Why You Need A Job To Start Affiliate Marketing

I get emailed often (At least 2-7 times a month) from people who are asking me to teach them how to become affiliates because they have lost their job and want to jump into affiliate marketing.

I always turn these type of people down for any sort of mentoring because I believe affiliate marketing is something that takes an income to really break into.

Just like you pay for an education (and a sizable amount at that), there really are things you won't learn unless you pay for them yourself.

You need to have a bit of playing money that comes in steadily each month as you attempt to coerce the google and yahoo beasts in to sending you clicks.

Recently, I consulted with a guy and I mistakenly allowed him to consult with me even though he had no job at the moment. When I talked to him, things were going well until he realized that there is no secret formula and that it takes actual work and testing.

Things went south from there and he ended up charging back the consulting fee after I had spent all this time with him on getting a campaign profitable. Funny enough, after he had charged back, I created the campaign and using the exact same instructions I had given him, was able to make the campaign hit a small profitable level.

I am now tweaking and testing the campaign and going to relaunch it soon as one of my bigger campaigns. He missed out on that because he was unable to stick through the testing phases due to the stress that having no income produces.

So all that to say, if you don't have a job, I would highly recommend getting even a part time job FIRST and then trying to work on affiliate marketing. Focus your efforts as much as possible (focus on one niche first), and then go from there.