If You Want To Be A Super Affiliate…Act Like One

We all want to be as uber as possible and make the most money possible, so you should act like it. In order to be truly uber, you cannot care about money. I’m sorry but you just can’t always be worried that “oh I’m tight on money I don’t think I should do this.” This mostly relates to offline purchases, and is something I’ve learned through experience.

Here’s an example, say you’re working on a crappy desktop with a 12 inch screen. Every day you probably think “man it’d be really nice if I just went all out and got dual 30″ monitors and a MacPro, work would be so much easier.” So do it! You can be thinking “oh I’d do that, but I don’t really have the money”…getting the new computer will make you work 10x as fast because of the speed, and 10x efficient because of the screen space. You’ll make your money back in no-time due to the increased productivity. Technical productivity aside, you’re going to feel awesome when you go all out and buy a sick computer. You’re going to be psyched up and want to work on it. Say hello to more productivity and more profit.

If it’s going to help your business or mentality…DO IT. Get the $1,000 office chair if it’s going to make you 5x as comfortable throughout the day, working in a crappy chair is going to make you uncomfortable and less productive. Get the Blackberry or iPhone if it means you’ll be able to read and respond to all your emails while you’re sitting at the doctors office for an hour, so once you get home that’s all out the way and you can just get to work. Get the top notch fax machine if it means you’re not going to have to sit and spend 20 minutes every other day trying to send a fax on a cheap crappy machine. Get the top notch grill if it means you’ll be able to cook your chicken twice as fast. The list can go on and on…people are too worried about losing all their money if they buy things that are the best; so worried that they don’t think at all about the fact that down the road this is going to make them more money.

Personal examples? One is with my computers. For the first YEAR of work, I worked on my eBay used 12″ iBook G4. It was slow…the screen was microscopic…and a lot of software didn’t work right with it. Looking back this is one of my dumbest early mistakes. If I had taken my first $5,000 profit and bought the computer I have now, I’d probably have an extra $20,000 sitting in my bank account. I finally just went all out and got the upgraded MacPro with 30″ cinema display. I now don’t have to click back and forth to get IMs, I can edit huge Photoshop images without having to scroll all over, and I can have multiple browser windows up so I don’t have to log in and out of different gmail/affiliate accounts. I’m literally 10x as productive with this computer as I was with my iBook.

Another personal example…my phones. I had an iPhone, and I loved the internet/email on the go. Problem was, it didn’t get service in the basement where my current office is. So every time I got a business call (which was every day), I’d have to run upstairs to talk. I was constantly running up and down, up and down alllll day long. What a complete waste of time that was for me, I could have been taking my calls at the computer while I was on the computer so I didn’t have to say “Hold on for a sec I have to run to my computer and check.” But I still loved checking my email and blog etc when I was out. So I bought another phone from Verizon, where I get fine service in the basement. The extra $80 a month is well worth not having to constantly be running all around my house, so I just use both phones. iPhone when I’m out and need to check email, and Voyager for talking on.

Moral of my story here? If you really want to be an uber affiliate, you can’t be cheap…because uber affiliates aren’t cheap. Buy the best because it’s going to save you from time and hassle down the road, and ultimately make you more productive, and happy. I mean this just goes with anything in life. Let’s say you’re a construction worker. Tool Set A will cost you $500 but the tools are cheap, don’t work that well, and break easy. Tool Set B will cost you $15,000 but the tools are top of the line, faster, and don’t break. With Tool Set B, you’re going to be able to build houses twice as fast. Twice as many houses will pay for itself x100 in a few months. In reality it’s not going to be that big of a difference, but it definitely will help productivity. So it looks like it’s a lot smarter to get the ridiculously expensive tool set because after you build a few houses you’ll already have paid for the tools plus much more.

For us affiliate marketers…go with Tool Set B.