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Stop dreaming about $XXXX per day, achieve stable $XX first! (46)

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I'm not a moderator on this forum for too long as you know, but ever since I started, more and more people are reaching out to me. Sending me PM's, old contacts getting in touch again, some new people contacting me on skype etc ... and I try to help wherever possible, answering questions, giving hints and whatnot.

There is one thing/question popping out way too often and I would like to adress it with this post. The question is always a variation of the following : Can I scale this to $XXXX per day? How can I make $XXXX per day? What offer to choose to make $XXXX per day? What source/network/offer to use to make $XXXX per day? .... etc etc ... Or look at the follow alongs on the forum too, its all full of "journey to 1k per day... Next millionaire ... 1 million in six month ..." and similar type of titles.

Set Realistic Goals!

This is not the right way of thinking for new people and I will tell you why. Ask yourself a question, even if you "only" manage to pull in $100-150 profit per day, how many people in your country can do the same? You'd immediately be in the top 1% in the world ($32.000 per year is the global top 1%), make it $200 per day and your in top 10% in United Stats for example. Once you cross $1000 profit per day, you just became the top 1% in the USA.

We also need to "touch the reality" a bit here, its not exactly common for an affiliate to make $XX.XXX per day, its the area only few can enter and stay in. $XXXX is quite achievable, but its still the top league for the best, especially when talking about long lasting sustainable campaigns and not lucky shots. $XXX is where the waste majority of affiliates will be, which is still an awesome number by any standards.

When starting in a new business area, you should set realistic goals. Aiming for the golden club of top earners straight away, so less than 1% of the top earning people in the USA, is not a realistic goal. Its a nice dream, one that AM certainly can help you achieve, but don’t set it as your initial goal.

Take it one step at a time!

It has been said on this forum times and times again, the step from 0 to $100 per day can be, and often will be, harder than going from $100 to $500 per day. Once you find something that works, its just a matter of time, cash flow and persistence to scale it to higher numbers.

But the problem comes, when the campaign dies, and trust me that every campaign dies at some point. Then you have to search for a new winning campaign and take it to profit again. You can only consider yourself a successful affiliate marketer when multiple campaigns died on you and you always managed to bring new ones to life. One lucky campaign that made you a few grands doesn’t make you a pro, nor will it necessary be replicable. Your initial goal in AM should be to learn how to come up with these small profitable campaigns. Don’t aim for XXXX when you cant manage XX just yet. Take it one step at a time, the first step is $X-$XX per day.

Go for stability, not lucky shots!

AM is extremely stressful, you need to find the peace of mind and secure yourself somehow. Setting unrealistic goals wont help it either, the almost inevitable failure to achieve them will stress you even more. Steady smaller campaigns are the ideal cure for this. $20 profit per day doesn’t sound any special, but make 10 campaigns like this and the miracles will start to happen with your life. Having multiple smaller campaigns is also way more secure than running one large one. One campaign can die any day, 10 campaigns will never go down all at once.

AM is a real business!!!

I see people making one big mistake all the time, they treat AM as a cash-cow they have to milk as fast as possible and then use the money to start some REAL business. WTF? This is a real business, treat it like that. Invest in tools, hire the right people, build a team, invest in yourself, educate yourself... set your goals and achieve them one by one. Learn how to make $XX per day first, then scale it to $XXX ... not the other way around Simply treat this like a real business, aim for the long term and the rewards will be yours to enjoy.

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Great post man, affiliate marketing is getting harder and harder and too many people dream too big without first making their first $1

1, then 10, then 100, then 1000

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Exactly, making 1k per day sounds so tempting, but it takes time and not everybody can do it. Its ok to dream big, but its also very important to stay on earth and work for it. I always found it funny how people think differently on the internet, 1k per day is a mega amount of money in the real world, thats 30k per month ... something you stand pretty much zero change to make in the common corporate life, yet people still think they will make it in the first month of their internet marketing careers

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Great post mate!

This. It was so much harder for me to grind from the first $0 to $100 than it was to hit those 10k days. But I wouldn't of got to those 10k days if I didn't learn all the foundation skills and mindsets i did in that $0 - $100 phase.

