Affiliate Marketing Mistake: Don't Go Down Rabbit Holes!

I've been a member of Wealthy Affiliate since they first taught me how to do affiliate marketing back in 2015. I've managed to make affiliate marketing my full-time job, and I'm still loving it 7+ years later!

As you can imagine, I've made my share of mistakes along the way. Some big ones, some small ones.

One of the biggest mistakes I've made as an affiliate marketer is definitely going down rabbit holes. What do I mean by that? I mean finding out about something new, and not only deciding to stop what I'm doing, but to dive into it completely and spend (waste) dozens of hours on it.

Yes, sometimes the new things I tried worked out and improved my business. But here's what I learned:

#1. MOST of those "exciting new ideas" never panned out and ended up being a waste of time, and

#2. I would've been much better off if I would've just stayed on track, continued doing what WA taught me, continuing to build my website, post by post.

I try not to think about how much further along my business would be right now if I hadn't gone down all those rabbit holes - constantly jumping on board with all the new ideas we're bombarded with on the internet - thinking that new idea must be "better."

It's not better. What's better, and I'm telling you this from 7+ years' experience, is doing exactly what they teach us in our training here at WA. Choose a niche. Create a website. Write at least one valuable, well-written post each week with the SEO techniques they teach us applied to each post. Choose one additional source of traffic (I like Pinterest) and post your content there.

DONE. (Seriously).

I hope this prevents some of you from making the mistake I made. Getting distracted by the "new and shiny" ideas and derailing the already-working-strategy that WA has proven successful for more than a decade now.

Keep going. Stay focused. You're doing it right. :)

Debra