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Sponsor, help me! I can't keep up with all my affiliate programs!

So you're a "newbie" to the wonderful world of internet marketing. You want the freedom that comes with owning a home business; you want to set your own hours; you want to "make money while you sleep."

You have a terrific sponsor in your program, one who sends you tons of helpful hints on how to advertise your affiliate gateway website without spending a bunch of money. You're on a very limited budget, so you join multiple traffic exchanges and manually send links to tons of link directories and maybe you even set up a free blog that has a link back to your affiliate page.

You are on the right track! And low and behold, you start to see traffic trickling in. Now you have a couple of affiliates under you, and you keep in touch to encourage them to do exactly what you've done: start slow, build strong, get your feet wet in internet marketing.

A couple of months down the road you haven't made more than a couple of dollars because your affiliates also joined for free, so you ask your sponsor how to step up your business, because at this rate you will be 120 by the time you are able to retire from your 9 to 5. "Multiple streams of income" is his response, and he sends you a link to yet another affiliate program. Why didn't I think of this myself? Twice as many prospects, twice as much income, and my road to retirement just got cut in half.

You join, you gather banners, and you head back out to where you started back to the traffic exchanges, where you surf until you pass out to build up enough credits for 30 lucky people to see your banner; and then it's back to the link directories where you cannot find your first link to save your life, but it's out there somewhere and now every single person who surfs the net will be exposed to not one, but TWO of your links. And you mentally start spending the profits. Maybe I will be able to take my family to Hawaii next year.

Two more months go by. Now you have 16 affiliates in the first program and 3 in the second. But this time you don't need your sponsor, you know what to do you go out and find yourself a third affiliate program! First you encourage your existing affiliates to join under you (f you still have any), then its back to your old routine for traffic generation. Problem is, a whole year goes byand you still haven't managed to bring in an affiliate check for more than $6, and your boss wants you off the net and focusing on your day job. So those otherwise

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