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Delegating with Direction

02 June 2010

How to Assign Tasks to the Right People, and
Let go of Doing Everything Yourself

It's certainly not an easy thing to run your own business. If the idea of keeping on top of everything on your own seems daunting, then just imagine how difficult it's going to be when you have employees and need to let go of control and assign trust. You could go out of your mind or, if done incorrectly, your business could go under.

It's certainly lonely at the top sometimes, and every major decision is going to fall on you. The trick in all of this is to make your biggest decision - hiring people - wisely.

Truthfully, you're probably going to be hiring people even if you're planning on operating the entire business by yourself. Just imagine you're setting up a website business to be an affiliate and are aiming eventually to be a super-affiliate. You still need a website, you still need marketing you still need employees.

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The Fragile World of Webmaster and Affiliate Manager Relations

10 May 2010

In the business world, relationships are always fragile. Even strong bonds forged over many years can be easily broken when money and livelihoods are on the line. Some of the easiest business relationships to break happen in the online world, and especially when dealing with webmaster and affiliate relations, even a minor miscommunication can be disastrous.

The relationships between an affiliate manager and a webmaster can be quite different. A webmaster is a person in charge of maintaining a website. For the sake of this article, the webmaster is the individual(s) handling your servers, hardware/software features, and ensuring that your site operates correctly.

An affiliate manager is an individual helping to manage affiliate marketing programs by assisting in generating sales, traffic and tracking purchases as well as sending commissions. In operating your own web affiliate business, you may end up dealing with both a webmaster to handle your site and an affiliate manager to help with your marketing efforts.

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