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Affiliate Marketing – The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living

15 January 2010 3 Comments

money_treeQuestion: What is the best way to get rich?

Answer: Qucikly….

In reality this isn’t the easiest way but it is certainly the best.  Good advice and help is hard to come by for anyone trying their hand at affiliate marketing.

The net is awash with get rich quick schemes and dodgy ebooks. Most newbie’s will read something about Jeremy Shoemoney or Kieron Donoghue making truck loads of cash by doing nothing. What they won’t read about is how long and how hard they have been working at doing nothing, probably the best part of 10 year – if not longer. The moral of the story is that nothing comes easy and overnight success usually takes 10 years.  If you are starting out in affiliate marketing then good luck, don’t give up and keep trying. Treat any failure as feedback, learn from it and move on. Remember short of winning the lottery or finding out your great uncle twice removed owns half of Halifax, the only way to get rich is to work hard and stick at it.

3 Comments »

  • Ken Cheung said:

    totally, agree, most ppl see affiliate as some sort of magic pill, and expect results immediately, the reality is its slow progressive steps, you start with making a few pence a month and as your experience and skill improve as well as your domains aging thats when you start earning pounds, then tens of pounds then eventually hundreds, i think its getting even more difficult as the older generating of affiliate establish themselves its getting more and more difficult for one man part-time affiliates to break in, the only real space they have to play is with niche sites.

  • dave said:

    Its Jeremy not Joel. Also the links broken. I have just read your other post about quality………

    Shoemoney and Kieron (I am not sure on Kieron) both started with backgrounds in IT and web dev. Its amazes me how may new affiliates lack basic web development skills, are prepared to shell out for Dreamweaver, or don’t like Wordpress because they don’t understand it etc.

    If you want to start out in AM at least learn HTML basics, redirects, and if you want to even dream about data feeds, a bit of PHP.

  • Dan (author) said:

    Thanks Dave now updated.

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