Slide Ins Need to Slither Out for Affiliate Marketing Success

Has anyone else noticed the rash of pop ups, slide ins, computer generated virtual assistants with a special offer deal that seem to have attached themselves to many info product pages lately? I find these pop/slide ins annoying and time wasters, and they show me their web site visitor a certain lack of respect. It reminds me very much of trying to walk out of a store in a mall and the shop assistant grabs you by the arm and drags you away from the door. Is this kind of behaviour effective marketing or good customer service? Not in Australia nor in most other countries I believe.

I, and I'm sure many others, would be rather interested in seeing what the testing results of this type of marketing is showing. For my part, I would have to question the effectiveness of it and I would also like to see the results of an actual survey that some one has run? The other thing that would be interesting to know is how many repeat visitors do they get back?

If someone was to treat a customer like that in real life, wouldn't you go and tell all your friends and neighbours about the rudeness of the shop assistant in that store? I would and then I'd have a bit of a laugh at the ineffectiveness of it. If the owner of the store found their shop assistants behaving like this, do you think that the offender would still have their job at the end of the day/week?

Why do some Internet marketers think they can hide behind the anonymity of the Internet and practise these bad-mannered disrespectful sales pitches? Are they all so desperate for a sale? Trying to sell me something this way reeks of desperation to me and if I feel uncomfortable about the treatment I'm receiving why would I want to buy anything from their website?

I believe it's time the slide-in computer generated virtual assistant packed up their pixels and took a very long walk of a very short plank.

Affiliate Marketing is Harder than You Think

When you first start out working on the Internet the first thing you seem to come into contact with is affiliate marketing. It seems that everyone who has ever created a product has an affiliate pro gramme to go with it. There's obviously a very good reason for this and that is because from the owner/producer of the of the products perspective, they need affiliates to increase their sales. And it is a good system because it does work. It works for the owner/producer of the product and it works for a handful of affiliates. From the newcomer's perspective they need to get themselves into that handful of affiliates for whom affiliate marketing works. This is a lot harder to do than you think

Once an affiliate marketer reaches the handful of what has become known as 'super affiliate' status, then they do start to really make the money. To get to this point though it takes a lot of mistakes, a lot of learning new programme's and skills and a determination that is uncommon. The question every new affiliate person needs to ask themselves before outlaying time or money is "do I have the ability to do this?" Ability in this instance means the determination to stay the distance to get the job done and the ability to learn all the new skills required.

One of the skills required is the ability to make your own websites. Many affiliate programme's tell you that you don't need these skills because they provide the website for you. And they do but it is what I have learnt to call a 'generic site' where all that products affiliates have the same website because they can't personalise it or make it individual so in the end Google looks at it and they see they have 9000 of the same websites in their index so they start to de-index sites. So if you fall under this category you have virtually been wiped out of the game.

That is only one of the most basic problems facing a 'newbie' affiliate marketer so if you want to learn some of the mistakes so that you don't make the same ones then you need to hear the other side to all the hype that is on the Internet today.

Assisting Affiliates with Spelling and Grammar Check

Assisting affiliates with spelling and grammar information before they write their articles as their main means of traffic generation, is intended to make them aware that just because they use the spell and grammar checker frequently and proof read their articles before submission, they need to be aware that they cannot rely on a spell and grammar checker to get the English correct.

The English language has so many bylaws and nuances to each word and to confuse matters even more, many words sound the same, are spelt totally differently and have totally different meanings. This at times gets confusing for people whose first language is English so it must be an absolute nightmare for any person who speaks English as a secondary language.

The reason you must not rely on a spell checker for correct spelling and grammar is because some words like "Gorge" and "George" are both totally correct but Gorge refers to a steep valley or deep cleft between mountains where George is a mans name. Both are spelt correctly so they won't show up on any spell checker.

If you misuse either of those words in a sentence or paragraph you could end up with some very peculiar articles. No woman would ever want to be married to a gorge and no man named George would like to be called Gorge.

As if that wasn't confusing enough let's throw in the third meaning of gorge. If someone overeats then they are said to gorge themselves. This is also spelt correctly but has a totally different meaning again.

Assisting affiliates through the English spelling and grammar conundrum will hopefully make life a bit easier for everyone

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My Advice is Not to Advise Unnecessarily

So which do you normally give if someone asks you for your advice? If someone thought I could offer some good insight into whatever the question was I would hope that I manage to advise them with some sound advice.

For some reason many people seem to get these two words quite confused. If I am advising someone to take a certain course of action then I am giving them my advice.

I think the easiest way to remember the difference between these two words is to think of them in present and past tense. That is, if I am in the process of doing something now I am advising them. If I advised them yesterday and they believed I gave them sound advice then I would hope they are now following my sound advice.

I was once told by a German friend that English is nonsense and it is the 'language of Geese' but if that was so, it is certainly very good at adopting, absorbing and implementing new words into our vocabulary.

Vocabulary is the foundation of any language and if the language is to grow to incorporate all the new thoughts and emotions along with the emerging technologies that appear every day, any vocabulary has to be 'expandable' enough to be able to absorb coherently all these new words into a language.

So if you were to ask my advice on the adaptability of the English language, I would advise you that there is very few, if any, languages that has the same or similar Latin base that allow the vocabulary found in the English language the ability to grow and incorporate the vocabulary required for 21st Century living.