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Tomorrow me and my wife are off to China and Thailand for a 10 day vacation.  We are going with my brother-in-law, sister-in-law, and their spouses.  We are so stoked about this trip.  This will be the first kid free vacation in quite a while so we are really, really looking forward to this.  Don’t get me wrong, we deeply love our kids but this is a well deserved vacation for me and my wife.

How about that, this affiliate marketer is about to soon be a world traveler.

First we are headed to China for a few days.  We are only staying a few days because the weather is very cold this time of year.  We have been checking the weather and the temperature in the morning has been around 18 degrees F while the high is around the low 30′s.

After China, we are then headed to Thailand where the temperature will be in the 70′s.  So you can see why we are spending the majority of our vacation in Thailand.

Wow!  We are only 10 days into 2012 and I feel like I am already behind.  It is amazing how quickly I seem to get behind at times and other times I feel like I am ahead of the game.

I have been working on building backlinks to my affiliate sites but for some reason this task seems harder for me right now.

2012 Online Affiliate Marketing Action Plan

I have realized that I need to go back and look at my 2012 Online Affiliate Marketing Action Plan.

I am excited about my plans this year and making money as an online affiliate marketer.

If you are wondering why then I have some good news for you.

I can visualize my path to success and many exciting achievements that lies ahead for this year.

Do you have an action plan for 2012?

Most people never plan,therefore setting themselves up to make no money.

I know how this feels because I have been there myself when first getting started.

In a nutshell here are my plans to promote Amazon products in the coming year.

Hey, it’s me, Rick Byrd… remember me… I used to blog. LOL!

I am still here and still climbing the ladder of success (I think I am only on rung six) and have just not blogged lately and for that I am truly sorry.

2012 is Going to be My Year…Is it Going to be Yours?

This year I am going to ramp up my Affiliate Marketing business.  The last three months of 2011 as a full-time Affiliate Marketer have been fun but not without some bumps (as to be expected).  I was able to build 4 websites that promoted Amazon products.  Each site is a review style site.  So far all 4 sites are niche based, where I review several products in a given niche.  I also plan to create sites that are product specific for one product.  I will utilize the style or model number as the domain name.  I was able to make a few hundred dollars but that is no where close to my goal.  However, looking at the positive side, this just shows me that I can make money online and I just need to ramp up my efforts.  I have learned much about keyword research and now I am focusing on backlinking.  Building quality backlinks is definitely tougher than I originally expected.

Is it too late to get started in Affiliate Marketing?

I received an email from a subscriber (Gary).

Gary asked: I am a newbie and I am thinking about getting involved in affiliate marketing – Do you think affiliate marketing is saturated?  It seems every guru is selling an affiliate marketing program to teach others how to do affiliate marketing.

At first I was a little taken back by the question, then I started talking to my wife about the question and came to the conclusion that if one person asked the question there are probably others that have the same question but my not ask it. So watch the video to see my answer.

Affiliate Marketing is a method of online marketing and can be used in any niche.

As an affiliate marketer, I promote products online from treadmills to fine china – and everything in between. Most often I promote physical products.

There is a common misconception that Affiliate Marketing is all about selling ebooks or info-products about Affiliate Marketing. However, there is actually Affiliate Marketing as a niche and Affiliate Marketing as a method…