Don’t Be in a Rush to Make Money
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The last few weeks I’ve been working on a number of projects in and outside affiliate marketing to build up my revenue. One major problem I came across was not only overloading myself but by taking on too many projects at once, I was getting confused what needed doing to each one – therefore I often wasn’t putting 100% into each campaign making it a dud. I would then move on and try the next, repeating the process getting the same results. It was also confusing launching campaign after campaign, on different traffic sources and tracking everything.
The reason was because my income has practically died down to nothing since some recent changes occurred so I was determined to get it back up as fast as possible. After a week or so of beating myself up about not being able to turn things around I was going into a downward spiral of not even wanting to work.
I have taken a step back and reassessed everything and I feel more confident in what I need to do and how to go about it. Also I recently booked a holiday for the end of the year which has given me a motivation boost and something to look forward too. I have set small goals to achieve before then so it gives me something to aim for.
The moral of the post is not to take too much on at once, not everything goes as smoothly as you would like it so take your time on each campaign so that you don’t miss anything.













October 27, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Hi Richard!
THat’s exactly what I’m doing right now – only 2 projects max. After a number of failed campaigns with CB products plus much expenses due to my health problems, I now switched to SEO model. My goal is building a small # of sites with small but consistent income, that in turn will give me the leverage to fuel my PPC tests.
Let’s build up our incomes again!
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October 27, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Hi Richard
Quite perlexed by whats happened. Several Months ago you were saying you were taking hom at least $15,000 – $20,000 per month. Now you are down to near nothing.
What could have been responsible for such a massive drop. Were you doing CPA direct linking…Obviously somethings happened which could be to do with Google wasting many review sites over the last few months with terrible Quality Score as they step up their war against anything that is not a fully structured content site.
Also I thought most of your sales were coming from Yahoo and not google.
Thanks
Tony
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October 28, 2009 at 3:54 am
Absolutely. I chronically suffer from having too many irons in the fire. Online, offline, affiliate, non-affiliate internet marketing.
Now my wife is pregnant with our 5th and she’s on bedrest so I have a whole new set of responsibilities for a while. I’ve been trying to simplify my internet marketing efforts and only working on projects which don’t require constant babysitting.
Have a good day!
Danger
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October 29, 2009 at 11:37 am
@ Anton – That’s a good idea, once you have a stable (ish) income at least when your PPC stuff dies down you have that to fall back on.
@ Tony Foster – I wasn’t direct linking no, the majority of my traffic was coming from yahoo. I guess that traffic ran its course and was becomming saturated, instead of trying to rebuild it yet again I am concentrating on a new traffic source and may go back to it later and have a fresh start.
@ Danger Brown – I know the feeling
Good luck with the new baby and getting things all in order.
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