The 2% Affiliate Club

It’s been said that out of all the affiliate marketers out there tauting products and services, only about 2% make it to Super Affilate status – the elite income generators. Why? It’s their Mental Attitude. The lack of motivation, or losing motivation hurts the other 98%. So how can we keep motivated?

I read an interesting post today from Ted Murphy. In it he ponders on his home’s buying/gutting/refurbushing experience. Most of the work he did himself, and he did a fanstastic job. His quandary deals with being bit hard by the construction bug and wanting (needing) to keep building, albeit not knowing what. I don’t think that appetite may ever be satisfied, as he is always building, be it houses or business, and he’s very good at it.

Which brings me back to performace or affiliate marketing. Are we always building? If we are to grow our IM businesses, we need to set bigger goals. Amit Mehta describes a very powerful technique for doing so as “Shooting For the Moon”, which focuses on setting “impossible” goals, instead of “realistic” goals. Some would argue this sounds like nourishing the propensity for failure. But that’s not it at all. The idea is to set a goal that motivates you to excel by pushing you out of your comfort zone. For example, after evaluating your present income stream, “shoot for the moon” by setting a goal that is 10X your present revenue. The “impossible” becomes possible because we tune our minds to believe the impossible is realistic, which breeds a new level of success that is fueled by forcing our minds to think at a higher level.

Too bad only 2% of affiliates think this way…