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How to Respond to Failure (Part 2)

Posted on May 28, 2009 in Working Online  

In the first post (How To Respond to Failure Part 1) I covered how failure needs to become an affiliate marketers friend. I went in to detail about how failure is a NECESSARY part of this business and it should not be feared, rather EXPECTED. Some would say why? Some live in a make believe land where all who are famous got to that position without hard work, disappointment, and failure. I do not, nor should you.

So why?

Failure is a friend because it CANNOT become an enemy. Yes, you don’t want to visit failure’s house hourly or daily, but if you aren’t visiting on occasion, you aren’t succeeding in business. When failure becomes an enemy, fear begins to establish a stronghold. Fearful and timid affiliate marketers quit at an astonishing rate, most before ever really becoming affiliate marketers in the first place. You simply cannot allow discouragement to set in when you are a one or two man operation (obviously most affiliate marketers are one man shows). When you are down and discouraged, who is there to pick you up?

Failure can hurt and often will hurt, but it only means you are getting closer to finding what will work. A real key here is to minimize the COST OF FAILURE. Obviously you can play it smart and have a failure cost you $100, or you can be over zealous (far from conservative) and foolish in your actions where a failure can then cost you $10,000. I like to fail small…then win big!

Be smart and manage your failures wisely. This will involve some planning, it will involve more research, but this is your business. Treat it like one. Allow every failure to shine its light on your path to a profiting campaign, business plan, or overall success.



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3 Responses to “How to Respond to Failure (Part 2)”

  1. BYOW on May 29th, 2009 1:15 pm

    This post is a very good one, everything you said in here is so true and it also helps a lot. as long as you manage your failures and learn from them you will be successful I like great post.

  2. FokuFolik on May 31st, 2009 10:42 am

    Good article, Thanks.

  3. Kelly Brown on June 12th, 2009 12:53 pm

    Hi, very nice post. I have been wonder’n bout this issue,so thanks for posting

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