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The hardest part for me was to achieve the stability, so constant profit from day to day. I was able to shoot up to profit pretty fast, it took me only a few days to see my first profitable one. But seeing constant profit every day ... fuck that was a painful process spread over multiple months

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I am trying to learn how to make own lead gen offer for Serbia; let me confirm its 100x harder than being an affiliate No one is willing to be this helpful.

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This is so true, its like a skill set. You will never be the best artist around or best seller after 2 or 3 days of work, it takes months, years or even decades to be the best of the best. What I like to say to people who go out and work on something for a week and go "Im crap at it" I respond with "well you are crap at it then, so was Einstein and Thomas Edison, but the difference is they kept trying!" The only issue is people give up too soon, for the others who do not; they succeed.

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I totally agree.
if you want to be the best you have to be fully committed to it. no matter what your job / hobbies / talent you have to be 100% committed to it if you want to be the best.

there is no one athlete that won a gold medal while practicing for 2 weeks, it takes 24/7 of your time to train and become better and better.

(or you can sell your soul to the devil and become the best one like Messi )

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While I agree more or less with the advice of keeping oneself grounded in reality and taking baby steps there are a few things to consider. For myself I've found that even back when I had "unrealistic" goals - they set the bar higher and pushed me a lot more then "realistic" goals would have. Shoot for the stars, land on the moon sort of thing.

Also, we come from different backgrounds, so our resources are different and the bar we've set to ourself and what we consider normal is different. There are guys here who come from poor or middle class families where $20k/mo is a big deal and there are guys here who come from 8 figure backgrounds where making $20k/mo isn't very motivating and obviously their goals/expectations are higher from the get go.

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Going to $100/day was the toughest challenge I had faced in my affiliate marketing experience. Once I had basic of running the campaigns, I went from 100 to 500 in about 2 weeks... Then i was hit by cashflow issues... It took time to do 25k/day revenue... Couldnt do it consistently, but you can do mid 4 figs/day easily.
You will face lot of obstacle as you go ahead. You might become lazy like me or just lose concentration. But if you can do xx or xxx per day then its not difficult to reach xxxx-xxxxx per day.

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Reminds me of when someone told me that in life we should focus on the process and the results will follow.

Anyways thanks! Great post for me to resonate with as I'm nearly on my first consistent month of at least $xx/day and have survived getting my offers pulled. Hope I don't jinx it now...

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Shoot for the stars, but not while you're blind and cant see them. Whatever your goals are, you still have to start at 0 and make $100 first, then move to the higher steps on the ladder I wanted to point out the importance to learn the basics first and starting with the low goals, and not dreaming about the high levels and thinking it will come all of a sudden. I understand what you wanted to say tho, there is no need to put a cap on ones goals of course, the higher you can go, the better for you, but one step at a time

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it reminds me to thank you for your brilliant blog post http://www.mrgreen.am/general/the-li...rnet-marketer/ <-- it's still on my bookmarks toolbar ... and still trying to move from Level Three

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Nothing has changed from 6 years ago, that lifecycle still applies!

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Wow how did I not see that blog post! Internet is just so damn big thats why! That is awesome Mr Green

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The graphics, are epic

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Some people tend to not understand a part of the equation that leads us to success. I believe that your environment has a direct influence on your motivation levels. If one is surrounded by deadbeats or have a need to party almost everyday, this field is not for them. Such people come in with high expectations and eventually leave with a sour taste hoping never to return. AM takes an incredible amount of patience, persistence, focus, action and habit to achieve the desired results. You've gotta have a serious work ethic.

Coming back to environment, when your environment isn't conducive for creativity, it's time to change that. I was at a point where I lost my health, lost most of my bank roll due to bad investments, but resilience is what brought me back to life. I cut out the negativity, move to a different country where the environment was conducive to my success. I have gone from low 5-figure days to 0 figure a day, and back to 6 figure months. It's not fun to be in a rollercoaster ride when your finances fluctuate and you're under constant turbulence. Having said that, we also tend to ignore our health. While good health may not be everything, but without good health nothing else matters.

I have learnt that the first part in getting your life in order is to stop the turbulence, which is inevitable, but something that can be fixed. It takes a special kind of mindset to apply the "adapt or die" mindset especially when you're in love with something that you used to work, but doesn't work anymore. If we keep romanticizing something that used to work in the past, and not anymore, AM will throw you out. So, either you treat AM as a serious business or you're out.

