Last week I exposed the Myth of the Lazy Affililate , today I’m going to talk about how you can still have a great lifestyle as a super-affiliate AND continue to grow your business and prosper at the same time. The lazy affiliate’s dream right?

What exactly do I mean by affiliate lifestyle? Well imagine waking up in the morning after you’re fully rested, not to an alarm clock, go to the gym to workout & play some racket ball, work on your business for a few productive hours. Call some of your buddies, hit up some blogs and check up on the industry news. Have a nice gourmet dinner with your wife and watch a movie together.

Of course there’s always going on trips to internet marketing conferences, and vacations around the world. You can take off whenever you want, no boss to answer too!

Sounds pretty rosy right? Now let’s return to reality, most full time affiliate marketers, and internet marketers, don’t live like that. Many internet marketers are working their tail ends off, working 10-14 hours a day, and still can’t find time to get everything done!?! It’s the internet marketing rut!

I can remember when I first went full time in the business, I thought life was going to be perfect, “Now I have full time to devout to my business, things are really going to take off!” Needless to say I found myself working over 10 hours a day, and my income had stagnated. I couldn’t work any harder, and I was spending a lot of time doing things that I was not very good at, like trying to design websites, and write niche content on niches I knew very little about.

I really felt something had to change, that I had reached a bottleneck. It was around that time I joined Rich Schefren’s Elite Business Coaching Program, this program TOTALLY changed the way I think about my business. In short, I had to build a real team of people that would work with me and help me grow and systematize my affiliate marketing business.

I now take more of a CEO role in my business and focus on the Adwords/PPC marketing while my team take care of everything else. Now I’m completely focused on what I’m good at, and what I enjoy.

I’m blessed to have an extremely talented team:

1. Thomas: expert at web design, SEO, blog promotion, social networking
2. Melanie: expert at copy writing, content writing, and SEO
3. Alin: talented web designer
4. Melanie has a team of 15 writers that write substantial content for many of our affiliate sites
5. Priscilla: Excellent bookkeeper who keeps all my finances, business and personal, in order

I pay my team extremely well, partly performance based and partly based on hours worked/work produced. I also have a home team: concierge, personal chef, maid service, & laundry lady, that frees up a lot of time for my wife and I.

Having a buisness and home team has dramatically improved my quality of life. I am now able to focus on what I like doing best: ppc marketing, while my team focused on what they do best. As a result my affiliate profits skyrocketed. I have way less stress, I’m much happier, and I make way more money, it’s a total win-win-win.

So if you’re a lone ranger trying to do everything on your own, strung out and stressed out, on my next post I’m going to give a few tips on building a team of your own.