For those of you who haven’t read “Four Hour Work Week”, do it. You won’t regret it. For those of you who have, you know what I’m about to talk about. For those of you who are too lazy to read it, this post is for you!
Disclaimer: This is for affiliates who want to free up their time whilst increasing work productivity. If you are happy working the hours you’re doing at the moment then congrats for you!
Affiliate marketing is certainly tough on the mind. Especially if you are at the stage where you are working away at home parked up in a little dark room by yourself. From my experience you get lost in your own little world and work becomes one massive glob in your life. There is no start or finish. There are no weekends. There is no night or day. That is one of the nasty little traps of affiliate marketing.
First things first stop being pretending to be “busy”.
Busy means:
- Checking stats more than twice a day.
- Idle chit-chat with affiliate managers.
- Reading forums, news sites, and blogs (That includes this blog. If I see your ip on this blog during work hours I will hunt you down and give you a paper cut on the webbing closest to your big toe.).
- Trying new campaigns ’cause you are bored of scaling campaigns that you already know work.
- Aimlessly researching websites for new campaign ideas when you already has a list of work to do.
- Doing anything that is semi-relevant to your campaigns but not directly making you money.
The plan for productivity:
- Pick out hours of the day during which you are going to work. Don’t just say to yourself “I am going to do work today”. I work from about 9.30am – 2pm. Anything more than that and I just slack off and pretend to be busy.
- Pick the time of day to work in that is best for you to keep up your productivity levels. Whether you work for 2hrs/day or 10hrs/day keep asking yourself if what you are doing is going to directly make you money.
I cut down to 4hrs from previously “working” 10hrs a day on and off. Guess what time frame made me get the most work done? 4hrs.
We’ve all had deadlines for projects and reports that we needed to complete two weeks earlier but left until the last night. It’s likely that you ended up getting that project/report done in 5-8hrs the night before instead of using the two weeks.
Having deadlines is key. Write a prioritized list for the day. If you think it will take you 8hrs, give yourself a 4hr deadline.
DO IT!
P.S If it’s in your budget to get office space, get out of your house. There are way too many distractions there.
P.P.S DO IT!
Excellent post! I couldn't agree more with Affiliate Marketing becoming this big blob of time that doesn't really start or stop, you just live it. That can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on how you use it. Deadlines are key though, for sure.
"I will hunt you down and give you a paper cut on the webbing closest to your big toe."
LOLZ
I wish I read The 4-Hour Work Week way back…as soon as I learned the alphabet!
That book is amaaaazing!
Love your blog, Mr. Green
Good stuff! I have read and listened to the "4Hour Work Week" a few times, of course a few of the points are outdated but many remain true today! It's a must for any affiliate marketer. Like Asia above me, I wish I would have read it sooner in my career. I could probably be on some exotic island right now with the yacht in the water and watching the epic right break. =)
Keep up the good posts and have a great year!
Lance
ECM
great post Lorenzo!
"From my experience you get lost in your own little world and work becomes one massive glob in your life."
Man, it is SO nice knowing I'm not the only one this happens to. Really great post. I'm still to lazy to READ the 4 hour work week…but now, maybe I'll listen to it.
Enjoyed the post. Keep 'em coming! (that's what she said)
so friggin true! when you give yourself only 4 hours to work, the scarcity of time to do work makes you want to get down and do something.
found your site on del.icio.us today and really liked it.. i bookmarked it and will be back to check it out some more later
i signed up with the Amazon Omakaze affiliate program. i am not yet earning from this affiliate program because my blog is still very new..`,
Interesting that 4 hours resulted in more work. It kinda defies logic, but if it works then damn I better try stuff like that too.
Love it! Starting tomorrow I'm going to try the 4 hour/day limit for a while to see what happens. AM is great, but there's a lot more to life than making money online
Great post! Like I understood 4 Hours Work Week is a bookebook? So I need to found it.
And one more question for the beginners:
If I never work "with boss", but still don't making good money for myself (just earning and invest them), is it good idea to work 4 hours, and learning other time ?
Best Regards,
Vitaly =)
Amazon affiliate program seems to be the best among affiliate marketing programs out there.'–
Amazon Affiliate program pays much better than other affiliate programs out there.,*"
Damn man, I just got busted. I am a stat checker! Thanks for the reminder Green
Finally have all the info I need for my research, great post!
Thank you so much for writing a lot of this awesome content! I am looking forward to seeintg more.
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