I have a confession to make to everyone today – I used to be a super scared affiliate. You read that right; one of the Super Affiliate Twins was at one time a super scared affiliate. A super scared affiliate is someone too nervous to let a campaign run and pulls it before it has a chance of being successful. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve used R rated language at Ryan, telling him “this was never going to work” and he was “out of his mind for trying.” Boy did he make me look like an incompetent jerk.

I didn’t believe in Internet marketing because I didn’t understand why you had to spend money to make money. You’ve probably heard someone use that expression before, but it’s usually an excuse for a failed investment or a poor business decision. In Internet marketing the adage is very true. Despite being true it is hard to explain to any rational thinking individual why you have to spend so much money. Internet marketing is high risk, high reward. Without taking the risk, there is no reward. Nonetheless it is still extremely difficult to justify spending money before you make money.

I, like everyone else, hate to lose money. I understand the value of the dollar and how hard it is to make a living. It is emotionally draining for me to be down any amount what-so-ever. Since I have “been there before” and still find myself teetering into “super scared” mode I thought I would start a series of blogs where I give a mistake and how I got over it. Below is my first tip:

Mistake: Monitoring stats by the minute.

Every Super Affiliate I talked too before getting into Internet marketing told me not to constantly check my stats. I was far too stubborn to listen and was obsessive about refreshing my browser analyzing my losses. Luckily I escaped a heart attack but I probably took years off my life with the stress. Not to mention I used language worse than anything you could have imagined.

How I got over it: The temptation of constantly monitoring our stats is still out there, however, I know I cannot do it. I have learned there are “hot” and “cold” times of day and it depends on numerous factors on how well an offer performs. I started doing other things to occupy my time (such as blogging) and now have Ryan give me the stats the following day. Find something, anything, to do to prevent yourself from stat watching.

I hope this tip helps any super scared affiliate out there, be on the lookout for my next tip. For now I’ve got to go check our stats…