Affiliate Success – Attitude And Out Of The Box Thinking
What are some of the personality traits that turn a regular affiliate into a super affiliate? As I was scanning my feedreader this morning I found a good detailed post over at Affiliate Confession, that goes into two of the necessary traits that successful affiliates need. 1) Attitude 2) Out of the Box Thinking. It’s a long post – definitely worth a read, so I’ll just quote a snippet from each point.
Affiliate Intangibles – Attitude And Out Of The Box Thinking
Attitude
“In fact, dwelling on excuses, negatives and minutiae will seriously hamper your ability to focus, will hurt your motivation and it takes valuable time away from your business. It all boils down to controlling your attitude instead of letting it control you.”Out Of The Box Thinking
“Using all their skills wisely, the average affiliate marketer will have an average business and make average money. Marketers that take those same skills and reverse engineer the rules by thinking out of the box with an attitude of finding solutions instead of complaining, will succeed wildly. Never forget that the rules are put it in place to tell you what you can’t do, they rarely, if ever, tell you what you can do. It’s up to you to put on your thinking cap and figure that out.”
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#1 Daniel Edstrom wrote on Monday, April 13th, 2009:
This is so true!
I work full time on my affiliate business and it took me several years on learning to focus.
Down below I would like to give a few tips on some things I live by.
A couple of tips:
Delete 99% of the guru mails before you even open them; have they ever made you alot of money? Probably not.
Make sure you pick your project wisely and finish what you are doing. The last 10% will feel as long a the first 90%, just keep that in mind and work until you are finsihed.
Don’t let anyone tell you what you can and cannot do, stay away from distractions as much as you can. To always know what your competitors are up to is not necessary, it might even affect your creativity.
Finish your plan, I mean the plan you had in mind at start, you cannot even let your project fail if you don’t finish and if you don’t finish you are 100% going to fail.
Good Luck
/Daniel
#2 Linda Buquet wrote on Monday, April 13th, 2009:
Great points. Thanks for commenting, Daniel!
#3 Software Dr. wrote on Monday, April 13th, 2009:
Excellent post. I like the ‘thinking outside the box’ and that is probably true for most successful people whether they affiliate marketers or … lawyers. I like the thought that rules were made essentially to tell you what you can’t do, NOT what you can do.
I really liked the overview here, I will try and bounce over and read the whole piece
much respect