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Internet Affiliate Marketing Strategy: Is ‘Autopilot’ Working Without Working?

By Lowell on May 25, 2015 in Blog

‘Autopilot’ is short for ‘automatic pilot’. This word has been adopted in Internet marketing strategies to describe “business in a box” models. Let’s understand what autopilot is and isn’t. Look at the associations to some keywords from the first paragraph of the Wikipedia description of ‘autopilot’ that are relevant to Internet affiliate marketing:

“An autopilot is a system used to control the trajectory of a vehicle without constant ‘hands-on’ control by a human operator being required. Autopilots do not replace a human operator, but assist them in controlling the vehicle, allowing them to focus on broader aspects of operation, such as monitoring the trajectory, weather and systems” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopilot

The secret here is that you must learn how to use your system and have all your ducks in a row if you are going to run your business on ‘autopilot’! It’s really not pie in the sky! If you can just pull it off.

Right off the bat as an affiliate marketer you have tremendous automatic pilots. To list these assets just off the top, the affiliate program first gives you a web page to promote on the Internet. That is a ‘storefront’ that is open 24/7/365. At any time you could make a sale and you could be sound asleep, at the beach or a ballgame at the same time. Your store is open and ready to do business should the opportunity arise (you get visitors, aka traffic, hits, etc) …

The affiliate program also processes the orders that you generate; and provides customer services and tech support for you and your customers (your ‘downline’). So these things truly are on autopilot. … AND it is actually Automatic.
However you initiated that transaction by joining the program and that is the trigger that sets it all ON. But as it says in our description, “…Autopilots do not replace a human operator”.

YOU are YOUR business! The best asset you have! So you have to be seriously engaged in your business at least in so far as continuous learning, understanding, monitoring, and managing every component of your business. (It’s ok to think about the day you can pay somebody to handle the day-to-day operations and send you a report)!

Of course your main concern is promoting your business through marketing and advertising online. The techniques you may use are systems that can be ‘autopilot’. Again here you need to be involved in doing research; and setting your tools up correctly so that you can depend on them functioning without your constant attention to detail.

Working smarter surely would include using autopilot platforms to run a business! Being logical you would just know that you need to be ‘taking care of business’ whether or not you have automated. If you have an organized plan with target goals, probably the most work you will ever do is only at the beginning as you build each new facet.

How to Get What You Need to Succeed in Your Home Business

By Lowell on May 24, 2015 in Blog

We do have experience. Just because the Internet or marketing business may be new to us, does not mean total novice “newbie” personally or professionally. It doesn’t mean that we do not have the ability to learn what to do to make it work if there does happen to be areas that we may be ‘challenged’ in.

Today, we are the sum total of all that we have experienced or learned so far in our lives. We should consider every situation or transaction to be ‘stepping-stones’ – significant pages in our little black book of experience. All experiences can be conducive to your eventual success if we keep an open mind and see things rightly.

We should be aware of the resources that we do have. We should know what assets we have and where they are in our head, so that we can get to them in any situation. If we just take time to think we could figure out what to do. ‘Thinking on your feet’ being an art that comes with experience to the degree that you gain confidence from your accomplishments.

We should never accept feeling that we can’t do something because we don’t measure up in this department or that department!? If we truly want to do something we will learn how – we will search until we find the way. We will try different things and some things work and some don’t at any given time. The things that don’t work are in every way as much of a lesson than learning to do something right.

It’s all character building in how we handle the twists and turns. If we land on our feet it will usually be because we were really engaged in our business and taking it seriously. When a big wave came we rode it out and we had contingency plans. In fact ‘when the world gave us lemons, we made lemonade’.

On the other hand, obstacles may have presented themselves and at the time we were not able to overcome them. If we have made a mistake, it’s ok, because a ‘mistake is not a failure’ necessarily. We can just pick up the pieces and keep them all together; so that we can refer to them in the future should an opportunity arise where we believe and/or know it is a better time to start a home business than it may have been on the last attempt.

Ever ‘Onward and Upward!’

Earning Online Business Income Really Can Be Done

By Lowell on May 23, 2015 in Blog

It really is possible that something can happen if you see that it has been done before by others. It’s possible that if they can, so can you. It is no longer a ‘pipe dream’ or some far out imagination of what it would be like to be in charge of your own business.

However the real question is will you stick with it long enough to make it happen? That answer lies with whether or not you either possess or would be willing to cultivate the mindset and skills to pull it off. If so, then you can do it. To what degree is up to a lot of factors not least of which is your willingness to learn and to take action with what you learn.

People have in the past and do now really earn money from home. It’s a fact. So face it. There’s no excuse to give up without trying, or exclude the idea entirely because you believe it is not a reality. It is really not the case that ALL work from home ideas are bogus or that everybody doing business on the Internet is lying. In fact billions of dollars are being made by folks from home.

The fact is people have done it, and are still doing it. They are trying to tell you, that you could TOO! Many of them would be willing to show you how they did it. Of course they are still in business even after they have ‘made it’ so far. Even if they ‘rest on their laurels’ too long, they will lose momentum. . Business is one of those things – it is always going on. Like they say, ‘money makes the world go round’. For better or worse, that is the way it really is.

It is no crime for them to charge money for their services just like any business. Because you want to show others how to succeed does not mean you are a non-profit religious organization. Because someone is generous does not require them to be a charity. Being giving is a definite asset even for a business. It’s a strategy and no better or worse than any other business or advertising tactic.

It is not true that you can’t start your own home business you don’t have any money to invest. First of all online business is 1/10th as expensive as an offline business in every regard. That means the money that to be honest it would be easier if you had, is also less. The concept of ‘being in profit’ is so much more achievable when the ‘cost of doing business’ is less.

So by the same token, it will be easier for you to round up some spare cash from yourself to save for your business; especially if you really-really want to start your own online business at home. What could you possibly sacrifice that you spend money on now? What could you live without to accomplish your goals? Skip the movie? Postpone the trip? Limit your spending that is non-essential? Saved money really does add up – even little ‘piggy bank’ deposits will grow over time.

Do it any way that you can. The point is to just do it for whatever it is worth. At least find out if you even like it because if money is the only object then you can always get a better job, or a second, part-time job. However if you want to build something of your own, just get started and do it!

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