A Day in the Life of an Affiliate Marketer
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I’m going to take you on a little tour of a day in the life of an affiliate marketing. In this case, it’s a chronicle of what I did on Wednesday, November 14, 2007.
Since I get questions about my typical day at AskShawnCollins.com from time to time, I thought I’d put together a short video to tell the story.
My day consists of various things related to being an affiliate, affiliate manager and working on the Affiliate Summit conference.
Here is a time-line from this day:
- 01:00 – Start of the day with a post to my blog and catch up on e-mail – then some sleep
- 07:00 – Wake up with some Diet Dr. Pepper and check out e-mails that came overnight
- 07:30 – Team up with my dog, Mickey, to wake up my three daughters
- 07:45 – Drink some hot caffeine in the form of black coffee; breakfast for the kids
- 08:00 – Double-team the kids with my wife, Vicky, to get teeth and hair brushed
- 08:10 – Walk my daughter, Caity, to school
- 08:20 – Wait for the bus with my daughter, Lexie
- 08:30 – Write up letters to welcome the Affiliate Summit speakers
- 09:15 – Drive my daughter, Kerri, to school
- 10:00 – Weekly call with Payless ShoeSource to discuss the latest on the affiliate program
- 11:00 – Work up a list of stories to cover on the Affiliate Thing show
- 12:00 – Co-host the Affiliate Thing show with Lisa Picarille of Revenue Magazine
- 12:35 – Wrap up the Affiliate Thing show and write a recap of the show for the Affiliate Thing show
- 13:00 – Wolf down a sandwich for lunch
- 13:30 – Walk a few miles to get fresh air, exercise, deposit affiliate checks, pick up mail, and catch up on podcasts
- 14:30 – Shower and shave
- 15:00 – Record a video review for WeViews.tv and a few other videos for various projects
- 16:00 – Edit the videos with Sony Vegas Movie Studio software
- 16:30 – Render the videos (compile them into a format suitable for uploading)
- 17:00 – Upload the videos to TubeMogul.com to distribute them
- 17:45 – Write a blog post for WeViews.tv on Send a Ball
- 18:30 – Spark up the grill and cook some dinner
- 20:00 – Wash the dishes and clean up the kitchen – then some hang time with my wife until she goes to sleep
- 23:00 – Finish off this day by the glow of my monitor. I write the weekly Affiliate Summit newsletter and set it up to mail the next day in AWeber
By the way, the video for a day in my life was shot on my Flip Video Ultra and MacBook 13-inch White 2.16GHz.
Thanks for spending the day with me.
- Posted in Affiliate Resources, Ask Shawn Collins
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Interesting thing is that my schedule is a little bit “shrieked” because of time zone (CET here), but I also have to start day with cafe and 3 daughters… still pre-school age, but my main work time is more in developing new applications, analyzing traffic optimizing, and optimizing… logging 15-50 times to CJ, LinkShare, Performics… and others, mailing affilate managers, resolving problems… and once per month summarizing all my in and outs.
reply to this commentGreat job, Shawn! Great ‘In the Life’ video. I would hope to be as ambitious and productive as you are sometime soon! And thank you for your daily blogs too, which I find crazy useful!
Cheers,
reply to this commentMatt
Hey Shawn
I first came across you on Youtube, but find the everyday “mundane” mechanics of working for yourself more enjoyable…great video. I just retired from 25 years of working for the Government and private business to go into business for myself! Keep up the great work.
NEF
reply to this commentI love it. That was fun to watch.
reply to this commentEnjoyable and enlightening.
I’ve not been that big on jumping in to video blogging that much, but I enjoy most of the video’s you’ve done. One question though… do you get loads of strange looks from your wife and kids when you are putting together videos? lol
I especially have enjoyed the progression of your video skills and effects since the first videos I saw on YouTube.
reply to this comment> One question though… do you get loads of strange looks from your wife and kids when you are putting together videos?
They are used to it now, but they still think it’s weird when I’m sitting there talking to a laptop.
reply to this commentMan, you are really busy and have alot of responsibility. Looks like you are doing pretty good for yourself tho. My day is a little like that but I go to work for a fews hours as well and only do affiliate marketing part time.
reply to this commentI found your video very useful from the point of view of the organisation of time – something which is not easy when working at home.
I’m pleased to say that I take time out to walk for a while everyday too. A useful moment for ‘thinking’
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