Affiliate Frustration - Give Up? No Way!
lurksteraz on August 2nd, 2007
I don’t like asking for advice but I had to ping someone and I wanted to thank Derek B for giving me some awesome tips in an email exchange that we had. I have so many questions, and nobody to turn to. Derek stepped up with great advice.
This leads to the frustration and giving up seems like the easy way out. A lot of questions and concerns go through my head such as, ‘why am I throwing this much needed money away?’, ’why won’t these damn products or offers convert?’ and ‘why can’t I find a starting point to marketing these products?’. A lot of these thoughts run through my head nonstop. The frustration is starting to get to me and quitting seems so easy.
Google has killed 2 campaigns, disapproved numerous ads which further diminish my will to keep doing this. I mean, why research products, do the keyword research, build the campaigns yet have all that hard work come to a screeching halt? This game sucks!
After reading Amits Blog post on Why 2% of affiliates rake in 95% of the profits, I’ve since re-sparked the burning desire to make it. But what am I making, what is ‘it’? Well, to me, it’s the freedom to be financially free, being able to spend every waking moment with my 8 month old baby boy, to not have to work in a cubicle(which, by the way is where I’m typing this from), not have to drive an hour and fifteen minutes to work. I think my turning point was when I was driving home from work on Monday this week, and ended up T-boning a lady that ran a red light. Luckily nobody was hurt! What this accident did do, was further embed my desire to not have to work for anyone else.
My fire is lit to a small spark right now. My goal now will be to get that small flame to a raging inferno! The kind of fire that burns everything in sight and doesn’t stop until there is nothing but a charred landscape. My charred landscape will be me and my family on a beach someplace in the world like a Corona commercial. Except my commercial includes me with a great big middle finger in the air to the rest of the 9 to 5 working class. Do I sound bitter?
Enough ranting, I need to get some work done before my boss see’s me.
August 9th, 2007 at 5:47 am
Great post - too often bloggers are more concerned with boasting the effects of all their hard work..
IE: “I just got back from a 20 day stay at the 5 diamond resort on the moon, where I consumed barrels of $1000-per-spoonful caviar and bathed nightly in $1000-a-bottle champaign yadda yadda yadda…”
I mean that stuff is great for inspiration, don’t get me wrong, but many times bloggers make it sound a bit too easy - like some MLM sales pitch on crack… “With just a click of a button, I made a bazillion dollars!”
I hate to hear you’re having trouble, but it’s nice to hear someone being keeping it real
A few months from now when you’re rolling in affiliate campaign driven cash, the minor troubles you’re hitting now will make for a great story.