I am often asked “What’s a hot niche” or “where is the money being made”. When first starting a network, often times this was a generic question that resulted in a publisher wasting my time typing or answering this over the phone for them. Lucky for me with the changes at C2M, when this question is asked, I’m actually happy to start talking.
First I would like to explain how this change took place briefly. Yes, it may bore with my inner thinking and company business model but in the end you will understand what I mean when I say work ethic is #1.
Alright so I really started focusing more on publishers who work. When I mean work, I mean work their ass off. Publishers who are greeedy, they want it all, they want their businesses to do well and KEEP doing well. Not tire kickers, not the type of people looking for a hand out. You go through life looking for a hand out and you have more of a chance of finding a one-legged ballerina than you do a solid piece of information.
Work ethic is a piece of the puzzle that 95% who get into this business will never understand and probably will never develop. Why is this? That’s because nobody AND I MEAN nobody ever tells you what it’s truly going to take. Sure you can copy the latest flog and hop into the niche and probably make a few bucks but guess what? That’s not successful business. That’s a short sighted idea OF business. That’s the guy at the end of the month who is found bitching about something and possibly EVERYTHING in a forum. Are you really trying to solve and issue? Because to the ones who truly “have it”, forgive me now but, you look like a complete retard.
I’ve been in this game for quite some time now. I’ve known friends that have gone from $100K+ a month in profit to zero. As a matter of fact, I know two personally that come to mind at this very moment that went back to “jobs”. To have it all, only to piss it all away. I will give you an idea (not an exact replica) but damn close of how this happened.
Things were going great. I assure you that 100K+ a month in profits as an affiliate marketer means a little bit of laziness. If you havent experienced it, I dont expect you to understand. However for the ones who have, you know exactly what I am talking about. You found yourself each day looking over your campaigns. You were probably:
- sleeping in till 10-11 am
- checking your traffic stats
- checking your earnings
- checking your sites and servers
- oh wow, it’s lunchtime. I’m not humble so I go out and eat and blow 2 hrs.
- Man it’s the afternoon, what’s going on in the forums?
- I visit one forum
- I visit a second forum
- I go read dumbass blogs
- I check back into the forums
- wow, time to go play basketball or xbox
- man’s it’s 7pm already? Time to go out to a nice dinner
- decided to hang with friends for a few drinks after dinner
- got home with alcohol in the system, man I am tired
- crash at midnight
- Wake up and repeat?
Sound typical? Possibly not but you get the idea. Here’s where someone with the “ethic” kicks your ass.
- Wake up at 7 am
- Check traffic stats
- Check with affiliate manager
- check sites and servers
- fixes a sandwich or dips into the lunchbox for the meal prepared the night before
- while eating the sandwich cruises, forum 1, 2 and reads the dumbass blogs
- gets back with affiliate manager, what’s hot, explain points of strategy
- takes what is told, starts building, keyword and site research, competition analysis
- afternoon snack from the lunchbox to keep the metabolism and energy up
- finishes site/landing page/ grabs links/ sets up tracking
- goes to the gym for a healthy workout
- Goes over current campaign, finishes up the new campaign
- goes to bed 10-11pm
- wakes up at 7 am, launches new campaign
- repeats process
For everyone in batch 1, good luck.
For everyone in batch 2, I commend you. May true success come sooner than later. You truly deserve it.
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If you’re answering the same questions, why not do a skype or teleconf line recording, and save yr time by asking them to listen to the recording the 2nd or 3rd time it’s asked. (or listen to the interview we did?).
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batch 2 sleeping at 10-11pm? I think it’s more like sleeping at 2-3am, waking at 7-8am and grinding.
You bring a lunch box to work? Does your mommy pack it for you? Is it the Zac Johnson Spiderman edition lunchbox?
This is a great point man. My current biggest money maker is not a niche on any CPA network as such It is not a hot offer. If I had the hot offer thing mentality when I found the offer on the company website, I would not have it running now.
When start assuming that everybody is possibly wrong, and make logical decisions about things, you will be successful. You can make users pay big bucks without being rebilled, and still as an affiliat make your money….
Respect!
I dream landing pages.
@andrew wee – that’s really stupid… It’s been shown a good night (early) sleep will improve thought process and efficiency infinitely.
@Jake C. Word! Any later than 11PM kills my thought process.
@Jake C – you must be hanging with the wrong crowd.
To each his own.
Epic post, as always.
Been putting in the hours the past few weeks, seeing promise to have it all take off again soon.
you hit it dead on – when you first taste success it is a natural reaction to get a little lazy. And it is easy to let that laziness replace the fire that got you to that point.
Why do you douche nuggets stay up ’til 2-3am?
Why don’t you stop wasting so much fuckin time
playing patty cake & slap n tickle via IM and
just outsource all time eating shit so you can go to
sleep 10pm, get up 4am and put in 8 hrs before
noon while the rest of the world farts around.
Another 8 hours after noon and surprise – 2 days
in 1!
Good post for sure. It’s soooo easy to get into that lazy mode. I’ve been there for sure and I’m glad I’m out of it.
Knowing you’ve made 4-5k profit or more really makes you feel like you don’t need to work. It takes bigger goals and aspirations to get yourself to not be happy with that number and keep grinding.
Thanks for the good tips ! It’s easy to run my blog from home but I am somewhat nervous how things will do once I get out on the road…
Great post. I’ve slipped into lazy mode a couple times in my life without too harsh consequences, but I always try to get myself back on track when I notice signs of complacency.
I also find it helpful to build a task list for the following day. It’s great to have a list of action items that I can check off as I complete each task. When something new pops into my head or I read a particularly great article, I like to be able to add an item to the bottom of the list. This helps build my task list for tomorrow. Whether it’s kw research, ordering content, or setting up a tracking system, there is always something to add to the task list.
A little extreme, but very true post. I have been brown bagging it for years, yet I have employees that make 1/1000 of my income and they eat out everyday. I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND IT.
I know I’m cheap, but that hour+ away from the office if you eat out for lunch is extremely expensive.
If I do go out its all business.
@ rawbones – possibly extreme and probably so in the grand scheme of business however an exercise or thought process I like to use is that the 1 hour a day accumulates to 360+ hours a year. With that much time you stand to build quite a substantial campaign or branch of income
Excellent post. Kicking ass with efficient work ethic is something I take pride in. I really try to limit forums, AIM, and blogs to the times of day when I sit idle and eat breakfast/lunch/dinner or whatever.
While all my non-IM buddies are snoozing through life wasting their evenings on the latest tv shitcoms and playing games, I work my butt off.
It does take a special mindset to stick around in this business, but I’m glad it is the way it is.
faq yeah! So true… I lived both sides of life…
lol “man’s it’s 7 pm already?”
… “man’s i got rick-rolled”
Yes,constantly checking traffic…writing..linking…Hard work pays off!