Business Organization in Affiliate Marketing
Business Organization in Affiliate Marketing I’m very serious
about keeping my business running, and almost all aspects of my
life, well-organized.
For example, open my draws and you’ll see
my clothes sorted by garment type and color (according to the
spectrum from white to black). Sick, eh? How about a food
cupboard sorted into soups, veggies, snacks, sauce mixes, pasta
and rice, etc? Oh ya, and the labels ARE turned out. Are you
ready to have me committed yet? Wait just a moment, please.
There’s method in my madness… really and truly and it can give
you the opportunity to make some serious money. Surely you know
people who can’t organize their way out of a paper bag. They
come home and leave their keys in a different place each time.
Then whenever they want to go out, they need to spend 5 minutes
searching for their keys… and/or shoes, or jacket, or
paperwork… What a huge a waste of life! I use the term ‘life’
because life is comprised of, and measured by, time. Nothing is
more precious than time and making each of your moments count.
Spending time on trivial matters like looking for keys when you
could be having fun with friends and family, helping others
through your business, saving the planet, or even taking a nap -
is a waste of time. Likewise, looking for a merchant’s
affiiliate interface login and password when you want to install
one of their links on your site, is a waste of time. Scrap
that… it’s a waste of time to have to look for the link
itself. All the details relating to your affiliate marketing
business need to be at right at your fingertips. I stay
organized by keeping everything in one big Excel file accessed
from my desktop. The file has a number of worksheets, each with
its own set of information. All the programs I’m affiliated with
are listed on one worksheet, with headings for program name,
username/login, password, network association (if any), primary
links, my own redirect links, broker (2nd tier) links, link for
the affiliate interface, manager’s name and contact info,
commission rate and other important info. Another sheet logs all
monies owed and received, and tallies income by program and
category, as well as by month and year. On another worksheet
I’ve listed software information including purchase date,
registration numbers and login details. Still another keeps
track of information for subscriptions such as forums and
membership sites. Everytime I come up with an article idea, it
gets entered on the ‘Article Ideas’ worksheet. There’s yet
another sheet with a list of article submission sites. I log
interview, presentation, and teleconference dates and details in
that file. Testimonials and success stories have their own
separate sheets. Last but not least, my project (to-do) list is
on another worksheet, filed by domain name and sorted by date
due. The ‘Big File’ is always open. When I join a program, the
details get entered right away. While reading my email, I cut
and paste testimonials right into the file, and jot ideas for
future NPT topics … as they pop up. My site files are
organized by domain name - not generic terms like ‘dating site’,
or ‘book site’, as I’ve seen some webmasters do. As soon as I
join a program I enter all the details on the relevant sheet,
and create a redirect link, which I know I’ll use if I promote
the product via email. I create email filters for every
webmaster I do business with, and messages go straight into
their personal folder. One quick filter - no more filing.
Setting up - and keeping up with - such a system may seem like a
lot of work. It’s not. Do it often enough and it becomes second
nature. Staying organized sure beats the heck out of wasting
five minutes trying to find the email with that merchant’s
affiliate program login information just so you find your
affiliate links.
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————————————– Dimitris Fatsiletos is
the owner of the www.pluginprofittoday.com, where you can find
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