Affiliates and Multiple Streams of Income – Part I: Blogging
If you are an experienced affiliate or just have been around for a while to test your own campaigns and optimize your own landing pages, you are familiar with how the game works. A lot of people assume that super affiliates keep making thousands of dollars each day. In reality, there are days that you can throw hundreds of dollars at your campaign without getting any real results. Depending on your niche, you may have some days that you have too much success and some other days that are losing money on your campaigns. Seasonality and cycles are a part of affiliate marketing business. Those who are new to the game are more likely to give up on their business after losing a few bucks. But those who have been around and experienced things will stick around and supplement their income with other streams of income.
Just because you are good at affiliate marketing doesn’t mean you shouldn’t explore other avenues to make money online. Many affiliate superstars have made a lot of money from blogging, and you can too. Let’s say your affiliate business is about anti-spam software. You have created a landing page comparing anti-spam software packages, and you are driving traffic to it from the social media, Google Adwords, your articles, and so on. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could create a blog about anti-spam software and dedicating a post per anti-spam software package?
Top affiliate marketers often create a blog about their experiences and share with others their own experiences with Google Adwords, Twitter, and … ShoeMoney is one of the folks who has made a ton of money from his blogs and other online real estate. I am sure he has made a fortune from affiliate marketing as well, but you can’t just rely on affiliate marketing to make money online, especially if you want to be a big shot in this business. Getting started with blogging may be a bit difficult for people who haven’t done it before. You need to be knowledgeable about what you talk about on your blog. You’ll also need to keep things simple and know your audience if you want to connect with them. And let’s not forget that your blog shouldn’t be full of call to action to sell things to people. You want to provide real value on your blog to gain your visitors trust and make them want to take you up on your recommendations and purchase on your landing pages.
At the end of the day, you should put all your eggs in one basket. By blogging for 30 minutes a day, you can not only provide more value to your leads, you can gain their trust and increase your conversion rates. Besides, you can always monetize your traffic with Google Adsense and Chitika ads. If you put a real effort into making your blog a success, you’d be surprised with how much money you can earn just from blogging. And it won’t depend too much on your Google ads either. A great way to diversify.
