Comments on: Affiliates Aim, Dont Misfire!

By: Mathew Day

Mathew Day — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:35:49 +0000

You had some really good points and gave me a fresh new way of looking at internet marketing. I find motivation is my biggest culprit right now, but I sure as hell don’t want to end up at the fryers again.

By: Personal PPC Coach

Personal PPC Coach — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:12:47 +0000

It’s good to set goals. You have to visualize yourself achieving those goals. Have it posted by your computer. $100 a day. Look at it every day and make it come true.

By: andrew wee

andrew wee — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:36:29 +0000

@kris
It sure is weird seeing you reply to Ruck.
Blast from the past, eh?

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It wasn’t clear what “goal” is, but i’m thinking it’s affiliate comms earned?

Cos it might also be how much you’d spend…

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It probably depends on what you’re doing?

If it’s PPC, you should expect to spend more because your marketing is dependent on your marketing budget.

If you’re doing organic traffic gen, SEO, blogging, your budget is going to be close to zero, but you need to watch the amount of time you’re spending, because you’ll be paying with time in lieu of cash.

By: dab0neman

dab0neman — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:48:49 +0000

I think one of the problems of sticking to what I know is that the audience isn’t necessarily tech-savvy and/or is doing their money exchanging for goods on other venues besides the Internet.

I know that you can earn some cash with what a lot of affiliate marketers call “trickle traffic” but I’m thinking that trickle is being multiplied by a bunch of VRE.

I’m still learning and sticking to my guns. Day jobs suck!

By: alexa7

alexa7 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:31:15 +0000

The right niche has been a challenge for me. I don’t like what I know the most about, that’s why I want to get away from it and into IM full time. However, it is a profitable area.

When I started looking at my occupation as maybe an original content provider for websites, then my attitude toward it as well as the IM learning curve improved greatly.

Thanks Ruck

By: Make Money Blog

Make Money Blog — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:30:08 +0000

I agree that you should aim between 50-100 dollars a day, because with that you can pretty much almost replace a job salary… 350-700 dollars a week is not too shabby for doing a little bit of working online, compared to a lot of work in the office!

By: XRay

XRay — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:42:48 +0000

Having made my first affiliate money in a niche I knew nothing about, I would also say to newbies “go with what you know, love or at least have a more than passing interest in”. That being said, the most critical thing is your motivation – without it, you won’t be able to persist long enough to prove to yourself (by earning that 1st or 2nd commission check) that you can make money in affiliate marketing.

By: Troy Duncan

Troy Duncan — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:35:36 +0000

One of the first things I did when I started was to eliminate non-productive activities.

The most time consuming and non-productive routine I had was reading my RSS feeds. I wanted to know everything that was going on so I had close to 400 blogs i subscribed to. Between reading and commenting it would take 3 hours daily.

Now I have less than 50 blogs I read and this takes less than a 30 minutes each day.

By: Flash Developer

Flash Developer — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:48:03 +0000

I am not a firm believer of starting with what we know already, though it will put you on an advantageous position. In Affiliate Marketing perspective, I don’t think my niche would be productive or profitable (I am a flash developer). Because opportunities are very limited (At least according to knowledge) and payouts are not encouraging. I started a site with a niche which I had zero knowledge when I selected that knowledge, but I was able to rise to 1-2 of SERPs and it is my main income source today.

By: Kris Trujillo

Kris Trujillo — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:25:01 +0000

Ahh yes,
Motivation is key in Internet Marketing. I often find myself wondering if I was a full timer would I be able to actually get out of bed to work. Or would I stay in bed all day just to go back to working for someone else at the end of the month.

I find it easy to start out with something your familiar with when it comes to marketing online. Less research and the incoming money makes you excited to continue on. My first round at trying the domain buying was within a niche that I really have no interest in but that I am currently involved in. I know the ins and outs of this business like the back of my hand so I purchased A LOT of domain names in this specific niche. I even build a couple of them up and sold the miss-spellings to the owners of the actual sites for some profit.

Start with something your familiar with like Ruck suggests. That will get you going and prepare you for branching out.

Great post.
Kris