Affiliate Musketeer

It’s been a few weeks since I last posted on here. For people who’ve read this blog before, you’ll know it’s because I got married a few weeks ago and then jetted off to a desert island to celebrate with my wonderful new wife. I had originally planned to use the holiday as an exercise in how to live in an affiliate marketeer’s paradise – whereby I would do all the cool things during the day and then work for a few hours each night… As it happens, I did absolutely no computer-related things for 3 whole weeks. I have to say it felt both liberating and relaxing to be completely disconnected from the world – it made the experience on paradise even more special.

Apparently though….all good things must come to an end and for me, this happened as I felt the landing gear touch the tarmac at Manchester Airport and disembarked. The refreshing drizzle that bathed me as I descended the steps to the ground served as a stark reminder that rat-race living is absolute and utter bollocks and I am completely ready to move on.

After feeling depressed the whole way home and reminiscing with my wife about how greedy and parasitic modern-day society is – I resolved to get stuck into my affiliate marketing business which will be my ticket out of here to a simpler, more fulfilling life away from it all.

As you can imagine, it didn’t take me long after I got home to turn on the laptop and skim through some stats. Talk about being shown the light….I totted up my earnings for May and was overjoyed to see it had been my best month to date. I’ll break down the earnings in a seperate post (because you’ll be amazed – or maybe you won’t – at the amount of traffic I get from people searching for ‘affiliate earnings *insert month here*’) but in a nutshell, whilst I’d been away kite-surfing, kayaking, sandboarding, sunbathing and scuba-diving…my affiliate sites (one in particular) had earned more in a single month than they ever had before…

Now when you get a lightbulb, hallelujah moment like that, it really opens your eyes and gives you a buzz about everything you’re doing and where you want to take this whole affiliate marketing thing and that’s exactly what happened to me. As a result, I’m now putting together a strategic business plan to support the growth of the business and may well use that to raise outside investment to support a couple of years of operation. With a small team of employees – maybe even outsource partners – working full time for 2 years on affiliate websites, I’m confident we could build a successful small business out of this and will be putting most of my spare time into that over the next few months.

I’m pretty sure I won’t need to remind any of you why I want to do this except that I really, really want to get out of this 9-5 bollocks and live a more fulfilling lifestyle with my new family…

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