Hi,
Just came across your post
I like that you have started off aiming high. Problem is if you aim too high you set yourself up to fail. The loss of morale associated with this can cripple your business.
I have been in affiliate marketing for about a year now and my comments and recommendations are based on my own experience
- You need to take a project to profitability before starting on a new project. You cannot have too many campaigns running at one time. Focus on one project. If it is a website, build your content, optimize the site so it ranks for a handful of keywords, work at getting links to the site. Once you have made this one project profitable, you can then go on to your second proect. The second project will be easier because of the little, in between the lines, tricks you have learned during the first.
- Set your self measurable targets e.g 200 visitors per day within 3 months or position 1 to 3 for x keyword in google. These are ways of analysing your progress. This way even if your projects are not immediately making you money, you can see how much closer to profitability you are getting
- Have reasonable expectations. I didn't make a cent in my first 3 months on line. But i was lucky enough to have read books that were measured in their tone. This meant i had reasonable expectations and was able to keep working even though i was not getting any money in, yet. The problem for newbies now is the amount of hype out there on the internet. This, affiliate marketing, is a real business and needs an investment of time and effort to yield results. Anything else would be a scam.
Good luck, work hard, apply what you learn and you will see results