Newbie Tip: Set Your Minimum Affiliate Commission Payouts To $1000 - Here's why...

Hey Newbies,


I have a real fondness for you guys. Especially those of you that are eager enough to take consistent action. It's so cool to see newbies "take flight" and finally learn how to develop and maintain long term streams of income.

Here's a tip that really helped me out when I first started affiliate marketing:

Set your minimum affiliate commissions to $1000. Meaning, in your affiliate accounts (ie. Clickbank), you have the ability to edit the minimum amount of commissions earned before they send you a check or electronic transfer. Change that amount from the default to $1000.

Now, before you make a judgment, hear me out. When I first started affiliate marketing, I did what most newbies did and set the minimum at the lowest amount available (it was either $25 or $50).

I wanted to have those commissions in my hand asap. And do you know what happened?

I would work on projects. Make a sale eventually. Get $25 commission checks every few months. Blah blah blah. Boring, right?

And that's the key: getting those little affiliate commission checks were nice, but they weren't very exciting. Meaning, it was hard to get motivated getting those small commission checks.

Now, once you set your minimum affiliate payout to $1000, things change significantly.

What's more exciting? Holding a commission check in your hand from Clickbank for $26.27, or holding one for $1,017.93? The second one obviously.

Now, a thousand dollar check, that's exciting. That's sexy. That gets me motivated. And I know logically that $1000 is the same as 40 checks of $25. But they are much different psychologically.

Delaying gratification forces you to finish the job. You don't get those small checks to satisfy the hunger you feel. And that's critical because sometimes getting that satisfaction causes you to lose the hunger and slow down your marketing efforts.

But if you know that you have to wait until you get to $1000, you will get INCREASING more motivated the closer you get to $1000. It's like running a race. As you near the end of it, you feel totally exhausted and struggling to finish.

But once you see the finish line, you start to pick up your step. You try and finish strong. Even though you just felt totally spent, seeing the finish line causes us to run faster.

Another reason why $1000 checks are better than $25 checks: you are better able to figure out how best to use that money.

Trying to divide up a $25 check is pretty pointless. But dividing up $1000 check is totally different. Now only is it easier, but it's fun. Very fun. You could be like, "Ok, I'll take this check and divided up like this:"

- $100 outsource new articles
- $100 hosting and domain names
- $200 to buy Market Samurai
- $500 living expenses
- $100 gift for myself

A $25 check will be absorbed into your checking account almost instantly. Great, you can get a pizza, some cheap wine, and a pack of smokes. Whoopdeedoo.

But deciding what to so with a $1000 check is incredibly fun.
In the example above, half of it went to easing the burden of living expenses, almost half was re-invested back into the business, and you are still able to spend $100 on yourself guilt-free.



Anyway, that's all I got for today. I hope this thread helps a few of your newbies. Be sure to send me pictures of your $1000 checks when you get them.

Best of luck guys,

KateD