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Nov 01

Insanity means doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results

Doodling, Mind over Pixels, WebWriMo challenge Add comments

Take a “walk” around the fora and the blogosphere of affiliate marketing. You will see the same talks, the same techniques, and the same old crap. Stuff that maybe worked 2 years ago, which is a lifetime on the internet, or that may have never worked at all.

There are exceptions though, some serious discussions, new techniques and semi-automation.

I mentioned in an older post, that affiliate marketing in Greece is almost nonexistant. Honestly, I don’t remember my first contact with the concept of making money online as an affiliate. I got fascinated by it, and started reading and trying stuff like crazy.

The problem was that I was looking at the techniques I read, and tried to replicate them. US ppc campaigns to CPA offers, minisites on mininiches, adsense arbitrage, and the list goes on and on.

Only when I sat down and brainstormed ideas did I actually make a successful campaign. Of course, my trial and error had given me the necessary experience to come up with ideas of my own.

Now, I write my own manual.

Many techniques that I invented, I post them here. Most of them work fine, some don’t work at all, some just need the right circumstances, a sweetspot. Some work fine, but need a little secret hint to really blow up in your face.

Why am I doing this? Well, the internet is much bigger than you think. Sure, I might stumble on a competitor who uses my technique, that I uploaded here. Big deal, I am the inventor, I will find more tricks. The challenge even makes it fun.

But the most important thing is that I don’t do what everyone else is doing. Chances of tripping on a technique of my own are slim, because the guys that read this blog use them on over-competitive niches, acai offers, poker, the same old shit.

And even on those niches that I work on, I take a completely different approach than any other single competitor.

Use you brain people. Laugh at those who use the same old tricks. Try everything, and create your own technique. Look at what people in other areas are doing, in television advertisments, in radio, in product promotion. Especially in the porn biz, these guys are always 2 years ahead of the curve. I am being serious on that.

But most importantly, screw everyone else’s opinion, and do what your guts tell you to do.