Affiliate Musketeer

There are two things in life you can’t change 1) The speed at which time passes you by and 2) how the events in the world around you shape your passage through it. In the next 6 months, 2 major things are going to happen for me that will change my life forever. One, you already know about, and the second is that there is a growing possibility that my full time job will become redundant.

Do you find the chaos more exciting or frightening?

I can think of a couple of other times in my life where events that happen around me force me to make decisions that have ultimately turned out for the better. Sometimes being forced into situations makes you man up a bit and do something about the things that haven’t been right for you in the past.

So for me, 2011 is going to be a huge year in terms of the direction my life is going to take with the culmination, or, rather dramatically, my event horizon, being the birth of my first child and the potential loss of my job at around the same time.

With the way things are going (destabilisation of world currencies and governments, trade relationships, soaring commodity prices that will affect every last one of us and the underlying threat of a major market crash) the last thing I’d recomend anyone do this year is have a baby – but the strange (possibly neurotic) thing about all of this is that I’m actually immensely excited by it all.

Energiser Bunny’s Got Nothing On Me

Already the threat of these events has made me reinvigorate my affiliate marketing efforts. I’ve already started to line up potential web design clients, I’ve put more time into promoting some existing clients and am really focussing on getting my head down and doing stuff again.

We all know we need to write good content and build links to get our sites ranking properly and this is exactly what I’ve been doing this week. Here’s how:

• I’ve written two top quality, well researched, highly informative 600 word articles and spun them both into infinite, equally as good possibilities.
• I’ve started my own little related link network which consists of about 20 free blogs. The plan is to cross link these over time.
• I’ve searched high and low for some good quality places to buy links, post links and come to some link exchange agreements with a few webmasters.
• I’ve tried to come up with a system that allows me to automate as much of this process as possible and so far I can auto search for related websites to partner with, I can auto post good quality links to websites using Sick Submitter and I can auto post top quality content to thousands of websites using Article Marketing Robot.

The plan is to do this for a potential client, show them the results, then negotiate a longer term contract with bonuses attached for #1, #2, #3 rankings etc.

At the same time, I am pushing forward with my plan to populate ALL of my existing domains and turn them all into sites that are set up for affiliate income. The next one on the list, as you all know, is the LEDTVOFFERS domain.

Finally Listened to Some Advice

I’ve also finally decided to really listen to the advice of so many of you here about my dedicated server. I currently have a dedicated server that costs me £150 a month. I have now opened a new hosting account with a UK-based hosting provider, TSOHost, for just £27 a month (for up to 100 sites). I am in the process now of migrating all the sites over and once complete, this will be a massive saving of £120 a month.

Why did it take me so long to start thinking about working smarter, not harder? I honestly don’t know other than that I always thought it’d be too much hassle, but, like they have in the past, events around me have forced me to take action.

Thank goodness for chaos and the need to survive…

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