Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Affiliate Marketing – My Journey

Affiliate Marketing – My Journey

Since I have a little extra time on my hands during the day, I figured I would try affiliate marketing. I’ve been hearing too many stories about people who apply themselves HARD to this generating 5 and 6 figure salaries per month. I figure if I set goals and apply myself, I can do the same. I created this thread so I can keep track of my daily process and let you know what’s going on and how I’m going about this. Plus some of you are already in the business of affiliate marketing so maybe you can give advice, etc. to my cause. Finally, this thread could motivate some of you who are interested in affiliate marketing to step out and take a chance. Now let the journey begin.

First I want to start out what my goals are as far as to affiliate marketing. We all know I’m about dollars because I deal with stocks and investments, so I’m putting my goals out there for the world to see. Goals:
• Month of April Break Even
• Month of may earn $500
• Month of June earn $1K
• Month of July earn $5K
• Month of August earn $10K
• Month of September earn $20K
• Month of October earn $30K
• Month of November earn $40K
• Month of December earn $50K
• 2011
  • Month of January earn $60K
  • Month of February earn $70K
  • Month of March earn $80K
  • Month of April earn $90K
  • Every Month from May and after earn $100K

I’ve been hearing that geo affiliate marketing is the new GOLD so I’m going to focus on this and general affiliate marketing. My first plan of action is to read on the basics of affiliate marketing. I’m all about knowing the whole industry inside and out. I’m following a few blogs. They are: Nicky Cakes Newbie Guide http://www.nickycakes.com/newbie-guide/ , Jonathan Volk http://www.jonathanvolk.com/ (I downloaded his free affiliate marketing guide) and Shoe Money for his local affiliate program http://www.shoemoney.com/2008/11/04/...iate-programs/. Plus I downloaded this $2K program title Local Business Money Machine. Local Business Money Machine is about website optimization, local geo marketing and other services to offer local business trying to increase revenue with more visitors to their site. What’s great is I have a potential customer to try website optimization on. A local dentist. I may create an incentive package for him, but I’m waiting until the end of April after I test a few campaigns out. Right now I will be messing around with general affiliate marketing.

I really think the potential for my experimenting with affiliate marketing is limitless. I’ll keep you guys posted about my daily progress.

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