30 Days Later

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Over at Income Hero, Adomas wrote about the 30 Day Challenge and how also Dan Raine earned almost $15k doing his challenge last year. People following his progress didn’t make anywhere near as much. No doubt his challenge gave birth to ImmediateEdge but that’s a different story.

So this morning I’ve knocked up a quick list of five attributes I think you must have to be successful. If you think of any others, drop a comment on the end.

Persistence

If you want to be a successful affiliate you need to be able to stick at a job. Even when things aren’t going right. Some successful affiliates have said that they can make almost any campaign profitable. That comes down to testing. On the Wealthy Affiliate forum when anyone asks a question about a campaign, the answer usually is, ‘Have you split tested?’. If you have an Adwords PPC campaign set up you can set up two adverts and have it display them in evenly over time. You can then pick the better performing ad. But it doesn’t stop there. Ditch the not so good ad, and add another one. It might perform better than the good one. Successful affiliates are constantly tweaking their campaigns to get the best out of them.

Self Belief

If the campaign isn’t going too well and you’re not getting good results, you might think ‘oh sod this, affiliate marketing sucks’ or ‘I’m crap at this’. Successful affiliates believe in them self. They WILL be rich. They WILL make this campaign work. Success tends to breed self belief. Have one good campaign and you know you can have more. If you don’t believe in yourself, how can you possibly think you will be successful? Napoleon Hills classic 1937 book ‘Think and Grow Rich’ is a great motivational book which will teach you how to believe in yourself. I read it a couple of years ago, and it did change my outlook.

Ingenuity

People who want to get rich by selling online tend to think there is a definitive guide to making money online. Follow the guide and you will reach your goal. If you’re doing something that everyone else is doing then the chances are you may make money, but not a great deal. Great affiliates ‘think outside the box’ (I hate that phrase!) and try different things to get their product to someone. They make their money doing something that no one else is doing. When everyone else catches on, they move on to different methods. They need to stay one step ahead of the pack.

Attention To Detail

If you are bum marketing or writing articles to promote your items you need to get into the mind of the buyer. This can be difficult if you are promoting something in a niche you know very little about. Whilst doing the 30 Day Challenge, I found the phrase ‘How to learn Japanese’ fits the critera (>100 daily searches <30,000 competition). There is a clickbank product too to promote. It would be great to do, but I know nothing about Japanese and language isn’t my strong point. I mulled it over and did some research and decided that I wouldn’t be able to put a good enough site together, so moved onto another niche. A great affiliate marketer would have spent more time than I did and put together a fantastic site with quality information that the reader could relate to. That’s the difference. Quality information that pushes the right buttons for the visitor. The more the visitor can relate to you, the more chance you have of getting that sale.

Discipline

And this one works for bloggers too. If you’re working from home it’s oh so easy to put your feet up and watch the latest edition of Overhaulin’ and say ‘I’ll get started when this finishes. Ooh, I do love a good Mopar’. I never put anything on that would distract me from what I’m doing. I take my laptop and sit at the table, get rid of all distractions and make a list of what I want to achieve that day. If the list isn’t finished then I don’t ‘play’ until it is. If you’ve not seen it, get the Social Media Daily download (it’s free). It helps you get organised with which social ‘web2.0′ sites to register and submit your sites to. As with most jobs, a lot of what you do is repetitive and it is easy to get bored. You just need to tell yourself it needs to be done if you want to earn enough money to buy that ‘69 Charger you’re after.