You know, when I first started this business I wish I had a ebook that told me EXACTLY what to do.

1. What market to pick
2. What keywords to bid on
3. What ad to write
4. How to adjust bids
5. Etc, etc, etc

Won’t that be great? An exact blueprint, step-by-step, color by numbers, of what you have to do to make money in ppc affiliate marketing?

Now I know some of you experienced super affiliates, who are reading this, are laughing right now!

Here’s a tip: YOUR NOT GOING TO FIND AN EXACT BLUEPRINT OF HOW TO DO AFFILIATE MARKETING

Even if you convinced a super affiliate to tell you exactly what to do in a given market to make money, how long do you think that will last? What you have to do to succeed today was different then two years ago, and will be different two years from now.

The fact is that there is no exactly blueprint for doing this business, and don’t expect any successful affiliate to tell you exactly what they are doing and what markets their in. Don’t get me wrong, I learned a TON from ebooks about Adwords and affiliate marketing. But that’s only a part of the process of becoming a successful affiliate.

You know what, I had to put the pieces of the puzzles together myself and develop a strategy that worked for me. If you’ve been doing affiliate marketing for at least 6 months, and have been proactive in learning as much as you can about it, chances are you have all the puzzles pieces in your head. You have to put the pieces together correctly to achieve success.

How do you do that?

Well, to be honest, it requires a lot of trial and error, a lot of FAILURE! You have to be willing to fail AND learn from your failures. Here’s how I like to describe the process:

1. Read an ebook, a blog post, teleseminar, have a mastermind, or brainstrom some ideas on your own.
2. Test these new ideas
3. If you succeed, great, build on that success, if you fail, try to understand why. Go back to step 1 and REPEAT.

Keep repeating this process and build your business with gusto and determination. Make a decision that you WILL succeed no matter what.

If you do this over a period of time the fog will begin to clear in your mind, and you’ll form your own affiliate marketing blueprint in your mind, and know exactly what to do to succeed.

No one makes you a super affiliate, you become a super affiliate.

Remember knowing the path is different than walking the path.