How to be a Dead Broke Affiliate in 10 Easy Steps

[Linda Buquet]

Amit over at Super Affiliate Mindset just wrote a pretty good blog post I wanted to share with you guys.

Top 10 Ways to Be a Dead Broke Affiliate

1. Don’t stick with one affiliate marketing strategy for very long. Once you’ve tried something for a month with no results try something else. Keep jumping around constantly : SEO, PPC, facebook, article marketing, etc.

2. Check your sales stats every 5 minutes, and be sure to agonize about it. If this doesn’t COMPLETELY distract you and suck up all your emotional energy, then get one of those tool bars or alert programs that shows you or beeps every time you have a sale.

3. Bid on the most obvious and competitive keywords in your market, then spend 75% of your day checking your ad position for your main one or two keywords vs your competitors.

Go read the rest, then come back and talk about it.
Who's guilty of any of these! Come-on fess up!

[ronaldec7]

Originally Posted by Linda Buquet

Amit over at Super Affiliate Mindset just wrote a pretty good blog post I wanted to share with you guys.



Go read the rest, then come back and talk about it.
Who's guilty of any of these! Come-on fess up!

As I said in his comments I am guilty as charged.

[Linda Buquet]

Hey ronaldec7,

Welcome to 5 Star. Glad you followed me over here and posted.

I admire people who admit in public they made some mistakes,
because everyone does. The faster you get those mistakes
out of the way, the sooner you start to see success!

[ronaldec7]

Thank you Linda. I am thankful for you reply. I hope I can be as successful as "5 star" and Amit Mehta. Sometime I may make a bad or critical comment on his site, but in all fairness he's a good guy who has taught me a lot.

[destiny911]

Number 8. hit home with me ...

Spend all your time buying expensive information products and ebooks on how to do affiliate marketing. Go through these products and learn everything you can, then sit on your butt. Whatever you do DON’T take immediate action on what you’ve learned. Keep waiting for the right time to get started.

I think I've spent more on how to products then I did my college tuition. Sad thing is .. there are more products, reports, and articles out there then we can ever have time to read. I download audio's and turn them on while I am sleeping hoping my subconscious learns it .. while I sleep to try and stuff more learning time in ...

Some point in time we have to kick the learning curve into the action zone.

I think for me - the problem was having faith in the material - and wanting to cross reference it with the "next" guy. After a few trials, errors, and successes we get our own groove. It all starts with --- action. Do something - even if it isn't perfect!

[Linda Buquet]

destiny911 said: "Some point in time we have to kick the learning curve into the action zone... After a few trials, errors, and successes we get our own groove… It all starts with --- action. Do something - even if it isn't perfect!

I just added a great quote along those lines to our inspirational quotes thread. When I shared it, I had newbies in mind that get stuck in analysis paralysis mode.

"A good idea implemented today is much better than a perfect idea implemented tomorrow!" General Patton

The super affiliates I know all say that trying and failing then starting over or trying something different several times, was where they learned the most.

[Andre09]

its funny, the more I learn about affiliate marketing the more things in that list I am guilty of

[patrick24601]

#5 is always a good one. Or as I like to say:

"Great ideas are a dime a dozen. Great actions are few and far between. Which one do you have ! "

[Greenline]

I am probably most guilty of number 1 definitely need to quit promoting some programs or replace them with others trial and error and all that.

[Rob_TID]

Amit really lost me as a reader with this post. Sure, some of them are pretty self explanatory, but insulting an entire forum of people (many of whom make plenty as affiliates) and then instigating a flame war with them is highly unprofessional for someone who wants to be a leader in the industry and who wants to develop a public profile.