Celebrating Your One Month Anniversary
posted in Getting Started |It’s been about a month since I officially sent this site out over the Internet tubes for public consumption, so I thought it’d be a good time to check in. Not so much from a nuts-and-bolts analysis of traffic or income, but in a broader, more general sense.
Most people who give affiliate marketing a whirl don’t last. They build some sites, put up some links, don’t make any money, and give up after a month or two. They start strong, posting lots of content, but it dwindles over time, as there’s no indication that it’s working, no traffic to their sites, and no real return on investment as far as they time they’re putting into it.
That’s all very, very natural. In many different ways. natural to be discouraged, natural to want to quit, and natural to see no results at all for quite awhile.
I go through that myself, each and every time I launch new sites. I’m going through it right now, to various degrees. It’s depressing to keep pouring work into sites that not only have no guarantee of ever making you money, but which take months to get fully indexed in search engines. Life is short. It’s hard to keep grinding away with uncertainty kicking you in the crotch when you could be doing any number of more enjoyable things.
Do I persist because I enjoy getting kicked in the crotch? Well, no. Not at all. I persist because I know this stuff works and because I can point to any number of tangible things that I own because of affiliate marketing (a second house, a savings account, a SEP IRA).
If you can make it a month and are still plugging away, pat yourself on the back. Seriously. That’s a pretty big accomplishment, in and of itself. Most people wash out well before that point. If you’re the drinking type, tip back a few cold ones.
(Then, you know, gird thyself for a few more frustrating months until you start to see appreciable results from all your hard work.)