A Day in the Life of an Affiliate Marketer

November 19th, 2007 · Comments

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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 on WebMasterRadio.fm
12:35 - Wrap up the Affiliate Thing show and write a recap of the show for the WebmasterRadio.fm site
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