Justin Wyatt

2:26AM Happy New Year!: New Goals and I guess Resolutions?

Posted by Justin under Personal, affiliate marketing

Well this is the first New Years I’ve spent sober in recent memory, it’s probably been about 8 or 9 years.  I spent it being rather unproductive and playing Fallout 3 which I got for Christmas on my xbox 360.  It felt kinda weird doing nothing on New Years especially with the dorms being so empty but I feel good about it as I ventured into excess most nights while I was on leave the last week back home in Des Moines.  I have a few regrets and some shameful moments from this to reflect on but I’m trying not to regret as there’s not much I can do about it now.

On a lighter note one of my best-friends got married while I was on leave, Jason.  I wish him and his new wife Holly,  luck.  It was pretty great to be around them and their families compared to my usual environment here.  I also hung out with Ake quite a bit which was always a good time.

Anyway, to get down to business here, this post was more intended about my affiliate marketing venture.  For instance last month I not only made my first conversion doing it but ended up making around $480 since I’ve gone down the rabbit’s hole with this stuff.  I am pretty happy with myself on this as I’ve only really been consistently working on this and not spending more of my time reading/studying marketing and reading those godforesaken “e-books.”

I started out originally just wanting to sell one of ANYTHING at the beginning of December but by the end of it I’m VERY content with making what I did.  My goal for January is to bring in $1000.  This is not much compared to some of the guys out there but I’ve only been at this in a realistic way for about 2 months.  Most of my time at the beginning was spent reading/learning as I said earlier.  Originally, I planned on solely using this blog as a personal thing and writing reviews for products I enjoyed, but found out no one would care what I think until I’ve made a name for myself.

I guess if you want to call it a “resolution” that would be mine.  To make a name for myself this year.  Obviously my work schedule will interfere with this and I’m planning on going to school as well as a deployment if I can get a slot for one.  When I accomplish this goal, I plan on trying to find the ceiling from there, but with this sort of thing the great thing is there really is no ceiling.  That is, if you plan your business model accordingly.

Now, I am getting ahead of myself though.  I will focus just on this month making $1k.  While I’m not at my full-time job…in the military, ugh.

If you’re interested in how to do something like this please feel free to leave a comment and check out My Affiliate Networks List. I would be happy to answer any questions you have, but like I said I’m no expert, just a beginner myself. I’m getting a firm grasp on the basics though I would say for how much time I really put into actual “work” on this.