How To Become A Super Affiliate
My dear friends, I want to tell a little how it works for me learning how to become a super affiliate here in the super affiliate challenge.
Like all of you, I have started this challenge at the beginning of this year. I did some work in advance due to hoping to be accepted to the group.
The tasks Kyle is asking us to do are really a challenge. I don't want to say I work all the time but I haven't worked this much on my website ever.
First, we need to write 12 posts every month. That would be ok if there weren't all these other tasks to do.
This I think is my second WA blog so far, I should have written 6 already but I did focus on my website first.
A blog, that again means to research a keyword, add pics and try to write at least 1000 words. I take these things all quite serious and don't want to waste time. (not today, I'm tired)
He told us to find 30 keywords on the same day and have them prepared for future posts. I must say I have a problem with that.
I can't find enough ideas for different post topics in a short time like this. I have also found out, that some of the keyword titles I've chosen are not worth a post in the end.
Today I was already out of keywords and researched only one for the next post I want to write. This came quite fast and I think it is a good keyword.
My mind is not capable to find so many unrelated topics in a short time. Maybe if I start writing post ideas down on paper when I have an idea and later search for related keywords it might work.
This month I try to reach the 12 posts and am not bad in time. My 8'th post is in production. I must also say, that my posts are mostly longer than 1000 words. I now have already 15400 words in 7.5 posts.
The next thing I think is a big challenge is the giving comments to five posts every day. I can't do this, it would take me more than an hour to do every day.
I love giving comments and all my posts have at least 10 comments all together but every day five, impossible.
My day has 12 hours max and I have to do so many things here.
My activity in the community like helping takes at least an hour and still are my rankings going down lately.
My doing social network, Google plus sharing and Facebook, Pinterest follows take another hour every day. Now if I have to give comments and reply to the comments I get it is about two hours on a specific day.
I don't know where I lose time. A perfect post from start to publish is normally not finished in one day. This probably comes from having less experience and having to research more than Kyle.
I am still ready for it and the good news of today is that I had my first sale. Hurray.
Kyle sent me a message and now I am told if one sale is possible 1000 are lol. Ok, I am very motivated and want to do my best. Thanks, Kyle.
What else, I should be in chat for half an hour per day, no way. Maybe because of the time difference here to the US, when I open the chat there is not a lot going on.
I am not a chat person either, I hate small talk and won't waste my time saying hello and good night to everyone. Sorry.
Ok, that's it, I hope things get easier with time and traffic rises exponentially lol.
I hope you all have a great day, see you, Stefan.
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Congrats on the sale! many more to come!
Thank you for venting, that's what it's all about.
This is an intense Training. I do agree, it is not easy to keep
up with the flow of things. Something will get left out!
Just do your best, and that you can't get done has to wait.
don't stress it, because you are not alone, we're all in this
together. We must continue to help one another.
You seen to be doing just fine.
Blessings!
Louisa B
Hi and thanks for your interest.
Stress is bad and I'm not gonna stress myself:)
Everything runs smoothly today, we'll see how things go tomorrow
Have a great time, see you, Stefan
Great post. It shows the difficulty of adhering to the super affiliate program. I am having trouble writing posts also. I want posts that will be interesting for the readers. I do not want to write for writing. I need to read a lot on each subject I have selected with keywords. I am doing as much as I can. I am learning a lot though and I am focusing on serving the people part of my niche market. Do what you can Stefan. You are already having success. That is the most important aspect. Cheers, Nicole
Hi Nico, thanks for the good words.
Since I wrote this blog things have bettered a lot.
It somehow helped to write that although I was tired and exhausted.
Today I published another post already and as you see, I am in the top 50 YEAH.
I guess we just have to do as we can.
I read here some people have real problems, much harder than me.
All the best, Stefan
I completely understand what you are saying. Since I've been in Bo's group I have had little time to try and be sociable. I was ranked about 200 here and now have fallen to over 2500. Learning social media, going through the classes, writing blog posts etc all takes time. I try to comment on other's blogs and things but some are writing machines and I cannot keep up with all the commenting and and get things done for my own blog and campaigns. Have not made a sale yet so putting in so many hours a day and not seeing any fruit is difficult. I have an eBay business that has really slowed down the last month so HAVE to take time to work on that as well.
I try to get to other peoples blogs to comment but there are only so many available hours so I've resigned myself to just do what I can and not stress. I had enough stress when I was working, now that I am retired I prefer things less stressful so just not gonna do it. I'll get done what I can and it will all work out I'm sure.
Great post Stefan and I'm sure it expresses the thoughts of many of us.
Hi Craig, we all do as good as we can.
It is not meant to be stress you are right.
But I guess if we want to get millionaires we have to give some extra power lol.
All the best, Stefan
Well said, Craig. To those people (other than WA, of course) who think affiliate marketing is so easy, I say walk a mile in our shoes and stop lying to people by making them think this is a "push-button" business! It's far from it, and if it is so easy, then why aren't there more Internet millionaires out there? I haven't seen that many, have you?
Hard to sell something if you say they have to work their a.. off for years before seeing the first dollar :)
That's true, Stefan, but isn't it worse when they get into the business only to find out all the information they read that convinced them to join is a lie?
Working your a.. off is all part of growing a successful business. That I can say from experience. I owned an electronics repair business for 26 years while working at another job full time. Talk about working my a.. off with no promise of success!
I've always been a straight shooter when it comes to what it takes to build a thriving business. I've made the mistakes, made some great money and lost some, too. It's all part of it.
