Diary of an Affiliate Marketer
I’ve had a lot of enquiries today on how to learn affiliate marketing. Unfortunately some of these people think I can give them a few links and they’ll be off and running making money online and giving up the day job!
How naive. But then again is it?
There are still plenty of people out there who think that throwing up a website and directing some traffic to it will instantly make you lots of cash. There have been a few instances of it but these are few and far between.
You do get the unique one offs such as the video Postman Mike as Michael Jackson. This You Tube video of a postal worker dancing quickly raised a lot of cash for charity based on donations alone.
All the real success stories on the internet are built on the solid foundations of any successful business, hard work, and any real business usually has more than one employee.
In fact successful businesses usually have a board of directors and a team of experts qualified to deal with each aspect of the business.
Your online business is no different and today I’d like to share with you my virtual board of directors. You see I invest in myself and my online business and over the years have built a support network that guarantees my success both now and in the future.
These experts are the people I turn to for advice when I’m thinking of starting a new website. This virtual board and group of specialists continue to keep me up to date to ensure I’m always on top of my market.
My Virtual Board of Directors
General Manager – Ken McCarthy.
He started the success with The System and his membership website and continues to update me and introduce me to other experts through The System Seminar Conventions. Where else could you me experts authorised by Google to show you how to be the best?
Marketing – Glenn Livingston
Glenn is recognised as an outstanding marketing master and has started more new projects from scratch than anyone I know. A regular contributor and speaker he is one of the top marketing people on the internet and shows how to develop hyper-responsive customers in any market.
Affiliate Marketing – James Martell
James has been on the internet from the beginning and wanted to find a way to receive a regular monthly income that involved minimum hands on and maximum earnings. He and his family have achieved this and James runs training workshops to pass his skills and knowledge on to others. I couldn’t believe the size of the checks he was receiving from Google for showing Google Adsense on his websites and hired him straight away.
Paid Traffic – Perry Marshall
This guy rocks! Perry started out with The System and very quickly became one of its main contributors. What he doesn’t know about Google Adwords and generating profitable traffic to your website isn’t worth knowing. His Mastermind Club is something else with quality people from all over the world contributing by the hour to his forums. What a knowledge base.
Free Traffic – James Martell
As well as being on board for his skills in making money through affiliate marketing James is also a master of search engine optimization which generates free traffic. I can’t buy any cheaper than that!
Profit Analysis – Ben Jesson and Karl Blanks
These guys are my secret service! The tools and equipment these guys use and possess is frightening. They can tell me how to improve every one of my pages just by analysing the data they collect with their tools and incredibly most of their tools are free! By observing how visitors interact with my web pages (my business) they tell me what changes to make to improve my profits. Needless to say they’re an important part of my team.
These guys are the core of my team, there are others and I’ll cover them in the future.
So, who is on your team, what experts have you surrounded yourself with? Why are you trying to build your business on your own when it’s easier to build your business with experts?
