What’s the Single Most Important Buy For Your Affiliate Business

If you truly want to become a superaffiliate, you need to treat affiliate marketing as a real business and not just a hobby. If you do treat affiliate marketing as a business, there are going to be business decisions that you will have to make such as purchasing new computers, office furnitures, phone lines, cell phones, logos, and …. During my time as an affiliate manaer, I was often asked what I thought was the most important part of an affiliate business. I always thought that having a good design that converts the best is the most important to affiliates. But when I moved to the other side of the aisle, I finally got what mattered the most – hosting.

Think about it. You can have the best design in the world, and you know it converts 20% of your leads. You can have the best looking logo in the business and all the Web 2.0 whistles. You can even buy the most comprehensive email marketing service out there, but if you are not serving your site to your visitors, then all your efforts will be worth nothing. I remember when I first started my comparison website for HDTVs. I thought I had a very good design, and could make $30 to $50 an hour from my site. But all the effort that I put into that website went down the drain when I realized it wasn’t loading up. I never really checked the site to see if it was down. I assumed that just because the backend was working, the information was getting loaded into the front-end. So here is my advice. If you can afford to get your own server, do yourself a favor and go with that option. But if you don’t, try services such as EC2 and S3 from Amazon and other Grid computing solutions for your web applications. What you definitely don’t want to see is lost sales due to having a cheap web host. Cheap hosts are great for your hobbies. They are not as useful for real business.