What's your end game?

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troob

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This is a question to all the affiliates out there, especially the media buyers like me.

What’s your end game? Or if you already had one, what was your experience going through with it?

While affiliate money is decent, campaigns never last and you'll go from 5 to 0 figures a day literally overnight. Not to mention the campaigns that never get profitable and just burn test money. I'm not sure how much this applies to SEO oriented affiliates but from what I hear it doesn't look like their income is stable either.

Anyone have any stories on how they moved from being an affiliate to starting a company / building real assets? How beneficial were your affiliate experiences?
 


This discussion always reminds me of online poker. The guys who weren't pulling and investing as much of their profits as they could, got screwed. The ones who were, the bigger fish anyway, are pretty much set for life now.

Affiliate game is no different, in my opinion. If you aren't using SEO/PPC and affiliate commission as a means to an end, you're gonna get fucked eventually.

Edit: Sorry, no sage story to contribute. I don't waste time on affiliate stuff anymore though. Only advice I would give is to start a product, no matter what it is; start something you can scale and sell to the masses.
 
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You gotta diversify, be the guy at the top of the mountain, a leader in your space.

As far as SEO, it can still be very profitable, even if it's just churn and burn and a race from one penguin refresh to the next.

At the end of the day, you have to diversify in this game.
 
As long as I can eat twice a day (preferably three) and wipe my ass with semi-decent toilet paper, I feel like I've succeeded. When I move in with Skohh in February, my expenses will drop even further (like Skohh on a cone).
 
thehobbster said:
As long as I can eat twice a day (preferably three) and wipe my ass with semi-decent toilet paper, I feel like I've succeeded. When I move in with Skohh in February, my expenses will drop even further (like Skohh on a cone).
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We could start a coning academy in my basement, it's already sound proof. This is a perfect example of how to diversify yo bonds.
 
troob said:
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This is a question to all the affiliates out there, especially the media buyers like me.

What’s your end game? Or if you already had one, what was your experience going through with it?

While affiliate money is decent, campaigns never last and you'll go from 5 to 0 figures a day literally overnight. Not to mention the campaigns that never get profitable and just burn test money. I'm not sure how much this applies to SEO oriented affiliates but from what I hear it doesn't look like their income is stable either.

Anyone have any stories on how they moved from being an affiliate to starting a company / building real assets? How beneficial were your affiliate experiences?
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There is absolutely nothing wrong with building a business. It's a great idea if you know what you're doing. I was an affiliate for years and I did pretty good. But eventually I gave up on fighting with google, bing, this network, that network, getting my ads reset, copied, pages ripped, offers up, offers down, scrubbing, etc. So I decided to take what I know about marketing, and apply it to my own businesses. I haven't looked back since.
 
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troob said:
Anyone have any stories on how they moved from being an affiliate to starting a company / building real assets? How beneficial were your affiliate experiences?
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Yeah. Google started bitching about comparison sites 3-4 years ago. Time to own and develop brands.
 
Start a business about something I'm passionate about and grow it. Get far far away from the affiliate realm.

For the mean time though, I'll be banking through affiliate ventures.
 
All jokes aside, I don't think there really is an "end game" to say for most people. When you develop past certain stages (like the desire and need for more money because you have bazillions of dollars) other things come into focus that you begin to find important, like self-expression, self-transcendance, etc. And even in that case, impermanence will be our reality. Things will shift, we will gain and lose, desires and attachments change, purposes and aims move, divert, split, etc. I don't think there really is a point where you just lay it all down. Even if you take the Walden path, it's not aimless.

Your work is never done! Just keep experiencing and don't project a negative outlook all over it and this talk of "end game" can go ahead and cease now. I'm not where I envision myself to ultimately be in terms of business, but I'm content. I want to push forward and keep striving to improve and grow, but I'm content as well. It do what it do, it be what it be, it is what it is, but I'll also try to change the situation too. That's the point, I think. Movement and experience, internal and external.

In other words, I'M HIGH NIGGAAAAAA
 
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It's actually pretty straightforward. The goal should be so that assets are:

1. Are protected.
2. Generated passive income.
 
Great thread...

I've had limited experience in the affiliate space. I still work a day job, so my "end game" is when I no longer rely on somebody else's idea to give me income. I guess that applies to affiliate income as well.

From this point forward, I'd like to create products. I'd also like to develop a good eye for developing markets with little established competition instead of fighting tooth-and-nail in some cyber rat race.

Once I'm stacking serious dough, I'd like to invest my time and energy in a few different things.

Day trading, consulting, self-education (philosophy, economics, languages, psychology, etc...) the music game (I've been producing hip-hop music since a teen).

At the very least, I really just want financial stability and freedom. I'm a minimalist, so "balling out of control" isn't something that appeals to me. Traveling and gaining life experience does, though. Also, I'd like to accumulate enough resources to ride-out the economic disasters that will occur within the next 5-10 years.

Once the dollar crashes, what are y'all gonna do?
 
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Humfsis-QLI]"Everybody Has a Number" Clip - Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - YouTube[/ame]
 
I was at someones house the other morning for a consult and when I pulled up there was a guy in his yard picking up shit. I kid you not there is a company that will pick up dog shit.

How easy would it be to brand that, franchise it.

Gotta keep the wheels turning. Anyone can pick up poop, but how many people can market it and scale it?

End game? Death or erectile dysfunction.
 
My fucking plan sucks.
No plan.

Come to WF and be reminded how far behind you are.
 
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