Affiliate Marketing Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make – Part. 2

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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?