Hard question: what's stopping you growing to be a successful affiliate?
I'll tell you...
Volume.
Or more specifically, lack of it.
For example, take the most successful method of creating affiliate sales for the Silver Lotto System - article writing.
Most people can write 1 article a day if they are pressed.
Several can write 2-3 a day.
A tiny motivated few can push out 5 articles a day, regularly, for months on end. That's rare however.
Then there are the masters... writers who create a dozen or more original articles a day.
They do this because as the volume of articles increases, so do sales.
If you want to grow sales, you need to write more.
At Ezine Articles, the net's most highly rated article directory, Sean R Mize is the undisputed master at the top of the writing production tree. Today, 16 November, I counted 11 articles he had authored or had ghostwritten under his name. Yesterday it was 12.
And so far Sean has gotten over two and a half milllion views from his nearly 24,000 articles, over 4 years.
One of the advantages in having a large mass of articles is that readers are highly targeted buyers.
In Sean's case they find his articles from the search engines through the keywords he scatters through his paragraphs, and if they are interested they click through to his website via the resource box at the bottom.
As a result, maybe 1 in 10-100 will buy from him. It's a hugely effective strategy because buyers are presold by the article, and so it takes less work to generate a sale from the website.
Now, it's usual these days for only 1 in 1,000 visitors to buy cold from any website. So to achieve the same result as Sean with other traffic building methods like PPC (Pay per Click - not available for lottery systems), or search engines, you'll need to find 2,500,000,000 visitors.
Yes, that's 2.5 billlion visitors. Very few websites achieve that huge number.
So you can see how writing articles is actually more productive in many ways.
The best part of this method is that it is deceptively simple. And as I explained in a previous article on this blog, you don't even have to write about the lottery... it can be any subject that interests you. Or it can be an existing article that you rewrite in your own words.
Either way, if your article is totally original, you have a tremendous advantage over most other article writers. The power of your words will have a compounding effect, and the search engines will love you for it.
The best way to succeed on the internet as an affiliate is to increase your volume of articles.
Now here's an insider's secret... the reason why a few people succeed and most fail.
Failures choose to take an easy path.
Trying to decide between taking a walk or watching television? Instinctively you know one is better for you than the other. No contest. But the successful person will take a walk... they will choose the hard option because very few others do this, given a choice.
Most others take the easier route and wonder why they don't get the same measure of success. By taking the hard route, the competition is less and you get better results.
Writing articles in bulk can be hard work until you get the hang of it. You can take some shortcuts by visiting Sean at
http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Sean_R_Mize and studying how he does it.
More importantly he has written a number of tips there on how you can replicate his method of promotion.
Take a look, it's a valuable resource.
And don't forget, more writing means more sales. Get that volume up!
Happy Winning!
Ken Silver
