Affiliate Marketing Beginnings – Don’t Get Overwhelmed

Posted at August 30, 2009

Load Of LaundryI’ve just spent a good bit of my Sunday doing laundry and dishes. Either one of these chores just never seems to end around here. I have yet to see a day where there isn’t a stack of dirty laundry to be washed or a pile of clean laundry piled up on the living room couch waiting to be folded and put away.

It must be an affiliate marketer thing… I talked to my friends Nicole Dean and Tracy Roberts about this a few weeks ago and both of them apparently have couches with piles of laundry on them as well (oops, was that supposed to stay a secret?)

Bear with me here, I actually have a point. While I was working away on the laundry (the dishes are still piling up in the sink), I was thinking that this is a lot like affiliate marketing. There’s so much to do, keywords to research, articles to write, websites to set up, blog posts to write, incoming links to get and on and on…

It can seem a bit overwhelming at times. When I started to write this post I was thinking about a beginning affiliate marketer, but the more I ponder this, the more I realize that I’m still feeling like this at times.

Here’s the thing. There’s always going to be dirty laundry and dirty dishes and there’s always going to be a bunch of things that you should be doing to work on your affiliate income. The big secret is to simply sit down and do some of them each and every day. That’s how I build my business from making nothing to making over $10,000 a month.

Here’s what I do to keep from getting too overwhelmed. I have a big whiteboard hanging in my laundry room. Having that big space helps me think, but you could do the same with a piece of paper and a pen. I think about my various sites and projects and decide what I want to focus on that week. This could be setting up a new affiliate site, researching a new niche or working on a new product (remember, I have my own products and affiliates that promote my stuff as well). The key here is to come up with an overall goal for the week.

Then I sit down every night with a little notebook and make my to-do list for the next day. I write down what blogs I want to post on or what articles or pages I want to add to which website. For ease of use, most of my websites are now in wordpress, but that’s a topic for another post. I try to work on adding more content to my own websites, getting incoming links to my sites (by writing articles and submitting them to article directories for example), and I work on making offers. This could mean adding some recommendations for certain products to the blog posts I’m writing (Hint – look at the one toward the end of this post), I might write a product review for one of my sites about a product, or I might send out an email with an offer to one of my lists.

Let me give you an example. Here’s my to-do list for tomorrow for this site. It’s pretty short because I have a lot of other stuff on my plate as well, but you’ll get the idea.

So I’m working on new content for the site, I’m working on traffic (the ezine article) and I’m making an offer (the products page).

After that it’s a matter of rinse and repeat. In other words, sit down and get the work done each day.

My favorite resource for developing good working habits that keep me from getting too overwhelmed is Jimmy D. Browns Homepreneur Habits – How To Run A Successful Home Business (see… I told you I’d sneak an offer in there). I bought this short little report when it first came available and I’ve been going back to it on a regular basis (usually when I’m getting overwhelmed myself). As a matter of fact I’m off to re-read it again tonight. Jimmy is an excellent Marketer and Role Model I’ve been following for years. We’ve exchanged emails on a few occasions and I can tell you he’s the real deal. Through the habits that he explains in this inexpensive 50+ page report, he’s able to work just 3 hours a day and makes a very nice living all the same.

Susanne Myers

P.S. I’m going to post a full review of Homepreneur Habits in a few days. Sign up for the email updates at the top of the blog to make sure you don’t miss it.

P.P.S. Get to work and do something, anything today to grow your affiliate income. Then go back and do the same thing tomorrow, the next day and so on.

You may also like to read:

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  3. Using PLR Articles In Affiliate Marketing – An Interview With Nicole Dean
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  5. Sub Niche Marketing – Why It May Just Be Your Ticket To Affiliate Success

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