As I started out in Affiliate Marketing the obvious thing to do was to take a product that looks good, has a fair payout and is in a niche that you are familiar with – and then send traffic to the offer page in the hope of making a sale.

Sounds familiar?

Sure, this is the basic model. But in order to succeed you have to be ahead of the crowd where it counts the most. You have to move to the top 5-3% of the people that really get Affiliate Marketing and never look back. You have to become a Master of Affiliate Marketing.

In order to do that you have to focus on the most vital things that determine your success with affiliate marketing. So you have to master …

The 2 Core Skills of Affiliate Marketing

1. Generating laser-targeted Traffic

In my last post How to Learn Affiliate Marketing I already lined out the importance of not only generating traffic, or even targeted traffic, but laser-targeted traffic. You have to become an expert in getting the right traffic – read reaching the kind of people that are an exact match for the product you are offering.

If you get the first part of the formula right, the next part is:

2. Converting that Traffic into Sales

If you’ve done the first part right and you got the right people in front of your offer, the next task is to convert them to take action! The action is most likely to make an order, although it may be something else like opting into a mailing list. But you have to get them to take action and make the conversion. Otherwise you will have paid for a user that won’t make you any money back, losing money in the end. You don’t want that to happen too often :) So you have to master the Art of Conversion.

This then concludes the basic Success Formula for Affiliate Marketing:

Traffic x Conversion = $$$

Those are the two most important skills you have to master. If you can become insanely good at generating targeted traffic and converting that traffic, I can guarantee you a huge success in affiliate marketing and so in making money online.

So how do we get insanely good at generating the right traffic and converting it into money? That is the whole topic of this blog and if you keep reading through the posts, reading my exclusive free newsletter and participate in the forums, you will very likely make fast progress towards the ultimate goal of becoming a Master of Affiliate Marketing …

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1. How to Learn Affiliate Marketing