I’m not sure where I’m going with this post. Maybe it’s a personal observation and something I need to work on. I guess I should start out…

“Hi, my name is Hank… and I’m addicted to stats”

I would be embarrassed if I counted how many times I log into CJ or EPN’s control panel to see my numbers. I’m particularly most annoyed with my habit to login to EPN, since that updates (earnings) once a day. I think I find myself checking to see if earnings had posted, but even after they post, I still login often.. I guess to see what my click counts are doing. It’s quite silly. With Amazon, I only check once a day (in the morning) since earnings/clicks only post once. CJ, I check continually (same time as EPN), but at least earnings trickle throughout the day.

What I’m not liking is the time I waste doing this. Add this to my email and IM/Twitter  conversations, and various mailing lists alerts, I know I spend a lot of time where I could probably save a lot by doing it once at set time. This is where the addiction is identified. The thought of doing it once a day, seems ‘weird’ to me. It’s like I need to do it all day long?

Am I alone here? Or are there other internet marketers wasting time on earning stats? What’s the cure? Is there a patch of some sort?

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I was asked this a few weeks ago, and can understand and relate to the question. Especially, when Shoemoney discussed it a few times in the past, and so does Darren at ProBlogger. Money blogs are one of the most saturated blog niches out there. Especially since you’re catering to people that won’t click on affiliate links, etc and are generally somewhat knowledgeable about the area of Internet marketing.

Now, to fully understand my goals for the site, my plan is to NOT make money with this blog. My money generators are other sites not related to internet marketing directly. The reason why I created this site was to form some kind of online presence in affiliate marketing. I’m not sure what your present situation is, but I’m a individual that does web programming for a living, and I’m starting to make the push into marketing, since it really interests me. I have programming friends and associates, we have lunch and brainstorm each others problems or current challenges, but when it comes to marketing, I have absolutely no one to ‘have lunch’ with. I find this odd, but I do believe there are different types of individuals out there.. and marketers / entrepreneurs (which also happen to be programmers) are very hard to find. I thought by starting this blog and possibly bouncing ideas off of a few people (contacts met here or from digital point), that we could all benefit in the end.

The other reason why I wanted to do this, is because I’m a heavy believer of Affirmative Thinking, and by focusing positive / productive energy on your goals, they will happen. I figured this blog would help to maintain a creative thought process and to push to me to reach my goals.

Speaking of which, I want to clarify a few things about me. I do NOT want to come off as a successful marketer. I’m very much a noob, in the field. I’ve been working in this arena for just over a year. I’ve been seeing a steady climb in revenue, but I’m not a player by any means.. not yet.

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