You Don’t Need Anymore Information To Succeed
October 19, 2008 by Jon
Filed under Articles, Why You Suck At Affiliate Marketing
This post is part of the Why You Suck At Affiliate Marketing series.
The title of this post is brutally honest. It’s clear, simple, and it’s true. You do not need any more information.
As we already established, you suck at affiliate marketing. But it’s not because you don’t know enough about it. Listen, you’ve been at this awhile now, so you already know what you need to make a profit online.
Think about it: you make money by putting your affiliate links out there and convincing people to click on them and make purchases. This isn’t rocket science. You put your affiliate links out there by having a blog or a landing page, advertising through PPC, posting to niche forums, publishing articles to authority sites, etc.
What makes you think another $97 eBook, or another $49/month training portal, is going to change any of that?
Sure… obviously you don’t know everything. There’s still learning to be done and experience to be gained. But you’re not making any profits, so you can’t afford to spend any more money on training resources that just delay the inevitable.
You need to roll up your sleeves and get to work.
You need to implement the stuff you already know before you take the time or spend the money to learn more.
Keep in mind that the people who can succeed in a job or industry are the ones out there doing it. The ones who can’t become college professors. 
Do you want to be Professor Affiliate Marketer? Or do you want to make a huge pile of cash, pay off all your bills, and tell your boss to shove it?
I know which option is my choice.
If you’ve been working at affiliate marketing for less than a month or so, then okay, you probably still need to invest the time and money to learn the basics. But once you know the basics, continued learning is just a diversion from that activities it really takes to earn money.
Sure, your learning never stops, and you should always strive to know as much as you can. But it comes within reason, and it comes over time and with experience. It’s time to leave school and start earning some cash.
So get to it… now!
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This is so true. Everyone seems to be looking for that next thing that is going to make them unbelievable amounts of money in a short period of time.
The problem is that these people are so full of information that they’re literally about to explode. Too much information is a bad thing. Choice to be selectively ignorant. You don’t need to know everything. Just get to work.
@Chris -
You hit the nail on the head. Now I think it’s important to learn something, and obviously that something needs to be correct and have the potential for success.
So if newbie asked me for advice getting started, I’d point them to a handful of proven training courses and resources… each focusing on a different aspect of IM.
Then my advice would be to pick one, absorb yourself in it, learn as much as you can. When you’re finished, go implement it. If it doesn’t succeed at first, figure out why and keep adapting and learning.
My last piece of advice would be to “tune out” everything else and stick with that one method and that one training program.