We’ll see it from time and time again. Some affiliate marketer will start up a new blog to make money. Sometimes it’s to mimic John Chow, Shoemoeny, <insert another blogger here>, etc. There are so many out there. One odd that is most of these affiliate marketing blogs do not actually talk about affiliate marketing, but that is for another story. This blog was never setup to make money. I started it as I felt this would be a good way to get out some of my thoughts and feelings of affiliate marketing and even off topic items, why? I have no idea, it felt like a good idea at the time. lol, you were expecting a better answer?

Now, by now just by looking at this, you should be able to tell I’m not your typical affiliate marketing blogger. I don’t have a super fancy theme, I don’t even know if it looks nice, it’s just simple and gets the job done! I’m not looking to impress here. On the upside, it tends to load well in most browsers. I don’t have any cartoon of myself or even a real picture of myself. Why? I have no idea, mostly because I haven’t put the time into this blog as I maybe should have. That is mostly because I’d rather put that time into projects where I make money than something I do for fun.

Content, what content? You’ll notice we rarely add new posts to this blog and it comes in spurs. I don’t know why when there are days with multiple posts that I don’t set some of them to publish on a future date to give a more reasonable break between and space them out evenly, this is just the way it happens :) . This is how my “creative” mind works. For a bit things spark up for a while, I get all of it out, and then when it dries up it’s back to the days on end without updates. Which I must add is a terrible way to blog. You lose readers, they lose interest as they are waiting too long for the next update. Again, some days I just sit here thinking maybe I should write a blog post, but instead I work on my campaigns!

I don’t have any fancy plug-ins or any social media integration. Why? I’m not a fan of social media (aside from advertising), I guess I might just be old or old school or just plain lazy! I just don’t know! But really, why don’t I have links to Facebook, Twitter, etc on here?

Proof reading? What is that? When my mind is on a post and I’m in the mood it just comes out and what I say stays most of the time. I don’t spend time proof-reading, brainstorming or any of that stuff that bloggers SHOULD do.

I don’t advertise my blog enough. I’m not out there replying to other people’s blog posts my url, why? I spend this time working on campaigns and projects instead. Rarely I will make a comment on a friends’ blog but that’s about it. Talk about failing at SEO and free marketing!

Oddly enough if you read this whole post and do the exact opposite you might have the blueprint for a successful blog :) . If this is something you want, just remember – don’t go starting a blog to make money, the majority of people that do this don’t make much. Start a blog for yourself, get it updated and filled with content and get a decent user base before you try to make money off it. Or if you’re like me and don’t care about making money off your blog – still do all that stuff anyways!