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A lot of people hear they can “get rich” with affiliate marketing, but too many come up way shorter than they want to.

Or, worse, they spend so much money on advertising and driving traffic that they dig a much bigger hole than the one they started in.

As I’ve developed my own business, I’ve generated quite a bit of my revenue from affiliate marketing. In fact, it typically makes up about 1/3 of my income. At times in the past, it was even more than that. But I don’t subscribe to a lot of the hypey ways to do it.

I’d like to share some of my big secrets to affiliate marketing success with you, starting today with my favorite one.

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Affiliate marketing is one of the most important pieces to a successful online business.

In truth, it’s used by offline businesses, too, but it’s a bit disguised with promo swaps, discount coupons, etc.

Anyway, the trouble is most people who try affiliate marketing are getting it all wrong. You may be in this category (although you won’t be for long!).

See the usual affiliate marketing training guide tells you to go find a niche where a lot of people are buying stuff, pick up an affiliate link, and spread your links far and wide. 

Or they tell you to buy a bunch of pay-per-click ads (maybe they even give you "profit-pulling, time-tested" ads to run), and hope you make more in commissions than you pay out to our friends at Google. 

Now I don’t have anything against PPC (although it did cost me $4000 in 2005-06), but the trouble is this way of teaching is all about making money, and not about building an online business.

You’ll always be chasing new customers that way.

Instead, I want to encourage you to develop a relationship with the people who are going to be buying your recommended affiliate products.

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