Comments on: Affiliate Marketing Lessons Learned From The Bowling Alley

By: James | Bodyweight Exercises

James | Bodyweight Exercises — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:57:49 +0000

Point number 6 needs to be underlined and in cap locks! Having a coach in internet marketing (or any endeavor in life) can be the difference between making income or just doing this as a hobby.

Thanks for sharing this list.

By: Susanne Myers

Susanne Myers — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:23:16 +0000

In reply to Vernette Carbon.

Vernette, I have entire hard drives full of small info products like that (including plenty of WSOs) that I bought and never taken the time to go through and implement. There’s just something about buying them that makes you feel productive and like you’re making progress.

I started by unsubscribing from a lot of lists. I know what works – it’s the basic stuff that takes some work, time and effort. So that’s what I focus on… Writing a lot of great content and sharing it across the web – like guest blogging for example.

What helps me more than anything with accomplishing goals is to list them, with a timeline and then creating daily task lists that help me reach those goals.

By: Susanne Myers

Susanne Myers — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:17:51 +0000

In reply to Annerly King.

Thank you Annerly. It always helps me learn when I read something that’s a bit entertaining at the same time.

When you’re talking about physical markets, yes it can be hard to build a list if the focus is too narrow. For example, let’s say you have a mini site on Keurig Coffee makers … it’ll be hard to build much of a list there. Instead, I would focus on building a group of related mini sites and then creating a more broadly themed list that covers all of them. For example, you could build several coffee maker related sites and then set up a “Coffee Lovers” newsletter with quotes, pictures and coffee related news. Within the newsletter you could rotate through the products on your various affiliate sites.

By: Susanne Myers

Susanne Myers — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:12:38 +0000

In reply to Chris Cobb.

I completely agree Chris. I can’t even imagine running a website without WordPress anymore. And before that I was excited about getting and learning FrontPage. My very fist website was handcoded in html. Adding a single new page to my site would take me at least a day. Now I can have a new blog post up in less than 15 minutes. Can’t imagine doing this and being as productive as I am now without tools.

Love your affiliate toolbox by the way. Another great time saving tool.

By: Susanne Myers

Susanne Myers — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:10:14 +0000

In reply to Dave.

Excellent point Dave – Thank you. I kept trying to “reinvent the wheel” myself in the beginning until I had some excellent teachers point out that it would be much more profitable to go after proven markets – and meditation is certainly one of those. Which reminds me, I need to get back in the habit of meditating regularly. It works wonders for my ability to drown out the noise.

By: Susanne Myers

Susanne Myers — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:07:20 +0000

In reply to James Artre. Thank you James. Yes, the "noise" thing is a constant struggle but well worth ignoring as best as possible.

By: Vernette Carbon

Vernette Carbon — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 02:48:30 +0000

Turning off the noise…lesson #5 used to be my biggest barrier. There is always someone doing this, selling that, information overload is what I call it. I used to buy so many WSO products from the Warrior Forum. It was absolutely ridiculous. Have I implemented 99% of those programs that I purchased a few years ago? Nope! If we can all turn off the noise and focus on that specific goal that we want to accomplish, then we will succeed. I had to learn that the hard way. Thanks for sharing this great article.

By: Annerly King

Annerly King — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:21:36 +0000

Very entertaining article. It takes some time to know what works and what doesn’t in affiliate marketing. Some niche markets you just cannot build a list in. They’re too small and the subject matter is just not interesting enough. I’m talking about physical products markets here.

Annerly

By: Chris Cobb

Chris Cobb — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:51:03 +0000

Lesson #3 — The right equipment makes a huge difference in productivity. Why spend an hour doing a manual task when a piece of high or low technology can do it exactly the same in 5 minutes?

As someone who can easily be distracted by the noise, I have to be careful not to grab every tool that hits my inbox, but without some key tools, I couldn’t get as much done in the same about of time.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:41:41 +0000

One of the most important things I learned in marketing was the idea of simplicity and not striving to “reinvent the wheel”.
I’m guessing that also holds true to bowling balls! A valuable lesson alongside drowning out the noise. I am trying to coin my own catchphrase around meditation! lol
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I look forward to your next post…
Dave