We (I am referring to my small web development company) have actually been dabbling with Affiliate Marketing for a number of years now but with lots of good work coming in from corporate clients wanting us to build them websites we have never found the time to really make a go of it. The thing we found we have never had time for is creating content. Researching and writing words takes time - lots of time - and as we all have other things to do in our lives we have not had that valuable time to do this affiliate marketing thing properly.
This brings me on to the recent A4U Expo held in London’s Excel Centre. It was an excellent event again (I went last year too) and I will write about the different sessions in other posts.
However, the session that gave me most inspiration was Million Dollar Blogging Strategies by Al Carlton. Al runs a very very successful website called Coolest Gadgets. Among the many pearls of wisdom that Al gave during his presentation was the point that he outsources all of his content writing. All of it.
At that moment the penny dropped - this is where we have been going wrong for all these years. While we have been building websites for other companies and complaining that this meant we have no time to write on our handful of affiliate sites we could have outsourced all the writing to a freelancer.
So the mission now is to look at some freelancing websites and see how this whole thing works. GetAFreelancer and eLance - here I come!
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