Affiliate Marketing Needs Your Patience

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After a fast-paced week, and a mini-break at the weekend, I thought I'd buckle down to some traffic building work, etc.

The idea was to sign up with some more merchants at ShareASale, reset a password for a certain site, schedule Pinterest posts and activate some Thrive plugins for quizz marketing.

I was all raring to start when one by one I hit a roadblock.

1. Sorry, you haven't purchased any plugins (Thrive). I have - all of them...

2. Amazon - your associate ids have been closed except for one which has been accepted for approval. You can now start making sales (At last!)

3. If you experience problems logging in to Forever Living - clear your browser.. (email sent stating after doing that - still can't log in)

So as you can see - the only thing I've managed to do so far is reinstate my Tailwind account to schedule Pins. Which I've been doing

In Pinterest my traffic has tanked lately. But the good thing is, that when I had a running Tailwind account open before - I scheduled pins for 5 months in advance. I had a year's worth of steady traffic as a result. However, things have slowed down, hence the need to schedule another 3 months worth of repins and pins.

So What Am I Saying Here?

Affiliate marketing is a system that demands your everlasting patience. It can be very easy to hit one roadblock after another and call it a day. Then keep putting things off until you are months behind...

In the beginning we are all finding our feet. But as we have a bit more than a year of producing under our belt, we can push ourselves and challenge one another to work smarter - not harder.

I've also noticed that it is very easy to concentrate on one pet aspect of affiliate marketing for example - social media posting, video editing or content post tweaking.

That could end up being a huge time-waster.

Kyle said that planning is very important and I agree. Priotise, prioritse and again prioritise

With a plan and a purpose of what you are trying to achieve with affiliate marketing, you can forge ahead and make great gains traffic-wise and content productivity-wise.

The main thing is to be consistent and reach out for help when the going gets tough and things aren't going the way you would like.

So Hang on in there - We are in for a good ride!

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It certainly does, indeed!

Jeff

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That is very true. Affiliate marketing needs focus of attention and a lot of patience. I totally agree with you.

Thank you - I hope you are much better now.

It IS a ride for sure. Exciting and stimulating but needing attention too. I know when I hit roadblocks, it's frustrating. Sometimes I have to walk away and regroup. It's all good in the end.

~Debbi

Definitely - it is all good in the end.

Thanks for sharing your experiences, Stella! I've had days like that too, with both encouraging signs and some roadblocks. You make a great point that patience helps smooth the path to success!

Thank you Wendy - at least I'm not the only one. The only thing thing is that it feels like that when things go awry.

Fortunately we have excellent support here at WA!

Thanks Stella. Patience is hard at the best of times, but when you aren't sure about what your doing, makes it even harder.

True - when not sure - take a breather - write a list of all the things you're not sure about. Then try to write them down in order of importance to you...

From the one you are most sure about to the least...

Thanks Stella for your help. Most people ignore comments, so it's nice to receive it.

I'm not as busy as I could be - that's why!

When the traffic starts rolling in and there are more leads generated through optins, then I'll have my hands full.

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