affiliate marketing firsts

Here's a guy who shares my sentiments regarding affiliate marketing. Check out Neil Shearing's blog, particularly one of his entries on affiliate marketing and you'll see what I mean. His blog covers all types of money-making internet ordeals. With regards to affiliate marketing and Adwords, he reveals much of what I have suspected - that the "real money" to be made is on the undiscovered keywords. Once again - you have to be first at something to be truly successful. Aside from that approach, you can also do your day-to-day balancing act with your PPC costs and affiliate sales, but they are rarely static or predictable from my experience.

So the key is to keep moving, continue looking for that next hidden jewel in the marketing world, and keep your competitors guessing. So much for passive income, eh?

On a side-note, I am finding it refreshing that there are so many decent money-making blogs, like Neil's, where you can find actual information and advice on affiliate marketing. It sure beats the hard sell sites that throw fifty pages worth of text into one page in an attempt to sell you an e-book on how to make thousands of dollars a day by working for 5 minutes a week.