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Is this the million dollar question? Ah…No. But I propose to call it the $1 per day question. Huh? Let me explain.

There is so many things out on the internet that say something like, “How to make $500 day on the internet using these 3 simple steps.” Let me give you some free advice. Ignore those.
I’ve read a few and it’s all garbage. Honestly, think about it. Are they making $500 per day? If they are it’s from all the suckers who gave them $99 for their “groundbreaking” e-book. So that’s one way to do it, but not the way they will tell you in their book. Usually the 3 simple steps are:

1. Start a website or blog.
2. Sell popular products (like everyone else).
3. Market those products on search engines (not simple).

If someone is promoting an offer that is making them $500 per day, do you really think they are going to tell you about it? A few years ago I ran an offer that made me $800 per day. Guess what? I didn’t tell a soul about it until my luck ran out. Why would I do that? I tell people and now I’m competing against them.

I’m writing this post to give you real advice. Advice you can actually use today. It will not make you millions of dollars but it will change your perspective in a way to help you grow your affiliate marketing efforts.

Most affiliate marketers have their day job and use affiliate marketing as supplemental income. Yes, you’d love to have it be your full-time job but, then again, I’d like to play for the Atlanta Braves.
Very few have this privilege. Right now, I want you to focus only on where your affiliate marketing business is today.

Remember the story of The Tortoise and the Hare? Slow and steady wins the race. That’s the theme for this advice. I want you to look at what your currently doing and ask yourself this question:

What Can I Do To Make $1 More Per Day?

One lousy buck? Come on Jason! Listen. $1 per day is $30 per month or $365 per year. Now, still not going to pay off your mortgage but I’ve at least peaked your interest. Do what you must to make $1 per day more. Here are a few ideas:

1. Write some Squidoo lenses or Hubpages promoting products with great content.
2. Start a blog focusing on a micro-niche. Free idea: Nascar Baby Gifts. What I usually recommend doing is looking at a site you’d like to promote. Pick one of their sub-categories and make a micro-niche site/blog out of just those products.
3. Move up a few spots on Google by researching some SEO strategies and doing some hard work to implement it.
4. Make your landing pages better (split-testing).
5. Improve the look of your site. After we re-designed CornerStorkBabyGifts.com our conversion rate improved by 15%. We all know the math but we forget that improving a conversion rate from 1% to 2% DOUBLES your income!

The point of this post is not to give you ideas, but to change your mindset. Work hard, do what it takes to reach that $1 per day increase. If it takes a $100 investment to get there, do it. Usually, though, it’s going to take the investment of your time. Time to find a good link exchange partner, time to write great content/lens/article, time to create a better landing page, time to create another website, etc..

What happens when I reach my $1 per day goal?
Do it again. And again. And again. Now your up to making $5 per day or $1825 more per year. After awhile you’ll get better at generating those extra dollars that you’ll be asking yourself:

What Can I Do To Make $10 More Per Day?

Still may not seem like much but it’s $300 per month (would that pay your electric bill?) or $3,600 per year. I’m not going to lie to you. It’s hard work, but you’ll discover that affiliate marketing is a lot about building. Continue to build. Create a site that makes you $100 per month. Then build another. And another. Make them sites that require a small amount of maintenance.

Affiliate marketing is a lot about mathematics. $100,000 is a big number. But if we break it down, it’s only $12 per hour! $12 bucks an hour! I can make that working at almost anywhere. Go, get working. You’ve wasted too much time reading this.