you calling a spammer. Do you want such a thing to happen to you? I think not.

Buying mailing lists en-masse is another crime you can avoid. You have no idea how old the mailing list is. You also have no idea what kind of products the individuals seek.

I love all the three marketing channels as described above. They are extremely powerful. They also sell products without any Adwords purchases. However, it is also important you make sure the readers are looking for products similar to the ones you promote.

The right way is to build your blog readership. Build your mailing list. And build your social network. It takes time. However, it is fully worth it. If you look for shortcuts, your affiliate marketing plans will crash before they can take flight.

Put in efforts to build your readership – email, blog or social media. First sell useful ideas to your target readership. You can gain status as an unbiased authority figure. From that point, your readers will be eager to accept your recommendations. Then, they will buy the products your recommend.

You can also use Adwords all the way – the beginning of your affiliate marketing plans, in the middle and after you had become a maven. Adwords is a good marketing channel any time. If you do it right, you can always attract almost everyone who would buy from you. If you do not capture them and sell to them, someone else will.

Read the first part: Affiliate Marketing Mistake 1: Choosing a Bad Product