Flying Home from Ohio and Vacation Management Tips

I’m on the plane back to my apartment in Orlando Florida, and I learned a lot of things this week about using my time wisely.

First off though, this plane ride definitely leaves much to be desired. When I first got onto the plane I thought it was starting out great when nobody was sitting in my row. However it quickly turned bad when the people in front of me tried to put the seat belt on their child, he’s been screaming ever since take-off, which is part of the reason that I am blogging instead of sleeping.

Then the same people, decide that they are going to push their chairs all the way back and not move for the rest of the flight. So the result of that is me typing in a cramped area. The vacation as a whole was a lot of fun, I was happy to spend time with my family, and I honestly don’t want to go back to Florida. Most of you are going to think I’m nuts but with everyone I love in Ohio, I would rather it than Florida.

Moving onto how to manage your business while on vacation. I really didn’t want to have to worry about what was going on with my company while I was away. So what did I do? I didn’t, I didn’t worry at all.

My team on the design side of the business was still taking care of everything that had to be done, and my affiliate marketing campaign stood strong. As affiliates we have to make sure that everything is running smoothly because it is our income, and our campaign stats are the lifeblood of that income.

It’s hard for some of us to just stop and not worry about how are campaigns are doing, but we have to have fun sometimes!

Checking stats obsessively is something a lot of us have trouble with and it’s really counter-productive. More times than not you will hurt your campaign by pausing it too early and losing what could have been a winner, than you will save a loser from losing too much.

Use your downtime on vacation wisely. It all depends on what kind of vacation your on but a lot of times you will have a downtime of some sort almost every day. For example, my downtime was mainly when Katie was in school and I was waiting for everyone to get out of work.

If your on a vacation with others than you will still likely have downtime, when your riding places or your waiting for everyone to meet up with you. Also when you turn in for the night, right before you go to bed. Basically you need to use this downtime to check updates on your campaigns for your one time that day. Check your email and make sure that everything is running properly.

Make sure that your only running campaigns that are stable, and long term. Don’t try to make campaigns right before you leave because you won’t have time to monitor and tweak them.

If you have any campaigns that have been very unstable or that you have to constantly keep an eye on, pause them! It’s vacation don’t worry about every little thing.

Obviously you have to keep your income going so you can recruit some help to make sure that everything runs smoothly. Talk to your affiliate managers! Tell them that you are going on vacation and ask them to please monitor your account closely.

I am sure that most affiliate managers would love to help you in any way possible if you have built a strong relationship with them. Just ask them to watch conversion rate, if the percentage drops drastically then have them email you personally or even call you.

The last and most important tip I can give you is to have fun! Affiliate marketing is a great job that allows you a ton of freedom, make sure that you use all that hard earned money to really enjoy life.

Live your life to the fullest every day and you won’t regret a day of your life.