Lately I’ve been talking to a good blend of internet marketing rookies as well as seasoned veterans. These discussions let me see trends, habits and thinking from various sides of affiliate marketers. One thing that I’m learning, either by talking to the vets or noticing it in my own perosnal experience, is to end the “stop and go” effect. This is the idea of building and or promoting, then stopping to see what comes from it… or taking a break. Then after you see improvement, you start up again. As a few of you might notice, is that I preach the “be productive” moto, and this can be easily applied to this. The stop and go can really slow down your rate of success, during the period of not doing anything.. or waiting, you could have pushed out more sites, or worked on traffic generation. I always see the posts on forums referring to not making money on x number of sites, and now I want to try again. When I see posts like this, I’m always saying, if you continued to work on the site or created more sites, you’d be doing much better, and now you’re basically starting over again.

To avoid the stop and go, you need to have a plan, goal and determination. This is extremely simple. Start with a goal. As I stated earlier my goal was to create four stores a month, so this forces me to make stores at a fairly rapid rate. I want to find new niches and new techniques to get a few more commission dollars, and I don’t want to do the old “paralysis through analysis” game, so I like to create some testers and see what’s out there. Between store launches I focus on traffic generation along with PPC, again constantly staying in motion. As you look back you’ll notice a strong growh of sites and or traffic. By pushing hard, you’ll see profits increase, and your tester sites should be giving you good data on niches worth pursuing. Now, I’m including Squidoo lense creation and some new PPC campaigns either with landing pages/offers or additional tweaking of existing campaigns.

I know a few of you are saying, who has the time? Who has the money to create sites? Frankly, that’s BS. If you’re saying this…you are in the wrong business, and should stop immediately. I currently have my own web dev business where I work 60 hours a week, easily. So time is where you can find it. If you’re watching TV, you just wasted time. You can always find wasted time to devote to this. As far as money, all my expenses have been paid for by my affiliate marketing. I don’t use any money from my pocket and roll profits back into promoting more sites or purchasing more domains. Read “takes money to make money” post where I address this as well.

The hard part is staying determined. The easiest remedy of staying focused is getting excited about success. Once you start seeing potential or a few dollars come in, it gets much easier. For the rookies out there.. it is IMPORTANT to get some early success. Money coming in either by AdSense or CJ or whatever is important. Try to develop a consistent “base” of income. Once you’re at a point where you can say, “I make $5/day no matter what” you’ll be at a good place to start expanding. From there, you start to figure out how to make $10 then $100, etc. Lately I’ve been talking to a good blend of internet marketing rookies as well as seasoned veterans. These discussions let me see trends, habits and thinking from various sides of affiliate marketers. One thing that I’m learning, either by talking to the vets or noticing it in my own personal experience, is to end the “stop and go” effect. This is the idea of building and or promoting, then stopping to see what comes from it… or taking a break. Then after you see improvement, you start up again. As a few of you might notice, is that I preach the “be productive” motto, and this can be easily applied to this. The stop and go can really slow down your rate of success, during the period of not doing anything.. or waiting, you could have pushed out more sites, or worked on traffic generation. I always see the posts on forums referring to not making money on x number of sites, and now I want to try again. When I see posts like this, I’m always saying, if you continued to work on the site or created more sites, you’d be doing much better, and now you’re basically starting over again.

To avoid the stop and go, you need to have a plan, goal and determination. This is extremely simple. Start with a goal. As I stated earlier my goal was to create four stores a month, so this forces me to make stores at a fairly rapid rate. I want to find new niches and new techniques to get a few more commission dollars, and I don’t want to do the old “paralysis through analysis” game, so I like to create some testers and see what’s out there. Between store launches I focus on traffic generation along with PPC, again constantly staying in motion. As you look back you’ll notice a strong growth of sites and or traffic. By pushing hard, you’ll see profits increase, and your tester sites should be giving you good data on niches worth pursuing. Now, I’m including Squidoo lense creation and some new PPC campaigns either with landing pages/offers or additional tweaking of existing campaigns.

I know a few of you are saying, who has the time? Who has the money to create sites? Frankly, that’s BS. If you’re saying this…you are in the wrong business, and should stop immediately. I currently have my own web development business where I work 60 hours a week, easily. So time is where you can find it. If you’re watching TV, you just wasted time. You can always find wasted time to devote to this. As far as money, all my expenses have been paid for by my affiliate marketing. I don’t use any money from my pocket and roll profits back into promoting more sites or purchasing more domains. Read “takes money to make money” post where I address this as well.

The hard part is staying determined. The easiest remedy of staying focused is getting excited about success. Once you start seeing potential or a few dollars come in, it gets much easier. For the rookies out there.. it is IMPORTANT to get some early success. Money coming in either by AdSense or CJ or whatever is important. Try to develop a consistent “base” of income. Once you’re at a point where you can say, “I make $5/day no matter what” you’ll be at a good place to start expanding. From there, you start to figure out how to make $10 then $100, etc.