That's part of the reason I'm sticking with WA. Kyle and Carson know what it takes, too. They're not pie-in-the-sky time-wasters. They're both ambitious and honest as far as I can tell. I have no problem promoting WA while at the same time, staying honest about how I describe the business. Hopefully, my words will resonate with a LOT of people and I get this business rolling!
Best of luck to you, Stefan. See you on top soon!
Hi Tom, of course, you're right.
my quote there was ironic.
In all my posts about making money, I stress that it is exactly like in every other business, who works hard has a chance who doesn't waste his time.
Luckily I like my work here and don't feel upset about having to do a lot.
Vegas Vegas Vegas, we can do it, see you
I know of only one here on WA, besides carson and kyle, and he had to work his butt off a few years to get there. and you know carson and kyle have worked their butts off too
we do all we can do and go from there. the more we can do I suppose the faster we'll get there hehe
I write it in many posts on my websites.
Every millionaire will tell you, "If you want more you have to be willing to give more".
10 - 14 hours or more a day is nothing special for them.
I think I'm too old for that lol
I understand what you mean. Especially regarding the comments. We're supposed to go to the SiteRubix Comments area to give and get comments, but in order to give a relevant comment it helps to actually read the post. That takes a lot of time.
And after you've given out comments you don't always get comments back. I think it was faster to go thru the Super Affiliates post to get comments, but what do I know.
It's all very time consuming. Even trying to dedicate 6 to 7 hours a day I can't meet the challenge, plus everyday life interferes constantly. But, I haven't given up yet.
Oh, I almost forgot to congratulate you on your sale! Congrats!
I also got a notification that someone "accepted my invitation" and signed up for the free account. They didn't add a picture and haven't responded to any of my messages, but I guess it's a start. They probably were just curious what WA is about, and that's where we all started. Not quite an actual sale though.
Hi, that's a good start. My referral never replied to my messages as well. She signed up after about a month :) so no reason for worry.
When I first started I didn't respond to messages as well due to not knowing who wrote to me.
Hi Stefan, I’v Just started this year also and I have no clue in what lies ahead of me. You should be making me scared but my drive tells me that no matter how long this will take, I’ll reach my goal at the end. Keep pushing buddy.
Hi Frederick, no need to be scared.
You are fresh here and follow the training.
If you do that, you'll see success after a while for sure.
All the best to you too, Stefan
Great post I know what you mean. Things get hectic right now my husband is back in school so I help him with homework. I figured how to do this do homework in the daytime and I work at night. There is a lot of things I still don't know how to do. So I am working on that. Congrats on the sale.
Mary
We are here to do Our best which means some are great at writing post, some at live chat, some at this task but I don't think there is anyone who is great at everything Kyle is asking. I know I'm not. Live chat just isn't for me, I type slow. By the time I get the answer typed out they are two questions on so I really can't help there. I get more frustrated than help. Now with email platform I'm great. I love it. But that is me, others may not. So don't worry.
Tried and true
Elaine
Hi Elaine, you are totally right.
Nobody is perfect. If one is great at something he has to work harder at other things, that's life :)
All the best to you too, see you, Stefan
Super post, I somehow feel the same way as you.
But I guess what matter with SWAG is not doing all the tasks in the time Kyle gave us. It's a good way for us to learn to manage our time in the near future.
For the moment we only know what we need to do, but everybody life is different, so we have to make our own schedule depending on our everyday life.
I like the way Kyle teaches us to write contents, it really works well for me, but for a lot of peoples, it can be different. My approach to this program and finding subjects is pretty simple, I just write about what I need to learn as a beginner. When I start to write contents, some other ideas pop up when I do my researches or when I'm writing.
I don't think next month focus will be on writing contents anymore, we will have 22 posts, to be sincere I wrote good posts, but it has many problems I think, far from perfect, but the ideas are here. When I finished writing them, I will get back to them, make all the corrections one by one and adding images, make my website more beautiful.
I guess next month tasks will be more about that, make our posts more attractive and interesting to read with proper SEO and probably start doing some email marketing.
One question aside from your post, are you in Cambodia?
Good Luck to everybody.
Hi Calvin, thanks for this great comment.
No, I am in Thailand. And you?
I think Kyle will keep wanting us writing a lot of content so I try to publish finished articles only.
To find the time to fix them or better them is something I have to steal from other tasks.
I should add some internal links to newer posts to the older ones.
For the posts themselves, I have found a style that I want to keep for the moment.
It takes time to also create two pics with Canva for every post :)
All the best to you, see you, Stefan
Hey Stefan,
I appreciate your honesty and candidness. I think you're doing good, and like all of us, we're still finding our way around this awesome business.
If you keep up the work you're doing, there's no doubt your business will take off and you'll be able to sustain your success. I see you building your foundation regardless if you're not chatting or commenting as much as others do.
Keep up the good work. Things will only get better!
Tom
Hi Tom, thanks for the motivating words.
I hope you're doing well too and wish you all the best.
See you, Stefan :)
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This is such an inspiring post Stefan!
Despite not being able to complete all the tasks, it goes to show that you are heading in the right direction and doing what works for you.
This resonates with my post: Re Purpose and Modify Our Template - Is it OK to do? So congratulations on your 1st sale! One of many!
All the best!
Jackie, you're great too.
I read your post, very inspiring. I think I used an idea of it in my today's article on my website :)
"Adjusting goals"
All the best, see you, Stefan