Can affiliate marketing become a carreer? Can this be your only source of income or do many people have part time jobs to get benifits. Im very interested to here others responses.
Who Has Affiliate Marketing as their only job?
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Well I've got a little job at a computer communications company making $9 an hour. I'm 16 years old and I've been looking into Affiliate Marketing for about eight months now and I've failed many many times, especially at PPC. I was pretty scared to spend money. But recently, with the help of my affiliate manager, I found a good offer to promote via PPC...straight to the merchant page. This is my first taste of success in my whole affiliate marketing "career". I've spent a little under $60 total on PPC to make $228 in about a week. Now I know this is chump change to a lot of people, but for me it's a lot, especially since it's my first successful campaign. I'm glad I've started in Affiliate Marketing while I'm young because I want to be able to be self-dependent and stand on my own two feet the day I turn eighteen. I wanna be able to move out, get my own apartment, and get my own car. I've seen many other people succeed in this business, so why not me too? I've determined to make this thing happen for me, and the best advice I can give anyone is to NEVER GIVE UP. If you fall down 10 times, get up 11, because that 11th time you get up may be the time it earns you several thousands of dollars. I'm convinced everyone with half a brain who does good research and actually dedicates themselves can make something happen for them. I've set a goal for myself to make $100 a day by January 31st. We'll see how that goes. But back on topic, I'm definitely hoping to make Affiliate Marketing my main source of income one day, hopefully when I'm 18. I know one dude on here, sup3rn0va, is makin some sick money and he's 19. But, I am interested as well to see how many people do this as a side thing and how many people do it as their main source of income.
Bandit
Well I've got a little job at a computer communications company making $9 an hour. I'm 16 years old and I've been looking into Affiliate Marketing for about eight months now and I've failed many many times, especially at PPC. I was pretty scared to spend money. But recently, with the help of my affiliate manager, I found a good offer to promote via PPC...straight to the merchant page. This is my first taste of success in my whole affiliate marketing "career". I've spent a little under $60 total on PPC to make $228 in about a week. Now I know this is chump change to a lot of people, but for me it's a lot, especially since it's my first successful campaign. I'm glad I've started in Affiliate Marketing while I'm young because I want to be able to be self-dependent and stand on my own two feet the day I turn eighteen. I wanna be able to move out, get my own apartment, and get my own car. I've seen many other people succeed in this business, so why not me too? I've determined to make this thing happen for me, and the best advice I can give anyone is to NEVER GIVE UP. If you fall down 10 times, get up 11, because that 11th time you get up may be the time it earns you several thousands of dollars. I'm convinced everyone with half a brain who does good research and actually dedicates themselves can make something happen for them. I've set a goal for myself to make $100 a day by January 31st. We'll see how that goes. But back on topic, I'm definitely hoping to make Affiliate Marketing my main source of income one day, hopefully when I'm 18. I know one dude on here, sup3rn0va, is makin some sick money and he's 19. But, I am interested as well to see how many people do this as a side thing and how many people do it as their main source of income.
Bandit
I'm 23, and do affiliate marketing full time. I started a "S" type corporation, and now have affiliates of my own doing very well.
I won't even begin to tell you how many times I've failed, and continue to fail at new ventures, it's all part of the game to find that new niche.
You don't have to spend a lot of money, you just have to be creative.
If you need any help, or if you're interested in another affiliate opportunity just let me know.
Josh
I won't even begin to tell you how many times I've failed, and continue to fail at new ventures, it's all part of the game to find that new niche.
You don't have to spend a lot of money, you just have to be creative.
If you need any help, or if you're interested in another affiliate opportunity just let me know.
Josh
why are you so concerned about benefits homer?? pay for a private plan with all the $$$ your pulling in from AM and you'll be fine
You'll be surprised on how much individual/small-business health insurance is in the US. Keep in mind, we have to purchase separate plans for medical, dental, vision, and prescription.
Individual Insurance is expensive, but when you make enough money you self-insure to some extent and/or have the cash to make an easy decision whether to go high deductible or not. I prefer low premium/high deductible. If you are single ( I have wife and kids so my shit is HIGH) in my state you can get a BCBS for like $26/mo. Of course it's high deductible. but the maxium out of pocket on most of these plans is stll only a few grand. If you make anything at all, you can afford a few grand a year out of pocket on medical care, if you value it.
