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I've added some affiliate links. My first 'test run' with advertising yielded me a whopping $15 :) - so that got me thinking 'if I can do $15 with this few users, imagine what I can do with 10-100-1000 more?'. So I've started working on this big marketing campaign poised to start making some serious money. So, here I am, contacting some potential marketing and business partners trying to establish some relationships. - it's holiday season, so no replies yet - and I'm sitting here at home, and everything just screams at me - you've got a bomb ass site, with a bomb ass marketing plan, users need a service like yours, you're gonna be rich, buddy! - I don't think this is a 'get rich quick scheme' - there's a lot of hard work to be done - but I keep playing the numbers in my head and it's like, how can I possibly NOT make money(and quite possibly, a lot!) out of this?
Can you tell that I'm excited? Do I need a reality check?
If you are making $15k per year as a full time affiliate marketer, you are doing many, many things wrong.
rfung has made $15 so far, I hardly think that justifies quitting his job. If indeed it comes easy to him, then he should be able to bring in $15,000 just by moonlighting... then he can estimate better how much he is capable of.
I'm just saying, that it might be a bit foolish to quit his job after establishing just $15 in sales. Most monkeys can make $15k over time as a full time marketer, but expecting more of that you need to have a certain set of skills (most of which can be learned here). If you indeed have those skills, and I suspect rfung does, it shouldn't be long before you can make enough to decide for yourself that you should leave or stay part time.
Lol :) I'd have to be foolish awright. I am recently off college - back living with the parents so _definitely_ no expenses of my own - But if I find that the potential of the site starts getting results in the next 3 months that show a real promise, I am willing to take a chance on quitting my $50k job and live out of $10k as I build up on the site. Don't want to be doing tech stuff for much longer - even though that's what I studied in college (the ironies of life).
I think what differentiates my idea over some others affiliate projects here and what gives me confidence on the idea that I may get to live in some tropical island:) in a short while is that I don't rely as much on SERPs to get my site out there, and that I wont lose my income should the results drop out of sight. This means that I have some more control over how I can get traffic built up, and once it's built, chances are they'll stick and come back again and again - to go back to my Hotmail application analogy - users go back all the time to do their thing. And because they have to buy these widgets all the time, then it all adds up to a traffic that's constantly building up and who constantly buys.
Keep that in mind.
you guys should have seen my emails to friends and family- I was a ranting nut about a measly 6 bucks :)
For those of you that think that merchants will prevent affs from bidding on PPC stuff, take a look at CJ's CJU pages, where there are reams and reams of advice for those publishers that want to bid on PPC's. CJ also has a marker for each merchant explaining whether or not they allow PPC campaigns, and most if not all merchants do. The usual exception is that you can't bid above a certain level for their brand name, but the trick is to bid on their product lines rather than the brands.
And finally, I agree wholeheartedly with mfishy - $15,000 per month is a realistic minimum goal if you can get it right.
