Every affiliate marketer is looking for the perfect affiliate program. Are you one of them? Well, if you are, you can stop looking because it doesn’t exist. This article is going to explain why.

Probably the biggest complaint that affiliate marketers have is that the affiliate program they are promoting keeps losing sales for them. In other words, they are not tracking properly. This is an especially common complaint among people who use ClickBank, whether it’s accurate or not. However, if you think that ClickBank is the only program that loses sales, think again.

Just recently I did an affiliate promotion for somebody who uses Amember as an affiliate tracking script. Guess what? I lost 25% of the sales that I made due to tracking errors. I don’t know about you, but 25% is a big number for me. And we’re not talking ClickBank here either. Point is, no affiliate tracking program is perfect. Because of the problems with cookies (some people block them from being written to their PC) and the imperfection of IP tracking, you’re going to lose sales. It’s inevitable. How many depends on how unlucky you happen to be.

Another complaint about affiliate programs is that they have crappy products. Well, I have a news flash for you. The value of a product is in the eye of the beholder. I have yet to see one product where everybody 100% agrees that it’s a great product. You’re not going to please everybody. Why do you think people get excited about a 5% conversion rate? Think about it. With a 5% conversion rate, 95% of the people who saw the sales page and the offer didn’t think it was good enough to purchase. Okay, stop looking for the perfect product. Pick something YOU think is good and promote it. The affiliate program itself will have little effect on this. Why? Product creators are human and THEY determine the quality of the product…NOT the affiliate program.

Finally, people are looking for an affiliate program that pays quickly. Well, that depends on your definition of quickly. If you promote a product that somebody is selling through Clickbank, you get paid every two weeks. Of course, you have to meet certain criteria to even get a check. If you don’t, you may never get paid. With PayPal, you probably have to wait a minimum of 60 days to get your payment. Unless you are promoting a product that uses a script like RAP, you’re going to wait. There is very little difference in the amount of time between each program.

So stop looking for the perfect affiliate program. It doesn’t exist. Instead, find a product that you believe in, one that you think will sell, and sell it.

Trust me…you’ll save yourself a lot of grief in the process.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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