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Hey, today I want to answer the question,how I can do affiliate marketing the right way. I've been involved in affiliate marketing for 10 years and made lots of mistakes. 

I want to share a few of the big mistakes I made and what to do instead, so you don't have to make them. The single biggest mistake I've made is try to figure things out on my own. 

If you were going to learn surfing would you rather try to figure it out on your own or learn directly from Kelley Slater, who is one of the best surfers? You would get better faster by swallowing your pride and asking for help. The same thing with affiliate marketing. Getting a good mentor will shorten your learning curve by so, so much. 

Finding the right person to learn from really is key to everything.  

When I got started in affiliate marketing I worked with a group of people where we would write articles on Ezine articles and put an affiliate link right at the bottom. 

This is a very difficult way to do affiliate marketing. The reason why is because if someone checks out your offer and doesn't buy, which most people don't buy the first time they see something, you lost all money from that person forever. 

The key to making money with affiliate marketing is getting someone off the internet as soon as possible and on to your email list. 

If you know what you are doing with emails, then you really don't even need that much traffic. Even if you got tons and tons of traffic, you will not make any money in affiliate marketing if nobody buys what you are promoting. 

Affiliate marketing is not just posting a link and hoping someone will click on it and buy something. That is the wrong way to do it. Russel Brunson who created Clickfunnels wrote a really good book a while ago called “Dot Com Secrets.” You really should have a sales funnel. Low ticket items up front and towards the end of the sales funnel is high ticket items. 

When I mean by high ticket items it should be in the $1,000, $2,000 and $3,000 range. This is after the low ticket items. You only need to have a few people buy the high ticket items for you to make really good money. 

The last thing I want to talk about and this was a big thing for me is with emails. I used to think that I needed to send out a few free value based emails for every pitch. Maybe 1 email a day is key right? 

I just didn't want to pester people. This is the hard way. An easier way to make money with affiliate marketing is to send out many emails a day if you do it right. 

Yes, you can send out many emails a day if you know what you are doing. What is even crazier and this was hard for me to get my head around is you can send out many emails a day and have each one be a pitch if you do it the right way. Yes, 100% you can do this, if your approach is right. 

I really just scratched the surface on what you can do with affiliate marketi