How to Avoid Being an Average Frustrated Affiliate

[Linda Buquet]

Josh from the Scrappy Business Blog is a <a href="http://www.scrappybusiness.com/introduction" target="_blank">vagabond affiliate</a>, traveling the globe and working his affiliate business from his laptop. I was scanning his blog Thanksgiving evening and found a post that I think makes some really good points. <strong>If you are trying to up your affiliate game and reach the next level, you'll want to read this.</strong>

Josh describes the <strong>AFA</strong> <strong>'A</strong>verage <strong>F</strong>rustrated <strong>A</strong>ffiliate' as an affiliate "<em>who has no game and rarely manages to convert offers profitably. Also an affiliate who tends to look to “gurus” for validation, buys a lot of ebooks, but never takes action.</em>"

He offers 11 actionable tips about how to avoid being an AFA. Here are a couple of them.

<strong><a href="http://www.scrappybusiness.com/are-you-an-average-frustrated-affiliate.htm">Are You An Average Frustrated Affiliate</a>?</strong>

1. Write your financial goals for the year. If you want to make $100,000, then fine. Divide that by 365 to give you $275/day in profit. Now, how do you get to $275?

3. Now, time to figure out what your core competency is. First, what do you enjoy doing? PPC? Do you like managing sites? DO you like managing a team? Pick the top 3 things you like to do, then find someone to do the rest of the crap...

8. Start a…review site, start a direct linking campaign, do SEO, I don’t really care what you do. <strong>BUT DO IT. And FAIL. And I mean FAIL HARD and I mean FAIL FAST. You are new to this industry you are going to fail, so give it the best shot you got, learn from it, then move on.</strong> Don’t spend 4 weeks building an affiliate site.

 

[Oregon Coast Guy]

Very sound advice from Josh, Linda.

I like it. No nonsense, no magic formula, no "secrets".....

Just.....right.

Regards,

Tony Thomas

 

[Joseph Ratliff]

The really "sound" part of this advice is it really is that simple...if you aren't having success as an affiliate there is really only one reason, you.

 

[The Lady]

the hardest part for anyone is understanding that they are standing in their own way.

 

[karma101]

Linda Thanks for sharing such a nice article. I think it is a must read...

 

[carolver]

Great article Linda! thanks!

 

[Linda Buquet]

You are very welcome. Glad you found it helpful!