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Tips #3 when hiring Freelance programmers:
Always make sure that you write that you want the sourcecode and the full rights to do anything you want with it.

You might need it sooner than you think. Sometimes there are a small change on a website and your application may not work and you might have to pay the same programmer to fix the error. Or in the worst case senario you will have to find some other programmer to rewrite the whole application because you cant get hold of the original programmer.

Lesson to be learned: Always tell the programmer that you want the full sourcecode and the right to do anything you like with it. Make sure he agrees before you assign him the project.

Got no motivation? I know the feeling. I get it too often. Sometimes I get the loss of motivation to work for days and I do nothing! Nothing at all. I just surf around on forums and check my stats. No real work.
When I get this I got a method that nearly always work, it’s very simple. Get your MP3-player, put on some shoes and take a walk in the sun. And when you walk, try to think of your work in a good way. For example: How the site you’re building will look like once it complete and you get some traffic there and how active it will be and of course how much money it will make you.
It’s a really simple method that works most of the time. It’s the best method I’ve found so far.

(This is a picture….. Yes, it’s true. Is it related to this blogpost? No….. Just looks like a nice place. LoL)

Another method I use is to listen on audiobooks on some subjects related to my job as a webmaster. Like SEO, Adsense, Clickbank… There’s audiobooks about pretty much everything.

The third method is: If you really cant work, dont do it. Do something else, something you think is fun and enjoy. In a couple of hours you may have the motivation to work.

The fourth method is: Sleep.

Remember my old post about how to find freelance programmers? I just wanted to add something. Something really important. I know how to program in VB.net really good and also a bit of PHP. And when hiring a freelance programmer to make a application and you discover that you could have made the application better and faster yourself, it’s a very frustrating thing.

How do we know if the programmer is good before assigning a project to them? First, there’s the rating at the freelance-sites. Always look at the rating and read the comments from people that already hired them.
Second, In most cases you can send messeges to the programmers before you hire them. Ask them how long they’ve programmed for and what kind of project they have completed.

You might think you’ll save money when you hire someone with a bid $20 lower than anyone else but when the programmer can’t finish the project and the application isn’t working like it should, was it really worth it?

Finally! Yesterday I made over $200 with Clickbank alone. It took a little bit longer than I expected, and I’ve been very close several times.
Next milestone is $300 in one day with Clickbank.

Edit: John from Linkconnector contacted me and it looks like I got the wrong info. You only need to make $1000/month to get the wire. Thanks John for the help!

Old post:
I must say that Linkconnector is a great affiliate network, no doubt about that. But one thing that I dont like is that they no longer send affiliates money using wire-transfer unless they make over 10k every week! That’s right, I asked them about this and they did answer with “It has become too expensive for us to wire commissions to affiliates who don’t earn at least $10K a week. We are happy to re-instate wire transfers when your account reaches that level.”.
I wonder how many affiliates that make over $10k every week. Cant be that many…

I hate to cash checks since we don’t use them much in my country. Cashing 3 checks do take about 40 minutes at my local bank. But since I want to continue to use Linkconnector I guess I don’t have much of a choice.

You can check out Linkconnector here, they got many good datafeeds!

I’ve heard a lot about Clickbank, both good and bad stuff but mostly bad. I decided to try it out for myself. I’m currently sending traffic to more than 100 Clickbank-products. This is a good way to find really good niches and I’m happy to say that I’ve found one products that converts really well and several other products that convert OK. But of couse most products doesn’t convert at all.

Here is my stats:

(I haven’t had a $200/day yet, but I had one $199.97, lol)

As you can see, some days are bad and some days are OK, but I’m happy with the extra money I bring in with Clickbank. I recently picked up another server just to push more Clickbank-products so next month I’m promoting 200+ products. My goal is to make at least $200 dollars or more per day with Clickbank alone.

The lesson to be learned is this: Promote a lot of products at the same time, don’t promote 10 products, promote as many as you possibly can, even if you cant send a lot of traffic!