Affiliate Marketing Monday – This is a Business

Affiliate marketing is a business, very simple.  Whether you spend 16 hours a day working on content creation and building links and searching for the best offers or if you plan out 5 hours a week for updates to the site, it’s a business.  If you plan on making the big dollars that you can with affiliate programs, it is going to take some time.  Don’t expect to start a site, wake up the next day and be a millionaire.  One of the best things about being an affiliate is that you can make money when you are not “working”.

However, if you don’t look at your blog or website as a business, then you will find it more difficult to make money from offers.  Content is going to be your most important part of getting commissions, so plan out some time each week, daily if you can, to write good content.  If writing comes naturally to you then the writing part shouldn’t take too long.  Be sure to do your keyword research before writing your content though.

Take the time to write out a business plan.  Map out what you want from your site, and then how you are going to get there.  This doesn’t have to be an exact detail plan.  Start with a goal and 10 steps on how you can get there.  Then break those 10 steps into 4-5 steps on how to achieve them and so on.

Plan the work and work the plan!
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