Follow Along $200-a-day Fashion Blog Affiliate Journey 2024

[Honeybadger]

This time its different

My Skillset

• Search Engine Optimization
• Researching and creating blog posts
• Front end website development

Main Software

• Monday
• Google Drive
• Google Trends
• Canva
• HubSpot
• Ubersuggest
• Google Analytics
• Google Search Console
• CMS (undecided)
• ChatGPT

Traffic Types

• Organic (Google)
• Push notifications
• Social media

Affiliate Networks

• Mainly Amazon Associates

Content Type

• Blog
• Social media platforms

Industry

• Fashion

Niche

• Seasonal outdoor clothing

GEO

• Undecided (English speaking)

Conversion method

• Embedded Amazon product ads

Pay-out

• Commission level 1-10% of product sale
• $100 sale earns $1-10

Goals

• Earn $100-a-day commission within 4 months
• Become a full-time affiliate within 6 months
• Work as full-time affiliate for 6 months

Budget

• $2500

Costs

• Hardware --> $1000 (tablet & smartphone)
• Software --> $200-a-month

Milestones

1. Jan 2024 --> Earn $25-a-day average
2. Feb 2024 --> Earn $50-a-day average
3. Mar 2024 --> Earn $75-a-day average
4. Apr 2024 --> Earn $100-a-day average; Paid $750
5. May 2024 --> Earn $100-a-day average; Paid $1500
6. Jun 2024 --> Earn $100-a-day average; Paid $2250
7. Jul 2024 --> Earn $100-a-day average; Paid $3000; Go full-time as affiliate
8. Aug 2024 --> Earn $100-a-day average; Paid $3000; Work full-time as affiliate
9. Sep 2024 --> Earn $100-a-day average; Paid $3000; Work full-time as affiliate
10. Oct 2024 --> Earn $100-a-day average; Paid $3000; Work full-time as affiliate
11. Nov 2024 --> Earn $100-a-day average; Paid $3000; Work full-time as affiliate
12. Dec 2024 --> Earn $100-a-day average; Paid $3000; Work full-time as affiliate

Next

1. Create affiliate business plan
2. Build or buy a fashion blog
3. Create 12-month content calendar
4. Buy hardware and software
5. Take a number of online courses
6. Start posting daily updates from January 1, 2024

 

[Graybeard]

Pickup a refurbished laptop and Install LINUX (Ubuntu or Mint) on it. $500 will do that. That's $500 more you can use for capital |or| you can pick up a Chromebook and a 1TB flash drive for $30 or $50 for about the same amount.

make a list:

Past mistakes - | corrections in the future +
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[Graybeard]

Go for the money --people buy not referrals, not traffic!

This is how you sell people:
CONTENT IS NOT KING

Everyone wants to be special --create that dream (or illusion) and people put their money on the wood or sign on the dotted line.

This has been proven over and over again --ask anyone that drives a Porsche

 

[Honeybadger]

"Strategy requires thought;
tactics require observation"

Max Euwe
World Chess Champion 1935-1937

 

[Honeybadger]

I must work harder next year
everything ive endured this far
has prepared me for this challenge
now its time to enter the kill zone

 

[Honeybadger]

Time to let the tiger out of its cage

 

[Honeybadger]

Ive started badly tbh
we are nearly at day 3 of 365
i havent finished my working plan
have not finished my templates
in mitigation i have many bills to pay
so my regular job takes priority
however ive also had the past 3 days off!
just need to calm down
& go at it step by step
more updates soon!!

 

[azgold]

Time to let the tiger out of its cage

How exciting! Here we go for another Honeybadger journey!

Ive started badly tbh
we are nearly at day 3 of 365
i havent finished my working plan
have not finished my templates
in mitigation i have many bills to pay
so my regular job takes priority
however ive also had the past 3 days off!
just need to calm down
& go at it step by step
more updates soon!!

Deep breath, my friend. Stress and anxiety blocks the flow. We're marketing here, not saving lives.

