your fundamental thought process is flawed.
as an affiliate, you buy traffic at X and get it to convert to Y. make the spread.
affiliates make a commission on other peoples product.
instead create one.
before you do, go back, re read all of vigilantes stuff, Patrick stuff, and MJs stuff.
now if you are selling someone else's stuff, you are limited by what they set as a price (no locus of control there)
if you create your own product you can let the market set the price, by creating, or adding value.
you are also used to selling 1 product, where as as a product creator, we know that the money comes on the back end. our front end products pays for our customer acquisition.
to give you an example. customer acquisition costs $60. we lose roughly $40 bucks to acquire a customer, but up sells and other value adds increase this to an AVERAGE of $116 per customer acquired. once we taped our our merchant accounts for volume, we turn to back end monitization, so we utilize the emails and phone numbers we have acquired, and begin monetizing there with a call center. now we can see as much as $187 over a couple months from each customer.
Emailing affiliate products that are in line with what our customer wants, and is tied into the customer demographic can raise our income to over $200-250 Per customer over a 6 month period, and over $300 over a 12 month period.
your assumptions come from the affiliate model, where you have no long term value generated from your actions today. its a very shallow pool you have to play in, and as a consequence it breaks alot. campaigns, fail, or cant scale.
you also have 2 major things in your way that will keep you shackled to poverty, or just "enough" money. never true freedom, or success.
1. you have to be willing to fail. fail alot, fail often, fail hard. AND THEN KEEP WORKING ON IT. failure is part of a process. the process is more important than the results.
the successful results comes from the process and all the failures.
Go back to the book, look at the
CENTS model. test your ideas against that model, not the forum. in a relatively short period of time you managed to piss off alot of really good people here WHO ARE ALREADY SUCCESSFUL. doing that says you have a talent for polarizing answers. great. see if that could be put to some use someplace else, such as your business.
2. your head space is cluttered with all the most limiting thoughts. instead of HOW CAN I DO THAT, you instead default to the lowest common denominator of the slow lane, YOU CANT DO THAT.
I ahve a friend who drove over 60M hits (yes 60 million) last year alone with SEO. how he does that, god only knows, but then again i dont do SEO. any argument around SEO not working he would laugh at. he doesnt like Paid traffic since he mastered SEO. the thing is he didnt start with
you cant do that, he started with
HOW can I do that. the rest grew out of the process.
get out of your own way, stay out of your heads limiting space, listen to some of these people, and go try to break any rule that you think exists, and im sure you will learn so much doing that one process, you will be able to come back here to answer all these questions yourself.
bottom line. be a creator not a consumer,
create your own products
create a funnel that deepens your value per customer
and you will find that you can afford even expensive customer acquisition costs for your product.
then print money.
hope that helps
Z
