ska_demon - 2:57 pm on Mar 12, 2007 (gmt 0)

he's cashing in and getting out

Didn't take long before I posted again did it ;oP

Well, my ears were burning so I thought I'd step in.

It takes a lot of hard work to make money as an affiliate. I kept my day job and did the aff thing in order to raise the money required to set up my offline business. Seems to me like you think you can just buy a couple of sites for a few bucks and make your millions. Do you not think the people who made the sites in the fist place would have kept them if they were going to be that profitable?

I cashed in, as you put it, because affiliate marketing is tedious, hard work and very boring and I had the opportunity to open a business that I have wanted to get involved in for quite a long time. I am exchanging hard work for more hard work, just in a different field. Aff marketing provided me with the capital to do this but at the expense of a couple of hours per evening, every evening, after I got home from work. For a few years!

There is no such thing as easy money in aff marketing, you will get out what you put in. If you don't put anything in you won't get anything back, simple as that.

My advice to you is to build yourself a small site and test out your SEO skills unless you have a good PPC budget. Make a site around something that interests you (try and keep it uncompetetive as possible) and try to find an aff prog that will compliment that site.
Avoid datafeeds and white labels in the beginning until you know what you are doing. If you don't understand developing links you still have a hell of a lot to learn before you can cash in and get out.

1 last piece of advice, read, read, read and read. This forum has every last piece of info you need to become a successful affiliate. When you think you read it all go back and read it again and ask some questions.

<dreams>I did and now I'm rich, rich RICH! ;oP </dreams>

Best of luck to ya.

Ska

Oh and Erku you posted more than me on this forum so you already know the answer to your question. heh heh