Welcom To The Straight Forward Affiliate Blog!

Ok now that the niceties are over here's the deal, this blog was created and is dedicated to giving you a No Hype No Bull Sh*% look at affiliate marketing. While trying to teach you a thing or two that will save you a lot of headaches. I am sick of all the hyped up products claiming to make you rich overnight. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!!! If you want real answers to your affiliate marketing questions, real help, and honest reviews of good products read on. If you are happy wasting your time and money on useless hyped up products LEAVE NOW!

Monday, November 5, 2007

The Intro

As I have already stated this is a no holds barred look into the world of affiliate marketing. I am not a guru! Never claimed to be never will, I am not going to come on here and hype myself up or claim that I know more than the next guy or that I make X amount of $$$ or that I am the greatest affiliate marketer out there.
I will never show you a copy of my accounts, or checks that I have cashed, cause that is not what this blog is about, and quite frankly it is none of your damn business how much I make.
All you need to know is the information I will supply you with is honest, good, reliable no bullshit information that when applied can help you to succeed in the very tuff business of affiliate marketing.
What I am going to give to you here is going to make it a little easier to succeed(but only if you use it).
I know what i am talking about because I to was like you a year and a half ago I was tooling along going about my day to day. Everything was good, I had my own business, was in my second year and was starting to build a good client base. Money was not a problem, business was good life was good.
Then BAMM! It all fell apart almost overnight. The Field that I was in crashed and crashed hard, business dropped off, clients disappeared and with them the money.
Life wasn't so good anymore! I needed to make money and I needed to make it now! And being that I have never been to good at working for someone else getting a normal 9-5 was out of the question.
So one day while on the Internet I did a Google search for "How to make money on the Internet" and that's when it started. My quest to learn everything that i could about Internet Marketing and make a full time living without ever having to leave my house.
I spent countless hours researching and reading everything that I could find. I tried this and that and nothing seemed to work. I knew someone was making money online "that's what all the websites kept telling me anyway" or were they just trying to sell me there books. Hmm? I bought book after book, program after program, all claiming they were the answer to all of my problems and that If I just bought this one last book I would be cashing checks faster than I could sign them. WRONG!!!!! WRONG!!!!!
I then stumbled upon what I was looking for, I found the answers that I needed and they didn't come from a book, they come from some very helpful people a lot of hard work and a never quit attitude.
I can help you with the helpful people part, but do you have the gumption to put in the hard work and do you have the right attitude. Those I can not help you with, those you have to answer for yourself. Because the first lesson I am going to teach you is that if someone is telling you they are going to show you in a book how you can be making $20k,$30k,$40k in the next two weeks.
They are full of SHIT! The only person who is going to be making that is the guy selling the book.
First Lesson: If it looks to good to be true and Sounds to good to be true, Then it's probably NOT TRUE!
Now don't get me wrong, not all ebooks are hype, not all ebooks are crap, not all ebooks or programs are to good to be true. Some are full of helpful information and can be very good learning tools. I have several in my collection that I would buy again and have learned a great deal from. If you purchase the right ones they will teach you they will save you time and they will help you to make more money. Usually those are the ones that don't make outrageous claims of untold riches, those are the ones that say hey here is some information on this subject that when applied correctly will help you in your endeavours.
So that is my intro to this blog, Like I said I am a down to earth no B.S. type of guy who tells it like it is. I like helping people and will try to help as many as I can just like the ones that have helped me along the way.