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Now I'm racking my brain to find her things to do.
What are some ways an assistant could help an affiliate marketer?
How would you utilize her?
Any Ideas?
thanks
Link building? Writing articles and content? Finding new merchants to work with?
Ive got link building on my list and Im going to train her for this. She will also be helping me find new merchants to work with.
I thought about training her to do some simple web design for me, then I came to the conclusion that this would probably be to technical for her and would take a lot of training. Im trying to keep it simple.
Any and all Ideas are welcome.
Thanks again
I would look to develop some systems (can't get specific here) to make the process easier and more effective. In the end, however, at some point, there needs to be a human mind using some creativity for every niche. I think this is a job more for either yourself or someone that has a very good feel for search in general.
I wouldn't use an assistant to handle THE CORE aspect of my marketing efforts. There should be no data entry involved - rather clever programming and creative thinking. Again, this is hurting, if not killing many affiliates. Instead of searching for the right "niche", focus on the right KW's within that niche because you may have already found very profitable areas but are attacking them the wrong way.
Dave, perhaps you are ready for some more skilled help? If not, here are a couple of the things nearly anyone could do, and probably for a relatively low wage;
- low level link development (email requests and such)
- basic accounting (printing receipts/filing/recording transactions) NOT doing any math or even filing the most basic tax stuff. Get a CPA. There are good cheap ones that will take the basic data an assistant could handle and run with it.
- To Do List
- Get coffee/lunch
- Answer/Screen Phone calls
- handle errands - This is a biggie for me. One can waste 2 hours a day with small stuff that requires phone calls or running out of the office/house. Assuming you are paying $20-30 for those 2 hours, I would hope you could make a lot more working!
- Iron Bathrobe. Sorry for the repeat but I just think it is important that you portray the proper image when walking out to the mailbox to pick up your checks. Boxers and a t-shirt are unacceptable. Get yourself a nice robe and a pair of slippers at the very least!
Dave.
How do you hire things out like this without releasing trade secrets and virtually handing over your business model?
Just how much control do you give someone like this of your campaigns?
Also, What if they accidentally decided to pay 10.00 a click for a high traffic keyword and cost you thousands?
How do you hire things out like this without releasing trade secrets and virtually handing over your business model?
How does/did every other business in the history of the world hire people?
All businesses have "trade secrets" of one kind or another yet they manage to hire people. Do you think only one guy works on the google search algo -I bet that is worth a bit more than your "secrets" :)
As for a "business model", this should be pretty transparent anyway. We all know every major company's respective models and I am not clear on why that matters? I am guessing your business model is to earn revenue by sending visitors to partner websites primarily via paid search.
they will know some of your secrets.. but I make sure I let them build up something they own and they are proud of so they feel the ownership.. in the end there will come a time they will leave at least by that time they respect you to keep your trade secret a secret.
