Accountability Update (05-09-10)

Posted on 05. Sep, 2010 by Aaron in Accountability

Looks as if everything is laid out in some sort of orderly fashion now and I have a very clear roadmap of where I want things to go. Only thing is with everything being so hectic it’s leaving me less and less time to do these weekly updates.

For the foreseeable future I’ll be trying to pull in more web clients to create a steady stream of money to throw at my affiliate endeavours. It’s all looking more and more certain now as I progress forward and I think this is the best way to do things rather than blow huge amounts of money on paid traffic via credit cards so that in effect I’m only spending time.

My current Amazon affiliate sites aren’t doing to badly either. I have one that’s making a sale every couple of days now and I still get excited when I see those affiliate commissions rising. I think all I can say to anyone who’s just starting out is keep plugging away.

I did start out with the Amazon sites but stalled earlier in the year as I was seeing no commissions coming through for a few months but once they do start coming through it gives you a massive boost, or it did for me anyway.

Think my overall targets have changed too, from earlier in the year I wanted to go all out with paid traffic too, but now I’ve realised I wasn’t really ready to start using it effectively and would of dug myself into a deep financial hole.

I’ve come to realise now there’s no shame in taking things steady, there’s lots of people saying ‘I want to make $100 a day within six months’ but sometimes it’s not realistic, with me I have a day job and a tough training schedule on the bike which means at the moment I’m also doing 120km training runs on top of my day job so I’m in no state to switch the computer on when I get back.

Setting the targets though is the important part, I’ve not reached mine yet but I still keep working away steadily in the knowledge that when I earn enough to cut my hours first or eventually quit my day job then my affiliate and web client earnings will ramp up big time.

Also I’ve found not to work too hard and burn yourself out, if you have outside interests or want to take the family out, do it. You’ll come back to your affiliate work more refreshed and raring to go the next day than resenting working when you could have been out enjoying yourself. The work of an affiliate is always an ongoing process and there are no shortcuts, if you keep making sure you’re making steady progress all the time you will find yourself staring your goals right in the face.

I know now that I’ve gone way past the ‘does this affiliate thing really work’ stage and I’m now 100% certain that if I keep doing what I’m doing I will get there, for me I’m sure I’ll be hitting my goals within the next 12 months and to think I have the choice of either steadily working for the next 12 months or spending the next 25 years or more in a day job it suddenly becomes a no brainer.