Make Affiliate Marketing Work For You: 3 Great Tips to Earn Extra Money at Home
Can affiliate marketing work for you? You bet! But you won’t if you’re not in the right mindset. Earning extra money at home is what everyone wants, but so many become confused and discouraged by too much new information. Here are three tips to help you get organized and stay on top.
1. Can you draw it on the back of an envelope?
I knew of a famous politician who bragged that he never read anything more than a page in length. So far as he was concerned, if it wasn’t short and to the point, it wasn’t worth knowing about anyway!
Think about your business. If you can’t write it out or draw a map of your business on a napkin, postcard or old envelope, it may already be too complex.
Affiliate reselling just ain’t that big a deal. Search out a product. Become an affiliate. Put up a simple website, or use one ready made from the vendor. Drive traffic to the site. Collect your money.
I’ve just described my business in thirty or forty words. What about YOUR business?
Can you describe it in a few simple phrases? No? Why is that? Is there “something extra” that doesn’t need to be there?
2. Napoleon, the great general, fought his wars one battle at a time.
Napoleon wanted to take over all of Europe. (You and I don’t have to do that!)
But even he, with all his genius, knew to do it one battle at a time.
His downfall came when he bit off more than he could chew!
Earning extra money does not require you and I to wage war on other countries. It’s usually simpler than that.
Take Napoleon’s advice (at least when he was successful!)… do just one thing at a time!
Starting out using pay per click? Then do that until you know it inside out.
Are you developing your first subscriber’s list? Do that until you really understand it.
And don’t flit around trying out this month’s “newest, hottest, never fail” traffic method.
Will affiliate marketing work for the newest recruit? Yes it will! But beware taking on too much before you are ready!
You can trust me on this. I’ve learned that lesson… several times!
3. Fail as often as you can.
Ever heard that advice? An oldie, but still a goodie!
Failing often, and then being willing to fail again, means we have the courage to get over our mistakes.
Our schooling did us all a disservice: it taught us that making a mistake is “bad” and deserves to be punished.
This kind of thinking will get you nowhere online (or anywhere else for that matter).
Willingness to fail is simply willingness to see what works, and you will never find out out what works for you if you are not willing to make a mess.
Let’s put it this way: Making a mess is the only way to learn in the real world.
My very first pay per click campaign got me nothing but a headache. I hadn’t the faintest idea what I was doing— and I didn’t even understand THAT!
Just as fruitless was my first subscriber list.
But… I have not quit.
What will it take to make you quit? How long will you give yourself before you throw in the towel? A year? Three?
I hope with all my heart that you will stick with failure as long as it takes to see success.
Earning extra money at home as an affiliate is no big deal— but you’ve got to have the right attitude! Will affiliate marketing work for you? Only if you stick to a very simple, doable business plan, take it one step at a time, and be willing to fail until you succeed. The richest, most influential people on the planet succeeded in just that way. Why not just do what they did?
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