Juggling your affiliate marketing workload can be a problem. It depends on how you approach things. To get the idea watch how juggling of three balls is done: http://www.jugglingstore.com/store/instruction.aspx

The instructor said not to start with balls but with beanbags. That way you will not have balls bouncing all over the place. Then he shows you how to juggle one ball or bag from one hand to the other. He points out the trajectory of the ball and the motion of the hands.

Now, my son should be writing this part of the lesson because he is a juggler. He is also an M.D. and pain specialist and juggles and does magic for his sick kids. But I can remember when he was learning to juggle and to be a ventriloquist. It took time and patience.

Once you have mastered one-ball juggling, then you add the second bean bag. You should have noted in the video that both hands have the same motion. Once you have mastered this, you are a juggler.

I remember when I was in Korea and we were allowed to go back off the line and watch a USO show. The juggler got up to seven balls and asked if we would like to see nine balls in the air. We all did. That is when he showed us a picture of nine balls in the air. Seemed very funny to us who were not seeing anything funny on the line.

We can only juggle so many things at a time.

So, how does this example reflect on affiliate marketing. Well, we take one step at a time. We realize that certain things must be done and that we must learn how to do them. Affiliate marketing is a business and we must learn the ropes. Here is a suggestion for new folks (read the 30-Day Plan):

1. Carefully select your main passion in life. Call this your niche.

One juggling site came forth from a man’s hobby. He decided to open an Internet store and so he found vendors and built his site. He knew juggling and he turned it into a profitable business. His excitement carried over to his customers.

A couple I know sold doll parts from a small store. They expanded the store to the Internet and increased their profits many times over.

What could you do if you really sat down and pondered the subject?

2. Decide what you want to convey to your readers, the readers that later will come to your site. Your purpose should be to satisfy the needs of your readers (future customers) and nothing else. It is not about you. It’s about them. But make sure there is a them which means make sure that a group of interested people exist.

I have mentioned in other articles that my company developed an unwanted product for a non-existing market. The focus groups liked it but they didn’t tell our marketing people they wouldn’t buy it if it was the only product on earth.

3. Now decide what you want to accomplish with your niche. Are you going to use a website to drive your niche people to? Then carefully set the limits for your site. Do you want it broad or narrow? You may want to start narrow but realize the limitations of your site. Can it be broadened later? You will be looking for some humdinger keywords.

4. Build your site with WordPress following the instruction taught here at WAU. Add the SEO and social plugins, add an About Page and a Privacy Page and a blank page called “blog.” Now add your index.html page, the page that will show up when some one first comes to your site. To make sure this happens, go to “writing” and at the top of the page, set the order of your pages, your home page (index.html) first and “blog” last.

Now you have the basic bean bags you must juggle, always improving each area of your work. You will want to add a form to catch names and email addresses on your home page. You will want to find a product site to link to. But all that comes in good order. The main thing is to get started right as taught here at WAU.

John