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highyieldbiz
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Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 7:08 pm
Post subject: Internet Affiliate work could ruin health
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Dear Affiliate Marketers,
Watch out, internet affiliate work is a serious job and could ruin health if it does not managed properly. I myself have ever had many eyes, blood, head, carpal syndrome and many other health problem just like Allan Gardyne and Ken Evoy had. Internet Affiliate is tougher than offline multi level marketing or offline freelance marketing job because it used our brain heavily to think about all computer language wizard like html, perl, php, mysql etc, our vitality to sit in front monitor radiation, express our art skill in website designing although can not use photoshop and must grasp quickly all sophisticated marketing strategy to compete in affiliate marketing arena just only to get few dollars checks which are hard to turn to cash if you live outside USA. Nobody pays affiliate marketer salary so affiliate must strive with its own wit to get cash for food and internet connection.
It seems that affiliate work could not be done by only one person, it is a corporate business now and should be done with a team. Allan Gardyne and Ken Evoy have show us how tough affiliate marketing job is and it is not a kids play. I myself have left affiliate marketing after American economic gloomy depression started since 2001. And Robert Kiyosaki's book: Rich Dad Poor Dad really influence me by his motto: Don't work hard for money but make your money work hard for you. Internet Affiliate Marketing is not as bright as when it first started in 1998 and reach its peak in 2000. Then I change to high yield programs after reading Frederick Mann's website. This man is really brilliant in writing probably as good as Allan Gardyne although his focus is like Kiyosaki's motto : Make your money work hard for you. Now I focus more on high yield business than affiliate program. For me Affiliate Marketing is realy a corporate job with big budget and could not be done alone not like in old days when you still get check from spree.com just by promote on newsgroup.
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Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 8:43 pm
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| highyieldbiz wrote: | | It seems that affiliate work could not be done by only one person, it is a corporate business now and should be done with a team. Allan Gardyne and Ken Evoy have show us how tough affiliate marketing job is and it is not a kids play. |
"Kids' play" it may not be, but I know quite a few people who make good money doing everything (but running web servers) themselves. I, for one, have no intention of taking on employees. I'd rather restrict my income to avoid having to.
I think comparing Allan and Ken's situations is a bit too general, also.
Ken can't be expected to handle customer support, product development, programming and database work (amongst other things) all on his own. He runs a corporation.
Allan is able to operate much more of a one man show (even with a few helpers). He doesn't have product development or customer support to bother with.
At the end of the day, even with residual income streams, there is only a certain amount of work one person can do in a day. That doen't mean you can't be "successful" as a one-man-band, though.
Just my view,
Charlie.
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2003 12:29 am
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| highyieldbiz wrote: | | Watch out, internet affiliate work is a serious job and could ruin health if it does not managed properly. |
True. The trap is that one of the wonderful advantages of affiliate marketing can also be a disadvantage, if you tend to be a bit obssessive about things.
The wonderful advantage is the limitless nature of the opportunities - the sky's the limit. As long as you can come up with ideas for web sites and find good products to promote, there are always endless things you can do to improve and expand your business.
If you don't set yourself some limits, you can fall into the trap of working every available hour, every day of the week. You generate publicity, the publicity generates traffic and emails, and pretty soon you have a tiger by the tail.
However, I think there's a vast difference between me and the average affiliate. I foolishly(?) set myself up as a free helpdesk, with the goal of not going to bed until all that day's emails were answered. I also created an affiliate directory, putting myself in a prominent position where thousands of affiliate merchants were eager to try to persuade me to promote their products and services. The average affiliate setting up a few sites and promoting a few products doesn't face that sort of pressure.
And I hired my first assistant and, instead of using him as an assistant, I created a new web site for him to run.
I've learned a lot since then.
Looking back, it's seems odd to think that my original goal when I first set up business online was to have a little part-time business to replace my part-time job.
Over the last couple of years, ill health has forced me to reassess everything I do, forced me to look for tasks to delegate to others, cut out time-wasting activities, concentrate on money-earning activities, and look for more ways to set up residual income streams which keep paying whether I'm working or not.
Here's something you may find useful: Imagine you suddenly have only a quarter of the time available each week to spend on your business. So if you're now spending 20 hours, imagine you have only 5 hours available. Now ask yourself: "How can I spend these hours most profitably?"
Hope that helps.
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There's no doubt that a computing lifestyle can induce serious health problems in some people. That said, this risk isn't related to the affiliate program business specifically. Any heavy long term computer use can create these problems.
As is so often the case in life, the best part of computing is also the worst part. Computing is a very engaging activity, and it's that engagement that causes us to overuse a computer, even when we know that overuse is damaging our health.
Nobody gets computer related ailments over night. They build up over time, and we have plenty of warning of developing problems.
The problem is that many of us ignore these warnings because we are psychologically captivated by the mental stimulation the computing experience offers.
Once we are hooked on this source of stimulation it's easy to then rationalize ongoing computer abuse by telling ourselves we are working hard to make money etc, when in fact we are damaging our future business potential by over reliance on a particular means of making money. Perhaps this is what the original poster is referring to.
Point being, it's not affiliate programs, business in general, or even computers that lie at the heart of the problem.
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2003 9:49 pm
Post subject: Re: Internet Affiliate work could ruin health
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Hello everyone.
Some of Allan's remarks got me thinking, as usual...
| AllanGardyne wrote: | | The wonderful advantage is the limitless nature of the opportunities - the sky's the limit. As long as you can come up with ideas for web sites and find good products to promote, there are always endless things you can do to improve and expand your business. |
This is one of the reasons I always smile when people ask if there is a future in affiliate marketing...
I'm tempted to say "reality is for people with no imagination", but maybe I'd better not. 
| AllanGardyne wrote: | | If you don't set yourself some limits, you can fall into the trap of working every available hour, every day of the week. You generate publicity, the publicity generates traffic and emails, and pretty soon you have a tiger by the tail. |
This is cruelly more appropriate to people who are dedicated to a business they are passionate about - on or offline. I dare say, intense perfectionists are high risk too.
| AllanGardyne wrote: | | I foolishly(?) set myself up as a free helpdesk, with the goal of not going to bed until all that day's emails were answered. |
John Audette's "Give then take" is a fine philosophy as long as you don't give everything. This might apply equally well to time as it does to knowledge...
In the early days of the popular internet, there was a strong belief that everyone had to give away free information. An extension of this was the "always on call by email" mentality, Allan describes.
Whoever dreamt up this myth has a lot to answer for.
I know from both sides of the fence how easy it is to use email as a free consultancy resource. People just daren't use the phone in this way, even if you give them a number. And I don't think it's long distance call charges, that are the problem.
| AllanGardyne wrote: | | Imagine you suddenly have only a quarter of the time available each week to spend on your business. So if you're now spending 20 hours, imagine you have only 5 hours available. Now ask yourself: "How can I spend these hours most profitably?" |
I bet that famous old realist Pareto - a man of principle if ever there was one - would say that 20% of your time is spent getting 80% of the results.
If this is the case, maybe 5 hours is a bit lenient. Perhaps 4 would be more appropriate. 
At the end of the day, I don't think there are really that many important things in business, or life in general, whoever you are. The quicker you recognise what yours are (and spend time working on them), the better.
All the best,
Charlie.
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