{"id":481,"date":"2007-11-12T17:07:33","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T09:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/internet-marketing\/monday-question-can-i-be-a-successful-blogger-and-affiliate-marketer\/"},"modified":"2007-11-12T17:07:33","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T09:07:33","slug":"monday-question-can-i-be-a-successful-blogger-and-affiliate-marketer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/internet-marketing\/monday-question-can-i-be-a-successful-blogger-and-affiliate-marketer\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Question: “Can I Be A Successful Blogger and Affiliate Marketer?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Monday Question comes from Ken who asks:<\/p>\n

I’m a new Internet Marketer and like you, I plan to focus on blogging and affiliate marketing. I make about $500 a month now. <\/em><\/p>\n

What’s the best way of doing this? I want to be the next Darren Rowse! I’m planning to quit my job by the end of the year after getting my bonus if this gig works out for me…<\/em>”<\/p>\n

\"freedom\"My answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s great to hear you’re taking action on your goals, Ken, especially as you’ve found that the Internet lifestyle gives you more options.<\/p>\n

I don’t think newer Internet Marketers can successfully master two areas, unless you’re very disciplined. You probably should focus on one area.<\/p>\n

Between blogging and affiliate marketing, although the two fields are related, I’d recommend you focus on affiliate marketing as that activity directly generates income. With blogging, income tends to be a secondary focus (unless you’re highly skilled at monetizing your blog).<\/p>\n

I’m more concerned with the fact that you’re generating $500 from your Internet Marketing efforts now.<\/p>\n

Have you calculated your monthly expenditure?<\/p>\n

It could be in the range of $2,000 (if you’re single and living in a small community) to more than $5,000 a month.<\/p>\n

So you might want to hold on to your “Quit your day job” ambition till your income stabilizes to a level you’re comfortable with before taking the big plunge.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Every Monday I answer readers questions in the “Monday Question” series. If you’ve a question, you can send it in via the contact form<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n

Note: Due to the volume of emails we receive, we may not be able to answer every question. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Monday Question comes from Ken who asks: “I’m a new Internet Marketer and like you, I plan to focus on blogging and affiliate marketing. I make about $500 a month now. What’s the best way of doing this? I want to be the next Darren Rowse! I’m planning to quit my job by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[562,95,1767,1766,1053,596,882,1052],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}