I’ve been spread all over the map and though that’s been helpful initially, I need to begin tightening things up quite a bit. I really am drawn to PPC marketing and will continue to use this as the core of everything else I do. I just need to get a whole lot more efficient with how I use it.

I really like what you say about getting a team around me. That’s a glaring need I have at the moment and is a top priority for a lot of things I’m currently doing myself.

Yep, being an eBay affiliate is not exactly the big leagues, but I’m using eBay and Adwords to test markets quickly rather than as a long term profit center. I think there are also some click flipping opportunities with it, but the investment in time so far isn’t justified by the profits.

I’m fortunate that I can muddle along with what I’m doing and support myself as I learn. I know there a lot of people who don’t have the same financial resources and patience and will ultimately give up.

Nice post, and I am glad you have been able to see some light as to how the larger profits are made.
Building relationships with these affiliate managers, by actually showing them what you can do to enhance their profits is certainly going to get you a better foothold, But this is initially going to be at a considerable cost to yourself in the begining as you would still have to outbid all the competition for the traffic.

Getting an affiliate manager upto a point of giving you the largest commissions and allowing TM bidding will still only get you so far, next step if say it was for a lead generation would be to host the white paper and form yourself and then selling the leads back to the merchant, with terms for near instant or next day payment.

This is where you can then start to make good money and allows you to be able to switch the traffic flow over to another merchant, allowing them to see what you are capable of. This is how you would be able to demand straight out the gates those super affiliate commissions and terms.

It can be done, but it aint easy nowadays, and you are going to have to build a team around you and it is going to take time and a large daily budget. Even getting on a plane and going to see the person who is the company director, he/she is the one who ultimately agrees to the ultimate deal.

Obviously, this is not going to be suited to every affiliate marketeer who wants to make a super affiliate income, and it sure is a whole different ball-game to being an ebay affiliate.