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OP: I personally don't see this as a failure in AM. You succeeded (sporadically) but you were too obsessed with the idea of "scaling" and didn't have a long term plan. The law of diminishing returns is a bitch. You put you all your eggs in the same basket, which is the worst thing you can do especially in this type of business. Diversify while you're winning!
WTF what did you do with your money? If you're self-employed, save your cash in a retirement fund, emergency fund, and future-businesses fund. Jesus, all those years and you didn't learn that lesson? You're fucking lucky you didn't get into an accident that prevent you from working for a few months. Then you would have been really SOL.
Jesus fucking christ, let me fix that for you "making money online: documenting 10 years of peasant."
Jesus fucking christ, let me fix that for you "making money online: documenting 10 years of peasant."
I actually enjoyed reading the post . SaaS and product creation all the way guys . We need a new sub forum for that shit
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Good read, to be honest. Not everyone can summarise their 10 past years in a few paragraphs like that and good on you for looking back and learning from your mistakes.
If you get back to this, you might find it useful to keep a monthly diary for all your marketing activities. Then it makes it easy to analyze everything you've done and see what can be improved.
After reading your article, I can see that you've been jumping from one thing to another in hope for "quick cash" over the years and that's not always a good thing. Yes, you get experienced in many different fields, make fast cash here and there, but as you can probably tell - it doesn't last long.
I think affiliate marketing has always been about 2 types of marketers:
1. Those people who jump at "the next best thing" and make as much as they can while it lasts, then switch to something else. Basically, an on-going process that never ends and it can stretch to a number of years, as it was in your case.
2. And people who look for stable business models, invest many months/possibly years into their projects, carefully planning every move and waiting until it all naturally takes off. If it doesn't, they don't quit, but slightly re-adjust their strategy, then try again but with better effort, etc.
Anyway, that's how I see it...
Good read, to be honest. Not everyone can summarise their 10 past years in a few paragraphs like that and good on you for looking back and learning from your mistakes.
If you get back to this, you might find it useful to keep a monthly diary for all your marketing activities. Then it makes it easy to analyze everything you've done and see what can be improved.
After reading your article, I can see that you've been jumping from one thing to another in hope for "quick cash" over the years and that's not always a good thing. Yes, you get experienced in many different fields, make fast cash here and there, but as you can probably tell - it doesn't last long.
I think affiliate marketing has always been about 2 types of marketers:
1. Those people who jump at "the next best thing" and make as much as they can while it lasts, then switch to something else. Basically, an on-going process that never ends and it can stretch to a number of years, as it was in your case.
2. And people who look for stable business models, invest many months/possibly years into their projects, carefully planning every move and waiting until it all naturally takes off. If it doesn't, they don't quit, but slightly re-adjust their strategy, then try again but with better effort, etc.
Anyway, that's how I see it...
Lol Goober calls me an "even fatter cutts". LMAO. I'm pretty sure I remember an uberaffiliate post about how berriez are lame and he's going to promote legit shit.
Also I have a job. I am am a wage slave.
Good post, man. Not afraid to admit mistakes, moral qualms, shortcomings and everything else. Seems like you came out of it all better and wiser, and what else can you do, right?
Best of luck with everything.
Good post bro, I read it on HN and liked it.
There are some interesting differences between HN and WF readership personalities/groupthink. On the whole, WF is far more practical but tends to think small and unsustainably. Lots of people here are wasting their time, or at least not hedging it correctly. HN is far less practical, much more cult-ish, and most commenters on there don't know their ass from their mouth when it comes to marketing. I always enjoy reading the threads where the two worlds collide.
And you may be a wage slave, but IBM Watson is a pretty cool place to be one.
There are some interesting differences between HN and WF readership personalities/groupthink. On the whole, WF is far more practical but tends to think small and unsustainably. Lots of people here are wasting their time, or at least not hedging it correctly. HN is far less practical, much more cult-ish, and most commenters on there don't know their ass from their mouth when it comes to marketing. I always enjoy reading the threads where the two worlds collide.
And you may be a wage slave, but IBM Watson is a pretty cool place to be one.
It's definitely not as bad as blackhatworld so I DONT know what the hell he's talking about......
I gotta disagree with this. Someone told me the same thing about 12 years ago when I was still a newbie to affiliate marketing. Been affiliate marketing since then. The problem is most AM'ers treat it like a cash grab and not like a business.
If you start real sites, with real value and work with real partners instead of throwing up a flog with the hottest CPA offer to hit all 30,000 networks you can AM until retirement. Just gotta treat it like a business.
