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6thMay

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?

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18 Comments

IamJustinM says 6th May @ 0:14

I bought a bunch of gold about 8 or 9 months ago. That paid off. Other then that I have pretty much sat on most of my savings. Honestly, I’m waiting for bush to get out of office.

Mario says 6th May @ 1:25

Hi,
I think that it is quite late to buy stocks of Google, you should buy about 14 days ago, before announcing quaterly results:). But the price should go back to 700 and it is ok to buy now

kevin says 6th May @ 1:32

I would look at investing like warren buffett.

i invest in blackstone BX, got its fingers in some many pies, earning money.

So under valued at moment, when credit crunch stops and values come back, this will double your money.

Do your own reserach though as its your own money, but thats where mine goes and I am based in the UK.

If investing in UK Look at Tesco TSCO , makes huge amounts of money, shops full every day, buffett just taken 3% stake, and thats before the stores in America even making a profit, Think US side is called Fresh and Easy.

Hope it helps,

Kevin

steveplace says 6th May @ 5:17

Invest like a hedge fund through etf’s. You can do foreign currencies, commodities, foreign exposure. The key is to be diversified through a bunch of non-correlated assets. Try and find portfolio allocation sheets for high net worth individuals and go after that.

And if you’re going to be buying stock in AAPL and GOOG, you might want to consider covered calls. GOOG options have fat premium. Example: buy 100 GOOG stock, short GOOG 600 call. Puts your breakeven at around 580, which you can roll your call down and collect more premium. Covered calls can generate double digit returns in a month with less downside risk.

I’ll tell you what… you help me with some ppc and I’ll get your portfolio in order… how’s that sound? ;)

Peter says 6th May @ 6:37

Real Estate =) Easy way to leverage + invest a ton of cash at once.

Mattaw - Moneybites says 6th May @ 7:12

Jon, honestly, investment is a great option. Once you’re making what you are, take a little for yourself but save some for later in life. If I was you I’d buy myself a few nice things and sink a bit into bonds and low risk stocks (lower yeilds but, less risk, so your money is more stable).

PPCFool says 6th May @ 7:55

Invest in Gold, Silver, Commodities, and Foreign currencies
I personally like silver and the swiss Franc, anything to diversify into non-dollar assets. The dollar is very weak (that’s why gold/oil are so expensive) and will get weaker as economy gets worse

But yes, like in previous post … Do YOUR OWN research

Work Plus Faith says 6th May @ 7:58

Back in the 90’s, a big time direct/infomercial marketer said he told his financial planner he could make 50% to 500% ROI with direct marketing so he felt no need to take risks in the market for “a measly 10% return.” He said he put his money in conservative investments but took risk with what he knew which was direct marketing.

Marko Nikolic says 6th May @ 9:25

Probably get into Real Estate, cant really go wrong there.

I will also be looking into funding a start up and seeing if any ideas out there seem worth the time and money investment.

browie says 6th May @ 11:32

well for my first month of 1K profit I rewarded my hard work with a set of 1/2 ct. diamond earrings. Now i’m baller LOL

Thomas says 6th May @ 14:25

Good luck but I wouldn’t recommend investing in AAPL right now. The stock is trading very close to its all-time high at a very high p/e ratio. Lots of risk and only a limited upside IMO.

Joe says 6th May @ 18:55

Warren Buffet said something along this line, “Invest in a egg basket, watch that basket closely.”

navone says 7th May @ 1:24

You should have a look at motley fool CAPS. Its a user generated stock rating system, and is full of good ideas and advice. I use it to find high rated stocks that are trading well below value. Thats why I grabbed apple at 127.

Affiliate Marketing Teachings says 7th May @ 5:51

Hey Jonathan, Stocks are a good way to go, like you said if you have the required leverage and the good thing for you is that you’ve played around with it before…

But Property is probably the best, seeing that the price always climes especially after successful renovation..

Good luck

Zac Johnson says 7th May @ 12:35

In the beginning, I was always reinvesting everything back into myself and the business. Now that it’s all overflow, over the years I’ve built up a nice portfolio of stocks. On the side I like to keep money in high interest accounts with ETrade, INGDirect and a few other accounts. I tend to stay away from CDs.

Matt L says 7th May @ 15:52

If you’re looking at rental real estate - you probably want to go commercial unless you have someone to manage it all for you. It is a tremendous hassle dealing w/ the day-to-days. I never really realized it, but I was thinking as if I was renting to myself - a low-hassle kind of guy. However, most rentals don’t fall in that category. I can rattle off a few rental houses in just my neighborhood that have been sitting as idle as the regularly-owned homes. Think builders just way over-extended the actual # of people buying.

that’s pretty cool you already had and liquidated a portfolio of stocks. You don’t seem anything like I was at that age - well done & thanks for being a positive example to the young guys starting out. :)

DotDriven says 8th May @ 16:35

Rather than buying google, grab up some yahoo instead lol. Depending one who buys/partners with them it could turn into a nice jump in their stock once any announcements are made.

Flimjo says 12th May @ 15:03

Invest in rental properties. Yes, wait a bit on it, like another year. But rental properties help you attain passive monthly income that is tax-free.

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