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I’m currently working on producing a ebook that I will be using with Clickbank. This will be my first own product and I’m a bit excited about it.
I’ve always promoted other peoples products but I thought it was time to make a product of my own.

I’ve already made some mistakes that I’m aware of, one of the biggest mistakes is that I did hire a writer that doesn’t have English as native language. (Yeah, I dont write the ebook myself, I try to work smart, not hard).

The problem with this is that you will need to hire a English speaker to correct the spelling and grammar of the ebook once the writer is complete.
Why not add a extra $30 to your budget and choose a native English speaker from the beginning?

One of my other mistakes what that I didn’t really research the niche pretty well before I jumped on it. I tend to start working with things even when I haven’t thought them through but I will still finish the product and we how it will sell, maybe it will work great anyway.

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!

When you’re looking for new servers, always try to get a better deal than it says on the webhosts-website. For example, most hosts will throw in more bandwidth, IPs, RAM or bigger harddrives for free. There’s so much competition in the webhosting industry so most webhost bend over backwards just to get new clients.

This doesn’t just go for dedicated server, the same apply to virtual webhosting as well.

I’m currently looking for a new server. My online-biz is growing steadily and this will be my third server. I work a lot with SEO (Search engine optimization. I’m trying to get good rankings in Google, Yahoo…) So one of the questions I email to the webhosts is if I can get more IPs with the server. (It’s good to spread out your sites on multiple IP-addresses, it will help your sites to rank better if you interlink them all. But this isn’t anything you have to worry that much about if you’re just starting out!)

Anyway, the reason I write this post is to tell you about this little idea. When sending out these email to “Webhost A” I also tell them that I for example get 10 more IPs at some other host for the same price as “Webhost A”. Then “Webhost A” will most likely include more IPs for free.

This post is about merchants that doesn’t provide a properly formated datafeed.

Don’t they care about this own business? They don’t seem to care about losing sales… As a affiliate working with many affiliate-networks and a lot of datafeeds, if I find a datafeed that is not in a proper format, I just delete that datafeed and forget about that merchant. I would lose too much time trying to repair it. It’s the merchants job to make sure they provide the affiliate-network with a proper datafeed. Every affiliate should not have to repair the datafeed.

Why should it have to be repaired 1000 times by affiliates instead of 1 time by the merchants? The affiliate-network should have some responsibility also, they’re the ones making the datafeed available to affiliates. How hard can it be to make a tool for checking the datafeed before they publish it on their network?

Ok, back to work…

Yesterday I worked with a really great programmer. He was amazing when it came to programming and he seemed to be a really smart guy overall.

He told me something that made me think a bit. This advice is a pretty smart one. (This is the copy and paste from the chat we had…)

“the trick is your mind
you have to be in an atmosphere you feel well
you feel well and you’re undisturbed
in my case I rented an office near the down town and I don’t feel well with it
because it’s very loud
sounds of care, people shouting,….
when I didn’t work very hard, it did not disturb me
but since I’m working hard I found out that that is one point that must be changed
so what I did I canceled the rent 3 moth ago
this month is the last month and next month in 2nd of may I’m in my new office
very quiet and 7,5 km away from the downtown

there is one question you need to ask yourself
what do I need to change to make more profit
and the other question is
what will it cost me to change it. Will the investment return directly if the situation is change,…

learn to optimize
I’ve one important discovery I made a few month ago
a few month ago I tried to put my monthly costs as low as possible
so what I did:
I rented a small house in a bad place
price was very cheap but surrounded by bad people
what happened.
I did feel bad and the income come done
I asked myself why it came down
and I found it out
your mind knows if you feel well or not. You cannot lie yourself
and in programming the most important thing is that you have clear mind and not to many unuseful thoughts
so in fact for me it was better to pay more in rent then stay in a cheap rent
because the damage it caused was higher then taking an expensive one in a good city”

I think this applies to all kind of jobs. It doesn’t matter if you’re a programmer or if you’re working with something else. If you cant focus, you wont make as much money as you could if you had a clear mind.

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