How to Make Affiliate Marketing Your Career

Erin CigichClickbooth.com

President and Managing Partner

“ I had a better exposure to software development at a young age than I think anyone did in that period of time, and all because of an incredibly lucky series of events.”

- Bill Gates

Whatvs.

Who?

Built Up

Laying the Foundation1

Building the Castle

Defending Your Castle

2

3

Savings1

Plan

Paperwork

2

3

Work S M A R T

“I will scale my traffic from $1,000/day to $10,000/day by the end of September by scaling my diet campaign and launching a skincare campaign,”

P r i o r i t i z e

It’s Time To Build!

E v a l u a t e

10 Networks x 5 minutes = 1 hour

Negotiating 2 Contracts x 5 hours = 10 hours

Stats, invoices, advertiser follow-up = 2 hours

Designing 1 Jump Page = 8 hours

Coding 1 Jump Page = 2 hours

Optimizing Your Buys = 2 – 3 hours per day

= 33 hours of your REGULAR work week!

What Are You Good At?

Market Research

AdvertisingPublisher

Legal

Accounting

Network

New Placements Same Niche

New VerticalSame Placements

S c a l i n g

Creative Design

D i v e r s i f y

Defending Your Castle!

FTC

Step 1

Good Partners

Step 2

Add Consumer

Value

2009 2010 2011 2012

$28.5$25.8

$32.6

US Online AD Spending 2009-2012 (in Billions)

Source: eMarketer, Nov 2012

$22.7

Sources

Gladwell, Malcolm (2008). Outliers. Little, Brown and Company. pp. VII–IX.

The LA Times retrieved from http://www.latimes.com/

“US Digital AD Spending: Online, Mobile, Social”. eMarketer Digital Intelligence, retrieved from http://www.emarketer.com/Reports/All/Emarketer_2000794.aspx

LegalZoom, retrieved from http://www.legalzoom.com/limited-liability-company/limited-liability-company-overview.html

DMCA retrieved from http://www.dmca.com/

Verified Credible retrieved from http://www.verifiedcredible.com/

Q u e s t i o n s ?