Affiliate marketing is a great business opportunity that can generate a large amount of passive income. Just like any other business, it takes work and a solid commitment, but the rewards are great.

Here are a few pieces of advice for the novice affiliate marketer who is willing to put in the work and create a long lasting, self sustaining, profitable business.

Affiliate Marketing Advice #1 - decide on something and stick to it

I can't tell you how many time i've tried something and walked away when things were just starting to get good. If you are online long enough, you will find yourself getting pushed into numerous offers. All of them will show drastic results, but the truth is that getting good results with anything requires work and commitment.

My advice is to pick one strategy and make a promise to stick with it until you are getting good enough results to move on and learn another strategy. There is nothing worse and more destructive to your business than "testing the waters" to see what might happen. Taking this approach will have you jumping around, getting measly to ok results at best, and lots of wasted time. Take my advice, make a decision, don't look back and run with it.

Affiliate marketing advice #2 - Get A Coach

The easiest, least costly, and fastest way to get good results in anything in life is to have someone teach it to you. Trying to reinvent the wheel typically means making many mistakes, spending a large amount of money, and doubling or tripling the time frame for your success.

Taking the advice of a seasoned internet marketer will cut your learning curve to just a fraction of what it would have been otherwise. Making mistakes is a natural process in life, and it's a way we all learn. I'm convinced that failure is an unavoidable part of the process, but no one said the most costly mistakes had to be your own. In fact, they shouldn't be your own. You don't have to reinvent marketing strategies online, they have the same principles as offline just using a different medium.

Take the time to consult with someone who can get you started with a solid road map to where you want to be.

Most important of all, take action. If you are looking for someone to help you create a solid financial empire online then you are thinking along the right lines.

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