how far can your PPC scale?

[AffiliateDreamer]

Say you set yourself with a $1k budget for a month, you get some experience, and double it, and so on. How far can you take it being a 1-man operation?

I'd imagine that these campaigns require some watching-over, ensuring the ROI is comign through on the campaigns etc., how much/many campaigns can one person moderate?

If one gets up to a 10K budget, with a modest 10-15% ROI, that's still 'only' $1-1.5K / month.

To make $5K/month would require a adwords portfolio of about $30-50K/month!

am I looking at this the wrong way?

[flobaby]

the merchant is notorious for a high percentage of chargebacks

How do you hear about notoriously bad merchants? Is there a forum that discusses them openly? I could surely use the info since I'm just starting.

[chrisgarrett]

There is an affiliate marketing "school" forum where Michael Anthony runs that once you join there is open discussion about merchants good and bad. (Search your favourite engine using an appropriate phrase!)