It took Warren Buffet to become a billionaire at 57, although he started out at the age of 7! It would be wrong to assume one can achieve success overnight. That's wishful thinking. Keep hustling without falling in love with campaigns--trust your data.

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The most talented coder I met in my life, damn that dude was a hacker - he was able to solve coding problems that took others days, literaly in minutes or hours - but he was a party animal with a ton of like-minded friends. When they felt the urge to get drunk, they simply put a party together and did get drunk like monkeys, no matter what I had for him the next day As you can guess, our ways had to part as it was impossible to count on him with that work ethic... but I certainly hope he would change one day - such a waste of talented brain.

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lol, this thread reminds me of..

most of our standards of what is normal are wayyy different from the "real world"..fuck the "real world"..

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Great post. This is so important.

Newbies must be aware of what they’re getting into as soon as they start pondering the notion of playing the game.


AM is a demanding activity. It’s not for people who give up easily and certainly not for those who want a quick buck.

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Totally agree. A marathon is run step by step.

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can't agree more mate

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Great write up @matuloo and also many good insights from others.

And for the rest:

"Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls." – Gary Keller (http://www.the1thing.com/)

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Nice post. A wise man once said "learn to walk before you can run"...nuff said

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This does not get said enough ^^

Treat AM as a REAL business, not a lottery ticket or a temporary cash cow. Build and invest profits into infrastructure, systems and teams. Set goals. Build cash reserves. Plan for next month and next quarter, not just next week.

One observation I have seen repeatedly from new and even experienced affiliates is what I call, the "baller syndrome." You have a great month, make a bunch of cash and then race out to get an Audemars Piguet to bling out your wrist, take a selfie and post on social media to "prove" you have made it. A "real" business owner would take that cash, invest it back into the business or build up cash reserves so that in the event of a bad month (it happens to all of us), you don't find yourself down at "Cash n Pawn" trading in that Audemars Piquet for 20% of it's value, so you can make rent.

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hey matuloo,

I could not agree more with your post. I see a lot of times newer affiliates who want to make $xxxx right off the start and as we all know that's not realistic. The best thing to focus on is small achievements every day and it doesn't have to be making more per say but even if you learn something new in AM and can use that to better your campaigns down the road to get you to that desired $xxxx a day then take that as a win.

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It's been a while that Matuloo is being very kind and patient answering all my super-newbie questions and now I see this great post which I totally agree with.

Wow, you mean that 90% of world affiliate marketers don't hit beyond XX$ per day?

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The numbers are for average income across the population, so whatever they are doing. So for example only 10% of USA citizens make more than $200 per day. There are no data on affiliate marketers only.

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Thanks Matuloo.

I have to disagree. It all goes down to expectations.

The problem with "realistic goals" is that, at best, you hit them; at worst, you don't. If you set audacious goals you'll have the same problem, with more chances for the 2nd option. But still, if you accomplish just 50% of your big, audacious goals, I don't think you'd be very upset.

If your expectations are average, you'll get average, at best! The question is what do you want? Do you want to be average or do you want to be the best you can be? It applies to all areas of life.

Moreover, I believe we set goals based on our capacity to deal with adversity. For how long can we keep going without having profitable campaigns?

I suggest we make a real life case study. I am new to AM, haven't launched my 1st campaign yet, but my goal for the next 12 months is to make more money than a super/top affiliate (working alone). I don't know what that figure is, please let me know guys. Also, Matuloo, please let me know what you suggest I should aim at for my 1st year in this industry, what would be "realistic" in your opinion. After the 12 months pass, we can check if it's better to aim high or to set "realistic" goals.

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You're welcome! Gurus do tend to exaggerate from in order to attract bigger audience for sure I mean, it's definitely possible to become very rich by doing AM or anything marketing related, for that matter. But I believe it comes one step at a time. Dreaming big is nice, but there are still the smaller steps to take during the process.

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Everyone who is starting out should pay attention to this.
Affiliate Marketing has a lot of attractive for a couple of reason: freedom (well, it depends, but in general you are free to choose how to work —> no bosses are giving you orders) and money.

What everyone should understand is the fact that you have to achieve them!
You have to conquer and deserve your freedom and your “richness”!

Affiliate Marketing is "just" a tool, a very powerful one, which you can learn to master.
A tool that gives you the power to be so good at making money that you help others make money and you will be rewarded with a slice of the pie. “That’s it!”

