10 Basic Internet Traps
Submitted By: Irena Whitfield
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1) Managers confuse affiliates with leads and instead of providing promotional material sell only to their affiliates and bombard them with advertising.

Tip to succeed: I do not say you should not buy the product you promote, on the contrary, but what is too much is too much. I recommend leaving such a program.

- dishonest program owners: still today there are dishonest program owners who cheat and rob their affiliates.

Tip to succeed: Again, leaving is the only way.

.commissions paid/commissions calculated: some program owners calculat.commissions the way hardly anyone can understand, try tricks showing that all the others are stupid and cannot see through the tricks - and/or also, pay after 2,3 or even 6 months and set ridiculous payment thresholds.

Tip to succeed: again I receive letters asking how to solve it, I recommend leaving.

- dead links: quite a number of program owners constantly change their sites, web pages, affiliate managers... and the result is dead affiliate links. Mostly these people do not bother to let their affiliates know.

Tip to succeed: stay only if the product is exceptionally good and th.commissions and payments are worth your efforts.

- articles=ads: another popular item is articles which are not articles but long ads, this is not only unacceptable in any proper content directory but unusable for promotion.

Tip to succeed: the same advice: stay only if the product.commissions, payments and everything else is worth your work.

Even though someone may feel that it is impossible to make any money with affiliate programs after they read all the above, I can say that if you pick up the right programs and do it the right way, you will make more than you can imagine.

I myself am an example of how little effort it takes to make great money with affiliate programs: in fact, I never promote any program specifically, the only thing I do is to create a proper webpage(s)/material devoted to a product I consider useful and announce it or publish a related article in my Pathway To Success Ezine. Of course, I watch out for dead links and obsolete information. That`s it. Everyone can do something like that.



2) Currency/Stock Trading is easy: quite a recent trap but serious. Trading is NOT easy and what more: it is NOT for everyone. I am a former profesional currency trader, very, very successful, also, I used to teach new traders, met hundreds of traders and a person saying that trading is easy and everyone can do it either doesn`t know what they`re talking about or is a liar. Nothing in between.

Yes, you can make big money trading, the biggest and fastest BUT you must be sure you are the one suitable and you will never make it overnight: successful, ie long-term profitable trading needs lots of knowledge, disciplined, responsible training and behaviour and this is not easy nor fast.

Tip to succeed: first, take this test to see whether you are the person able to succeed:

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