Over the years I’ve come to the conclusion that one of the hardest things to do with any business is in dealing with employees and customers. It seems that enough time can never be spent with either.
Wanting to figure out new and better ways to work around these problems have caused me to try almost everything. None have worked to my satisfaction.
There are things I want to do in life that have nothing to do with running a business. But it seems almost impossible to do any of these things as long as my business is in play.
One thing I’ve never tried is affiliate marketing. I’ve never been very big on selling someone else’s product and having to rely on their site to make the sale. Another problem with affiliate marketing is that I have to wait a month to get my money. Who wants to wait all month to get paid?
But recently my problems with affiliate marketing seem small compared with the problems of running my own business. I’ve got
a client that sells silicone wristbands and I’ve decided to give his affiliate marketing a try.
I’ve got a lot of sites, some of which get decent traffic. Every since I started making my living online I’ve always herd it’s about the traffic. But now I have to wonder. Would a site about
lawn mowers convince a site visitor to purchase a silicone wristband?
I don’t think so.
This means the site has to be in line with my targeted market. For testing purposes I decided to create
a blog and see if I can make blog post about silicone wristbands and drive traffic to my blog. But I have to wonder if it wouldn’t be better to build a website about silicone wristbands?
Since these silicone wristbands can be customized I could actually create my own silicone wristbands and send them to the page on that site to purchase them. But this would require a lot more time and who knows if I am even able to make the whole affiliate marketing thing work.
In the past I had gotten fairly good at driving traffic from social media sites but this traffic is not going to convert as well as I would like. But I think it would convert. I guess step one is in seeing if I am still able to drive traffic from social media sites to my silicone wristband blog.
But should it be a blog or a website. I think the website would convert better but would take longer to set up. However in the end if it made me more money it would be worth the extra effort.
I guess there is a lot to think about before I can even get started with this new adventure.
Affiliate Marketing?
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