It's ONLY day 3 of 365. You have time. It's okay to cut yourself some slack while you take care of your life and survival needs first. It will be difficult to juggle the other stuff with that worry hanging over your head. You have to be able to live or nothing else will matter much.

You have the skills, the desire, the goals and the tools. You are locked and loaded, ready to go as soon as you can clear up or get control of what's challenging you offline.

Then - look out world, here comes Honeybadger!

 

[Honeybadger]

Wow
same story as last year
everythin steady until christmas
then a huge drop off in traffic
just around when shipping deadlines passed
so while rankings are more or less stable
traffic is down 80%
commission stone cold dead
i really want to choose a digital product now
then can offer 100% rebate

 

[azgold]

everythin steady until christmas
then a huge drop off in traffic

I'm not really surprised, just because people will be wanting to pay for all the Christmas stuff they ordered. Plus, getting back into the swing of 'normal' life.

Is there anything that sells during the gap? I've never researched that.

Edit: I mean a new product you could promote and sell.

 

[T J Tutor]

Go for the money --people buy not referrals, not traffic!


This is how you sell people:
CONTENT IS NOT KING

There has been a recent onslaught of this pitch as though it points to a specific content type. Here is the truth, you cannot sell a damn thing on the net or in person without content. Not ever. Even a pic is content, sign language is content, anything spoken or written is content. Our industry cannot do a damn thing without content, no exceptions. We use the INFORMATION HIGHWAY and it is all about content!

This new pitch is just an angle that has recently been picked up by many hundreds of "gurus" across the net. I have seen all the top dogs come out with this "en masse" in recent months and I have talked to many of them in various settings about this. Everyone of them, ALL, told me what I already knew. It is just an "angle".

 

[Graybeard]

That's not a new ~pitch~ that I knew of or `heard recently` ...
I was taught 40 years ago to learn how to sell people.
Not each call (traffic) or the product or service.

My first real sales job was pitching a food and freezer deal to mom and pop at the kitchen table. The freezer cost $2000.00 back in 1973. Now that was a sell job --it wasn't the 'content' that sold it wasn't the 'product' --it was the need, the concept and the illusion of real savings.
I damn near sold ice boxes to Eskimos. $400.00 each sale in 1973! Sold one deal (contract) my first week ...

$400.00 then has the same buying power as $2,883.11 today

CPI Inflation Calculator

www.bls.gov

Content is not just word salad marketing

 

[T J Tutor]

I was taught 40 years ago to learn how to sell people.

Well, the Joe Gerard (I was a number 1 student and knew him well), Zig Ziglar, and all of the rest of them always taught to
Sell Yourself, Sell The Company, Sell The Product, and you won't have to sell the price.

it wasn't the 'content' that sold it wasn't the 'product' --it was the need

Need gives rise to desire. Neither sells anything.
"circumstances in which something is necessary, or that require some course of action; necessity."
"the basic human need forfood"
Selling is to persuade someone of the merits of something resulting in the acquisition.

All that said, no matter what, content is what sells anything. So I guess we disagree on this. By the way, there is no product that sells itself. Not possible. As soon as a person asks a question, someone has to answer. This results in an exchange of information and information is content.

 

[Graybeard]

People buy because you have what they want or they think they do.

It's that simple. Truth: Most talk themselves out of sales and leave money on the table ...

Internet content and traffic are vague generalities ... To me: A good story is all the 'content' you need along with a "verified' solid product that fits some real or imaginary need.

