Mr Newton - Unproclaimed Affiliate Genius
Much excitement here at Affiliate Stuff HQ - I’ve uncovered the original version of Isaac Newton’s three laws of motion. Must understand stuff for physicists and science types everywhere, but did you know he originally wrote them about affiliate marketing??
“This’ll be a smash hit” Issac said, and was all up for releasing it to the scientific community until his wife pointed out ” affiliate marketing hasn’t been invented yet Issac, you’ll probably get burned at the stake for being a nut job. You were only just lucky the last time after that business with the apple!”
“Bugger!” Issac proclaimed. “I was really on a roll there. Ah, to hell with it. I’ll make it about motion and change a few of the words around. Nobody’ll notice”
So here’s the original script, recently found by your roving affiliate investigator stuffed down the back of a venerable sofa in the British Library…
Newtons First Law Of Affiliate Marketing
An affiliate at rest will remain at rest unless they act upon a motivational notion.
An affiliate in motion will stay in motion with the same speed and with direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
Or…
Affiliates have a natural tendency to keep on doing what they are doing. If you’re sitting thinking about getting started in affiliate marketing, or have a great new idea that you just keep failing to act upon, you’re likely to keep doing that unless you give yourself a bit of a kick up the jacksie. However, once you get moving on it… you’ll be hard to stop!
Newtons Second Law Of Affiliate Marketing
Acceleration of wealth is produced when an affiliate acts on an idea. The greater the idea, the greater the amount of ingenuity needed to increase the acceleration of wealth.
Or…
Well, we all know that in the “real” world, the more brute force you chuck at something – the quicker you can make it go. However, affiliate marketing is a more subtle beast and is powered by smart thinking and downright ingenuity. The bigger your idea for success, the more clever you’ll have to be to get it building momentum. Affiliate marketing is fueled by a combustible mixture of ideas combined with clever execution.
Newtons Third Law of Affiliate Marketing
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Or…
You know what a rocket does when it takes off, right?? It piles an enormous amount of power out of its rear end and the ground pushes back with an equal force sending it soaring in a skywards direction.
Well, the ground is your idea and the rocket is the effort you put in. The trajectory you achieve? That’s all down to what you packed the rocket with, innit?
July 26th, 2010 at 10:10 am
Here’s my interpretation of the 3rd Law from a while back
http://www.onelittleduck.co.uk/affiliate-marketing/newtons-third-law-of-motion-affiliate-marketing-386.htm
July 26th, 2010 at 10:43 am
Ha ha ha ha – and this is absolute 100% proof positive that just when you think you’ve had a unique idea in affiliate marketing you find out someone else thought of it years ago.
July 26th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
Rocket thrust is nothing to do with the ground ‘pushing back’. The rocket produces thrust at the tail (‘downwards’ if vertical), the reaction to which is it an equal force in the opposite direction (in this case, upwards). Rocket’s don’t need to have one end pointed at the ground to work (thankfully).
- m
July 26th, 2010 at 11:03 pm
There’s always one nitpicker….;)
This is an affiliate marketing post Matt! The rocket analogy is just an explaination of the ground’s force and how one can relate it to your effort in affiliate marketing, not the function of actual rockets. Believe it or not I don’t have to be 110% scientifically accurate to illustrate my point. I’m fairly sure Isaac isn’t going to turn up in person and complain. If he does, I hope he has the decency to do so in daylight hours.
Now if you’d backed that up with an affiliate marketing analogy about why point 3 in the post was innacurate I would, of course, have conceded you were completely right. LOL
July 27th, 2010 at 8:10 am
Fair point, actually I intended it to be a bit less formal looking than it came out.
The analogy works for AM because errrr ummmmm earning money (the upwards force that drivesthe vessel) is in reaction to doing something valuable for your users (the downwards thrust). How’s that?
(Actually that works for most businesses. Revenue is a reaction to what the business does for its customers).
July 27th, 2010 at 8:59 am
Hahahaha – that’s better Matt a good analogy.
There’s loads of posts around about the third law in this respect. You get out what you put in is the basic theory I reckon!
July 27th, 2010 at 10:09 am
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kingsschoollibrary/3606265271/
Thats Mr Newtons signature on the window sill at the school that he (and I) used to go to (obviously not at the same time
), however just below the window, also carved into the wall is the 3 laws as above!
I wonder if he got a detention for scraping his name in the wall…
July 27th, 2010 at 10:49 am
Wow, you really did go to a venerable school Shane. Was inventing fundamental laws part of the lessons? Got any gems of your own you’d care to share??
July 27th, 2010 at 10:39 pm
Hi there,
About the third law – I understand why the reaction is equal, but I don’t get why it’s an opposite reaction. As far as AM goes, reactions may vary according to lots of variables: your perspective, idea or implementation, the strategy of your business partners, his or her plan or eagerness to participate in your plan etc. So my issue is rather terminological and axiomatic: any reaction is, at least partially, the opposite of its reference.
Lloyd Burrell
Publisher
Office Desk Reviews
August 1st, 2010 at 10:45 pm
I think what Kristy ment with reaction is that for every action in nature there is a reaction against like, everything needs to be in balance. So its like in IM/AM i think is the same for every reaction u have smt else in return.