So if you are a newbie, do not focus on focus on goals. Focus on learning!
You already know that x.xxx/day (or even xx.xxx/day) is doable, differently from many other businesses which have lower limits (way lower limits!).

Master the art of AM and then you will be free to choose which game to play.

Taking small steps is the right way?
Why?
Because small steps doesn’t prevent you from making big steps then.

Learn the basics, don’t be lazy and only then… start being crazy!


Wellbeing is actually the final goal for everyone. In every case.
The problem is that many people fall into the mistake of relegating wellbeing to a future goal.
That’s a wrong mindset, which leads to bad output.

If someone would learn how to “feel good" during the process of reaching his/her materialistic goal, he/she would have greater results, while benefiting from the peace of mind he/she was desiring.


Mrgreen is clearly stating it here (as many other does).
Reaching xx/day is harder than reaching x.xxx/day.

Why? Because when you are starting out, you know nothing. And learning the art is the most demanding process.
Later, it becomes a matter of consistency.
So, once again, the real question is: what do you really want to do?


Summarizing, Affiliate Marketing is like a marathon.
Running a marathon is not for everyone, even if everyone could teach himself how to do it, day by day.

In this hypothetic case, the only question you should pose yourself is: do I like running?

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Great thread!!

And widely applicable beyond AM.

As I consistently try to impart on my seven year old when his incredible lego castle/treehouse/functioning robot ideas don't turn out like he imagined in his head, the secret to life is... "BIG goals, LOW expectations"

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It's incredible how much time has past yet this thread is relevant than ever.
It just shows you that you can go round and round as much as you want, at the end the basics stay the same.
Thank you!

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Yup, many things in AM stay the same... that's why it's a good idea to read the old threads on the forum too, though several years old in many cases, they still contain great and relevant information.

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Thanks Dear .

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And thank you for bringing up that thread again

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And thank you for commenting on the thread being commented on bringing it up again :P

Still a solid post. Stable anything is hard to achieve these days...

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And thank you for commenting on Sebastian commenting on the thread being commented on bringing it up again

LOL

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Thanks Matuloo.

After all these years since 2016, you've still been inside this forum, it showed that your advice is legit and true.

I've read from the beginning until now. The guy who's arguing with you about we should set big audacious goals and stuff.

He persisted with his same mindset & walk away with the same ego which he originally came in. He can reference Elon Musk and whoever he wants.

Still.

We never heard from him again ever since. Time will tell.

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Everything I post here on the forum is always legit to my best knowledge and in most cases backed with my own experience I like to keep it real and honest.

And yes, I have no problems with setting high goals, but we cannot really climb mountains without learning how to walk first. Thats the way it is.

On top of that, setting high and hard to achieve goals might just lead to frustration, wrong assumptions, bad decisions and premature exits.

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This thread is so valuable!

I see myself as a part of the new generation, the,,everything-needs-to-be-instant'' generation, and I had to learn my lesson the hard way.

I spent xxxx's of dollars for different online courses as an 18-20 years old kid - believing I would be a millionaire within a month, and it took a long time to wash off these destructive patterns of expectations I had for myself.

There is a reason for the multimillion-dollar guru industry.

Being a newbie, I am reminding myself every day that everything with great value comes with a lot of work.

I am a month into this forum, and I've made 0.87$ so far (spent around 200$). But I am happy to be able to try at least and working forward to my 1$/day!

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Instant gratification... the young generation suffers from this a LOT

High expectations, short attention span, distractions everywhere.. I got kids in the puberty age and sometimes it literally hurts to listen to their ideas about how the world works and how their going to conquer the world as soon as they finish their studies

Hm, even though I'm happy you understand that it wont be easy, this math doesn't seem right. I'm sure we can help you reach MUCH better numbers!

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Yeah that's exactly it! I hope you can guide your kids at least in some direction.. so that their learning curve will not be as painful.

I believe too that there is a lot of room for improvement as soon as I finish the 40-day course from vortex, I will start a follow-along thread. Hopefully, you'll look by

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I'm trying to Time will tell how much I've succeeded at it

Definitely, and if it's not something I'm good at, the other mods will help you out for sure!

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I would not wait that long.

The moment you start running traffic is a good moment for starting a follow along.

Is like with learning a new music instrument. Makes sense to have a teacher right in the beginning days...

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