Affiliate marketing has put on a new face. In the past, affiliate marketing is as simple as directing a prospect through an affiliate link and earning a commission when he made a purchase.
Today, people would like to buy from those who they know and not from those who hide behind a webpage.
With the increasing popularity of web 2.0, social network comes to the rescue. By joining social networks and participating in forum discussions, people come to know you as a person, a friend who they can trust in giving good advice and an expert who can give valuable information.
And the implications is that the future affiliate marketers will become blogger-like affiliate marketer who indulge in social traffic to fuel their sales. Along the way, there may be talks that web 2.0 bubble is going to burst. But, as long as your business is built on the basic foundation of good marketing principles, you will emerge stronger while those with weak foundations will perish.
And so what is it in for us now? As good affiliate marketer, we must always constantly evolve to embrace new stuffs that comes along and integrate them into our business model. This way, we will never be out of business.
For those without a blog, start one immediately.
Go to blogger to start one.
For those with one now, try to increase your social traffic by joining more social networks like mybloglog and spicypage.
Participate in more forums and you can learn a great deal from other members too. The warrior forum has a great deal of information where you can basically learn everything you need in internet marketing.
Take action and you will see results.
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Yeah, forum marketing is a great way to drive targetted traffic to your site. Squidoo is another great way to drive traffic to your site too if do it correctly.
John Tan
Affiliate Marketing Blog