I'm in the Money, I'm in the Money!!

I’m SO excited today! In the previous post I told you that I have tons of stuff that I downloaded on my computer. Things, that I thought were “necessary essentials” but most of it is probably just crap. Well I have been reading this stuff into the wee small hours of the night. Believe me, my house proves I’ve been busy reading and “doing my internship” into affiliate marketing. You have to wade throught the laundry to get to the bathroom in my bedroom. But no worry, I have 2 other bathrooms! But I digress..(remember, hocus pocus, ya gotta focus!!) Anyway I’m reading all this stuff and a light bulb goes on in my head. Last year I bought a “fixer upper” in an area I never thought I would be able to afford (hence trying to start making money in affiliate marketing). I live in Sarasota, Fl which is a beautiful area on the Gulf of Mexico. No, I didn’t buy a house on the gulf (at least not yet but if this AM thing ever takes off…), it is almost on the bay, 400’ from the bay. I can see the bay from my yard and it is just heaven! Plus I have a pool!!! Ya know a pool is like having a boat, it’s fabulous when you get to use it but you do just keep pouring money into it and my pool is so old that I have to shovel money into it. But that’s ok because I feel it’s worth what I get out of it.

Anyway, I bought this fixer upper and decided to start a blog about it. I have before pictures so you can follow along with the progress of the work as I turn my jetsons meets starwars sow’s ear into my shabby cottage palace. Well I have a loyal readership of I think 1 (Thank you so much, Deb!) so remember I said I have been scouring all the crap that I downloaded and I think some of it is sticking! On one of the blog tabs it has monetize so I clicked on it and it tells you about adsense. I read about it (what I could understand, what DO those reports mean?) and decided to have them put some ads on it. I’ve had the blog since June 08 and put the adsense ads on in May 09. Well because of my loyal readership of 1 I had page impressions and a CLICK!!! I MADE MONEY ON THE INTERNET!!! Granted, it’s only $3.24 but I MADE MONEY ON THE INTERNET!!!! I, my friends, am an Affiliate Marketer!! (You can't see me but I'm doing the Snoopy happy dance) When I figure out how and when I get the check, I may never cash it. I may just frame it and look at it and bask in the glory of being an AFFILIATE MARKETER!

If you’d like to look at my money pit and my blog about it, here's the link.

http://www.shabbycottagehome.blogspot.com

Well that’s it for now. I just had to share my excitement with you. I’m now going to go float in my pool and think about how I would spend my big affiliate commission if I were to cash it.

Daisy

The Ongoing Saga of a Newbie in Affiliate Marketing Wonderland or Hocus Pocus, Ya Gotta Focus!

Hello, my name is Linda aka Daisy Profits and I'm a wanna be affiliate marketer. (Now you all say together, Hi Linda/Daisy). Good, although I sound like a wanna be Ricky/Bobby!

Anyway I really want to get into affiliate marketing and thought I would blog about my adventure. I have been reading everything about AM (that's short for affiliate marketing), have downloaded so much crap on my computer's hard drive that I had to buy 2 jumpdrives for the overflow and definitely now know my way around "pdf" reports. Being the packrat that I am I just "feel" I might need this stuff later when I get successful and I just don't want to leave any stone unturned. Of course I now have files on my computer with labels that say; affiliate marketing, a affiliate marketing, aa affiliate marketing, aaa affiliate marketing, Ebooks, Ebookscantsell, articles, reports, really good articles, really good reports, really really good reports, the best articles, what I need to read first, and on and on and on to the point that I don't know whats what. I think the next thing I need to download is a file organizer!

I have been so busy for almost 2 months, up till 4am, downloading all this important and needed "stuff" that I haven't done a thing with getting this affiliate thing started. Have you seen the ads for the new Disney movie, the one with the dog whose thoughts can be read and his owner is talking to him and reading his thoughts and the dog, with tongue hanging out, is listening and out of the corner of his eye he sees something and out of the blue says "SQUIRREL!" and takes off and then goes back to listening to his owner and again "SQUIRREL!" and takes off again. That is me right now and I'm sure the same for some of you. There is SO MUCH information on the net about AM, it's like being a kid in a candy store. You look at one thing for a moment but then out of the corner of your eye you see something bigger and better and you go on to that and then you see something extremely bigger and better and you drop the bigger and better item for the extremely bigger and better item and on and on and on until time has passed and you are still in the same place you were and have done NOTHING! You, my friend, are in Extreme Information Overload which has you so confused that you do nothing. You're like a robot with a chip glitch and all you do is turn in circles going nowhere. Well that's where I was. I couldn't focus! Hocus Pocus, ya gotta Focus! (I read that in an excerpt from the $5 dollar a day book, the hocus pocus, ya gotta focus part). I was always looking for the program that would make everything right, the one I really needed to get started and become successful. The one that would give me my "Ahhh" moment. The one that would lift the veil from my eyes. The one that would make me just "get it".

Well I bought one program (I'm very cheap) that I thought would be very good and it was ok but I didn't get my "Ahhh" moment from it. I know the basic steps for AM, I've read it enough times and have the files on my computer to prove it.

Step 1: Find a Niche
Step 2. Find keywords
Step 3: Build a Website with a squeeze page
Step 4: Bring traffic to your site, organically, ppc etc
Step 5: Build a list - the money's in the list

What they fail to mention are the steps between the steps...

Find a niche....Where and what's a niche?
Find the keywords...how, and with ppc what do you actually pay for the words
Build a website....How????? And what the heck is a squeeze page?
Bring traffic to your site....What is organic traffic..a bunch of vegans and ppc?
Build a list...Why and where's the money in the list...

Sounds so easy until you start to think about doing it and you don't know where to start.

What do I sell? How do I advertise without breaking the bank, what's the deal with keywords, how do I get traffic, whats a squeeze page and where do I get one? What's an opt in box? How do I make it? What's an autoresponder and do I really need one?

So you keep surfing the net and signing up for all the FREE BONUSES and your email is overflowing with the newest program that all the AM gurus tell you you have to have or you won't be successful and they're all on first name basis with you and your new best friend. But you still haven't found that product that makes you "get it", the one that opens your eyes and all you see is it and, finally, you begin to focus and it all comes together.

Well, I found that program. And tomorrow or my next post I will tell you what it is.

Until then.......As all my new best friends say...

To your success!!

Daisy Profits