My personal standpoint is I wish people would treat health more like car insurance where you insure against catastrophic loss. Part of the reason health is so expensive is because people have come to expect "free oil changes" for their bodies in a sense. Also people take less repsonsibility for important things, like their health. The same people who dont mind paying some high ass car payment ( often for a shitty car) would scoff at paying the same for something important like medicine.
Most dental services, you can probably come out ahead if you just pay cash, frankly. Same with vision. You really need Insurance for unexpected high cost events, not routine office visits and things like that.
As for the main question. I am 100% self-employed for many years but Affiliate marketing isnt the majority of my income. I have a mix of actual products I handle, affiliates, ad sales,etc.
I hear if you really want "benefits" that bad you can work some place like UPS in the middle of the night for no money and get hooked up with that.
I somewhat flirted with accepting a job awhile back mostly for the benefits reason. However, after going through all the numbers, I figured I would actually lose money taking a part time job for that reason. The money is negligible and Id rather have my time for myself. If Im no going to use it working and making money for myself, then I would at least use it enjoying life. Driving to some workplace 5 days a week would probably wear me down enough to mess up my productivity in what really matters.
And shit, thats if you even get offered "benefits." Most part-time jobs probably dont and I had a fulltime job for a long time that never offered anything in that area.
Honestly, its all fucked up. But if benefits is the only thing holding you back, you are aiming too low.
My personal standpoint is I wish people would treat health more like car insurance where you insure against catastrophic loss. Part of the reason health is so expensive is because people have come to expect "free oil changes" for their bodies in a sense. Also people take less repsonsibility for important things, like their health. The same people who dont mind paying some high ass car payment ( often for a shitty car) would scoff at paying the same for something important like medicine.
Most dental services, you can probably come out ahead if you just pay cash, frankly. Same with vision. You really need Insurance for unexpected high cost events, not routine office visits and things like that.
As for the main question. I am 100% self-employed for many years but Affiliate marketing isnt the majority of my income. I have a mix of actual products I handle, affiliates, ad sales,etc.
I hear if you really want "benefits" that bad you can work some place like UPS in the middle of the night for no money and get hooked up with that.
I somewhat flirted with accepting a job awhile back mostly for the benefits reason. However, after going through all the numbers, I figured I would actually lose money taking a part time job for that reason. The money is negligible and Id rather have my time for myself. If Im no going to use it working and making money for myself, then I would at least use it enjoying life. Driving to some workplace 5 days a week would probably wear me down enough to mess up my productivity in what really matters.
And shit, thats if you even get offered "benefits." Most part-time jobs probably dont and I had a fulltime job for a long time that never offered anything in that area.
Honestly, its all fucked up. But if benefits is the only thing holding you back, you are aiming too low.
I second this. If you're in this game to barely get by, the volatility alone makes this business not worth it. Get in to make minimum 5+ figures per month or I'd recommend working for the man. Reason is that if you're trying to just get by, then stability is probably very important to you. This business offers absolutely no stability. Profits come and go.
Wow, strong personal experience. I guess it does depend on the plans you choose because I know Mediblue (blue cross) Directpay PPO without prescription coverage is around $2500 per month.
Come up north my friend
. You'll get cheap health insurance or goto Ontario and get it for free.And that right there is the smart solution. Self insure for anything under 10 grand a year (plus or minus), and take out catastrophic for anything over.
And if you're paying $2500(!) a month for private health insurance you're doing things the wrong way, unless you've got a seriously wicked pre-existing condition, in which case I doubt you could even get insurance.
Also my advice to people who want to ditch the job and take up working for themselves is don't do it if you're not making at least twice as much from the internet as you are from your job. If you're making $40k a year, don't quit until you're making $80k independently (and have done so for more than one month in a row).
After you quit, not only are you going to have to pay for health insurance, and other benefits, but you're going to pay more in taxes, and the potential volatility can kill you.
However, if you can swing it, working for yourself can be the best thing in the world. I made the jump a two years ago, and I'm never going back.
You can always incorporate yourself, hire your mom and dad, and get the employer rate for insurance. Or heck, move to Canada.
oh and yes, you can make a nice living doing this full-time. check out john chow dot com and read his site. last month alone he made $23K just for his blog.
This is not really true. (Not the Canada part). Group rates are usually more expensive for small businesses than individual rates for fairly healthy people. That is because the insurance company gets to pick and choose who they will insure on individual plans, but pretty much has to take everybody on group plans. You just think group rates are cheaper because the company usually picks up a big part of the tab.
That said, if you are fairly healthy, and not 100 years old, why not just get yourself an individual plan?
I'd be happy to tell you where to compare health insurance quotes. :rasta:
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