Affiliate Aims

My husband is a technophobe and doesn’t really understand what I am doing when faffing around with websites, blogs and codes and really doesn’t see the potential of internet money making!

I was having a discussion with him regarding an investment I would like to make in an upcoming company once I have achieved a substantial amount to do so through affiliate marketing, he didn’t like the risk of my plans and ended our “heated” discussion saying we would continue it once I actually had the money as it’s not worth it now. It turns out he doesn’t think I will make any decent amount with affiliate marketing and challenged me to prove him wrong.

I hate being wrong, I am always right and once again I will be right, I will prove him wrong and we will soon be having a discussion regarding my investments.

This conversation really gave me a big motivational boost, I wonder how much my productivity increases because of it.

There are several methods when it comes to making affiliate websites, they a generic, niche and micro niche.

I have attempted an “affi” style single product micro niche website however eventhough I had a great success in getting this site onto the first page of google with little effort I quickly got bored of the site and never finished it. Why? It was a mobile phone, an expensive one and a new release so there was very little to write about and having to spend hours writing continuously about the same product over and over I quickly tired and decided that this niche wasn’t for me, I have a short attention span and need a site with a few different products that I can alternate between when content writing and promoting. This is great, a lesson learned. It’s easier to learn a lesson from your own mistakes rather than from someone telling you at least then you will find out your own personal views on the situation.

Niche sites, consisting of a few products in one category such as widgets or going a bit further down the line and concentrating on pink widgets is where I will be focusing my efforts. The niches will only be subjects I am interested in and have a vast pool of knowledge on, making content writing a breeze, or at least I hope, being a control freak and perfectionist makes the simplest tasks difficult. I dont want to outsource content writing if I can at all help it. I would rather reinvest profits in marketing/seo/PPC.

I intend on concentrating my efforts in a few websites in no more than 3 related categories targeting a similar market, therefore making content writing and link building easier. I have one big site which will cover all of these related categories and several smaller ones targeting sectors in each category. Using this method my eggs are spread over a few baskets and most importantly when I get bored I can leave a site for a day and concentrate on another then come back to the other with a fresh perspective and enthusiasm.

Welcome to my new blog! I am a newbie to the affiliate industry and after spending months reading more than I possibly needed, bought more domains than I have time for and procrastinating endlessly I decided if I was able to set daily affiliate checklists of things I need to do I would be able to keep track of what I need to do and hopefully in turn increase my productivity.

I will be blogging about my daily to do lists, aims for that day and my successes and failings from the previous day as well as the longer term goals I would like to achieve.

Yes, my blog is using a basic theme, but I have decided it’s not worth wasting time over the look of a site which wont be making any money and will simply be used to increase my productivity and record my journey (and I waste so much time designing for my other sites it’s a fresh change to get a site up and running in minutes).