One of the major challenges facing newer affiliates is finding time to work on their business.<\/p>\n
The reality is that everyone is subject to the same 24 hours a day, whether you’re Richard Branson or Joe Blow starting out.<\/p>\n
Sure, you might say that an experienced affiliate might have multiple campaigns making a couple thousand a day and mainly running, except for an hour or two of tweaking and optimization each day, so he or she has time to do ‘lifestyle blog posts’ or tweet about the massive filet mignon that they’ve chowing down at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse or Craftsteak for lunch.<\/p>\n
In my book, all this self-justifying, non-productive structured procrastination is what leads many affiliates to knock themselves out of the game. Imagined “high competition” and reasons that the industry\/offer\/traffic source is dying\/saturated\/overpriced\/sees little or no demand, is all a bunch of BS.<\/p>\n
Let’s look at this for a moment. I think you need to make up your mind. Is the offer “saturated” or is the industry “dying”?<\/p>\n
If it’s dying, then it’s dying. But if so, how could traffic be “overpriced” and the offer be “saturated” at the same time?<\/p>\n
Sounds like a paradox, and not one of those fun ones either.<\/p>\n
I’ve been speaking a number of affiliate training workshops recently, some as part of my role in recruiting and developing Neverblue affliates, as well as for local Internet marketing groups.<\/p>\n
The major challenge that most marketers face is a mental one. Not so much that you’re going crazy at the stuff you have to deal with in figuring out how to get started, but more a lack of self-belief.<\/p>\n
Talk to a top affiliate and you’ll realize that confidence is one of the keys that separates the men from the boys and the women from the girls.<\/p>\n
Even if you haven’t mastered something yet, it should not keep you from jumping headlong to figure it out.<\/p>\n
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But back to wealth building in 15 minutes…<\/p>\n
If you’ve sat waiting for the subway, or have time between meetings, or maybe 15 minutes before going out for dinner, what do you do with that deadtime?<\/p>\n
Are you spending it checking your email? Or watching youtube? Checking for Facebook updates?<\/p>\n
If instead of doing all that, you spend that time looking at ads running on high traffic websites, running keyword searches, doing competitive research, reading up on promoting techniques, that would help you more than just blowing that time doing something that you’d probably forget two days from now.<\/p>\n
Yes, I like watching\/listening to motivational stuff about “how you can do it” as much as the next guy, but I try to limit that to listen to that while I’m in the toilet or taking a shower. Because it doesn’t require your full focus.<\/p>\n
So try this out for a couple of weeks, make a commitment to spending your time more productively. Stuff CAN be accomplished if you have a pocket of 10 minutes or more.<\/p>\n
And now I have to complete this 15 minute blog post. Ping it, then head to my next meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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