Affiliate Marketing Blog

It’s been crazy.  I’m so busy these days I haven’t even been finishing all of my homework.  I have to get more organized and make some decisions about what are good uses of my limited time.

Anyway, I’ve been neglecting this blog, but I have been continuing to do my affiliate marketing activities.  I am slowly (yes still crawling along) making progress.  It took me forever but I cashed my first clickbank check this month.  I have taken a break from clickbank and I’m not actively promoting any info products at the moment but I have been earning commissions on Amazon and eBay too.

I know a lot of people are ticked off at Squidoo for their policy change that trashed lenses in niches that were profitable for lots of internet marketers.  I don’t blame anyone for not wanting to deal with Squidoo anymore but I do want to mention that it isn’t a completely useless platform for marketing.  It just isn’t the free-for-all that it used to be.

I think Squidoo is really great, like exceptionally great for marketing physical products.  I have had several lenses that I wasn’t paying any attention to, age and slowly make their way to page one of Google.  All of a sudden I’m getting sales from lenses I made years ago (before I knew anything about marketing at all).  So to get started with physical products, I think Squidoo is the best.  It’s free and most physical items shouldn’t trigger their spam filters at all.  I also think that they are an easier sell.  Personally, when I want to buy something online I am looking for a specific item; never is my first thought, “Is there an ebook on this I could buy?”

Of course the commissions aren’t as great but I find the process of creating content to be easier.  I don’t want to have to convince people that they want something.  It’s much easier to direct them to the thing they know they want.

That reminds me of another thing I wanted to write about today.  I am about to purge and focus on what I really want to do.  I am no longer going to make web pages about topics that do not interest me.  I am no longer going to put “work” into projects I don’t care about.  The whole reason for wanting to do this stuff is the idea of freedom.  Freedom to do what you want with your time.  If I am in “work” mode and dreading my “internet work” there’s no point in even pursuing this.

So starting in the recent past I’ve made this resolution.  Real blogs only about stuff I’m really interested in.  Ok, I never was a fake blog person anyway but I do have some sites that I’m not interested in.  This will be better for me because writing content and maintenance on my sites will be something I truly want to do.  I’m sure it will add some authenticity to my sites as well and save me money in domain names.

This purge applies to my offline life as well.  There’s too much clutter.  I have to get rid of the stuff that is just hanging around and taking up space or wasting my precious time.