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Spend the day with an affiliate marketer

You have the internet at your disposal to run an affiliate marketing business, so how could it be such a big challenge with everything already in place? Not so fast!

The best technology is at hand and available immediately. You don’t even have to buy the software or hardware to run your business. Turn on your personal computer and your business is ready to go.

Let’s get started with the 30-second walk from the breakfast nook to the home office, everyone’s dream for your own home-based business, no travel or wasted time getting to the office, no gas expenses, no need to get dressed, and transportation is past history. You are on your own schedule.

Sure, there is work to be done, like reviewing statistics overnight. Access Google Analytics to see how many people visited your website overnight, check your Alexa ranking if necessary, but it’s new sales dollars, new subscribers, everyone gets our early attention to see how we’re doing during the last 24 hours.

Your site design may need to be revised or replaced if the numbers don’t live up to your expectations. The affiliate marketer is asking “what if” or “why” about new registrations, new visitors to his website that will eventually become buyers, new converts, which will increase our cash flow.

Searching for new directories where affiliate programs can be listed, handling phone and email orders to track all new orders is just part of the marketer’s day.

Reviewing competitive ads, banners that may be working against us in the market, are things to take into account from our point of view. Our own visibility is a constant challenge and extremely important to our future success.

Our visitors’ questions require a quick response or they will leave thinking that we do not care. Nothing seems to shut down a customer faster than an unanswered email.

Continuous investment of time to learn the latest tips, comment on forums, attend conferences to meet and greet other affiliate marketers is imperative to growing your business to the next level.

Reading newsletters, the online ezines of other marketers is helpful in keeping our own newsletters on track. Every day something new emerges that we need to know and that helps us stay at the forefront of our business.

It is our responsibility to loyal buyers and subscribers to our newsletter. [ezine] that we keep the publication updated, up-to-date, with the latest internet marketing information.

These same posts are also important to us in keeping up with recently introduced products or software. You are the voice that connects your customers.

Time flies over the course of a busy affiliate marketer day. As usual, some things are not done simply because time is running out. The 4 hour workweek is simply a dream for the busy affiliate marketer, particularly in the early days of building their business.

Most successful online business owners, as well as offline, require many hours in the beginning, even more time to get off the ground and make good profits. As “they” say, there is NO free lunch and NO easy path to success. We have to agree and continue to invest many hours in our own business.

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