Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Affiliate Marketers Take A Holiday.

Copyright © David Barker
http://www.DavesAffiliateMarketing.com/blog

Ok, so you have read all the advice on the internet that tells you to slave away at your affiliate business (in between working full time in a job or other business.) Reading between the lines, the impression is that you must tap away on your computer until the early hours of the morning. Later that day you stare through bleary eyes at the angry face of your boss, then mumble something to him about "not sleeping well" to explain why your productivity output resembles...

On the weekend you forsake your family, friends and sanity as you step up the ante on your business. You tap away day and night on your "two days off." When writers block temporarily strikes, you gaze out of the window at what was once called your back lawn. You can just see the waging tail of your Dalmatian dog wading through the swaying reeds of grass that are about to drop seed. You snap out of your day dream when you hear the footsteps of your wife coming down the hall, and you start typing something...anything and you hope she has not looked at the back "lawn" for a while. Like 4 weeks.

Enough is enough. Take a break, take a day off, take a holiday. Do whatever it takes to "recharge your batteries" and rekindle your enthusiasm for your business and your life. There are dangers in becoming unbalanced toward your affiliate marketing business.

1. Your family should be one of the reasons you have chosen an affiliate marketing business. If you achieve success but end up alone, then what is the point?

2. Most people still need to earn income while building their affiliate marketing business. If you neglect your job then you may be dismissed. This would lead to wasted time and energy going for interviews for another job. The goal for most people is to succeed so that they can give up their job but you should not rush it. Make sure your business can support you before you quit.

3. Everyone needs a day off a week. Your affiliate marketing business will put extra pressures on your working week. You need to put aside a realistic amount of time each week to make your business succeed. However, it is unproductive to continue working seven days a week every week and find yourself becoming jaded. Your productivity suffers in everything, including your affiliate marketing business.

Finally, don't give up the chance of taking a holiday with your family or friends. A good holiday revitalises your mind and helps you approach everything with enthusiasm. The quality of your work should improve. Remember you should be building your affiliate marketing business for the long term.

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Comments:

An enjoyable read! Keep your goals in front of you or you may end up not being able to see the wood for the bathwater... and throwing the baby out with the trees, or something... Yes, you can easily lose perspective when sat for too long in front of a computer screen!

# posted by  David Hurley : October 29, 2008 8:49 AM

 

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Feature Article: Make the Leap to Home Based Business Success
Copyright © Stone Evans, The Home Biz Guy
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Before you can have a successful home based business, you must first possess 3 "intangibles." These are things that must come from WITHIN you.

 ===> Intangible 1 <===

First, you must have a strong WHY.

Why MUST you have a successful home business? What is driving you? What is it that you CAN'T have in your life anymore and/or what is it that you absolutely MUST HAVE now?

For me, I couldn't stand working 12+ hours a day anymore and missing the experience of my children growing up. I also absolutely HAD TO HAVE the freedom of being able to control my life and finances through a little box (laptop computer) that I could carry with me anywhere in the world and not be tied to anyone's time pressures or demands but my own. That was my carrot and my stick. I felt a great pain deep in my gut of missing out on my children's lives and the incredible freedom that succeeding in a home based business would provide for me. I found my why. You MUST find yours.

===> Intangible 2 <===

You must BELIEVE that it is possible.

If you don't believe that it's POSSIBLE for you to have a successful home based business or make your living from home, you won't. It's that simple.

For me, figuring out that it was possible was just a matter of realizing that many other people were ALREADY making great money working from home. If they could do it, I could too. It would just be a matter of figuring out what those people were doing and then adapting it to my situation.

There is no shortage of undeniable PROOF that people (millions of them) are making money working from home. Just get online and do some research and you'll find countless testimonials and stories of REAL PEOPLE making real money on the Internet. Or head to your local bookstore and you'll find the same documented evidence of this fact. Truth is, it's getting easier and easier to make money with your own home based business.

I've always said that "affiliate marketing" (a simple way to make money from home) is the job of the future. In the "old" days, you had to go to a potential employer, apply for the position and hope for the best. Now you can simply go to any company you want, fill out their affiliate application and start work immediately. Affiliates are the new working class. In fact, making money with affiliate programs or making your living on the Internet is WAY MORE than possible. It is pretty much (or will be soon enough) unavoidable now. Affiliate marketing is the "job" of the future that's already here TODAY.

===> Intangible 3 <===

You must be willing to MAKE THE LEAP.

Ready, FIRE, then aim... This is the operating philosophy you MUST adopt to succeed with a home based business.

That's backwards for most people who like to aim before they fire. The fact is that home based business success is a moving target... The only thing constant about it is change. You need to stop analyzing the game and simply jump into it. You can't learn from the outside... You have to be IN THE RING to truly understand it.

The lesson here is that you will never really be READY to start a home based business. You simply have to start one. It's like having children... You're never really ready, but when it happens you adapt and grow. This is what I call "Making the Leap."

The good news is that the cost of failure with having your own home based business is very small. In the "brick and mortar" world you need to evaluate things very carefully before you decide to open up a business. It's almost always necessary to invest thousands of dollars to get an offline business off the ground. However, on the Internet you can often start a successful business for less than $100. The Plug-In Profit Site is a great example of this: http://www.PlugInProfitSite.com/main-22171

You simply need to get IN THE GAME... Each moment that you stay "out there," you're wasting valuable time that you could be learning and skills necessary to build a successful home based business. In fact, if you're not in the game yet, you're ALREADY behind the times. Make the leap to creating a successful home based business today!

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