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During an interview with Chris Frost last month, I mentioned that it would be a fab idea for everyone in Affiliate Marketing to spend a month doing a job-swap with someone from “the other side” - i.e Networks become affiliates for a month, and affiliates spend a month working for a network. Whilst that’s just not feasible, I thought it would be great to virtually spend a day in the shoes of people from all corners of Affiliate Marketing.

So, as there’s no 24 this year, I’m nicking the idea of a ticking clock, though you’ll have to make your own beeping sound… The following takes place between 9am and 2am…

09:00am: zzzzzzzz

09:10am: Alarm goes off. Hit snooze button.

09:25am: Alarm goes off. Hit snooze button.

09:40am: Alarm goes off. Hit snooze button.

09:55am: Alarm goes off. Hit snooze button.

10:10am: Alarm goes off. Listen for five minutes, then get up.

10:15am: Make coffee, and commute to office.

10:17am: Arrive at office. Check emails, and delete spam, which accounts for 99% of the emails downloaded.

10:35am: Approve any pending websites and answer any support tickets from easycoreg.com users.

11:00am: Make second cup of coffee and answer pending emails.

11:30am: Head for the shower

12:15pm: Back at my desk, it’s time for the first piece of content writing of the day - A nice easy 500 word product review to get us started.

13:00pm: Now it’s time to update our competition site with a few competitions and schedule an email to go out to all our members tomorrow morning whilst I’m still snoozing.

13:30pm: Check for any more easycoreg.com pendings/support requests.

13:45pm: Download emails and delete spam, which now accounts for 98% of the emails downloaded. Respond to any issues immediately.

14:00pm: Time for lunch, which is normally a sandwich, cereal or soup.

14:15pm: Back for the main task of the day - two 1,000 word articles for an upcoming event.

15:30pm: Write briefs for our outsourced content - we outsource around 30,000 words per month, and it isn’t cheap, so a lot of thought goes into these briefs.

16:15pm: My head’s hurting by now, so time to wind down. Have a cup of tea and a kit-kat whilst reading the forum.

16:40pm: Check for easycoreg.com pendings/support requests and check emails. Deal with any issues.

17:00pm: Take the dog out for a walk.

18:00pm: Er Indoors arrives home from work. I cook tea for us.

18:00pm to 22:00pm: Me time. Spend time with Er Indoors, maybe watch some TV or a film. Or something else!

22:00pm: Er Indoors heads to bed (Every night’s a school night when you’re a teacher!), and I’ll head back to the office for a few more hours. There’s much less structure to this part of my day, but in the 2 or 3 hours I’ll put in here, I will check stats (This is the ONLY time in the day I dedicate to checking stats), and do a final check of emails. I’ll also chat with fellow affiliates on msn, and maybe post some rubbish on the forum to wind down. Finally, I’ll make a “to-do” list for the following day, and maybe catch some TV or a film before heading to bed.

01:00am: Head to bed, where I’ll read a book for 30 mins or so, before lights out.

01:30am: Lights out, start to drift off to sleep..

01:51am: Have a brilliant idea for website, lights on, write it down on the pad I keep next to the bed.. lights out again.

01:59am: zzzzzzzz

02:00am beep, beep, beep… Roll end credits.

I’m hoping to make this a regular feature on Lammo.net, and have a few more people lined up for the coming weeks. If you would like to take part, then please send your “Day in the Life” together with a brief bio of yourself to me using the following form.

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