I hear a lot of affiliates who have been in this business for sometime tell me all reasons, I mean the bs excuses, why they’re not a super affiliate yet:
- I don’t have a PhD like you Amit!
- I don’t have the money.
- I just don’t have any time to work on my business.
- I have kids!
- You got in early, it’s too saturated now.
- I don’t know the right people like you do.
- Blah, blah, blah!
Yon can come up with a million reasons why you’re not a super affiliate yet, even though you been “doing” affiliate marketing for the last 3 years with little to show for it.
Let’s be honest, deep down you know all your excuses are complete bullshit!
Here are the REAL reasons you’re not a super affiliate yet:
- You keep focusing on all reason why you can’t do this business. Make your bs excuses the reason WHY you need to succeed at this business. If you don’t have time or money, make that the reason why you NEED to become a super affiliate, and NOT the reason you can’t become one.
- You’re thinking TOO small. You get an affiliate offer to $50/day profit and move on to something else, when the top affiliates may be making $1500/day profit with the same offer. STOP being happy with table scrapes and start working towards building your affiliate campaigns to 4-figure a day in sales. Your affiliate income will NEVER outgrow the level of your thinking. Kick it up a notch!
- You’re scared shit of losing money. Get over it. Your investing in your future, NOT “losing money.” How much money did you “lose” going to college? How’s the ROI on that investment working for you?
- You’re lazy. I had to work my ass off in the beginning to build my momentum and get my business off the ground. If you’re only testing one affiliate offer a month, you’re dead in the water, there’s no way you’re going to build momentum. I’ll talk more about this in the next post…
- You’re not consistent. If you do this business for 4 months and then take a month or 2 off and then try to get back into it again, you’re again killing your momentum.
- You don’t want it bad enough. Honestly this is the BIGGEST reason you’re not a super affiliate yet. You need to have a burning desire to succeed to become a super affiliate. You need to have a CRYSTAL CLEAR vision of what you want. Your attitude has to be like Micheal Phelps : eat, sleep, & launch affiliate campaigns. If you’re NOT having trouble sleeping at night because you’re so excited, then you don’t want it bad enough.
So if you’re sick and tired of just poking a stick at affiliate marketing then SUCK IT UP and take an honest look at why you’re not a super affiliate yet.
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Amit has a PhD? Gotta be kidding me!
Affiliate marketing is NOT for everyone, you can be brave, consistent, persistent, think big and etc and sometimes you still CAN’T do it.
And that’s not a bad thing, affiliate marketing is small. Maybe you have talent in product creation, you’ll be a millionaire far faster than affiliate marketing. (this is not absolute of course, I’m just giving an example)
“Affiliate marketing is NOT for everyone, you can be brave, consistent, persistent, think big and etc and sometimes you still CAN’T do it.”
-> I don’t know where you are getting this from.
On what basis are you making this statement?
“And that’s not a bad thing, affiliate marketing is small.”
-> Does this have any basis in reality?
“Maybe you have talent in product creation, you’ll be a millionaire far faster than affiliate marketing. (this is not absolute of course, I’m just giving an example)”
You may have the best intentions, but I don’t see the point of your comment.
Are you saying affiliate marketing is hard and to do something else?
If so, you missed the point of the post.
I whole heartedly agree with Shay Amar. Some people can do something really well, most only mediocre. In affiliate marketing, even doing mediocre is really good.
But I also agree with the fact that not testing more offers consistently and just sitting on one or two campaigns for months kills the momentum. I’m guilty of that.
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Gagan
Amit,
I don’t have a PhD like you Amit?
This must be the real reason.
Your post was right on the money
Jim
Again, Thank you Doc.
Yes the only limit is that area between our ears.
The possibilities are endless.
and to the Phelps analogy I offer :
All the others were in the same pool and Super Athletes as well. There will be one that comes out on top but the others have much to be proud of.
So AMIT makes 10,000 a month in a niche and I come in number 2 at $9,999.99!
We need to stop looking fore excuses.
This was an awesome blog post. I saw you in Boston (@ ASE) and have been an avid follower of your blog since. I’ve cut out a few lines and posted them around my screen. Thanks for the inspiration!
Joe,
You are right. I never though about doing that, but I will now. Amit has made many great points that would be great for the posting.
Amit, just beginning to investigate affliate marketing. Enjoyed the no-nonsense, no-excuse approach. Going to check out the rest of your stuff now.
Thanks,
Richard
Fantastic post. Thank you for the swift kick in the @$$ Amit. It was just what I needed.