OP, you're entirely correct. It sounds like you were spoiled by affiliate marketing.
I honestly look to affiliate marketers for cutting edge insight into squeezing every penny out of my Internet Marketing campaigns, but I've never been a full-time affiliate marketer (So I honestly don't know what easy money from the Internet feels like just for putting up an adwords campaign.)... Even though, when I was DEAD BROKE... Picking up spare change around my apartment for food for the week I never considered getting a job. Just didn't cross my mind.
I'm not attacking your work ethic or character, but it sounds like you were more of a guy who came across how to make quick money than you are an entrepreneur or that you didn't have the drive to turn your early successes into a business empire of sorts... (Which in all honestly is mind-boggling that you'd watch people making millions pushing offers through affiliates and never made your own. Shit, even I'm launching a few health products through aff networks right now and I've never been a health affiliate.)
If I can offer any advice it would be to ALWAYS BE HUNGRY and NEVER BE SATISFIED.
I also don't see why you couldn't just throw together a media kit, build a bunch of websites so you had a portfolio of "clients", and start cold-walking businesses offering a free marketing audit, then up-selling yourself for a few hundred dollars on the spot. Gosh, I don't know why you couldn't of programmed yourself together a niche local business directory and offered free spots with optional sponsored listings, then went ahead and hooked up with local marketing businesses selling access to your business leads, "Who are interested in online marketing" for a nominal fee.
Heck, I don't know why you couldn't of simply taken 20K of that 60K you made your first year and started developing products based on what your most successful affiliate campaigns were sending traffic to.
Geeze, I don't know why you couldn't of taken a UBot Studio license and bombarded the shit out of Craigslist's services section selling moving and labor while farming out the work, eventually getting licensing and working your own leads...
Not that I know anything about making money. We all know that WickedFire doesn't have anyone that actually makes money. I mean... it's not like I have gmario lambos or anything... but I'm doing alright for a young guy.
That.
You guys always look for the quick buck, because you need your fix or something. Youre no better than the crackniggers you make fun of. Your crack might be parties or hoes or a 2 bedroom apartment instead of a condo.
All the money in the world but zero stability.
Then the bullshit. Affiliate marketing is dead. Guess who still makes millions every month over at imgrind. SEO is dead. Do you guys realize that the serps are still full of MFA sites? Theyre just not ranking solely on ALN anymore (yet mine are but im not allowed to be successful with aln because I happen to sell aln blasts). PPC is dead. For real? There are just no more unregulated Rebill windfall profits.
Get over fuckin rebills. They were a hiccup. Not the norm that is now dead. Were back to normal. Internet marketing is not dead, just like any other form of marketing. Customers dont click your ads? Sign up for CPM.
Diversify out of the fuckin english language. Foreign language seo is so much easier. You guys who went to school in america should have received education in Spanish. Thats a bigger market than english anyway. Ever thought about doing it? If your spanish is nowhere near good enough then why not? Guess that has to do with the cracknigger mentality.
SEO is dead because now you have to add value. Shit just got reel. lol? Adding value on the internet means posting a video of fart combustion on youtube. That shit gets millions of views. Just think of a way to get user engagement. Hint: be female, or find some other emotional customer base (can always hire females. your mom would probably do it for free).
Have you ever considered treating your IM shit like some business? I see idiots who cant pay their taxes because they somehow forgot about them or what? What else do you forget about? Cost of living? Or do you just not care? Lets try spending only .25 of every dollar you make. That leaves .5 for the tax man and .25 for reinvesting.
Use those .25 to expand your business. You do MFA and do well? Why not try building up one good site that "adds value".
Some of you guys have college degrees in math, yet when you post this magnificient failure crap, one would think youre middle school dropouts or borderline retarded. Probably both. How can you have zero business sense? You find some shit like MFA and retire on it. Youre fuckin early 20s.
In mid january, I had bought my first two aln blasts and they did well. I just had my first 6 MFA sites built up that I purchased from SAD. I was starting out. I saw value in ALN but didnt have the resources to get started, so I partnered up with someone who had sites with pr lying around. That first month we did well. The second month some retard entered the market and sold the same thing at half our price, so we had to cut. We reduced the quality of the service and ramped up the volume. We added 10 pr3 sites which cost us about 550. That sucked so we began researching a way to drive our pr site costs down. A month later we got them at 15 a piece.
A month later, some retard begins complaining about ALN, so we pretty much dont sell ALN blasts on wf anymore, but it didnt matter because we already had the transition built up. We are now selling individual posts on our own blogs, so were basically getting paid to build up legitimate sites. We are able to add 3-5 sites a week, most of which will bring in more than the cost within about two weeks. We now have the capital to screen for pr7 sites. We are approaching 5 figures a month.
On the side, we build up an ecommerce site for a pretty big term, which might take a while to gain traction. But we now have the ability to sit it out and weve got the resources to push it. We dont need to buy shitty posts from some retard because we have our own high pr blogs.
Weve got another thing started that I dont want to talk much about.
The problem you guys have is not that IM got harder or something. The problem is that you worked an exploit that you knew wouldnt last forever, but didnt do something to transition out of it in time.
Someone mentioned lukep and his MFA business model. Luke wont run into any of these problems because hes not that stupid.
Another thing. Most of you guys act like a job is a death trap, yet you lament on and on about how IM would be so much easier if you just had a tad bit of capital to get things going. Youd rather write content at an indians rate than get a job for a month, or even just half a month. Live the shitty life for a month. Whats the big fucking deal? Night shift at a factory pays 4k a month. Thats all the money you need to get your business started.
Your biggest fear is regular employment, but you do everything to end up right there. You might wanna quit that.
