Just pull the trigger…

That is the advice that Tim Tebow’s coaches gave him. It’s no secret that he is learning the quarterback position. He has a great arm but it’s definitely a unique throwing style that is being criticized… can it really make it in the NFL.

But Tebows coaches realize something important. He is only going to learn to be great by just pulling the trigger. You hear the announcers say it a million times during the game.

Listen for it this weekend when he goes up against Brady and the Patriots.

Hesitating, thinking too much, trying to be perfect all lead to unnatural movements that cause more error than just pulling the trigger and fixing it as you go.

In Your Online Business, Pull The D@#% Trigger!

Are you hesitating with your online business or your affiliate website? If you’re like most people who come into this space, you sure are.

You build a website, but rather than market it, you continually try to make it look better. You also keep buying courses because you tell yourself that you need to be fully prepared so when you do market your website, it will go perfectly.

But It Won’t Go Perfectly No Matter How Much You Prepare

It’s actually kind of infuriating. I remember when I was getting my first really successful website going, I was making the same mistakes I learned about in the courses.

I figured, “Heck, if I read about these, why am I still making them?”

It’s because nothing is truly internalized until you do it for real… until you pull the trigger.

How Can You Pull The Trigger Right Now?

Look at your current website that you are working on. If you have a dozen or so websites, pick the one that is doing the best.

Next, sit down and think what are five things you can do each day, that have to do with actually marketing your website?

This could be building links, doing PPC, actively contacting so many new people a day, whatever…

Then commit for only one month to doing those things. Pull the #@%&$ Trigger!

Amazing things will happen.

Isn’t it crazy what Tebow can teach us about business? Let’s hope Denver takes New England down and out this weekend. The game is on Saturday!

Affiliate marketing is really general because there are so many affiliate marketing programs and things to promote, it can make your head spin. It’s actually a natural psychological truth that the more options you are presented with, the less likely you are able to actually make a decision.

Here’s strategy one… pick something you at least know about.

It really helps to have a good knowledge about what you are talking about. Keep in mind that this can be a business to business product and not necessarily a business to consumer product.

Most people getting started only think of a few markets when there are really a bunch you can get involved in.

So take a serious look at what you do and what you like. With a close enough look, you will find something.

Here is strategy two… Don’t promote affiliate products on your site.

You might be thinking to yourself that this is really crazy, but it can work really well. I am actually testing a few sites like this now. There is not a single affiliate product on the site and everything revolves around getting the visitors on the newsletter list.

Then once on the list, you can build a relationship and promote products. This opens up a slew of different strategies. Keep in mind that email marketing is a completely different animal.

It’s funny, you would think that it would be pretty easy, but I have found it to be much more difficult. However it can be very profitable.

Here is strategy three… Only work on three sites at a time.

This is probably more personal preference than anything, but I find that any more sites than that and it’s nearly impossible to build links.

You will drive yourself crazy building links for more than that and building enough to actually get ranked is really hard to do. I think as you begin to see success you can outsource, but that is something I don’t really know too much about yet.

Just think about this… the more projects you have going, the slower it will take to fail or succeed.

Affiliate marketing is a great business to be part of. It’s nearly passive income when you set things up correctly and it helps you identify great markets and build an audience. One of the great secrets is to build products of your own based on your successful affiliate marketing websites.

Let’s take a look at specific affiliate marketing tips you can use right now to help your business. These are things that have helped me the most.

My One Golden Tip…

I am going to start out with a huge bang and give you the one tip that changed my Internet marketing career. Ready?

Do something everyday to move your business forward.

Sounds pretty lame right? But take this to heart… starting tomorrow, do something everyday without fail to move your business forward. For example, if you are going the SEO route for a website, build at least five links everyday.

You don’t sleep until that is finished.

Affiliate Marketing Tip 2: Choose a plan and stay the course

The one thing about the affiliate marketing business is the fact that there is always a shiny new toy or technique that leads to riches.

The guys that make the real money using affiliate marketing are actually boring. They just studied their method to death so they know it like the back of their hand. Then they simple worked that plan daily.

When you switch to a new plan, you immediately lose. And that is why there is no such thing as easy online money.

Affiliate Marketing Tip 3: Build An Asset

The downfall of affiliate marketing is actually a few things.

• You only make a percentage (sometimes small percentage of the sale)
• You don’t build a list of customers

A list of paying customers is incredibly powerful because when you treat customers well, they really do come back again and again to buy.

So as an affiliate, you have to build a list. This list and the data you get form them is your asset. You can easily find what they want and then you can be the one to provide it to them.

Just keep in mind that being a product owner increases the responsibility and adds customer support.

Even if you never build your own product, having that list of people to email or write to on Facebook will let you market other affiliate products. That is how you can get a surge in income when you really need it.

Affiliate Marketing Tip 4: Diversify and Build More

When you are getting started, you have to build a lot of campaigns or sites. Not every site will work so the more you can pump out, the faster you will find the ones that do work.

This is what really stops people from getting going in the first place. The idea of doing all that work to have nothing workout is a horrible prospect. But think about it on the flip side… if you never try anything, you will never see that money you are going for and your business will not grow.

So build sites, start campaigns, track what happens and make changes according to those statistics.

Affiliate Marketing Tip 5: Test Like Crazy

There will be many sites that may never perform for you so you have to keep launching them. The biggest issue that I face is getting enough traffic to really test the site. But you should know pretty quickly if it’s worth your time.

So make sure you are always building new sites around interesting niches and products. While it has not happened to me yet, you may build a site and it will blow up quickly. Then you can really concentrate on that.

Affiliate Marketing Tip 6: Concentrate on the Winners

I highly suggest that after you have been at this for awhile, you concentrate on the winners and sell the smaller profiting sites.

