Affiliate Competition: Tyler vs Gyutae, Week 1
August 20, 2008 Posted by Tyler Cruz
It’s been just over a week since I announced my personal affiliate competition against Gyutae from WinningTheWeb, and I’m sure a lot of you are interested in hearing how it’s gone so far.
Unfortunately, I have bad news. The truth is that I haven’t spent a single second on any of my campaigns since I published that post. In fact, I haven’t really done much work on my campaigns period, no matter the timeframe.
I know a lot of you will immediately proclaim this as laziness - and honestly, that is probably a part of it. But I’ve just been so busy lately. Part of the reason Gyutae and I ran this competition between us in the first place was to help kick ourselves into high fear and force ourselves to prioritize our self-learning of affiliate marketing.
I’ve just been so busy lately. My blog takes up a lot of time, especially lately with all of my MarketLeverage contests. Yesterday, for instance, I spent 3 hours setting up all the prizes for the next competition - and I still have to get them approved and confirmed! I also had orders for two new paid reviews this week, which always takes time.
On top of that, I have my couple dozen of sites to manage, and have been working a lot of hours on PublisherSpot the past 6 weeks as well.
But even with all this, I still find myself with available time that I could, and should, be working on my affiliate campaigns. After all, I haven’t touched my campaigns, even though I’m currently in this competition vs Gyutae and have been letting my campaigns lose me $30-40 per day simply because I have been too lazy (that’s what it boils down to) to do anything about it.
Then again, I don’t want to just eat, sleep, and work either. I need my own personal and social time as well.
But, those are still excuses. I know of several times where I didn’t do any work on my affiliate stuff simply because I was bored and tired of working and wanted to watch the Olympics or read a book. Heh, even as I type this blog post, I know that I’m going to take a break once I finish it.
I need to try to overcome these moments, and just work. If I don’t, I’ll continue to lose money on affiliate marketing and get nowhere. Even worse, I’ll have to concede the competition go Gyutae and record a humiliation video.
I really need to get cracking. I’ve already wasted a quarter of my time, and time is all too precious when it comes to affiliate marketing competitions…
Hey Tyler or anyone,
Do you think I would make money quicker if I create a landpage?or blog?
Hope you can answer ty
Haha tyler I know what you mean in this post
Quicker as compared to what?
Hey Tyler,
Do you think you can get me a free text link with keyword “free iPod Touch” to my website on your blog?
Hey Tyler,
Can you take a look at my website and suggest any tips to increase my revenue or any other ad networks I can join?
I don’t believe in quick money online unless it’s the grab a few bucks and that’s it method.
It takes time to generate a good stream of solid income no matter what you do.
By the way Tyler, you can still do it - you sound exactly like me when it comes to work. Just gets on top some times.
The more you work nowm, the less you will have to later on
No problem Tyler, it’s understandable! You’ll just have to work twice as hard this week to catch up!
Go Tyler! I supported you for your last contest against Gyutae and I will definitely support you again!
Work hard and I bet you will beat Gyutae.
I would suggest you talk to your competition winner on how to make some money with affiliate marketing. He seems to be getting it done!
I would kinda like to see the humiliation video to be honest lol. It would probably get you a crapload of traffic anyways.
I just think why would people click on your landing page lol it looks like a niche by looking at it?
I feel the sameway sometimes. I haven’t tested anything in a while. Only because i’m lazy.
It sounds to me like you’re feeling a bit burned out.
Sometimes instead of trying to get your butt to work, the best strategy is to actually take a few days off to really do absolutely NOTHING and get some rest.
Then when you come back, you feel recharged and ready to kick some butt.
I had a similar thing happen to me just a few weeks ago and that’s what I ended up doing. Wrote about it here:
http://www.inspiredmoneymaker.com/2008/08/11/low-on-energy-get-some-rest/
hmm work lil harder tyler, and u will beat ur opponent with ease
I think both you and Gyutae have not done anything yet because you guys realize that this is just a friendly competition. I am sure if you compete for a big prize, you’ll do better and harder.