Super Affiliates Share – If I Had to Start Over, What I’d Do Differently
As most of you know, Super affiliate Rosalind Gardner is the author of the highly acclaimed Super Affiliate Handbook, as well as an industry expert speaker, magazine columnist and consultant. Yesterday over at her NetProfitsToday blog, she wrote an insightful post sharing what she would do differently if she had to start all over from scratch.
If I Had to Start Over as an Affiliate Marketer… Click over to read what Ros had to say and discover what she would change.
Her post reminded me of one of most dynamic posts over at my 5 Star Affiliate Forum. If You HAD to Start Over – What would you do Differently??? Take some time and read 22 pages of valuable insights about what other affiliates would do differently, if knowing what they know today, they had to start over.
Super Affiliate James Martell weighed in on that thread. James is a well known affiliate trainer, guru, speaker and author of Affiliate Marketers Handbook.
Most of James’ early training revolved around teaching affiliates to building LOTs of niche affiliate sites. Guess what he had to say in the “what would you do differently” thread???
Oh, this is such a good question…
“If I HAD to Start Over – What would I do Different???”
I would build one site.
Just one.
One.
If one was to focus on the development of one site, and spend each day working to improve and add to the site’s content, over time the site would grow into a great resource.
Plus, because all of the attention is focused on the one site, as it grows in inbound links, new pages of content quickly (sometimes within a day or two) move to the top of the search results.
Here’s a thought:
If you have been around for a few years, as many have, — what would your site and business look like if all of the content (text, images, audio, video, etc.), and all of your promotional efforts (press releases, inbound links, email list, forum, blog, etc.) were tightly focused on one site?
So now I want to ask you the same question I asked in the forum…
if you had to start over in your affiliate business,
what would you do differently???
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#1 Secret Traffic Reports wrote on October 16, 2009 :
This was a great find and glad I did, Heading over right now to read up on Rosalind Gardner post about what she would do differently if she was starting affiliate marketing again. Should be a big help.
#2 Rosalind Gardner wrote on October 16, 2009 :
Hi Linda,
Thanks for raising the point about building one site. I might have to add that to the post.
That’s exactly what I did from the beginning – I worked just one dating service review site as an affiliate from 1997 until 2003 – and that’s what I’ve always taught as being the best approach to building a highly successful affiliate marketing business.
Focus on one – make it extremely successful (i.e. so that you can at least double the income from your full-time job, or make more than enough to cover your current expenses) and then think about building a second site.
But ONLY if you have the time.
Cheers,
Ros
#3 Jon wrote on October 17, 2009 :
Building one site is just a business model. Some people choose to build as many smaller sites as possible simply because if one fails you have a few backing you up. Any comments on that ?
#4 Linda Buquet wrote on October 17, 2009 :
Hi Secret Traffic Reports, enjoy the read and take advantage of hearing Ros’ insights.
Hey Ros, thanks for stopping by and I’m glad you read Jame’s thoughts and agree about focusing on one site.
Jon, I think it’s a very personal decision. Ros, James and I all see the merit of focusing on one site, however there is also the theory of “don’t put all your eggs in one basket” to consider. Plus I imagine many newbies have to try a variety of things before they can even find that one niche site that will work long term.
#5 affiliate marketing expert wrote on October 19, 2009 :
Hi Linda,
In my opinion James is 100% right.
As far as I have seen the industry people focusing on one site has always won the long race.