When I first started trying to make money on the Internet I was looking for fast money and so I (like most of us) gravitated toward affiliate marketing. If you don’t know what that is, affiliate marketing is promoting somebody else’s product for a cut of the profits.

Like many others I put a lot of effort into affiliate marketing and only made maybe a sale or two a month no matter what I tried.

What I’ve learned from Alex Jeffreys is that the best way to make money with affiliate marketing is to market to a list. And you can only build your list through selling your own or resale rights/PLR products . It was only after I started selling a PLR product that I started to make some consistant money.

If you decide to follow this path at first you will only be getting income from the sale of these products. But then as your list grows you will start to get commisions from marketing afffiliate products to your list.

When starting your business you want to build your brand and your list, you can’t do that by building landing pages for affiliate products. So I would recommend that you start with resale rights and PLR (private label rights) products.

With these you have many of the benefits of affiliate marketing (no product creation and very little out of pocket expense) plus you are in control and you keep 100% of the profits and build your brand and your list.

You can buy RR, MRR (master resale rights) or PLR products for less than you’ll make from one sale. Many come with a mini-site complete with sales copy already written, though you should rewrite these some to make them your own.

(For PLR products I would also suggest getting you own graphics. At Planet Divinity you can get a custom header and footer for $38 and 3D book or CD/DVD covers for $28. For $88 you can get a complete website. )

As long as you pick quality products to sell you will only enhance your brand. Plus you are building YOUR list and YOUR business not someone else’s.

OK I’ve rambled on enough for now.

To your success

One of the best ways that you can see an improvement in your online business is to get a grip on time management. Most of us don’t even realize how much time we waste every day.

Here’s an exercise that will focus your attention on just how much of your day you are losing to unimportant activities. For the next 24 hours write down everything you do and note the time that you started and finished each item.

That means reading email, talking to others, instant messaging, answering the phone, and yes even actually getting some work done. When you do this you will be shocked to see exactly how much time was wasted on unproductive things, I know I was.

So here are some quick tips that will help you manage your time better:

• Get a digital timer and work in 1 hour or 1/2 hour blocks then take a 5 or 10 minute break. Do not allow anything to interrupt you.
• Check email no more than 2 times per day. I do it first thing before I start and again about 5 hours later.
• Turn of instant messaging.
• Set aside a specific time for other things like learning something new.
• Make a “to do” list each evening for the next day with the most important tasks first.
• Eat a good breakfast and drink plenty of water, it will help you to keep focused.

Follow these tips and you will be more productive in a day than most people are in a week. And be creative about this. Everybody is different so come up with your own personal time management program for your online business.

To your success