Affiliate Buzz #11 – How to Establish Your Goals and Write Out a Plan to Success with Affiliate Marketing
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In this edition of the Affiliate Buzz audio newsletter, James Martell, successful publisher, speaker and author talks with host Charles Johnston about creating articles for you topic, negotiating with merchants and setting a goal to work from home.
James and Charles talk about James’ decision to open an office to run his affiliate business from. He shares that his goals involved hiring authors and researchers and wanted to find a central place to bring everyone in for their work. He found a nice office 6 minutes from home.
James and Charles discuss how he got started in this business three years ago. James shares his early endeavors with working from home and what led up to his discover of affiliate marketing. He tells listeners about his early online business and how it changed his life.
James talks with Charles about making changes in your goals as your business begins to grow beyond your original goals. James shares the idea of finding some writers around you so you can start putting up multiple sites at once and really build quality content.
Listen to this edition of the Affiliate Buzz as James and Charles talk about:
- Creating articles on your topic
- Earn Per Click average
- Negotiating with Merchants
- Setting a goal to work from home
James and Charles discuss the CJU event and what James learned during a seminar. He talks about the tracking method used by CJ called EPC (earnings per click) and how the merchants were looking at your EPC when evaluating you for their program. James explains how your EPC is affected when you have two merchants, one at 25 cents a click and the other at 5 cents a click, and how it pulls down your overall EPC.
James and Charles talk about the demand for affiliates down at CJU and the opportunities for serious affiliates to take the opportunity to negotiate a deal on your commission. James tells listeners that merchants have discovered that they need to approach publishers and get to know them because that is where the money is.
James talks with Charles about how much CJU is growing and all that it has to offer affiliates. They tell listeners to take the business seriously and to plan to attend CJ next year. Then James and Charles talk about setting goals as James shares the story of Andrea and how she now owns a website template business and is building affiliate sites as well. James shares sitting down and talking with Andrea about her goals and setting a plan to meet them.
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