Day 7: Incubator – Affiliate Marketing Game Plan

I got schooled by a 15-year old and came out humbled but inspired.

Like a blind date from online dating services of yesteryear, you dread if the picture you were shown is really her latest picture and not some denture-chewing old crone – I exaggerate. But when David Wilkinson’s picture was shown at the start of the video, my first thought was that it was an old high school picture. Then I heard the voice that came through and knew, I’m listening to someone special. I called my wife, had her drop whatever she was doing and restarted the video so she too can hear a 15-year old who makes 5 digits each month. Here I am with a 90-day goal of getting an extra $800 each month when there is this 15-year old young man who makes 5 digits each month! It is very humbling. And I am inspired to get more out of this endeavor.

But this is an honest review. So I have to be objective and evaluate today’s StomperNet Incubator lesson as if it were really done by a denture-chewing old crone.

First off, I liked it when he itemized what we should have accomplished already as students going into Day 7. It made me self-evaluate the results of a week’s amount of free time channeled into StomperNet work.

One thing though, the pace at which he talked was fast. The length of the Video Lesson was around 12 minutes. Seems short but if he talked at a slower pace (normal for me), I estimate the video lesson would really be around 18-20 minutes. But talking fast is not a big deal for me. I can manually stagger the video by pressing pause and play or even repeat the parts that went past me so quickly. The problem of listening to someone who talks so fast is a nice problem to have versus the problem of not learning anything because the lesson is empty.

David went deeper into the topic of Affiliate Marketing. First he gave the advantages of referring someone else’s products or Affiliate Marketing versus Marketing your own products. Then he went deeper by naming the three main ways that one can do Affiliate Marketing. Then the lesson went even deeper. It:

1. Describes where best to use each Affiliate Marketing Model
2. Identifies which one takes the longest to get a return and which needs some patience
3. Names which model best works for an established niche and which works for a weaker niche
4. Tells you how best to start work on each one
5. Gives tips like Do’s and Don’t-ever-ever’s

I would like to end this Diary or Review by mentioning that the faculty used the oft-used KISS word (Keep it Simple). In this case, my being jaded to this oh ‘little-used’ phrase went out the window. Let me be clear. Nothing drives home KISS better than a kid who makes 5 digits a month.

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