When looking for work at home affiliate programs a period of time spent researching them is time well spent. Many of these programs promises unbelievable earning in a relatively short period of time. Those are not worth pursuing but there are many legitimate opportunities to make money online through affiliate marketing.

The image of working from home in your flannel pajamas is the picture of comfort and ease that is used to lure many entrepreneurs to signing up with work from home affiliate programs. The truth is you can be wearing your pajamas but you will need to put in hours of work.

First, you will start by researching the online business model that appeal to you.

Researching the best work at home affiliate programs will be one of the most critical and time consuming phases of becoming a financially successful affiliate. Collect and organize material on the different affiliate programs in a binder and create a comparison sheet that includes the details of each that include product, customer cost, commission structure, training offered, sales material provided, software support, etc.

Reviewing the summary will generate targeted questions to ask the owners of the programs that appeal to you. Owners should be available and willing to answer your questions if they are clear and concise as they stand to profit from adding you to their network.

Making an educated decision before you start spending your precious time and a lot of money on different online marketing campaign is the only way of taking advantage of these work at home affiliate opportunities.

Remember that many affiliates fail online because they don’t invest in their education.

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In fact I took a pretty big vacation from IM and my laptop … I didn’t work seriously since February 2008.  I just came back online last month. That gives me 4 months of getting busy on the net.  IM is cool.  It’s really do what you like when you like.

I enjoy Internet marketing, but I also have many offline activities, my wife, two children (a new baby for one month!), and I also need to practice. I’m a Ju-jutsu and Silat expert if you don’t know. Heck, before IM, I was a body guard…

So what I learned in 2008?

1.  I learned that one of the most important thing is to take care of … YOU. If you are tired and exhausted, your web biz will not improve.

2.  I learned that you need to outsource to make more money and have more time.

If you are not outsourcing yet, you should start. You can get people to work for you on elance.com for $3 to $15+ an hour. I like to work with VAs, and I am sure that once you start, you will wonder why you never outsourced before.

3.  I learned to keep organized and to track the more important data of my business to instantly see what’s improving, what’s going wrong, and where I should focus my efforts.

4.  I learned that your subscribers is a really important part of your business.

I am going to spend more time with my subscribers (especially newbies), and this blog is a mean to communicate more effectively with you. I can get your feedback, and

5.  I learned that I am even more dumb than I thought with everything technology. If you use to read my previous blog, it was hacked a couple of weeks ago. It’s my fault, I tried to do everything myself before, and I didn’t remove the 777 permission in wordpress (I think I didn’t say this clearly).

This send us back to point #2: outsourcing. Let the experts do the work for you.

6.  I learned that the web is changing and really becoming 2.0. You need to HELP people in your niche instead of trying to sell them all the crap.

7.  I learned to network with other marketers. I experimented in the JV field and I must say that it’s worth it.

8.  I invested more in my business. I even tried PPC again.

9. I learned the difference between tactics and long term strategies.

10. I learned so many things that I can even remember then right now, but I will post about them as they come.

I’ve also done things that I don’t reveal often, but I’ve lost a lot of money…

How?

I rejected dozens and dozens of JV offers and swipe emails last year. I do not build a list to promote every single ebook on the Internet.

I make sure that I only promote quality products to my subscribers.

I only promote products that you need and can help you to grow your web business. For example, I promoted the Ultimate Marketing Center, or Eben’s Get Altitude program, Mark’s Affiloblueprint because I know that you will benefit from them.

In fact, almost everything I learned is from the get altitude program.  I already tested some of the awesome strategies Eben Pagan teaches, and I guarantee that they work. In fact, most of what I’ve tested worked instantly.  Some of these techniques worked so well that I got to stop them (like I did with my APM monthly club). I wasn’t prepared.

Franck.

What did you learn in 2008?