A long time ago, I read an introductory book on affiliate marketing that told me to write information that would be useful to readers. It said that if you continue to write about it every day, one day it will get buzz and you can expect to make some income from it. Even though the heyday of affiliate marketing has passed, this ironclad rule seems to have not wavered.
I wonder, do people have so much information that is useful for everyone? At least, I don’t have much. And, like many working people, I wanted to quit my job as soon as possible just to make money, so I have tried my hand at a handful of so called “side jobs” and “investments” in the past.
Of all the things I tried, the one I tried and failed at the most was programing. I followed the instructions, but in the end I couldn’t even complete a simple piece of software (a watch).
I also tried affiliate marketing to introduce products, but since I have neither an appetite for nor an obsession with things, I just couldn’t bring myself to sell anything, and I gave up.
I don’t have the knowledge or experience in round-the-world, cryptocurrency, or job search information like other popular bloggers. In other words, I have no skills or experience that I can pass on to others.
Of course, if I look back on my past, I might be able to squeeze out one or two things that would be of some use. But unfortunately, I don’t have a hundred or two hundred things that I can continuously mention.
If that is the case, it seems impossible to make money as an affiliate by writing a blog. On the contrary, I just admire those who can do it.
Of course, there are many bloggers who have become popular for other reasons. They are often about advice on problems, life lessons, interesting experiences, and so on.
However, as you will see once you try this, if you continue to do it for a long time, you will start to feel self-loathing. I wonder if I am really a person who can say such great things. What am I talking about?
Montesquieu, who wrote the “Essais,” from which the word “essay” was derived, wrote at the beginning of his essay that when he died, he wrote it so that his “friends and relatives would know what he (Montesquieu) thought about life.
He did not start writing to spread his thoughts to those who are alive today (although it seems different after a break in the middle of the book). Perhaps there was still some kind of fundamental shyness about talking about myself there.
When I started blogging, I also believed the articles in introductory books that said “you should be assertive” or “you should write strongly” and wrote sentences, but since I do not have the character to be assertive in nature, it became harder and harder for me to write when I thought that my written documents would be conveyed in real time.
In the end, I think that regardless of blogging, the act of writing a document and trying to get people to read it, without a certain kind of embarrassment, it will inevitably lead to extremism and provocation.
I have seen some Twitter feeds and blogs use swear words and foul language, and I think that even if the author did not use such language at first, it gradually became so as he wrote.
Once you are exposed to foul or provocative language, there is a pleasure that comes with it, and it becomes hard to quit. It may take something like Montesquieu’s shyness to stop it at some point. I believe that those who can make money as an affiliate are those who can succeed in real business in the real world, even if it is not blogging.
See you soon.
