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Grabbing those potatoes with your hands and pulling the stem off the product. Chucking them into your wicker basket and carrying that basket to a wooden barrel. Then repeat, again, and again. Picking potatoes is a young person’s game. Or at least it used to be.
That scenario was about 40 years ago for me. Working like that all day long for just about 10 cents a barrel, in hopes of making a few bucks during the school harvest break.
Fast forward to now…well now there is air harvesters, that dig the potatoes, pull the stems, and separate them by size. No more bending or carrying the heavy basket all the way to the barrel.
Times change!
Better equipment and better outcomes! Same goes for shopping, better tech/communication means better marketing, affiliate marketing.
I shared this story to share that times change. Times have changed. The shopping space for example is the same. Malls were all the rage 30-40 years ago. A recent article mentions that malls are on the decline, “there are currently around 700 malls in the US, down from 2500 in the 1980s” (Levin, 2022). That’s a 72% decline in malls. The digital shopping craze has hit them hard.
If there ever was a reason to jump on the affiliate marketing bandwagon, the time is now. Where before the store owners made millions, now the average citizen can gain some of the profit and aid the sales for stores like Walmart, Amazon, Target, Home Depot, and/or Starbucks, and so many more without the need for brick & mortar. Why not make some money while those stores are making money.
That desire to make money needs to be there. The drive to start a business, be consistent, learn sales, and maintain a website is all part of the deal. Success comes from getting yourself out there and continuing to drive forward. For more business start-up skills check out the article The Bear Reminder as it relates to trials and errors of business development as an entrepreneur. Test/fail/succeed happens to us all.
Don’t stop reading yet. There are some cool specialties in affiliate marketing:
Specialties can come in many sizes.
Work from home while your kids sleep, or the coffee shop with that tasty mocha, or from the park with your puppy, or at the laundromat while your clothes are drying, or in the dorm room in between classes, and any number of combinations of on the beach in some tropical island.
· Blogging
· Social Media
· Article Writing
· Journals
· TV Media
· B2B Sales
· And so many more avenues for affiliate marketing.
Getting to your ideal client is the real goal, how you do it is your specialty and all up to your discretion. That’s the fun part. The other fun part is the money. I’d be remiss in not adding anything about money. Affiliate Marketing takes time, I’ll be real with you. In the beginning it’s like any other business, but there is a reason you do not hear about many of us, it’s because we have our niche, and we are protective of it. The cool part is that the markets are big and room enough for others. Me sharing this information may even get me in trouble from the affiliate police. JK.
Get out there, join our program that has a coach component, and lessons to step you through learning the skills.
References
Levin, T. (2022, October 12). The decline of the American mall has left just 700 still standing. Soon there may be just 150 left. Retrieved from Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/american-mall-decline-150-left-10-years-how-many-2022-10
