So, I purchased an Affiliate Marketing Kit. This kit is called 1 2 3 One Hour Affiliate.

Anyway, it is pretty interesting. The instructions state to create a blogger site that you connect to Amazon using your Amazon affiliate account and create a targeted gift site that targets a specific group such as teens, or knitters or hunters.

I’m giving it a try and so far I have created a blogger site called GiftStoreForTeens.blogspot.com. I’m hoping it will get some traffic and I will have it built up by the time people start shopping this year.

I’ll be sharing the results of this experiment. I really want to find out if it works and if it does then I’ll report it here. I don’t have much to say so keep an eye on this space if you want to know who this turns out..

In a previous post I wrote that I had purchased an affiliate marketing kit. Now, to be fair I did not spend a lot of money on this kit and it is a do it yourself kind of kit where it guides you through creating the site and picking a subject matter and setting up your products that you are planning on selling. However, as I have gotten further and further into the website development I have found that my greatest challenge is going to be getting traffic to the site which is the same problem that I have this this site. Overcoming  lack of traffic and lack of buying customer is a huge challenge.

I have created the website. I’m not going to give up because I believe there is a path to getting affiliate marketing up to a point of actually earning money and having that be enough money that it can be called an “income”.  Stay tuned for the next update on the “Affiliate Marketing Kit Thingy”.

FINAL UPDATE ON THE AFFILIATE MARKETING KIT

For me? It didn’t work. Why it didn’t work? Probably lack of interest, no traffic, no visitors. It just was not compelling.

In my humble opinion. A large key to affiliate marketing is getting traffic that returns. Everything I have read, everything that I have seen, everything that I have studies says, keep trying, keep trying, keep writing, don’t give up.

Well I haven’t given up but man. What a beating.