Keeping Your Sub-Affiliates From Quitting

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 by: Jerry Lunsford

One of the biggest if not the leading problem for
internet marketers is keeping your affiliates from quitting. The time
and effort that has been put forth to get your affiliates can seem like
a waste of time if soon after joining your program they either opt-out
or become inactive. Unless you are determined to succeed you may find
yourself doing the same. Before we can hope to keep our affiliates
active and motivated we must determine why they give up.

This article will not go into what motivates a person to
get involved in internet marketing. Rather we will examine what happens
after someone gets involved in marketing.

So you much like myself recruit several new affiliates
each day. Some seem eager while others you never here from. You focus
your attention on the eager ones hoping they will become a super
affiliate. Your in constant contact each day and then all of a sudden
you never here from them again. You may be asking yourself, "What
Happened!! Did I do something wrong? Maybe I failed to support my
affiliate. What could I have done better?" The answer is nothing. That
is providing you have been supporting your affiliates.

So what did happen?

Well, if the affiliate never had a desire to succeed but
possibly just curious about internet marketing there is nothing you can
do. I still believe that you can lead a horse to water but you can't
make them drink. If this is the case no matter what you say will fall
upon deaf ears. But if they do desire to succeed they may only need a
little motivation or a way to look at the business that will keep them
going.

Here are some things that may make them think twice before fading away:

1. Ask them where they will be 5 years from now if they
quit. And then tell them where they could be in 5 years if they
continue their affiliate business. Remind them that it takes little
time out of their day to market. As little as an hour. Marketing is not
an inconvience. You have to do something in that hour why not dedicate
it to their business. Even if it takes 5 years to get to their goals
they will get there. But if they quit they will never succeed. And then
5 years from now they may look back and remark to themselves, "Had I
continued with my business my life would be different now." Encourage
them to continue by looking to the future rather then the short term.
The future may be a long way off but that time will allow them to see
their success and encourages them each day. If they live for the day
and hope to acheive their success in that day they will be discouraged
when the day is done and have not obtained their goal. They will give
up feeling they have failed.

2. Help them to see that the business is fun and each
thing they do brings them closer to their goals. An article entitled
(Setting Goals for Yourself) could help you set goals for your
affiliates. Tell them to focus on the marketing aspect of their
business rather than the money-making aspect. This will allow them to
come up with creative ways to market which makes it more enjoyable. I
like what many people happy in their work say. "If you love what you
do, you never work another day in your life."

3. Convey the message that if even just one person has
acomplished something then so can everybody else. Most all of us have
the same abilities. Some have it a little easier than others, but
nonetheless someone in life has had to overcome the same obstacles that
they may face. See my motivational article entitled, (It's Up To You!).
Give them this example. Let them contemplate their current job. If they
have just filled a postion were they not shown how to do the job? And
by following the instruction given to them did they not end up doing
the job correctly. Why? Because they followed the instruction of
someone who has been successfully doing the job. The same holds true
for internet marketing or any business. Follow in the path of those who
have been successful and they will also find success.

4. If they express to you that they want to try
something else tell them this. If you are truly involved in a good
program as I am tell them that basicly all marketing businesses have a
common theme. You market a product at the same time try to recruit
affiliates. That old saying that the grass is not always greener on the
other side. It's true. Make them aware that jumping from one program to
another first of all does not give them the time to properly analize
the potential of the program, and second just as they begin to lay a
solid foundation they quit and all their effort is basicly wasted. It's
kind of like playing a slot machine. You have spent hours dropping
quarters into one finally giving up in frustration. Then someone comes
up behind you drops a quarter in and wins the jackpot. Tell them if
they hold on a little longer all there efforts will pay off.

There are probably others that you can come up with, but
for the most part these will get your sub-affiliates thinking. But of
course there are no guarantees. All you can hope to do is try and keep
them motivated, guide them along, and feed them some words of wisdom
now and then. But their success is up to them.

About the Author

Article by Jerry Lunsford.

Go to my website www.quityourcrummyjob.com to find this and other articles to help with your success as an affiliate, and also with the success of those affiliates under you.

cheeky2spider@yahoo.com

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