The $50K Challenge

I don't know if there's anyone reading this blog. Seems like it's getting a few clicks from time to time; probably from people wanting to starting out affiliate marketing...

I was browsing through my old stuff today and just found a screenshot of my first ever sale on clickbank. That was back in 2008 (28th of August to be exact) after only 8 hops. I still remember that day how excited I was! My first earning on clickbank was $26.30 and I was selling the magic of making up ebook. I am no longer making any sales from that campaign... obviously because I ain't doing anything about it! I was SO motivated at that time. Why not now! Where's the motivation gone? Why can't I keep at it. If you've been through some of my previous posts you will see that I haven't made much sale in 2011. Slacking, lazy? How would you call that? I know deep inside that I really want to make money online whether it be with clickbank or other affiliate networks. I just can't seem to get the motivation back!! If you have any tips feel free to share :)

The February 2012 Challenge!

So, let's come to the title of the post (yeah I know I've been ranting a lot already). It's a challenge with my sister, I introduced her to affiliate stuff too and she's also been making a few sales just like me. She has not been working much on affiliate stuff in 2011 either so we want to catch up a little bit this year. The challenge goes like this:

Making at least $100 for the end of February. That's 38 days from now, seems like a whole lot of time to make so little but when you've been slacking for so long it does sound short. I've set a little work plan to achieve this 'short term goal' that I will share here.

Back in time I valued my article at $8, I've decided I'll value it at $5 for now since I am starting all over again. So to make $100 I'll have to write 20 articles which seems pretty easy for 38 days, that's less than 1 article/day.

Let's get this thing rolling!!!

And to everyone's who're just joining this affiliate marketing world, just don't quit your job until you start making a steady income. I actually lost my job, started a company, put affiliate marketing aside etc etc; it was all such a mess... I am catching up where I left :)

2011 has been a "weird" year. I know it's not over yet but it's passed so fast that I can't think of all the things I've been doing. Maybe I've been trying to do too many things at a time, it's proven that human can't multitask... I need to slow down, set more realistic goals.

I need to find some place to hide because of all the shame, not sure I can handle all that. Wow 51 days already and I haven't made a cent... yet :/ Of course I won't, I haven't really done anything yet. Money won't just come to me out of the blue (unless I won the lottery haha but I don't believe in chance sorry)

So what I want to do now is do a daily snapshop of my clickbank account and see if I can enjoy seeing all the zeros everyday. Here's the first one, for today...


Anyway just on a side note, with the current google panda update many article websites have been affected. Lots of affiliates will see a decrease in their income mostly those who depend mostly on article marketing.

I have been revamping one of my old landing page, and rather than having it just one page, I have created a blog with it instead. This way I can have all of my content on my website itself thus building up long term traffic. I hope I'll see some sales soon.

And yeah, I posted something on my twitter recently, thought I'd share it here too

"Goal setting and discipline, those are the two things I badly need to improve upon"

I already started to try improving myself on both. Concerning the goal setting part I know I set goals that are too unrealistic at times that's why they are "unreachable"... And discipline grrr, I always think to myself that I am such a mess but when my ex employers tell me how disciplined and methodic I am in my work I just can't believe them. I was listening to some Brian Tracy audio recording the other day, he said something like "it's always those who are the most disciplined who think they are not". I was thinking to myself how untrue is that! But I think with all his years of experience he must be right, I am probably disciplined in my own way. I always want to improve myself, I guess that's a good thing.

I'll stop here I guess, enough ranting for today. Back to earning my money. :)

Omg! Already Day 26... I am not trying to make up any excuses but wow am like :O right now.

Hmm the first day's always so exciting. It was the same as the last time I've set a goal for affiliate stuff... Seems like I can never take it seriously! :(