Time Management is Solid Gold

One of the most important things to practice when it comes to part-time affiliate marketing is time management. When you only have a few minutes (or hours, if you’re lucky) a day to devote to affiliate marketing, it’s important to schedule those minutes wisely.

As I’m sure everyone with half-a-mind and even basic understanding of affiliate marketing knows, it’s never a good idea (let alone profitable) to rush into a campaign. Landing pages often need to be made, keyword lists generated, and niches researched even before a campaign goes live. Then comes the tracking, the optimizing, and bid adjustments (just to name a few). Rush into any of these elements and you’ll undoubtedly end up with a losing campaign.

So, rather than just throwing everything against the wall and hoping something sticks, what I’ve found works best (for us; it may be different for different people) is to do one of these tasks at a time, per day. Design a landing page one evening after work, research keywords on your lunch break the next day, and so on.

In fact, it could be beneficial to make yourself a schedule. Devote the hours of 8-9:30pm every night (for instance) to each element of your campaign. Day one: design a landing page; day two: keyword research and so on for the 6 or 7 days it will take to have everything completed. By the end, you’ll have a fully-ready, full-optimized campaign poised to make you some serious bank with hopefully very little follow-up work needed. Once the campaign goes live, just repeat the process with the next offer, and so on.

While this practice takes longer before a campaign can go live (needless to say), it will save you in the end – both from money lost as a result of rushing (which is especially important when you’re operating on a tight budget like we are) and time wasted, when time is of the essence.