Stop reading and start your campaigns!

Listen up newbies! It’s ok to read other affiliates’ blogs, forums, or websites promoting the next “magic pill”, seriously it’s ok! But there comes a point where you just have to stop reading and use what you learned, if you don’t, this will just be another hobby for you! To the successful affiliate, this ISN’T a hobby, is a job, a career, a way to earn a living for their families. You will not survive this industry if you have the mentality of “I just wanna make a quick buck”, it doesn’t work that way.

For the first couple months of my journey, I was in that same boat you are; reading, absorbing, and worst of all dreaming of the possibilities. I got stuck in that stage and I felt comfortable just dreaming. It was addictive to think of “sweet I’ll have so much money if I do this, blah blah blah”. It’s the same feeling I feel when I think of winning the lottery, and it’s bad for your progress.

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Tony Robbins – Condition Your Mind – MUST SEE

I absolutely LOVE when he goes into the 4 squares diagram: Potential -> Action -> Results -> Belief. This is exactly why the Rich get richer, and the Poor get poorer.

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Gary Veynerchuck – Motivation DOES have a name!

This guy is absolutely RAW. His words, his thoughts, and his actions come from a deep seed of PASSION! I’ve definitely started to follow him and his career.

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Tycoon Cashflow: PPC/SEO Strategy Guide

A Beginner’s Guide to Affiliate Marketing

NOTE: First, I just want to say that Derek and Adam have NOT approached me or asked me to write this review. What’s written on this page is from my personal experience. I paid for the product, and now I’m reviewing it.

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of “How to” guides on Affiliate Marketing, Internet Marketing, PPC Marketing, SEO Marketing, to the point where you don’t even know what’s good! I’ve been on that boat, heck I’m still on that boat.

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Are you SEO friendly?

Are you SEO friendly?

As I dive deeper into Affiliate Marketing, three BIG letters keep popping up! S-E-O!

What is SEO?

SEO / Search Engine Optimization, is a process that improves your sites ranking or quality of traffic on search engines.

Lets break it down into layman’s terms. If you have a “fantastic, most awesome site EVER, like OMG”, if it isn’t “SEO friendly”, no one (besides you and your mom) would know about this awesome site. That’s basically the point of making a site, so other’s can enjoy it, right?

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Words of wisdom from Ben Affleck?

I watch this whenever I feel.. whenever I feel like it! This speech puts confidence so far up your ass that you’re ready to unleash it on to your campaigns!

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Campaigns: How they’re similar to girlfriends

Do you remember your first girlfriend? I do, how can you forget, it was your very first one! Well your first girlfriend is like your first campaign. You go through similar phases:

1: The “Ohh this is exciting/new” phase

2. The “Learning about eachother” phase

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Adgroups: How many do you have?

Honest question! How many ad groups do you have? As I continue to dive into PPC, the more tips and tricks I start to uncover. Now, I don’t even know if I’m doing this right, but with the one campaign I am running, I have about 8 ad groups. Don’t forget guys, I’m still a newbie here trying to find his footing.

Why 8?

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Tracking is your friend!

I finally see the importance of tracking. Whether it be keyword tracking or conversion tracking, it allows you to see what’s actually going on with your campaign.

Let me explain. If you were a manager of a retail store and for about a month your sales have been dropping, you’re going to ask yourself, why? You know your product is good because you slammed sales the month before, so what else could it be? Traffic is good, so what’s missing? You then focus on your workers. You notice that 3 of your top 5 sellers are doing their quota, but you notice the other 2 aren’t doing so well. So you take action and figure out why. You realize that 1 has family issues, and the other is stressed from school; 2 perfectly good explanations as to why sales are down.

That’s what keyword tracking and conversion tracking is all about; finding information you didn’t know was there, which can then help you improve your landing page or keywords and eventually lead to more sales.

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I Fit the stereotype, I failed at PPC

It has been a couple weeks now since I launched my first campaign and it hasn’t been pretty. I started out with high hopes, and now I’m left with a realist point of view (as sad as it may sound, that’s being positive. Being negative would be to abandon all hopes and find something new).

Affiliate Marketing is what the pro’s haven’t failed to mention, hard. Obviously it does sound easy, find an offer, find a domain, find keywords, pick an engine, launch, and tweak. Easy enough right? Especially since all the things you read online, outlines every single one of those points.

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