The most limiting factor for all of us in whatever we do is time. So its important to maximize your time as much as possible. If you talk to successful people, one common trait is being able to prioritize projects effectively. To work first on the things that have the most potential for a good return. But just as important as that trait- is building residual value.
Basically, this just means using your limited time to build lasting value projects. When I first started with PPC and affiliate marketing, I was happy to try any offer or niche to make a quick profit. This worked well in some cases, and really badly in others. But it wasn’t until I made a conscious effort to only try things that would have lasting value that business really took off. Now days I won’t even attempt to test a niche unless I am sure there will be some long term value, even if the niche fails. This means more work building quality content packed landing destination sites. But that work is time well spent whether you do it yourself or hire someone to build it. When an offer ends or a niche drys up, you are left with a site that is SEO’d properly to bring in free visitors and even worth money on the resale market. Or an email list of customers that can be used periodically in the future for related offers, rather than just sending PPC visitors to a landing page for a “one and done” visit.
The bonus is of this philosophy is that you never have to worry about Google slaps, bad quality scores, and high bid prices. Google loves real sites with lots of content even if some of the landing pages eventually go to an affiliate offer. So next time you get an email about that hot rebill offer that you know won’t be around in 2 months, think about using your time to build something that will be around and have lasting value.
I totally agree. Ive just recently started switching from high one time payouts to reoccurring revenue sharing options.
This way if for whatever reason my traffic stops flowing, I still get the reoccurring sales.
Please give me 5 example products/niches which have potential to generate nearly as much revenue as rebill offers. Just curious.
Do you also want him to give you keywords, ads, and landing pages for all those niches?
Everybody always gives me the whole “F*** SEO” Speech on certain PPC forums when I try explaining that SEO’d sites have so many advantages. It’s a shame… I guess
Great post!
Yea, I wish all the copy cat-ers of the internet world would just rid us of their redundance so we could finally have nothing but quality content..
You bring up a good point about wasting time with smaller projects, and ones that are uncertain, and won’t necessarily bring in higher earnings, I think it’s something I personally need to work in order to better my standing. I think I am trying to do too many things at once, which really is losing my overall value of the day.
Till then,
Jean
I know I’m trying to do many too many things at once. I think I need to focus more on products that are selling more than others I’ve been trying to promote that aren’t selling as quickly.