The Affiliate Journey

OK before I begin to write don’t take this post as bragging because that is not my intention. I did how ever want to pain a realistic picture of what you can accomplish when you are able to replace your day-job income with affiliate income.

Currently I have about 10 good sites running, I maintain them each week with the help of contract employees who handle tasks like

• Link building
• Article submission
• Directory submission
• Content creation

I strive for each one of those sites to generate $1000 + a month in revenue, however that doesn’t always happen.

I spent about 30-40% of a websites revenue on maintaining, updating, and growing that particular site. This to men makes sense because if I find a niche where I’m making money I want to suck that niche dry, no sense moving into a new niche before I’ve accomplished all I can in the current one.

So what are these so called “luxuries” I’m talking about in the title of this post?

The #1 luxury is free time, if I want it. I’m typing this post from a friend’s apartment in Rockville, Maryland. We’re heading out tomorrow for a week tour of the Dominican Republic, and my business is going to keep running while I’m not there.

I can afford the time off because of the systems and people I have in place to keep the machine running without me.

Now this isn’t a pitch at “outsourcing your life” because I think that’s kind of Bull S*%t myself, how ever for a few days, or even a couple of weeks I can take off, not login to a computer, check email, stats, write content etc. And everything is going to run along as normal.

Outside Affiliate marketing, and some Internet Marketing endeavours (i.e. info product creation) you can’t always do that.

Of course there are other luxuries such as the ability to grow my income as I see fit since my system is scalable, outsource even more to free up more time (although I truly do like working).

The real key for me is time, I love having the ability to take off, not work 8-10 hour days, or cut my week down to 3 days if need be.

Affiliate marketing, while may not be here forever, right now is a viable method of replacing your current income,.

With hard work you can create systems and a team around you to handle a lot of the mundane tasks that take up hours and hours of your days, nights, and weekends.

In the beginning yes I had to work weekends, evenings, and early mornings to make things happen.
I did it all.

The key for me was embracing outsourcing, not being scared to try it. Testing new link building and promotion methods, and not being afraid to try that either.

Try things, work hard, test, tweak, compare, read, and think outside the box.

All of these things will push you to become a better entrepreneur, a more innovative thinker, and a leader.

I know this post didn’t really touch on a skill to do with affiliate marketing but I think it’s important for people to stay motivated that they know what’s possible in this business, that people do make a go of it.

I am living proof of this, not a millionaire on a beach with no worries, but on my way to being well off and being able to grow this business or move into other online ventures.

I have some big plans for my blog so if you’re just reading this now please sign up for my RSS feed to receive my new posts each day via email. You can do that at the top right of the right hand column of this page.

I’m going to knock your socks off with free content here on this blog, and help all of you reach the level of success I’ve had with affiliate marketing. It can be done, and for those of you who will work, will test, and want it… You’ll get there, and I’ll help you.

I won’t have another post for about a week since I don’t think I’ll have Internet access but watch for some great content when I get back!