The Ups And Downs Of Affiliate Marketing

The other day Paul from Uberaffiliate.com wrote a good post that had some points I wanted to touch upon.

Affiliate marketing is a business where you will have very high, highs and very low, lows.

While you may have days where I might make $24,000 in a day, there are also still days where I only make a few thousand or a few hundred, quite a big difference. While making even a thousand in a day is a huge accomplishment to some, for my business, it's a low and can sometimes result in being in a bit of a low. A low for you is obviously going to be based upon your normal earnings but the feeling is the same none the less.

It's important to remember that these type of days are inevitable. At first, it was a big adjustment for me to learn to not be so swayed by days that may be a bit sub par. Sometimes you can feel a bit depressed or feel like your business just isn't doing all that well. But again, feeling bad for yourself or sad about these days will do nothing for you.

But now the other side of the equation: The good days.

The good days can produce the most amazing feeling ever. It's on these days that you have to be careful not to think about a months revenue at your current rate and making estimates for that month. For example, if you have a good day and make $20,000 and now think that you're going to be making $600,000 / month... It simply does not work that way sadly.

It's taken a lot of effort actually to learn not to allow these type of days affect me as much with the obvious major emphasis on the low days.

As a side note, I'm not writing this post because I am having a slow month... this month has been great for me.