 

[JeppyG]

This time its different

My Skillset

• Search Engine Optimization
• Researching and creating blog posts
• Front end website development

Main Software

• Monday
• Google Drive
• Google Trends
• Canva
• HubSpot
• Ubersuggest
• Google Analytics
• Google Search Console
• CMS (undecided)
• ChatGPT

Traffic Types

• Organic (Google)
• Push notifications
• Social media

Affiliate Networks

• Mainly Amazon Associates

Content Type

• Blog
• Social media platforms

Industry

• Fashion

Niche

• Seasonal outdoor clothing

GEO

• Undecided (English speaking)

Conversion method

• Embedded Amazon product ads

Pay-out

• Commission level 1-10% of product sale
• $100 sale earns $1-10

Goals

• Earn $100-a-day commission within 4 months
• Become a full-time affiliate within 6 months
• Work as full-time affiliate for 6 months

Budget

• $2500

Costs

• Hardware --> $1000 (tablet & smartphone)
• Software --> $200-a-month

Milestones

1. Jan 2024 --> Earn $25-a-day average
2. Feb 2024 --> Earn $50-a-day average
3. Mar 2024 --> Earn $75-a-day average
4. Apr 2024 --> Earn $100-a-day average; Paid $750
5. May 2024 --> Earn $100-a-day average; Paid $1500
6. Jun 2024 --> Earn $100-a-day average; Paid $2250
7. Jul 2024 --> Earn $100-a-day average; Paid $3000; Go full-time as affiliate
8. Aug 2024 --> Earn $100-a-day average; Paid $3000; Work full-time as affiliate
9. Sep 2024 --> Earn $100-a-day average; Paid $3000; Work full-time as affiliate
10. Oct 2024 --> Earn $100-a-day average; Paid $3000; Work full-time as affiliate
11. Nov 2024 --> Earn $100-a-day average; Paid $3000; Work full-time as affiliate
12. Dec 2024 --> Earn $100-a-day average; Paid $3000; Work full-time as affiliate

Next

1. Create affiliate business plan
2. Build or buy a fashion blog
3. Create 12-month content calendar
4. Buy hardware and software
5. Take a number of online courses
6. Start posting daily updates from January 1, 2024

Wow, this is a much-thought-of plan. I have something similar to be built out this year. And honestly, I'm just planning on building it out without expecting any revenue. Good luck, man!

 

[Graybeard]

Joe Gerard

I am from Detroit too --where the weak are eaten.

 

[Honeybadger]

That's not a new ~pitch~ that I knew of or `heard recently` ...
I was taught 40 years ago to learn how to sell people.
Not each call (traffic) or the product or service.

My first real sales job was pitching a food and freezer deal to mom and pop at the kitchen table. The freezer cost $2000.00 back in 1973. Now that was a sell job --it wasn't the 'content' that sold it wasn't the 'product' --it was the need, the concept and the illusion of real savings.
I damn near sold ice boxes to Eskimos. $400.00 each sale in 1973! Sold one deal (contract) my first week ...

$400.00 then has the same buying power as $2,883.11 today

CPI Inflation Calculator

www.bls.gov

Content is not just word salad marketing

if $400 in 1973 worth $2883 today
then $2000 back then would be $14415 today
who had that kinda cash for a freezer in 1973?

 

[Graybeard]

Easy financing. The food was a side of beef, bulk pork and frozen vegetables enough for a family of 4 for 1year IIRC. To refill the freezer was relatively inexpensive. That is what you sold --the economic advantage.

The frozen food was around $470, restaurant quality grade and almost at our cost. We sold the steak and jammed them on the freezer.
The freezer was financed for 36 mos at 18%. The monthly payment sounded cheap --that was what we sold.

Top sirloin and a low monthly payment. It was a hard sell one-shot sit down close.

America, as long as I can recall, functions on monthly payments, for most "working" people That's only $100 a month ...

 

[azgold]

a food and freezer deal to mom and pop at the kitchen table.

Yup, we bought one of those in the '80s, got a free induction microwave, too. That microwave was about the size of a car but damn, it worked great!

 

[T J Tutor]

That's not a new ~pitch~ that I knew of or `heard recently` ...
I was taught 40 years ago to learn how to sell people.

I don't see, or recall, having declared it a "new" pitch. Most pitches are rehashed, reshaped, re-used. This has been the case since before camels and tents were the transportation and housing of the masses.