This is what I have learned and before you even start you must not, I repeat, must not skip this part of Affiliate Marketing, this is the most important thing you will ever learn. If you do nothing else in your life but apply the methods you will learn in these series of articles I will be publishing, you will have a win win situation in what ever you decide to do.

You must plan, I know, you have heard this before, boring, I also thought so until I realised that this is what every great Entrepreneur does, this was drummed into me. Today I will never be without this plan, why, because it works, it’s as simple as that nor is it difficult here are the steps.

1. Get a note book and write everything down. All the stages of your progress, it may not seem important at this moment, but believe me this is the most important step of the whole process especially when you look back in 6 months time. You will be able to help others just by what you learn and struggled with, you may even be able to write an e-book from your notes.

2. How would you like to see yourself living in one year from now? Would you like to have a new car, house, finish the bank loan, earn $50,000 in one year etc., write it all down.

3. Now break it down into 6 months, where would you like to be in 6 months from now. What’s important is also to add your hobbies and things you like to do, you must include fun into your plan. Maybe you would like to take a trip abroad or you would like to spend a few days just concentrating on your hobby. It is important to also enjoy life otherwise your new business will become a drudgery. you will lose the motivation to keep going. Believe me all work and no play!

4. Do the same for every 3 months making sure that you keep at least one day free for your family, friends or yourself. After you have planned your three months just get a calendar and mark of the weekend or day you have decided not to work. Mark of with a red pen, your holiday or short trips or any days during the 3 months you know you will not be working on building your business and then see how many days are left. You will be surprised to see that actually you will have much less time to focus on building your business than you thought.

5. Now you will get a much better idea of how to do the weekly plan for the first 3 months. Start with the most important things to do first and then the second and what’s not so important. Work out the days that you will have to focus on your new business from the days not marked out in your 3 month calendar. This way you will have a better idea of how much time you have each week and what should be focused on first.

6. Most important always make a daily plan for the next day. Never miss this step. This is the actual practical doing daily so that you will actually find yourself moving forward just because you planned your next day. In the next article I will be breaking down a day to give you some idea of how to go about this.

Ok so step 2 – 5 is general and maybe you will not know exactly what you should be doing so just generalise for now. Even if you do not hit your goal do not dwell on it. What is important is step 6 – The Doing.

Just dreaming about achieving success will not get you anywhere, but doing it will get you there one step at a time, believe me. Until I did this I was running around in circles so please do not take this part lightly, do it. So if you want to know what I found and where my success came from.

In my future articles I will do my best to actually show you how to breakdown a daily plan, weekly and 3 monthly plan that I use and have found to be very useful.