An Online Business Adventure

Today I’m going to post an example of one of the emails in my free affiliate newsletter.

This newsletter is offered to any affiliates who sign up under me for any of the affiliate programs I have listed at the bottom of this post.

Instead of the usual practical advice (which you can find in your program - or in my  other newsletter available on my website), this newsletter offers my experience as a life coach to give you motivational tips and support that will really help you to make that commitment to your business and encourage you to keep going.

Running a home business on your own is a real challenge - my newsletter allows you to have the help of a life coach, without actually paying for one!  I also am always available for questions from any of my affiliates.

Here’s one of the emails you will receive:

I want to address something that happens to a lot of
affiliate marketers when they first start up their
business.

Overwhelm.

It happened to me when I started, and I’ve heard so many
other newbies talk about it too!

So - you are not alone if you are feeling overwhelmed right
now.

If you have joined more than one affiliate program, you
will be receiving several emails, sets of instructions,
training letters and lots of helpful practical advice.
This is all very positive, but it can feel like you are
being bombarded with advice on what to do next and
difficult to know where to start.

Even if you’ve only joined one program, it can still feel
like you have a long way to go in order to achieve success
with it.

What tends to happen is this:  You go from one set of
instructions to another, try out a few things, wonder
whether you should be doing something else, and go off to
do that, only to find you need some other action or tool in
place first, so you give up on that, try something else,
wonder how you’ll ever get the hang of it and then find
you’ve spent several hours doing very little.

Sound familiar?

The trouble is, you feel you should be doing everything at
once, and in the process, end up doing nothing very
effective at all.

If you are feeling like this, STOP.

Breathe.

Relax.

Breathe again.

OK.  There is a way to stop feeling overwhelmed and
actually start being effective.

It’s called FOCUS.

At the beginning it’s very easy to be distracted by all the
information that is coming to you.  However, it is important
that you DON’T try and take everything in at once.

Decide on one or two things that you are going to do for,
say, the next week or fortnight.  This might be learning a
specific way of marketing and putting it into action.
Concentrate on this until you have mastered it and then go
on to something else.

Sometimes this means that you will have to ignore some good
stuff that’s being sent to you.  You don’t have to delete
this or forget about it.  Set up some subject folders in
your email manager and put them in there, or if you’ve seen
a useful website, put that into a favourites folder.

If your program gives you a step-by-step training system,
then follow this in the order it’s given - and take your
time over it. 

There is no rush over this.  An affiliate marketing
business is a long term commitment.  Take your time to do
one thing at a time.

In the next email I will be giving you some advice on time
management, which will help you to set up a system of work
that will allow you to organise your work, prioritise
activities and keep focused.

In the meantime, stay focused, work on something that you
feel is easy for you, or appeals to you.  Take baby steps.

After all, you know what they say.  You can’t eat an
elephant all at once.  You have to do it one bite at a
time!

Have fun!

How many sponsors give you this much support?

You can have access to this affiliate newsletter by signing up with any of the programs below:

PlugInProfit Site

SFI

Success University

Empowerism

Leisure Audio Books

Thanks for reading!

Ros Bott

Achieve Financial Freedom Online

Tags: affiliate newsletter, affiliate programs, motivational tips

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