Open question to the Affiliates
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When I was a sophomore in college, I was really big into sports betting. I was actually pretty good at it, but I had a very tough run and ended up losing about $2k. In the grand scheme of things it wasn't THAT much. However I was pretty broke at the time, so it was a struggle to pay it off.
I started a handicapping site with a friend that sold picks to bettors for college football college basketball. We didn't make much money, maybe a few hundred dollars but from that point on I was hooked. The next year, I left my partner and went on my own. I actually paid for a good design this time, and did better. I think I made around a $1000 that year.
I believe some time around then, I was looking through forums and came across Casino Aff. Programs. I remember being shocked that all these people were doing similar stuff to me, and making some good money. I remember thinking it was so cool that they had flashing banners on their websites. I thought it looked so cool. I couldn't believe people were making so much money off of a website.
Up to this point, I knew nothing about business, marketing, customer service etc... If you had asked me how television stations made their money, I wouldn't have known. I had zero business sense. When I started my first poker site, I remember buying traffic and buying ads on websites that weren't even targeted traffic. It was a huge drain on my funds. I knew nothing about SEO, link building or optimization.
After my poker site was up, I mulled around a made a few hundred dollars a month for about a year. I never really took the site seriously. When I was about to graduate college this past March, I was going to take a job at college sports website and work in their online marketing dept. I let my site kinda die figuring I wouldn't need it anymore. My job offer ended up falling through, and I really had nothing else going for me.
At this time, I started talking to various online marketing people. They helped me out and motivated me to get back into poker affiliating. Just hearing some of their stories and ideas made me start working 8 hours everyday writing articles and link building.
The past few months have been great for me. It's been a little shaky at times, but there's no way I would trade this for any "real job" that occupies 80 hours of my week. I set a new goal to be at $515 daily income by November 18th. I'm hovering in the $130-$150 range now, but Im still gunning for the $515.
Good thread...
When I was a sophomore in college, I was really big into sports betting. I was actually pretty good at it, but I had a very tough run and ended up losing about $2k. In the grand scheme of things it wasn't THAT much. However I was pretty broke at the time, so it was a struggle to pay it off.
I started a handicapping site with a friend that sold picks to bettors for college football college basketball. We didn't make much money, maybe a few hundred dollars but from that point on I was hooked. The next year, I left my partner and went on my own. I actually paid for a good design this time, and did better. I think I made around a $1000 that year.
I believe some time around then, I was looking through forums and came across Casino Aff. Programs. I remember being shocked that all these people were doing similar stuff to me, and making some good money. I remember thinking it was so cool that they had flashing banners on their websites. I thought it looked so cool. I couldn't believe people were making so much money off of a website.
Up to this point, I knew nothing about business, marketing, customer service etc... If you had asked me how television stations made their money, I wouldn't have known. I had zero business sense. When I started my first poker site, I remember buying traffic and buying ads on websites that weren't even targeted traffic. It was a huge drain on my funds. I knew nothing about SEO, link building or optimization.
After my poker site was up, I mulled around a made a few hundred dollars a month for about a year. I never really took the site seriously. When I was about to graduate college this past March, I was going to take a job at college sports website and work in their online marketing dept. I let my site kinda die figuring I wouldn't need it anymore. My job offer ended up falling through, and I really had nothing else going for me.
At this time, I started talking to various online marketing people. They helped me out and motivated me to get back into poker affiliating. Just hearing some of their stories and ideas made me start working 8 hours everyday writing articles and link building.
The past few months have been great for me. It's been a little shaky at times, but there's no way I would trade this for any "real job" that occupies 80 hours of my week. I set a new goal to be at $515 daily income by November 18th. I'm hovering in the $130-$150 range now, but Im still gunning for the $515.
Good thread...
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