Lately I have been putting in 16 hour days, literally. I pretty much live and breathe Affiliate Marketing, with the exception of friday/saturday nights. Other than that I am usually on the computer working on something.
It is really starting to catch up to me and my profits, so last night I took some time off, played some Grand Theft Auto and went to bed early. I’m still pretty tired today but I plan on taking it easy again tonight so I can let my campaigns do their thing. My problem is I analyze my stats so often every day that if I see something even remotely off I sometimes will make changes to my landing page or even my bids. I am a very impatient person and I like fast results, but that’s not always how it works. I remembered back during Christmas when I didn’t do anything for about 4 days my profits got better and better because I wasn’t touching anything and I let it run it’s course.
Obviously you need to constantly tweak things but I wouldn’t advise doing many of them per day, it most likely won’t work out too well. Let things run their course and if it’s going down hill on it’s own, THEN make a change.
You will be a lot more productive if you don’t overwork yourself, so do yourself a favour and get off the computer from time to time. It’s hard as hell for me since who doesn’t love watching money pour in?
Now go refresh them stats, kidding, kidding.
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hmm wish I could do that – I have ADD and I just do things and do mroe things – but your right always touching and alterin campaing can mess things up – u know what they say if its not broken dont fix it
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I know what you mean about long days! I have been doing a fair few of them this year already. However I did have last weekend off through to monday so I’m all refreshed to get back into it.
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lol throw in a little bit of stats OCD for your campaigns; doing a law degree and working…dyas can be VERY long indeed…it’s very useful having that one day to just sleep it all off and do other things.
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as ruck would say, “bryn is a machine”
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This is great advice for any type of marketer! i too have been trying to cut back. I rarely work more then 10-12hrs per day now. 😉
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I’m reading this with bloodshot eyes after getting about 12 hours sleep this WEEK… hmmmmm. Did you ever wake up slumped over your keyboard and think, ok, just one more hour?
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Bryn Youngblut Reply:
January 29th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Nah when I get to that point I usually go to bed.
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Hey,
Did you enable the Sale or Lead Generated Alert? lol
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Bryn Youngblut Reply:
January 29th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Sale or Lead generated alert? Man if I enabled such a thing my phone would die in an hour.
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Don’t burn yourself out. Working 16 ours a day you’re over working your body and brain. I’m sure you feel the exhaustion at the end of the day.
Things usually go bad when you keep modifying your campaigns every 30 mins. You and I know that you can make the same money working 1 to 3 hours a day that you make working 12 hours. Affiliate marketers need to get into the habit of using their time wisely.
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Actually I made a guest about this topic few days ago at neils blog @ http://neilsweb.com
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I agree sometimes I’ve found that I actually hurt my ranking in SEO because I mess with my pages before they have a chance to rank! If I just let them do their thing they rank very well.
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LOL why do I suspect that I’m gonna end up like that guy in your picture?
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