What Do You Do With Your Affiliate Earnings?

After you've begun to earn a nice amount on affiliate earnings where do you invest your earnings?

This is something that I've been thinking about for a while now.

Do I hold onto it, do I put it into a low risk CD, do I invest it into a high risk stock... What...

So after much thought, tomorrow I will be buying some stock in Google and Apple so that should be pretty cool. I used to trade stocks a lot and had a whole portfolio including Apple, Microsoft, American Eagle, Intel, Sirius Satellite Radio, and a few more.

All did OK for me while I had money in it but I took the money out to give me more growth room in affiliate marketing (Plus I was getting much better returns).

Now that I have the leverage of a higher credit card limit, my growth is not really limited as much to my savings and as such I want to reinvest.

I am also looking into rental properties but I want to wait about a year before I get into that while the marketing continues to bottom out. Thankfully, my sister is a property manager for a large company and hopefully will be able to assist me in what direction to go when that time comes.

I believe it's important to do something more than just hold on to your cash. First, reinvest it into the affiliate marketing business. Once you have built up a little bit more then I recommend diversifying and having money in other areas.

This same principal applies to affiliate marketing as well. Don't put 100% of your eggs in one basket. I am working on getting more offers up that are in different areas.

That being said, where do you plan to invest your affiliate earnings after you've overcome the point of needing to reinvest all your earnings?