Number 1 Mistake New Affiliates Make.

Maynzie 4 Comments

Yo there, Maynzie here.

Just briefly wanna touch on a point, that when I try and tutor people the game of IM so many get stuck on, hopefully this can clear up some of that.

What I find, including myself when starting out are people are damn scared of losing money, even complaining about $3 losses on a $13 revenue campaign.

You are *NOT* actually losing money, but more, buying yourself an online education, just like with any other profession, you must learn first.

Now, before we move on lets take a look at a few of these numbers.

Now in Melbourne, Australia a civil engineer goes to uni for about 5 years.

Now the cost of the university degree to become qualified will cost about $60,000

Not to mention the cost of your time, involved into going to university as it is basically 4-5 days a week.

And when your out? You earn say $50k-$100k, but working 6 days a week and 10 hour days.

How about those exclusive surgeons and doctors?

Hmmm… 7-15 years of tertiary study at a whopping $100k-$400k? No thankyou.

Now onto IM.

I personally, have spent I believe not even $3000 in the past 15 months on an education, and yet am in a better situation then most professionals in the workforce, working double the hours for ‘the man’.

So the math.

Say 6-12 months of proper work will get you pretty far into the IM world.

You’ll probably end up making quite a large profit, with no loss over that year.

Years to come? $100k-$200k-$500k-$1m?

These other ‘elite’ professions would be dazed!

So now that I have cleared the air you may realise that ‘losing’ money in the beginning, is not losing, its an education and if your not going to do internet marketing, your probably going to do the same, 100 fold times worse doing a university degree!

So what you going to do now?

You will STOP reading blogs and forums all day, you will open your wallet and spend those dollars, buying the brighter future of the affiliate lifestyle.

Get in the Trenches and best of luck!

Peace

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Can’t Decide on Tracking Software?

I’ve recently switched over to a new tracking platform called Thrive by the guys over at iPyxel which I love. It’s still in development, but is constantly improving and making strides, and the best part about it can be self-hosted. The offer a 30-day trial and it’s $99 a month thereafter which is well worth the investment.

Those on a smaller budget can still opt to go the CPVLab route, another favorite of mine but a little more outdated. It is, however, more suitable for PPV traffic if that’s your traffic of choice.

Shrink the size of your PPV Landers for more $$

Andy 5 Comments

Another quick post here, I’ve been very busy in the trenches launching campaigns, managing existing ones, dabbling with co-registration and organizing my world-wide-escapade (I’m headed to Canada via Thailand and Tokyo!).

Here are my tips to reduce the load times of your landing pages:

Reduce HTTP Requests

This is quite simple and does not require much work. Where possible, combine your CSS and JavaScript files and remove any references (especially duplicate references, which I’ve seen plenty of times before on other landers) that are not required.

The less connections a browser has to make, the better the page load performance will be. Every millisecond counts.

Compress CSS/JS/HTML

One thing I’ve used to optimize the final output of landing pages is a simple, old, yet effective tactic called compression. Always make a copy of your final product into another directory before trying this (backup).

My favourite tools are online based.

 

Optimize your images for the web

When exporting images for the web from within photoshop, you can actually save the files optimised for web, as well as increase the lossiness of the image in order to shrink the file-size significantly.

Depending on the image, a 20% decrease in quality is far from noticeable to the eye, yet can make a huge difference in the file-size. Another thing this achieves is excluding unnecessary meta-data that JPEGs can hold.

When saving your images, instead of the typical CTRL+S shortcut (Sorry MAC users, I am not familiar with your hotkeys), get used to using CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+S.

Alternatively you can use File->Save for Web & Devices from the main menu.

Save for Web & Devices
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I hope this helps!

If you’re looking for further Affiliate Marketing Guidance, check out StackThatMoney. Best community of experienced marketers from around the globe, exclusive meetups, follow along’s, tutorials and the knowledge of a thousand sun-gods.

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Can’t Decide on Tracking Software?

I’ve recently switched over to a new tracking platform called Thrive by the guys over at iPyxel which I love. It’s still in development, but is constantly improving and making strides, and the best part about it can be self-hosted. The offer a 30-day trial and it’s $99 a month thereafter which is well worth the investment.

Those on a smaller budget can still opt to go the CPVLab route, another favorite of mine but a little more outdated. It is, however, more suitable for PPV traffic if that’s your traffic of choice.