Confessions Of A Super Scared Affiliate
Fear can be an affiliate marketer’s worst enemy.
Fear of the unknown, fear of making mistakes, fear of failure and yes even fear of success. Fear keeps you in analysis/paralysis mode. Fear keeps you stuck.
To be truly successful at anything you need to learn to break through fear and take the actions necessary to reach your goals. It isn’t always easy though and it helps to know you’re not alone and that other people have gone through the same thing. It also helps to find out the mistakes they made and how they overcame them.
I recently discovered the SuperAffiliateTwins blog. Ryan Gray is an affiliate marketer that works with his identical twin brother Richard Gray and another partner, John Kirkpatrick. Together they make over $600,000 a month.
Here are 2 related posts from the SuperAffiliateTwins blog.
Confessions Of A Super Scared Affiliate (Part 1) “I have a confession to make to everyone today – I used to be a super scared affiliate. You read that right; one of the Super Affiliate Twins was at one time a super scared affiliate. A super scared affiliate is someone too nervous to let a campaign run and pulls it before it has a chance of being successful. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve used R rated language at Ryan, telling him “this was never going to work” and he was “out of his mind for trying.” Boy did he make me look like an incompetent jerk.”
Screw it, this is never going to work! (Part2) “So I thought I would continue my series entitled “Confessions of a Super Scared Affiliate” in my first ever audio blog. In my first installment of this series I gave one mistake and how I overcame it. Today I give four more mistakes and how I overcame them.“
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#1 B wrote on Friday, October 9th, 2009:
Did you mean 600k a year?
#2 Linda Buquet wrote on Friday, October 9th, 2009:
Hi B,
Nope $600,000 a month according to Jonathan Volk’s blog.
http://www.jonathanvolk.com/ppc/ppc-affiliate-marketing-101.html
I know lots of super affiliates that gross around 200K a month and in the article above there are 3 partners so that averages out to 200K ea.
Now these guys that do such big numbers a month are all doing PPC and/or media buys so their costs are sky high. Some may only net 50 – 100K out of that, but that’s still a pretty decent living.
#3 Brandon Wiley wrote on Friday, October 9th, 2009:
Wow…. I am glad someone else is out there that feels the way I feel. I am just starting off and it makes me feel good to see that a guy so successful had the same hold ups that I am having.
#4 Cynthia wrote on Friday, October 9th, 2009:
Yeah, you never know until you try!
#5 Rebecca wrote on Friday, October 9th, 2009:
Yes, certainly doing PPC and other high cost advertising. But they are probably netting $50k or more per month profit. Those are huge numbers. Im sure they didnt start out spending $500k/mth on advertising!
They would have started small and grew it from there.
Thanks for introducing this blog, have added it to my reader.