Affiliates Need to Set Goals for Daily Income Targets

I have always set goals. I may not be the best affiliate on the block, but I do believe in goals because they give you a target to reach for, and I make mine a daily goal. Of course, it would be in bad form for me to reveal my individual goal, but suffice to say that there is one, and I make every effort to achieve that goal each and every day.

A lot of the work I do on any given day does not produce income that day. Of course, there are exceptions, but usually I make a new product niche store and it hits search in 2 or 3 days, while my blog posts can be in the mix in just about what, 30 seconds?

Anyway, I have my personal goal, and I recommend all new affiliates formulate a goal right from the beginning. A realistic goal for a brand new affiliate is about $25 daily. Up the goal as you learn and grow. Of course once you attain the goal, it is already time to raise the bar a bit, and keep going up. Some do learn fast, while others (like I was) go much more slowly.

I also recommend that new affiliates do not try to join 150 affiliate programs and networks right out of the gate in the first week. Take a good program (like the one I have featured at the bottom of this post), and begin marketing 1 or 2 of the products you find interesting and appealing. Married? Ask the sig/oth to give feedback on your ideas. My wife gives me lots of good feedback and ideas.

Try to make a plan for the work day too. You will be much more productive if you do this as there are just too many distractions when researching and surfing for places to publish your new blog or website articles. Product marketing and informational page marketing are my specialties. I do other stuff too, but I make my morning for blogs, midday for trouble shooting and tweaking existing niche stores, and evening for making new content and stores.

You of course, can do it any way you want to. One thing I know is that if you are not well organized, it might be helpful to have a guide for attacking your new found business opportunity. I have been selling the Affiliate War Machine a bit lately, and he bills his system as a tactical battle plan for making money.

Also, I constantly offer the ebook course by Rosalind Gardner called the Super Affiliate Handbook. Many love her approach to the business, and she gives a pretty darn good education within the content of the handbook. Updates come for it too, if you select that option.

Get that goal in mind, and work for it every day. Achieve it and move up, and keep going until you can quit your day J.O.B., if you have one of course. Have a great day!








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About Social Media and an Old Affiliate Publisher

Yeah, I have this old social media thing all figured out man. I have the bookmarking thing on my sites, and I have 8600 followers on Twitter, and off I go to make more good old static sites to advertise my affiliate products and services to the world. Yes sir, I am a social media master aren't I?

NOT - but that is perfectly allright because I am resolved and happy doing exactly what I know how to do. Being an affiliate marketer. No more, no less. Just me, publishing and blogging every day, refining, tweaking, analyzing, fixing, updating and all the rest. No genius here, just a steady worker.

That is the burden of being a 30 year UPS driver. I have always been a worker and even in my own business, nothing has changed. I probably don't know how to think BIG. Ya know what? I am ok with it. Really, I am. Every day I sell stuff, and somehow I am still paying the bills and having a good time of it.

Social media has never rubbed off on me, even though I have spent a good deal of my time (in the beginning of the craze) learning how to integrate my stuff into it. Still, I have not built a community of any kind. I have never built an email empire like many of my counterparts either. Worker bee, that's me.

So now I have leveled out at about 8600 Twitter followers, but I know they are not real followers of ME. Their robot probgrams and online APPS have followed me after some keywords caused the trigger. No biggy of course, just reality in my face. If I post on Twitter, I get about 10 clicks out of those 8600 followers. WhoopDeeDoo!

Hardly worth my time. But I want to make an analogy about social media: Other people do use it all the time. These other folks are usually younger kids who have learned to live in social media, but they still search on the web and when they find my stuff, occasionally they will pass my stuff on to others. That is exactly how I have had links come to my site over the years. Other people make the links, and I never ask for them.

So, the analogy is that social media will take care of itself, and as an affiliate marketer, I must take care of what I know best, which is publishing more new material. I also have to update my existing material, tweak my product and informational pages, do SEO on my mini-sites and all the whole thing. If I do what I do best, the social media side of the web will take care of me.

Now, is that how an old affiliate should handle social media? Ya Betcha!

Social Media - Now there's an idea for the new world - Have at it!


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