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I constantly hear people bitch and complain about how they can’t get such and such offer to convert. They’ve tried this and that and no matter what they do, it never works. Come on guys, maybe its just a shitty offer, but more than likely you just aren’t trying hard enough, split testing different methods and traffic sources, or spending enough money. It isn’t hard to do, and like Nickycakes put it, “affiliate marketing is easy“.

The whole process of building a campaign is down to your personal effort and the amount of work you are willing to put in to it to make it profitable. You can spend 3-4 hours a day working on getting 1 campaign a week profitable, or 1 – 2 days working 12+ hours getting an affiliate offer to put more money in your pocket.

In almost most no other career can you depend on your money coming from the amount of effort you put in. Split test tens or hundreds of combinations of traffic sources, landing pages, ad copy, images, and offers to find which one is the most profitable. It takes a lot of time to become an affiliate your managers love, or you can struggle for mediocrity, hoping that one lucky combination of the above will stay profitable more than a few weeks without need to change anything up.

Fact is, I used to do that. For a few months, I rode off my success with Facebook ads. I got lazy, going from making $1000+ a day for a month, then$500 a day for a couple weeks, still content, then to $0 when the offer died and traffic to the ads trickled. I wasn’t interested in split testing new landing pages or other offers. I didn’t even take it to other traffic sources that I knew would work. I enjoyed what I had, what was coming in, but was completely out of the loop when that all stopped. I literally had to relearn the whole system because I wasn’t keeping up with the latest tactics. People I knew, that were struggling when I was doing xxxx dollars a day, were now doing 5+ figures a day in pure profit.

Constant work, keeping yourself up to date on new traffic sources and lead/sales generation strategies, and a positive outlook are the most important things you’ll need to be and stay successful in the industry. The guy making $30 a day working his ass off and doing constant research will most likely be the guy banking off your one-hit success campaign someday. Unless you’ve got the work ethic to stay ahead, you’ll only get knocked down.