- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Take that last tip to the next level – constantly check if someone is ripping of your website by continually checking the Google search results for those one or 2 keywords your making sales on. If you find someone copying your site, make a federal case out of it, contact Google, your affiliate manager, and everyone you know to complain about it. Be sure to get REALLY emotional about it.
- Here’s a big one : spend 80% of your time bitching and complaining on affiliate forums. If you’re at a loss for ideas, here some popular things to bitch about : Google slaps, why your stats are not showing a sale for the last 2 hours, my favorite : how you think the affiliate network your working with is secretly stealing sales from you. Recommend forum : WickedFire.com
- When you’re REALLY out of things to bitch about on forums start making personal attacks against big name affiliates in the industry. If you’re not sure which affiliates to shamelessly attack, here’s some popular targets : myself, Shoemoney, John Chow.
- Do ZERO market research before launching an affiliate offer, just pick out something that looks good and start promoting it.
- 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.
- Have the firm belief that they only reason super affiliates are making big money is because they have some special backdoor deal with merchants, or because they have AMAZING account history so they can buy keywords for 0.20/click that would cost you $1/click.
- Anytime there’s a slight discrepancy between your Google conversion tracking and your actually affiliate sales – let’s say conversion tracking show more sales – make a federal case out of it. Contact your affiliate manager and Google, absolutely demand you get credit for those 2 sales you “lost”. Make sure to spend several hours (minimum) REALLY agonizing about this, and how the world just isn’t fair.
Apr 7 2008
Top 10 Ways to Be a Dead Broke Affiliate
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Amit over at Super Affiliate Mindset just wrote a pretty good blog post I wanted to share with you guys.
Top 1……
wow. another major controversy. This season indeed has been hilarious. So many controversies.
Me personally visits Amit’s blog once a week and WF once a week. To be fair WF also has some good info, though majority of ppl there are nubes like ne other forum on the net. That’s the difference between a forum and blog.
Overall at the end of the day everyone is free to have an opinion. Amit shouldn’t complaint about ppl slamming him and shoemoney (that makes him a natural target for anyone who is against shoemoney), also Amit himself is whining abt WF.
Same goes for Nicky and all WF loyals. Dude you people bashed Amit big time always. Now if he subtly bashed WF once, what a big deal. Take a chill pill.
And at the end, I really find it funny, two great internet marketers of different ideology Amit and Nicky doing a public war of word about who is living at better homes. I presume last I had similar war of words when I was six year old.
Agree witrh you nitin, but i would make that when I was 4 years old.
Well, I don’t have the time to go through the whole post right now….but Amit, you’re gay!!
WF rocks, get that?
Dear Amit,
as an avid reader of your blog and a happy owner of your e-books I have some questions for you.
1. Do you believe that affiliate marketing will continue to grow at an exponential rate or is it already saturated?
2. What can small time affiliates do to compete in the ppc market against the big fish who gets a greater percentage of sales prices?
3. Which color do you prefer, blue or pink?
4. What do you like more, rainbows or sunsets?
5. Have you ever been to a bar called The Blue Oyster?
Love and Respect / SuperAffiliateFan
SuperAffiliateFan,
What e-books are you talking about?????????????
This was really fun. Must admit that sometimes a fall into one of the traps listed.
Best regards,
Tommy Swing
Swingmedia
http://www.swingmedia.se/
I recognize myself here. At least until I started to stop complaining, get my head into gear and take some positive action. It´s far too easy to blame Google and everyone else for your failures, but at the end oi the day it´s up to you.
I recently read your “5 Critical PPC Mistakes” and put your tips into action. Wow! what a difference it made to my Adwords campaigns.
I´m still not making huge amounts of cash, but at least I´m not losing money anymore.
Keep writing Amit.