On our last radio show, we discussed 10 actions steps that poker affiliates can take to go from a part time poker affiliate to a full time affiliate. Some of these actions steps I pulled off of the entrepreneur website. The interesting find is that regardless if you are looking to go full time as a poker affiliate, or grow your offline business, the same action steps are required.

As a full time poker affiliate myself, and as someone who started out as a part timer, I will summarize some of the most important action steps with my suggesstions specific to poker affiliates.

1. Open up another location or website - Actually I think you should open up a few. Websites are just like real estate in the real world. The more you have, the more you can leverage off eachother. If you look at some of the super poker affiliates, many gain a huge advantage by simply having the linking power on so many sites to feed juice to the new pages they want to rank well. Furthermore, having several sites in your portfolio can never hurt.

2. License your product or resell it - Although this may sound difficult in the online world, it isn’t. I started PAP by reselling a simple ebook. I sold the ebook through clickbank and eventually had many affiliates selling books for me, and in turn, giving exposure to my brand absolutely free.

3. Create an army of resellers - Certainly you can create an army of resellers by incorporating some sort of affiliate scheme into your business (such as a clickbank product). However, let’s say you don’t have a tangible product to sell. That’s fine, you can still do some sort of referral contest that will get players sending you more player for some sort of incentive to them. I have had a great deal of success with referral contests in the past, they work.

4. Form an alliance or partnership with another medium sized website - One way to achieve rapid growth is to partner with another medium sized site and become one big giant. These type of partnerships happen all the time in corporate America. If you can find another site that has some synergy with yours, together you can do big things. A more recent example of this was when Parttimepoker.com bought Neverbeg.com. After the acquisition, they rolled the existing Neverbeg into a ParTimeStaking site…..This seemed to work very well for them.

5. Diversify - I know everyone has a passion for poker and loves writing and promoting poker all day long. However at some point if you want to be a full time affiliate, you will have to start exploring other verticals. An easy transition would be to go into casino, bingo, rummy, forex, or sportsbetting. Either way, just remember, there is more out there than just poker affiliate programs.

6. Target other markets - Although it is easy to get stuck promoting in one country or your native language, there are loads of opportunity if you think on an international level. If you want to go full time, you should consider things such as geo-targeting and having your high ranking or converting pages translated into a few different languages.

7. Acquisition Strategy - Whether it be at PAP, sitepoint, or one of the other webmaster hangouts on the internet, you can always find some decent poker sites for sale. If you are confident in your abilities, you can acquire a non revenue producing site with good content and turn it into a money maker. As much as I like starting new projects from scratch, nothing is funner than buying an existing product and building it out.

8. Create a public written commitment on how you are going to achieve your goal - I have always been a firm believer in writing down goals. Likewise if you don’t tell anyone what your goal is, trust me, it will make it 100 times harder to accomplish. Tell the world about your big goal of going full time and how you’re going to do it. Then work your plan for making it happen. Worse case scenario is that you might fail, who cares!

9. Embrace technology (web 2.0) and be progressive - As the poker affiliate industry continues to mature, so will the technology in our industry. Always be on the forefront of this. Even better, be an innovator and create something 2.0 for the industry. If you can do this successfully and make it popular amongst players, you will be leaving the realms of a part time affiliate very quickly.

10. Think like a full time poker affiliate - Change your mindset from thinking about making small money. Think about the big money and start running your affiliate business like a real business. If you are using your affiliate income to simply supplement your bankroll right now, you are on the wrong path. The poker affiliate business is a legitimate business where there are millions to be made. Act accordingly and have the right mindset when running your business in this great industry.

And even more important than #10, if you want to be a millionaire, you have to start thinking like a millionaire. Here are 5 lessons I have learned from millionaires.