If you think affiliate marketing is not lucrative, or cannot be, then you are sorely out of touch. So if that truly appeals to you, then think about becoming a lean and mean productivity machine.

As an affiliate, it's important that you are being smart in your approach when it comes to increasing your productivity. You may want to look into using a software solution to help you with time management. If you look around, you'll find different time management software tools in the market that have been designed to help you save on time and boost the productivity levels. Most of these software tools and apps happen to be free of cost, some of them requiring you to upgrade to avail more benefits. If you want to be serious about your business, then you should be open to improving your business activities in any way. Remember, there are no excuses and no crying in affiliate marketing - so give it a shot, and you can always drop it if you do not like what it does for you.

You will find that very many highly successful business people and executives work from their daily list of action items to get done. The nature of this list demands that each item be highly specific, so be sure to follow that concept. If you are working on a large project, then get the smaller tasks done first, and then spend the day on the project. There is nothing difficult about this process, but it may require you to get used to it a little but it is worth it. Ultimately, you can discover the list system that serves you the best, and that is all about testing and seeing what works well. Give yourself the freedom to be mentally at ease when you're working through your to-do list and striking things off one after another.

One fallacy about online marketing and working is that spending the entire day reading ebooks and watching videos rather than making something happen is not doing business. Affiliates that turn into super affiliates work towards taking more concrete actions, and don't waste their time only with theory. The 80-20 rule can be neatly applied to this point, and so you simply spend 80% with making it happen and 20% with learning or studying.

Most beginners to affiliate businesses are just not aware of the things that can be done that will make life a lot easier. But most of the affiliates make it tedious by focusing on other aspects rather than increasing their productivity and loving their work.