Affiliate Progress

I’m in curious mode today, and was wondering what it is that motivates you, my esteemed reader,  in setting up a passive income on-line?

If you are like me and are currently trying to develop your own passive income portfolio, then you will know just how much hard work is involved and how long it takes to see signs of success. In one of my previous posts – Why do You Want to be an Affiliate Marketer? – I said that unless you had real motivation that you will probably have little success on-line. There are obviously many valid reasons for wanting to earn your living on-line, and almost as many ways of achieving this, but in aiming to earn money using more passive methods (ie that continue earning with little maintenance once set up) you are aiming for a rather special goal. You are also writing off many other ways of earning on-line. So why would you do this?

I want to explore three of the possible reasons below, and then ask for your own specific motivations.

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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…)

Making progress in affiliate marketing can sometimes feel like climbing a mountain. I was reading an interesting post on Web Career Girl earlier this week, and it got me thinking further about how I measure my own progress.

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You’re UK based, sign up with a great value ISP, install WordPress and away you go setting up your own websites, blogging, article writing and onward into the adventure that is online earning. It’s around about then that you start to realise just how much truth there is in the old joke – America and Britain, two nations divided by a common language. (more…)

Now that I’ve set the ball rolling with my affiliate career, I need to decide on my initial affiliate marketing strategy. This is particularly important for me as I have limited time to devote to on-line earnings at present. For this reason I want to mainly concentrate on fairly passive income streams and take a patient approach to allow time for me to develop my skills. (more…)