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The biggest mistake I made with Affiliate Marketing was just recent. I've been trying to make money online for the past 3.5 years. I started a music site, four blogs, a forum and three ecommerce sites.

Nothing to brag about but I started making a few hundred dollars per month. However, I kept reading about these young guys like Jonathan Volk making a ton of money with Affiliate Marketing. So I decided to try my hand at it. Hey if Jonathan Volk can do it, why can’t I?

Before soon I started making some money. However, I had one offer (with no landing page) that I was promoting that I swore up and down the affiliate company must be robbing me.

This was after I completely ignored the offer but decided to start promoting it after the Affiliate Manager sent me an e-mail asking me to take a look at it.

I started promoting it and was pleasantly surprised that it was working. I immediately started making about $30 per day profit! I felt like a fool for ignoring the offer.

However, after a few days I started wondering if the affiliate company was robbing me. Every day I would get sign-ups but at about 5PM the sign-ups would stop. However, after a couple of weeks I soon realized that my budget was set to a mere $20 per day.

Holy cow, I’m a fool! After the budget was hit, the ads stopped running, thus no more signups. Again, I felt like such a complete idiot.

I quickly increased the budget to $100 per day and my signups shot up. I then increased my budget to $200 per day and added some more keywords and my profit shot up even further. Again I felt foolish for not doing this earlier. I missed out on a few hundred dollars of income because I simply wasn't paying attention. Now a campaign that was making me about $30 per day profit is now making me about $150 per day profit.

What I learned is take this stuff seriously, pay attention and always be tweaking your ad campaigns, keywords and landing pages to milk every last dollar out of it. I was happy with $30 per day profit but with some tweaking I could have been making $150 per day profit all along!

Now I make more money online than my full time job thanks to Affiliate Marketing. Hopefully, one day I’ll be like Jonathan Volk and doing it full time. Hey if he can do it, why can’t I?

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    5 Comments

    Ryan Cote says 9th August @ 14:26

    Good advice because I think this mistake happens a lot more than you’d think!

    Raymond Lucke says 9th August @ 19:45

    Excellent tips. I just recently joined a PPC coaching service and have definitely ran into the daily budget issue too. Now I always set my budget to be higher than I know I’ll need and the problem has been gone since.

    Millionaire says 10th August @ 3:19

    Making mistakes is a part of learning… but there are some mistakes that people can avoid

    Zack says 17th August @ 17:45

    The trick is to find the mistakes, correct them, and never repeat. If you can do that, you’re ahead of a lot of the general population.

    Tj says 28th August @ 7:11

    I’m doing a zip submit on hydra which converts good. i have started with msn but left msn because of the poor volums. Now I’m on yahoo, I have my daily budget set to $50 but yahoo doesn’t spend more than $4-5 a day! So I was wondering how do I do big volumes? I’m getting 5-10 sign ups a day when i literally can get hundreds! My quality score is 2 on the bar and im trying to improve. Is qs has anything to do with volumes?

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