Lazy Affiliate Referrals

Today I'm going to rant a bit about lazy affiliates, and no, I'm not talking about the "bum marketing" method! To succeed in making money online takes a LOT of work, and I'm not even remotely kidding here. You have to learn website building, html, promotion, stats, link management, marketing and signing up to so many sites it would make your head spin!

The amount of effort it requires can be overwhelming, and that's the problem. MOST people just don't have that drive to succeed. They've been mislead into believing it's easy, so they sign up to a program and expect the riches to flow. WRONG!!!!

I'm sure anyone reading this has at least one sponsor program they are promoting right now by trying to get people to sign under them. Everyone is in some sort of affiliate program in an attempt to make some money at some point. So, how's that working out for you? Ready to retire yet? No??

I'm going to give specific examples of the problem here to give you some perspective. One of the affiliate programs I promote is Eye Earn and I've personally recruited 156 people through my efforts. Now, from those 156 referrals they have recruited themselves a COMBINED total of 187 referrals. Think about the math for a minute...156 people TOGETHER only referred slightly more than I did by myself! That's horrible! It's an average of only a bit more than 1 ref per person! If you can't get at LEAST a few referrals from your own efforts then it's time to pack it in and find a new line of work!

Oh, and if you think I did exceptionally well myself because I'm some brilliant marketer, then think again. I actually HATE internet marketing and promotion. I don't want to jam anything down someone's throat that they have no interest in. All my efforts were from passive methods like making a couple of blog posts, posting a few ads and popping my affiliate site in a few ptc's. That's it. I'm not pushy at all and I'd rather someone sign up because they WANT to and not because I'm twisting their arm.

Here's another example: I also promote the instant degrees affiliate program and so far have made well over $5000 in sales. A total of 16 referrals have signed under me, but only 2 sales have been generated from ALL of them combined! Is it really that difficult for them to make sales? No, it's not. They are just lazy affiliates. I always look over the websites of anyone in my downline and most of them don't even have ads up! One guy has the link so buried in a link farm that no one will ever see it! See where MY link is for the program?? At the TOP of my site in a very visible location!

One last recent example: CPALead is the EASIEST way to make money online right now and if you can't start off by making at LEAST $1 a day then you need to get a McJob and stop working online. Someone signed under my referral link with a perfect website for this niche (anything entertainment related), but yet hasn't made a dime. So, I checked his site and he doesn't have even ONE cpa offer added to the website yet! Not one! Yet this is the perfect site for it. The guy could be rolling in dough by now, but he's too lazy to take 30 seconds to post the affiliate code to his site. Amazing!

Conclusion. STOP trying to make money online if you're just going to sign up to something and forget about it. It's a waste of your time that could be better spent practicing how to say "Would you like fries with that?". Look, I'm a very laid back kinda guy and I always offer my personal, free mentoring to anyone who signs under me for ANYTHING I promote and is struggling to make it work for them. I'll help you all I can, but you really have to WANT to succeed. I have no time to deal with the lazy affiliate referrals.

Anyone left reading this who is ready, willing and able to succeed...step right up!!!