Goal Setting Is Your Success to Affiliate Marketing

Success in affiliate marketing has a lot to do with setting goals and working toward them. It is easy to be overwhelmed with everything that you need to learn and do when you are first starting out in affiliate marketing.

There is a gap between "where you are" and "where you want to be". To bridge that gap, you need set short term goals. There are five steps involved in goal setting.

Step 1 - Identify what you want to have happen

• What do you want from affiliate marketing?
• Do you want full-time income, part-time income, work from home, or what?
• Break the goal down into smaller short term goals.
• Consider if your goal is realistic. Making $3000 a month may be initially unrealistic, but $100 a month is more achievable and will set you down the path of your higher monthly income goal.

Step 2 - Determine how you will know when you achieve it

• Identify specific criteria such as making enough money for living. How much is that exactly? How many dollars a month do you need to live?
• Identify specific, observable behaviors such as every day: I write x number of articles, create x number of back links, run x number of PPC campaigns.

Step 3 - Determine what are you willing to do or give up to become a successful affiliate marketer

• Are you willing to put in the time and effort into things that are important to do that may not be fun and definitely boring?
• There are a number of things you "should do", but are you willing? If you are not willing, or ready, you cannot move to step 4.

Step 4 - When?

• When are you going to start taking action?
• Achieving a goal requires think about it, planning the steps and actually doing the steps.
• It is more effective to establish goals for short time frames such a weeks or a month instead of years away.
• Setting specific time limits for actions is an important form of measurement.

Step 5 - Identify the stoppers

• What is stopping you? What are the roadblocks ahead? Identify them and plan ahead for them to avoid setbacks.
• What do you need to take care of today so that you can move forward?

When you are starting out in affiliate marketing, there are three main obstacles to your success: There is a lot to learn, Information overload, and Going it alone. Not getting overwhelmed, not knowing what to do and having no support are all obstacles to your affiliate marketing success. At Wealthy Affiliate University you can get everything you need to be successful at Internet marketing. Click the link and find out.