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A very common mistakes new affiliate marketers tend to make is choosing to promote an affiliate product purely because of the commission percentages offered by the product owner. And believe it or not, this can be a big mistake that's costing you a lot of money.

While on the surface, a commission percentage of 50% looks a heck of a lot better than 10%, sometimes you'll find it's not really as good as it looks. Why? Because high commissions are generally paid on lower cost products, while lower commissions are often paid for high ticket items.

If you actually do the math, you might be surprised to discover that the low 10% commission stands to make you a lot more money than a 50% commission does.

Say for instance, you find an ebook that fits your niche and it offers a 50% sales commission to affiliates. If that ebook sells for $30, then you'll earn $15 for each sale you make.

Now let's say you come across a merchant shop online which sells physical goods in your niche, and you'd like to promote those as an affiliate too. This merchant offers only 10% commissions on each sale though.

Does it seem low compared to the 50% commission? At first glance absolutely. But take a look at the products you'll be promoting through that merchant. If they're selling evenly moderately priced items - say at $200 average - then you'll earn $20 per sale.

And imagine finding a merchant who's average order totals about $1000... You'd earn $100 per sale even at that seemingly small 10% commission amount.

And this is where new affiliate marketers run into a lot of income problems. They automatically try to promote products which pay very high commissions even if those percentages equate to small dollar amounts in their bank accounts, and they immediately dismiss affilite products which pay smaller commissions too - without even thinking about it.

I've seen many online articles and courses actually advise affiliates to not bother promoting affiliate products which pay less than 50% commissions too. And that's just bad business advice.

Don't make decisions about which products you'll promote as an affiliate based solely on the commission percentages paid. Instead, take a bit of time to do the math, and find out what the actual dollar amount in earnings will be. Then make the decision as to which product to promote the most.