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If you had to start over.... (5)

05-15-2021 11:16 PM #1 lilgator (Member)
If you had to start over....

If you had to start over and build your affiliate marketing skill set from scratch with only 10-16 hours a week.

How would you do it?

I’ve been having trouble focusing at my career because I think thinking about making AM work!

I’m in a position in my career where my performance is important which means I have to spend my time after hours developing my skill (sales) and learning my product/industry.

So I’ve decided that I will only focus on my career M-F besides checking stats and small tweaks to running campaigns.

That leaves me with Saturday and Sunday to develop my marketing muscle.

I can easily do 10-16 hours a weekend without getting burnt out.

I’m trying new geos, new types of sweeps offers (started with just phones), I’m playing with direct linking HAKA offers in tier 2-3 GEOS as well.

I’m doing ALLOT of experimenting. But I need to be smart with prioritizing my team. I got close to consistent profits on 1 of my funnels.

So I assume above all else I should prioritize testing new offers and landing pages.

What would you focus your time on? Here is how I picture my time breakdown going

4 hrs - modifying landing pages for different prize types. Fixing. Translating etc.

2 hrs - finding new offers in the geos I have data in. Applying for offers adding to tracker and offer spreadsheet

2hours - setting up campaigns - this may take less time for me as I think I can now launch a camp in about 15-25 minutes

2 hours - drilling down into the previous week’s campaigns. Sometimes I’ll take all campaigns from one GEO and combine them into one report. I’ll drill into this catch all report and see if I can make any broad observations about what’s good traffic in that country.

2 hours - prescriptive reading on STM - reading about problems as I come across them.

How would you spend your 10?

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05-18-2021 01:19 PM #2 matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

I’m in a position in my career where my performance is important which means I have to spend my time after hours developing my skill (sales) and learning my product/industry.

What industry are you in? Quite often, people somehow forget about the option to merge their existing business with the AM concepts, while it can often work well and supplement each other.

05-19-2021 02:19 PM #3 lilgator (Member)

Originally Posted by matuloo

Your plan is more or less in line with what I'm usually doing. The distribution of hours might differ a bit and it's not the same every day but yes, you pretty much named all there is to handle. And yes again, prioritizing testing new creatives and offers is a good decision.

BTW, this got me thinking :

What industry are you in? Quite often, people somehow forget about the option to merge their existing business with the AM concepts, while it can often work well and supplement each other.

Thank you! This is extremely encouraging. I really wanted to feel confident about the way I am spending my time. Having a concrete plan helps bigly!

I am in white collar business services. I don't think I have enough PPC knowledge to generate leads or anything for my company. Our prospects spend allot of time on LinkedIn. And I don't know anything about advertising on that platform PLUS I would probably have to spend my own money on traffic.

05-19-2021 11:34 PM #4 matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

Originally Posted by lilgator

Thank you! This is extremely encouraging. I really wanted to feel confident about the way I am spending my time. Having a concrete plan helps bigly!

It's good to have a plan or let's say a list of tasks to focus on, but don't try to plan everything to the T... it's not possible. There will be situations where you have to act quickly and focus on what needs to be handled at a time. On some days, you can skip certain parts and focus on something else instead. The main point of your strategy is the importance of testing offers and creatives, whatever time you have left, spend it on the rest

Originally Posted by lilgator

I am in white collar business services. I don't think I have enough PPC knowledge to generate leads or anything for my company. Our prospects spend allot of time on LinkedIn. And I don't know anything about advertising on that platform PLUS I would probably have to spend my own money on traffic.

I hear you, this is one of the businesses where it's not that easy to apply AM concepts without heavy investments. But still, not sure what exactly you focus on, but maybe you could start building some platform where you advice people and once you build some trust and following, you could convert them to leads. For example, I've seen quite a few youtube guys who run channels about investments, markets, business setups etc... and some of them are apparently doing really well. The AD rates in some industries are crazy so they don't even need a massive audience to make nice money. Just some food for thought

05-20-2021 01:32 PM #5 iwanttofly (Veteran Member)

Originally Posted by matuloo

I'll second that. People are desperate for knowledge from people they see as unbiased. And many white collar sales people are seen as biased, particularly by the average person.
@lilgator you could start a YouTube channel and start dispensing advice with links on how to contact you for more information and probably develop a good client base that way.

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