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I am still having to pay a lot of attention to all the steps needed to set up a robust promotion of my affiliate links.

Today, in my haste to get only, my second solo advert running, i made a rather fundamental mistake that effectively saw me waste the investment on the requested clicks.

Thankfully is was only a small advert of 200 clicks, but still to get it so wrong was so disappointing.

I spent a great deal of time building a well structured landing page to present an offer called ‘The Iceberg Effect‘ and attaching to my auto-responder, to ensure i keep any of those interested in the offer at hand.

My mistake came when i signed up for the solo advert and decided to use a URL shortener to make sure link link address was short and concise (as i haven’t yet got a dedicated URL).

I generated the the shorter URL in the software and instead of clicking the copy icon I decided to highlight it myself and then click copy. In my haste, I thought i had copied the full URL, but didn’t realise I had missed the last digit.

So i then rushed and submitted my link to the solo ad provider.

It was only when the clicks had been sent to my link, did i notice i was getting no subscribers at all.

After the full 200 clicks had been delivered i finally checked my link to identify i had missed the single digit that made completely unusable and i had missed the chance of some new subscribers.

A lesson well learnt, that i hope i will take that little extra time, in future to double check the basics

By Tim Heard

Hi all, I started my affiliate marketing Journey just over 5 years ago, but only got serious in the last 12 months. Like many, I have encountered considerable challenges and obstacles. It is now starting to become easier as some success is now being achieved. I am sharing my trials and tribulations each month to help other succeed faster. Please do engage with your comments.

3 thoughts on “I Made My First Mistake”
  1. I had a teacher at University that used to say: “we are in a hurry, let’s slow down”. Apparently, it was to avoid those kind of distraction mistakes done in the excitement. There! A slap on the wrists for you! šŸ˜‰
    Martin

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