I was hanging around WebmasterWorld for a bit the other day and stumbled across a thread 3 steps to making more money via Affiliate Marketing. Great thread!

I used that information to pull together this short list for myself:

Online Focus For Income Growth & Success

• Increase Traffic & Traffic Channels (ppc, newsletters, advertising, etc.)
• Increase Commission Rate You Receive
• Increase Repeat Traffic
• Increase Conversion Rate
• Remove Leaks & Purge Regularly
• Diversify Income Streams
• Maximize Revenue Potential (What big opportunity are you missing on each domain?)
• Watch Your ROI
• Invest Your Income In Growth & Appreciating Assets
• Look For Ways To Succeed, Not Reasons To Fail

Each point is important and I haven’t put them in any particular order. I’d like to say that each and every day I’m going to work on every single point. But that’s unrealistic for me — my real life schedule doesn’t allow the time.

So for those days that I can’t purposefully work on each of those goals, my top three will be:

• Increase Traffic & Traffic Channels (ppc, newsletters, advertising, etc.)
• Increase Commission Rate You Receive
• Increase Conversion Rate

One is working on generating growth (building traffic), the other two are working with and improving what I already have (increasing commission rate and conversion rate).

A nice recipe I think ;).