They say ‘Knowledge is Power’ and this relates exactly to affiliate marketing, lately after my revelation I’ve made it a goal to not cut corners anywhere. Focus on one thing at a time, give it 100% and test everything I can – in the past I got lazy in split testing as much as I should/need to.

If you haven’t started collecting creative’s then you should, knowing what your competition is doing can give you the edge over them. Let them set the bench mark so that you can dive into a niche with a good idea what is working already and improve on it. Create a folder on your desktop to put them all in, I’ve created sub folders for the traffic source it was found on and then niche specific folders so it’s all organised for the future.

Whenever you go on facebook or browsing the internet just take a screenshot, I highly recommend downloading Jing – it makes taking screenshots easier and faster because you don’t have to take the whole page and then edit in photoshop as it allows you to crop the section you want.

I use the hidemyass VPN to view things in the US as I’m in the UK, it’s cheap and reliable so far so if you live outside the US it’s definitely worth it spending a little over $10 a month to have access to the majority of competition.

If you’re in the ppv game or trying to get into it try downloading the software yourself so that you can see what’s going on. Just remember because you see something it doesn’t mean that it’s working – they could be rotating a bunch of things or testing the waters themselves so keep that in mind.

Also don’t directly copy, try to be a little creative and use them as an example to improve on.