so do you have your wife/gf do your grunt work online?? i'm about to...

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she's a full time RN that works 12 hour night shifts 3x a week. we just took a vacation in which she realized how much better she feels when she's able to wake up / sleep normal hours.. no day time positions are available.

so she wants to go to part time - which is basically 1 day less a week, which will make a big difference and allow her to take off 10 days in a row 2x a month since RN's can make their own schedule.

going from full time to part time = $900 net less a month. while we're fine financially and it wouldn't really effect us, i don't like the idea of decreasing income.

i'm thinking of coming up with a daily task she can perform to help promote a couple of my sites/services and see if she can make up that $900/m ;)

so here's the question, any of you have success with 'significant other' grunt work promotion? ;)
 


DON'T DO IT!

sooner or later she'll catch on, copy your landing pages, jack your keywords and then dump you when she has everything she needs. It's happend to me twice ;)
 
Awful idea IMO and it would probably come back to bite you in the ass at one point or another: seriously man, just don't do it.
 
i tried teaching the girlfriend basic link building last night. she already handles the outsourcing operations.
 
Your wife sounds kind of stupid if you ask me. If she's smart she'll learn all she can until Affiliate summit. Then she'll follow you there, meet a super affiliate with more money and a bigger member, divorce you then leave you to do your own damn link building.....

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I'm obviously responding to the way you phrased this question. You didn't say "how can I work with my lady so we can make more monies online together?". You phrased it like you were married to a 12 year old you had to give orders to...
 
Dont bother, its waste of time, I have tried. I even went to far as making step by step instructions on how to blog. No blogging was done. Unless you have a knack for this stuff, it impossible to teach.
 
My GF writes articles for me. She enjoys writing and understands keyword density quite well.

Lately she's been asking about PPC, landing pages and page rank. I'm more then willing to fill her in on how it all works. Two of us making the monies is better then just the one.
 
ayzo said:
DON'T DO IT!

sooner or later she'll catch on, copy your landing pages, jack your keywords and then dump you when she has everything she needs. It's happend to me twice ;)
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FTW, and if she doesn't jack your shit she will want half teh profits.
 
The better half already handles a lot of the office stuff, all of the e-commerce, and most of the article writing and creatives chores. She freaking ROCKS at that stuff, and she's learning about PPC and linking strategies by doing some of her own experimental niche stuff.

Seriously, she's already doing half the work. If I can just get her up to speed on the rest of it, I can go sit on the deck with a margarita and waste even MORE time on forums...
 
Funny, I am going to do it with the magazines I run. Took a 6 month working contract so instead of the business going dormant I will see if she can find advertisers and I will handle design.
 
I love my wife with my heart and soul, and while the incremental income would be phenomenal, I am glad she has her own goals/dreams/career and is not subjected to this space. Personally, I love this industry with it's constant chaos, but a separation of 'Church and State' is the only way I could see maintaining a happy household as well.
 
You each need your separate lives. This blends it too much. Creates too many scenarios for conflict. While it seems natural and I've considered this, I decided that the possible negative outcomes simply aren't worth it... especially since if it doesn't work out there could be animousity about your job for some time to come.

There are scenarios it COULD work out but I think it would have to be a perfect fit in one way or another. What tasks are you talking about?
 
some of these responses, haha..

first, i'm not into affiliate marketing.. so she wouldn't be doing any of that.

second, i don't attend any shows so i'm not so worried about her finding a "super"-anything ;)

third, while this may sound unbelievable, we like spending as much time as possible together (been with each other for 7 yrs, married a bit over a year so far).. so i'm not worried about any negativity arising out of her being around more often.

as far as what I have in mind for her to do is concerned.. really simple stuff, not even writing articles, building links or making landing pages... just finding potential leads through social networking methods to help promote my design video tutorial site, and seek out leads for my other site propsd. actually just 1 extra client at propsd will secure her end, i do absolutely 0 promotion of that site myself.

..in other words, she'll be my personal spammer. :updown:
 
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