Affiliate Marketing is… a profession.

Affiliate Marketing is… a job.

Affiliate Marketing is… WORK.

Real. Live. Work.

If you’re not lucky enough to be one of the Chosen Five, or at the very least have a seat planted firmly beneath their gilded wings, please take note that you are going to have to DO THINGS. Lots and lots and lots of little things.

Yes, Affiliate Marketing is much, much easier than it must have been around the time of Shaklee, Mary Kay, or Rainbow Vacuums. Success however will come through one door and one door only. That one over there with the sign. See it? The one marked w-o-r-k. 

For a Newbie or a Non-Marketer that simple definition won’t nearly be enough to paint a picture of what Affiliate Marketing looks like.

with technology in hand, let’s take a peek inside…

“The Life and Times (A Day at a Time) of an Affiliate Marketer.”

For simplicity’s sake, we’ll assume our Marketer works out of his or her Home Office. Waking up with or without an alarm clock, grabbing a bagel and coffee, our Marketer heads directly for Ground Zero-The Computer. It doesn’t need to be turned on as it’s always on.

Just In Case. 

In case of what, I haven’t a clue but maybe our Affiliate, while stumbling back to bed after a middle of the night cold seat call, is one of those Obsessive-Compulsive types that simply cannot walk past a computer without checking (pick one): 

a. Email 

b. Alexa Ranking 

c. Pay Pal 

d. All of the Above 

Should this happen to be the case, our Affiliate would be far from lonely, and, in fact, would probably be in excellent company. If you really think about it, many of the symptoms of either ADHD or Mania would not be considered negatives to an up and coming Marketer. Nope. Not at all. Just alternative definitions for ??multi-tasking.”Sitting in front of the computer, one of those “little things” needs to begin…and it will not stop until our Marketer either uses the keyboard as a pillow or receives threats to “turn that damn thing off” from their spouse or significant other that are loud enough or repeated enough to be believable. That little thing by the way is called “checking.” 

In no particular order or number of times repeated, checking is  a big part of our day. We need to check our web sites, our friend’s web sites, our enemy’s web sites. We need to check our PayPal, Clickbank, AlertPay, PayDotCom and 2CO accounts.  We need to check the Warriors Forum, the Conquer Your Niche Forums, Web Master World and “Whoever Happens to Be Hot Right Now’s” Forum or Blog. We have to check any and all sites that we have a membership to-just in case they added some eBook or product we can’t live without sometime between 3 and 7 this morning- the last time we were there. And of course we absolutely must check our email… 

Email. The Blessing and the Curse.  Any Affiliate Marketer worth their weight in Traffic Exchange Credits (ooops-gotta check those, too) has at least 20 newsletter subscriptions, 10 Ezine Subscriptions, a Quote of the Day, Motivational Thought for the Day, Dilbert Comic of the Day, plus any additional Top Secret Information that the authors of the aforementioned publications decide must be shared with the world that particular day. And, lest we forget, we need to check our spam. Really! Because Gosh-Forbid something from the Top Secret Stack somehow got sent to the Spam Stack. Now if you are OK with basic math, follow along: 20 Newsletters+10 Ezines+5 Thoughts or Quotes +25 pieces of Top Secret Information+5 Traffic Exchanges +140 pieces of spam=205 emails to check. Every day.

Moving right along with our Day in the Life and Times of an Affiliate Marketer, a quick glance at the clock and…

(Part II…)

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