I am new to the affiliate world, but right now I am learning great advice and tips from everyone here. I think the best advice is to learn from the past and move forward with more innovative ideas! I have read posts from other people and most people have great ideas. Some of the ideas may or may not work for your company, but as Linda said you cannot hold back and be afraid to try!!
This thread is HOT HOT. It's so much information here, GREAT information. Although I am sorry that I can't post what I would change Bcuz I am NEW to this. About a month in half NEW. SO There is ALOT for me to learn. And I know if I have any questions,concerns, I can get them answered here. I am a member of ALOT of forums and THIS one will be my number one
Interesting James. Surpising to hear coming from you but I know where you are coming from.
Funny I have a blog almost ready to go about "focus" and how hard it is for new affiliates especially. Basically it says - Pick one thing and like Nike says "just do it!"
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If one was to focus on the development of one site, and spend each day working to improve and add to the site's content, over time the site would grow into a great resource.
Plus, because all of the attention is focused on the one site, as it grows in inbound links, new pages of content quickly (sometimes within a day or two) move to the top of the search results.
Here's a thought:
If you have been around for a few years, as many have, -- what would your site and business look like if all of the content (text, images, audio, video, etc.), and all of your promotional efforts (press releases, inbound links, email list, forum, blog, etc.) we're tightly focused on one site?
For me if I can start all over again. I would approach an guru and will volunteer to work free from him and at the same time learn from him. This is because, I always believe in imitation and observing how the expert spend their time and how they manage their business. Nothing cause me to learn best other then learn and apply.
Well. Since I really am having to start over again...here is what I am doing differently, for better or worse... I am "telling it like I see it" in my content development, instead of trying to be instantly politically correct, writing from the heart instead of from the MBA.
I read somewhere that the average American adult has the reading skills of a 5th grader. Of course no one here is average, I presume ;-) But if that is true, then I have to make my content easier to read than it was before.
In the past I did not monetize my hits very well. When I finally started paying attention to my traffic, I realized that if I had made just $1.00 per hit, I would be a very rich woman.
Well. To do over, I will try to combine both my personal passions, insights and keep an eye to hopefully collecting a dime or two in the process.
Do something! Do anything! Stop procrastinating and act! Although I don't elieve in rushing into anything blindly, I wasted a lot of time (2 years) researching things to death. Things will be different now.
Mike
Thanks for posting that Mike, now i now i am not alone
Development skills are also a issue with me but something i am working on right now i could do like a year ago.
And i have to say this is a very informative thread guys!
I bet you could post this thread monthly and it would fill up.
I just sold off a successful venture and I am priming to start promoting and building some great new content sites to push traffic to advertisers.
Anyone have some starting programs or recommendations - I have all the skills and tools - just need a direction or team to work with. Since my sale of my last .com - I am not sure what to promote so I figured I would build out quality content via blog, or niche site to build traffic for only the BEST affiliate programs that pay and convert well.
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH JAMES - I've had 1 site and 257 sites and I can tell you from experience 1 site is the best way to go - I feel into that over the last two years and had my one venture not sold - I would still be worried about the 257 problems I had to deal with on all those sites. Listen to JAMES everyone on this.
All the best - anything you touch will turn to Gold!
Patrick Wagner
Welcome to 5 Star and thanks for adding to this extremely informative thread.
You'll find lots of tips and tools for finding your niche by just searching for niche or niches and many of the best are stickies in the newbie forum
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