- 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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okay dude, cya at DP
LOL
regarding WF:
mess with the best,die like the rest.
that what happened to you,face it.
Great Article! Im typically one of those guys that reads all the blogs and forums but never posts. I do roughly $300k a month. I find it hilarious that all of these guys have so much time on their hands, especially on WF (which I have recently stopped even reading). Everyone thats anybody in this industry knows the WF guys are just a few penniless scammer douchebags. Lots of us more established affiliates agree 100% with you and are loving watching those guys go down in “flames”.
Keep up the good work!
NewAmitFan
SUPER AFFILIATE Exclusive – NICKYCAKES SUCKS JON’S COCK!
NickyCakes is such a joke.
Funny thing all these guys give you crap when the fact is Jon, the broke “fearless” wickedfire leader who took an ethical stance against super affiliates marketing themselves has in the past gotten dirtier than anyone by trying to charge people for ideas from him. All this tells me is this guy is such a joke he cant make a cent for himself and doesnt have the drive or abilities to do anything for himself.
The only reason he talks crap about REAL Super Affiliates is because hes jealous.
Go AMIT!
GO AMIT!!!!!!!
LOL!!
Apparently this is no longer a blog or site about Affiliate Marketing.
Nickycakes is the short, skinny puke everyone beat-up in high school. Ever seen a picture of this guy? Of course Jon of Wicked Fire is exactly the same. LOL.
What’s the #1 cause of shit talking? Jealously. All of these little WF, DP, (insert forum here) pukes are exactly as Amit described: they are BROKE LOSERS. They are unsuccessful at what they do, so instead of trying to work hard to be successful, they try to hop on the next CPA offer before the other 3,000 pimple-faced 16 year olds hop on the same offer.
Ah, anyways, these guys aren’t worth even talking about. Just stupid kids.
I agree, these WF clones are either stupid kids, or frustrated wanna-bes’ who go at guys like Amit because they know they don’t have what it takes to produce on that level. Hating rich/successful people is nothing new… been going on for a couple thousand years.
Notice “Cakes” calls Amit’s wealth into question based on him supposedly not living where the “ballers” live. So freaking immature and uninformed. It’s been proven that most millionaires don’t live like “ballers”, but a kid like “cakes” who gets his financial wisdom from MTV Cribs won’t ever understand this. (see/read “The Millionaire Next Door, instead of sitting on a forum 80% of your day.)
All you pukes are really doing is circle jerking each other for master-link-baiter award of 2008.
I just happen to like chatting with nickycakes more than the rest of you, so I’m on his side…
Both sides are not losers n this scenario. Amit Mehta sure is a douche with all his gay life style posts, and little quality information – but the fact remains that he makes a killing on the web – so people visit his blog. On the other hand – wickedfire has lot of members which are unsuccssful gay douchebags – and few highly successful members. Where do you think all the wannabes go to for learning – forums – duh!
So, wicked fire and other forums help people in their learning, and for motivation about lifestyle etc – they visit blogs of people like Amit Douche Mehta.
Not saying which one is right, which one is wrong – but just playing it out even for both sides