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One new thing this project has taught me is that it’s actually helpful in some ways to know that I have an audience as I create this site, as it has been generating a lot of motivation and enthusiasm in general. In the past I’d tend to claim that not having an audience was actually beneficial, since it freed you up from obsessing about every little detail of your site, waiting until the site was “perfect” before launching it, and in general dragging your feet and delaying getting lots of good content up.

But having an audience (or simply working under the assumption that someone might read what you’ve created, at any given time) does have some advantages, espcially for people just getting started with affiliate work. Even if you aren’t making enough to buy a postage stamp, those first few clicks on Google Adsense that you get are pretty exciting. There’s also a very basic human tendency to work harder and “succeed” when we know someone is looking and monitoring our progress, as the desire to impress and look sexy is pretty hard-baked into our monkey genes.

With all that in mind, I thought I’d extend an open offer to anyone who has landed here and is playing along at home, working on their own affiliate sites. If you’d like an audience for your site, leave a comment or holler at me and I’ll regularly check out your site and periodically mention it here in posts. Won’t cost you a penny and you’ll get some free incoming links, as well as potentially supportive readers kicking around on your site and clicking Adsense links. One nice thing about affiliate marketing is that there are many thousands of potentially profitable niches out there, so it’s pretty easy to be supportive and help one another out, without encouraging the competition and impacting your own bottom line.