Affiliate Progress

For some time now I’ve been meaning to kick off a series of occasional posts linking to great stuff I’ve read online and also to let you know what I’m currently reading offline.

Hopefully you will get to read some inspiring and informative blog posts, and I will be able to find them again when I need them! I also get to shamelessly post some Amazon affiliate links, but we’re all grown ups here so I’m sure you’ll forgive me for that! (more…)

It’s no secret that it’s a tough old game trying to earn a living online, and there are certainly plenty of people out there who will go to almost any extreme to separate people from their hard earned cash. Compromising your values is surely no way to go about earning a living – but are you simply trying to compete with one hand tied behind your back if you try to adopt an ethical approach to marketing? The problem is, just as your background, upbringing and influences are sure to be different to mine, your values are equally likely to differ. So is it possible to survive and thrive as an “ethical” online marketer, and does that phrase actually mean anything anyway? (more…)

I was reading a post on Moon Hussain’s blog Experiments in Passive Income recently which set me off thinking about how we manage and control our online workloads. Moon raises the point that had she known the amount of work involved and the difficulties to be overcome before she started her blog, she might possibly never have even started it in the first place.

I’m sure that’s a feeling that a lot of us have had, whether in relation to a blog or to one of our other affiliate marketing projects. So what is the key to managing that workload so that we can keep progressing without things getting on top of us? 

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What was it that attracted you to affiliate marketing, or for that matter any other form of online career interest you might be persuing? Why are you here reading this? – and of course why have I taken the time and trouble to actually write it? Well for me, the driving force is that one day soon (and hopefully quite soon!), the picture above will be the view I have from my office.

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Affiliate marketing is no different to most other modern day careers with respect to the number of acronyms and mysterious terms that are bandied about. Sometimes people will use these to bamboozle you or make themselves sound clever, but mostly it is just a shorthand to allow subjects to be discussed easily. Either way, if you are a newcomer these affiliate marketing terms and acronyms might seem like a different language, and one which you will certainly need to get to grips with in order to succeed. In this post I hope to list and explain some of the commonly used terms to help you on your affiliate marketing journey. (more…)