How much of your time is spent on affiliate marketing

[MichaelCorfman]

For some of us, online gaming affiliate marketing is our full-time job. For others it is a part-time job, and for some of us it is really just a hobby. How much time do you usually spend in a week on activites trying to earn affiliate revenue.

And if some of that time is focused outsite the online gaming arena, perhaps you can post a reply about how you split your time between online gaming and other affiliate programs.

Michael

[aksana]

as much as I can. it's a fantastic business and I love it very much, and I spend a lot of time.. I don't remember when I had weekends, when I did nothing and had a rest.

[Don]

As much time as I can, which is not enough. I try to get away from work on weekends. I have projects in nutrition and financiial industries also. But this is the most interesting one for me, so I spend more time with it.

[matted]

I find the more money I make, the more time I spend... For a while it was probably about 80hrs/week AFTER my 40 hr-week day job. With a family now, I've cut my time way back.

Biggest challenge now is spending less time on the forums and more time on my sites.

[bb1web]

Biggest challenge now is spending less time on the forums and more time on my sites.<!-- / message --><!-- sig -->

ain't it the truth!

I enjoy (sometimes way too much) reading the intelligent posts made and am often very amazed at how smart .... far-sighted the affs are ... in comparison to the program's we promote.

and the amazing thing to me is ..... is that the wisdom is there in front of them and they choose to ignore it.

be different if they didn't have a clue.

[pgaming]

At my keyboard probably 70 hours/week. I may have some time managment issues for sure. I spend way to much time looking things up and not enough time on my site. But I am improving slowly and spend 80% on my site.

It seems like I am always in a state of confusion doesn't help matters much. Still have lots to learn.

greek39

[WinYourWayKyle]

I find that I will spend about 50 hours at my keyboard doing affiliate marketing, which is on top of owning my own entertainment company. I tend to find that I get "caught up in the moment" when I am doing affiliate marketing, and I will notice that eight hours later I will wonder where the time went.

My main problem is that I have to stop becoming a "workaholic", and work on finding time for a more enjoyable social life, which I am working on.

[villa10]

About 50 hours a week , but running 5 websites.
Only one in the casino industry.
Yes or yes at some stage there are tasks to be delegated.

[donnajyc]

I do about 20-29 hours per week. I would love to do more, but I can't complain. My "day-time" job actually coincides with my affilaite web site. I research and write about SEO, casinos, gambling news, etc. Basically everything a casino affiliate web site has to offer, I write about it. So if you consider that part of my affiliate marketing, I'd up it to 60-70 hours a week. Though 40 of that is devoted to work, and 20-30 to my own site.

I used to be a computer-addict, spending literally 16+ hours a day on the computer, but that was before I got into the affilaite marketing business, and before I had a family. If I didn't have a family, I would easily spend at least 120 hours a week at my computer.

[Ziggy]

This is actually a tough question to answer.

I don't own a television - I refuse to watch idiocy. I obtain all my news, both text and video, from online. I own other non-gambling sites, so my time is spent on them as well. My favorite online audio news source? npr.org (sweet).

I have relatives who probably think I am watching porn (but are too gracious to say so). LOL (...and no I do not...) again, LOL

After reading most of the breaking news my morning actually begins with all my gambling forums...and my days ends that way as well. Its my way of keeping my "pluse" on the industry.

So, since my life revolves around the net, it is difficult to place an "hours" time value on my website "work" - lets just say its my lifestyle.

My 22-yeard old nephew, whom I helped raise, referred to me as a computer nerd (greatest compliment this ol' guy ever received). LOL

[Former Member 14]

Well I spend most of my waking hours in front of the PC...

I hardly ever watch TV unless it's a DVD or for that matter listen to CD on my stereo.

Like Ziggy, I obtain all my news from the net.

In so far as time spent on affiliate stuff, I'd say I'm putting in around 40 hours a week.

Other stuff, like running my web dev business takes another 40 - 50 hours a week.

Then there is my online gaming (casinos) and playing a few PC games too, that adds up to another 20 hours a week.

Combine that with posting to forums (gambling) and answering emails...

I'm surprised that my other 1/2 hasn't left me for the milk man...

Guess she must really love me!


Cheers


Dave

[codename]

since affiliate marketing is performance based, we are forced to put in the maximum amount of hours humanly possible and still manage to lead a balanced life and some time for family. the funny thing is, sometimes we work so hard yet get NO RESULTS or NEGATIVE RESULTS, then when we curse it all to be damned - the RESULTS go for a BIG REBOUND. I just remind myself that the house never losses - our content keeps those players playing at the casinos.

[Enke]

Once you get affiliate marketing in your blood it is hard to sit on the couch and watch mindless b.s. on the television. I find myself sitting on the couch at night with a laptop while my wife watches "Dancing with the stars"

I would say I spend at least 60 hours on the internet in a week, although I love what I do so I wouldn't trade it for a 25 hour office job in a cubicle for all the money in the world.

Besides that, I can get televison on my laptop if I really need it.

[Topboss]

Its hard to say exactly how many hours I work on my sites but my day goes something like this

7am Leave home for the day job as a Credit manager for a Bank ( used to be my fulltime job and then cut it down to half day )
Leave the bank at 1pm and drive to my "Topboss Offices "
Arrive at Topboss at 2pm and work there until 4pm ( 1 hour drive away from the Bank )
Leave Topboss offices at 4pm and arrive home at 4.15pm
Work at my "home office " until 6pm
Do the dinner , catchup on my kids news , have a drink by the pool with the husband until about 7.30pm
Back into the home office by 8pm and work through until 2am

Oh Boy - I have just realised that I DON'T HAVE A LIFE !!!!!

[Nandakishore]

I came into this online casino affiliate business one year ago. Since then I am spending in average around 30-35 hrs/week. I wish I could spend some more. There are so many different and interesting aspects in this business.

Nandakishore
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