Nerdy Affiliate Adventures In Affiliate Marketing Land

“I Can Accomplish Anything!”

Posted by JasperP on August 19th, 2008

SuccessKey1.jpgI had an interesting conversation with a friend over lunch today and it kind of made me realize a few things about having the proper mindset.  I was talking to her about my business and how I promoted products and services.  She said she wished she could start a business too, but she said she’s not business minded.  I was telling her reasons why she could do it and I think she understood my point.

Now I know business is not for everyone, but I really believe if you put your mind into it, you can accomplish anything.  I knew that my friend played high school sports before and I knew how strenuous that can be.  Competing in sports is a great example of accomplishing a difficult task.  In sports, you have to tell yourself to physically compete with other players who also want to win.  You have to mentally drive yourself to exhaustion to endure the physical pain to accomplishing your goal of winning.

This relates to having a positive mindset. If you think you CAN do it, you’re right.  If you think you CAN’T do it, you’re also right.

My proposition is this: Start telling yourself you can accomplish anything.  Be a problem solver.  Ask yourself, “How do I do ______?”  Stop thinking, “I can’t do it” or “This is too hard” or “I quit”.  Once you start believing that you can accomplish anything, you can apply it to all sorts of things that don’t involve business.

  • Want to learn to play a musical instrument?
  • Want to play a sport?
  • Want to learn how to build something?
  • Want to make money online?
  • Want to start a business?

Believe in what you’re doing, push through the obstacles and you’ll eventually reach your goal.  Failure is not a point at which you stop, it’s a lesson in changing your approach.

I’d love to hear stories of business or non-business accomplishments you’ve had.

What have you accomplished lately?

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My Current Success…

Posted by JasperP on June 5th, 2008

So how am I doing now? I was able to do $9,551.54 in commissions for the month of May. My ROI is around 200-250% based on my adspend. Check it out:

I’ve been trying to build up my capital so that I can spend more on advertising. I want this business to expand so I’m not planning to spend the money on a car or anything.

The mindset is totally different when working for yourself as opposed to working for someone. I’ve learned that being in business, you need to maintain good cash flow and because money moves in and out of the account regularly, especially in large amounts!

The next step for me is to expand to other networks such as AzoogleAds, NeverblueAds, and others. I’ve made some money there, but was short-lived when Google put the smackdown in Late-March 2008.

I just applied for membership at UberCamp and just subscribed to ClickConsultants. UberCamp, hosted by Paul Borque of UberAffiliate.com, is more of an intermediate-advanced affiliate marketing forum where some great affiliate marketers such as Jonathan Volk and Ian Fernando participate in.

ClickConsultants is a newbie-intermediate (advanced?) affiliate marketing forum that also focuses on affiliate marketing. They provide free landing pages per month and also have tutorials on different aspects of PPC marketing with CPA Networks.

My current goal is to make $1k/day in commissions on average across 7 days. I think breaking the $1k/day will be a bit of challenge, but knowing the goal will help me to focus on it.

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