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So what do you guys and girls think in terms of growth in the industry amongst affiliate managers, affiliate executives, or just affiliate lady/ladies in the industry these days?

I'm all for it!

I remember, not too long ago, like.. 2005 even, there was Missy Ward, and that was about it. Linda Woods too. The other women I knew were all non-affiliate related. Now.. tons of them! Coming out of the woodwork! Ahhhh!! And we've got them everywhere on the forum now! Seriously, who would have ever believed that women would want to come hang out on WickedFire with our potty mouthes, filthy naked women posts, overly sexual harassing and many times not very friendly drunken banter (ubaid lol), and yet, they still came, and are here to stay.

So to all those affiliate marketing industry MEN who doubted the women or who have treated them like shit. Well, these ladies may have vaginas, but at least they don't act like them!

That's for you AffiliateLady! OO-RAH!
 


I'm all for it. I don't think of skills in terms of gender, if you can pull your weight and do your job - fucking do it.

I know a few women (actually from this board) that work 4x harder than half the men I work with. I respect them 4x more due to this (of course).
 
That was the strangest ode to women I've ever seen.

(did anyone else here the "Here's to you" budlight music playing in the background?)
 
I dont mind at all. As long as they are cool, communicate effectively with me and just do their fucking job...I dont give a shit about their gender. Seems like the women are a little bit more prone to listening than the men.
 
I only know of about 3 lady affiliate marketers, and about 3,000 lady affiliate managers. Sex sells I guess, especially to computer nerds like us. As long as they know their shit everything is peachy.
 
Speaking only for myself...

the hard part was not learning the "how to's" of Landing Page Design, Effective Copy Writing, finding a niche or even decent SEO. The steepest part of the learning curve was going from zero to proficient with WordPress, MySQL and PHP (and now Drupal). That took several vats of espresso and, broken-up, a few weeks of all-nighters after work. (And I'm still learning something new every day.)

Anyone can become proficient with sufficent drive and professionalism (bawdy rants and picture-time on WF excluded). That's not limited by gender. What's limiting is that most of us have been raised to be acquiescent, to be good employees, to not think outside of the box- and women have the small extra obstacle of being socialized to be the one provided for by their husband/ boyfriend/ fiance et al.

6 mos. and a half dozen or so websites later, affiliate marketing just became a larger income stream than my 9-5 job (where I am writing from currently- go figure). I'm in the scaling process now and will be rolling out a bigger project in a few months. My point is both men and women can succeed in Affiliate Marketing... even in today's so called "saturated market". In my limited experience, it's just about finding a niche and immersing all of your energies into developing and monontenizing it.

We're here, we're doing alright, and we're going to stick around. Thanks for the recognition, Jon- and thanks to all of you on WF. I extensively trolled with the search button for those first few months and have managed to get more from this forum than almost every other source combined.
 
Woah, woah, woah...Excuse me, but the lack of objectifying and womanizing in this thread is sickening. Where are the ladies showing their boobs? :Yahoo_29:
 
turbolapp said:
That was the strangest ode to women I've ever seen.

(did anyone else here the "Here's to you" budlight music playing in the background?)
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LOL...I was thinking the same thing.

Thanks for the warm welcome! Seriously though...I am happy to have found a place to "hang my hat". I have been affiliate marketing for about 6 months and information is key to this business...heck any business! So thanks WF for letting us lady affiliate marketers in your group. You guys crack me up!

Angie :)
 
There's nothing more appropriate than women hanging out in a gay webmasters forum. It's kinda like the corner booth at Applebees with all the chicks hanging out with the one flamer giggling and sucking on umbrella drinks so hard the inside of his cheeks touch.
 
I'm a woman, though probably be old enough to be the mom of some of you. People think I'm a man because of my handle, but bitsdawg was my cat's name, and I'm so uncool I didn't realize that Dawg was a word for a man. I was thinking more like Deputy Dawg which dates me for sure!

I was working as a computer programmer when you guys were probably in grade school, and at that time being a female in engineering/tech was a novelty too. And not a novelty in a nice way.

But when my day job got outsourced back around 2000 this was just a natural progression. After that, I had a chance to go back into IT for a decent salary, but when I thought about commuting and juggling school schedules, the thought of returning to a cubicle made me sick.

But really. What's the big deal? According to the analytics, most of my visitors are female even though I bank the most money in financial niches, and not in any "girly" stuff.

So .. why is this even a suprise? I have been doing affiliate marketing in one form or another for about 8 years, and have met lots of women who do it. I don't attend conferences because I still have kids at home and it is too much of a pain to work out schedules, and maybe that's the thing: the women are here. We are just not as visible.

And I work with the reps of may large affiliate marketing companies who are mostly young males. We discuss affilaite marketing, and sometimes I sell a website or two. Most of those guys are class acts and very polite. I'd let my daughter marry one.




As for the language and sexist blah blah blah... I have met a lot of great guys and gals on this forum who don't have any need to communicate that way. Besides, I have heard it before. It's not like you guys invented crudity or anything.
 
Well since most other forums for affiliate marketers are shite they don't have much choice but to put up with our vulgarity I'd say. :D
 
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