This is how you can really grow your income. The sites that are making the most money now can probably be grown even bigger by expanding them and offering more. It’s not uncommon to triple your income pretty quickly if you do this.

Don’t waste time a site that may only make $1,000 a month when you can grow your $5,000 dollar a month site into a $10,000+ a month site much faster.

There are many other tips that I can help pass alone to you. Get a copy of how I went from zero to $3,000 a month in profit in less than 6 months. It chronicles my story and you can follow it.

It’s amazingly simple how I did it. Plus I’ll share with you a bunch of other great stories and honest reviews of products and ways to make your sites more profitable.

There are a lot of people that are interested in making money using the Internet, you know… make real money online. Especially these days with an economy that seems like it will be on shaky ground for a very long time.

Then you have stories that are unbelievable. Stories of people making $40,000 plus with as little as three clicks. Whenever you hear stories like this, you can be sure it’s a huge scam. If it were really that easy everybody would be rich and we would then have massive inflation.

So Can You Make Real Money Online?

Yes, you really can make real money online, but I will be very blunt with you… you are going to have to work your butt off to get things going. Then once you start to achieve success, it gets easier to get more success.

How do I know it’s possible, because I make a good multiple six figure income from the Internet. I worked incredibly hard to build that income and I am still working really hard to grow that to the level that I want.

So why do people ask about real money?

It’s really become there are so many scams on the Internet. It’s really hard to trust somebody when they are trying to sell you a system to make money. Heck I bet you are thinking I am a little untrustworthy right now.

I have a few different newsletters on my site you can join. Enter your email below and I’ll share with you my full story how I finally became successful and what steps I took.

You’ll be surprised because it’s not as glamorous or overnight like you may think.

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How Do You Make Real Money Online

I know I am keeping this article really high level, but just know that you can make a real business completely on the Internet. So give that fact, how do you do it?

Here are the high level steps you need to take. Don’t discount them because they are high level… following this will really help you succeed.

Step 1: Decide what type of business you want to start

You have to decide where you want to go. It can be affiliate marketing, creating a store where you sell physical products, you can sell your own information products, you can do some type of consulting… and the list goes on and on.

Step 2: Commit to that business model

I made this it’s own step because it’s so important. When you decide which business model you want to go with, you have to commit to it 100%. You have to then become the absolute expert at it because that is how you will succeed.

Step 3: Decide on your traffic source

Being new to creating a business, I suggest you decide on a traffic source and then start to master that. Do not get discouraged and stray from it… stay the course and master that source of traffic.

If you’re new and you don’t have money to invest in paid traffic then completely ignore it for now. Go with SEO and master building links and getting free traffic.

Step 4: Decide on a system to follow

Now you can look at which systems match what everything you have decided to this point. Even though most of these income systems and products may sound sensational, there are many really solid ones.

I have recommended a few that I really believe in because I have them myself.

• The IM Advantage
• Rank and Pillage
• Google Sniper 2.0

Step 5: Commit and Do Something Each Day

Once you start with a program, commit to it 100% and work the system everyday without fail. When you do this, you can’t help but fail.

You’ll notice that the process isn’t sexy and doesn’t really make for a great story, but it works and that is how you make real money online.

I don’t what to start this article on a downer but it’s important to know that affiliate marketing is getting tougher all the time. However, if you play it smart and work hard, you can make it work for you. Knowing the right course for your affiliate marketing training is key… it can shorten the entire process.

One of the issues that makes it so hard is all the training courses and websites out there. It’s nearly impossible to stick with one because they are all promising you the moon and they are promising it to you faster.

Well here is my advice for your affiliate marketing training and I’ve said this a couple times in some other article on my site.

Go Small(er) In A Big Pond

What I mean about this is try your best to stick to the big markets that most people are afraid of because that is really where the money is. Not to mention these are the markets that will do the best through down economies as well.

But in those markets, cut small pieces out. So go for keywords that are smaller with a lot less competition. Then just go after more of them. As you grow, you’ll be able to go after bigger keywords but don’t bother when you’re just starting.

See One Plan All The Way Through

I have harped on this throughout the site, and it truly is the key to success. Make sure you stick with one course, one business model until you succeed.

I am telling you right now, building an Internet business is no sexy and while it can be fun most of the time, it can also be drag.

I try not to be prideful or boastful but it is very cool when people ask what you do and then you tell them. They still don’t really understand and they all the questions start. They just don’t realize all the hard work it takes to get to consistent cash flow.

Promote The Big Products

It’s best to promote the big products unless you can talk to a product owner about their product. The reason I say this is the bigger products are proven to convert better and when you’re starting out, you need as much help as possible to get profitable fast.

Pick A Marketing Avenue And Master It

What I mean by this is pick either SEO, social, or PPC, or some other traffic source and use it to death until you master it. Once you master it, then you can learn another one.

For affiliate marketing and follow the business plan that I suggest you follow, you should learn SEO first. It requires the most time and hard work but from a strictly monetary viewpoint, it’s free. Plus there is nothing better than making great money everyday knowing that you don’t have to pay for the traffic.

You have undoubtedly heard this before and you have also heard some people say that you don’t need to pick a passion. Both are correct.

The reason I highly suggest you start with something you are interested in or interested in learning about is because you will have to do a lot of writing and re-writing. It helps if you have that interest.

Once you get good enough, you can just do anything and outsource the majority of the work.

These are some of my down to earth affiliate marketing training tips. I know they are very high level but seriously they are the key to my success. I think you’ll find these are the fundamentals to everybody’s success who actually has success.

Make sure you look at the business plan and courses that I suggest you follow. If you stick with these, in about five to six months, you will be making some good money and then everything else opens up to you. They can really help you shorten your affiliate marketing training process. Although you never really stop no matter how big you get.