Best four year degree that can tie into affiliate marketing
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I suggest you get a degree in common sense. Oh wait, they don't offer that in skewl. Guess you're fucked!
I did psychology + entrepreneurship (a lot of business colleges have this now, check to see if your school does). Psychology helped with understanding demand and motivators. Entrepreneurship helped with everything and if AM doesn't work out for you as a full-time income earner, its highly desirable by companies because you learn to see the big picture in any size organization + tons of consulting opportunities.
Everything you learn about affiliate marketing is an intuition that you only get from trying.
Most university degrees are garbage. You'd think marketing would be applicable, but marketing degrees often just mean memorizing a bunch of fluffy business concepts + group presentations + "market research", which you've already done more of if you've ever clicked around in Google Analytics than the deprecated shit they teach you.
Each course costs me about $1,400. Most college students pay even more than that per course. And at least 60% of the 4 years you're in college is devoted to courses that aren't relevant to your major. And only a small subset of the remainder actually teaches you practical information that makes you more skillset-marketable. And often it's reserved for the last year or two you're in school.
(Of course, institutional degrees like hard science, medicine, accounting, and law are pretty educational -- I'm talking about everything else.)
Internet marketing is definitely NOT something you need to get a degree for, nor is it something you want to even influence the degree you pick. In fact, the only obstacle to investment in internet marketing is the amount of time school forces you to allocate away from your ambitions and towards trivial coursework.
I think the most relevant question to be asking in 2010 is: Do I really need a degree? Or do I really need to spend thousands on one? Do I really need to postpone true entry into the workforce by 4 years? Do I want wait until I'm 22 to finally be free myself from shaping my life around semester-sized blocks?
I'm 22 years old and about to graduate with an MIS degree from a well-ranked public undegrad business program at a large school. If I could do things over, I'd go to a cheaper school and simply focus on getting my degree ASAP while devoting time more easily to my life ambitions.
Bottom line is that you'll learn MUCH more using the money to try shit in the real world. And I think we all can agree on that. The only reason you should consider university nowadays is if you want an institutional degree that demands a good degree OR you find that the piece of paper you get after 4 years is worth the 4 years and all the money you spent that could've gone to much more educational and self-developmental enterprises. I find the latter very, very hard to justify.
Most university degrees are garbage. You'd think marketing would be applicable, but marketing degrees often just mean memorizing a bunch of fluffy business concepts + group presentations + "market research", which you've already done more of if you've ever clicked around in Google Analytics than the deprecated shit they teach you.
Each course costs me about $1,400. Most college students pay even more than that per course. And at least 60% of the 4 years you're in college is devoted to courses that aren't relevant to your major. And only a small subset of the remainder actually teaches you practical information that makes you more skillset-marketable. And often it's reserved for the last year or two you're in school.
(Of course, institutional degrees like hard science, medicine, accounting, and law are pretty educational -- I'm talking about everything else.)
Internet marketing is definitely NOT something you need to get a degree for, nor is it something you want to even influence the degree you pick. In fact, the only obstacle to investment in internet marketing is the amount of time school forces you to allocate away from your ambitions and towards trivial coursework.
I think the most relevant question to be asking in 2010 is: Do I really need a degree? Or do I really need to spend thousands on one? Do I really need to postpone true entry into the workforce by 4 years? Do I want wait until I'm 22 to finally be free myself from shaping my life around semester-sized blocks?
I'm 22 years old and about to graduate with an MIS degree from a well-ranked public undegrad business program at a large school. If I could do things over, I'd go to a cheaper school and simply focus on getting my degree ASAP while devoting time more easily to my life ambitions.
Bottom line is that you'll learn MUCH more using the money to try shit in the real world. And I think we all can agree on that. The only reason you should consider university nowadays is if you want an institutional degree that demands a good degree OR you find that the piece of paper you get after 4 years is worth the 4 years and all the money you spent that could've gone to much more educational and self-developmental enterprises. I find the latter very, very hard to justify.
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Computer Information Science
if you are already going to college.
If you arent in college yet, DONT GO! save your tuition money and put towards either hiring a successful CPA person to show you the ropes over the course of a year or use it for trial and error learning.
Computer Information Science
if you are already going to college.
If you arent in college yet, DONT GO! save your tuition money and put towards either hiring a successful CPA person to show you the ropes over the course of a year or use it for trial and error learning.
if you're going fulltime AM, forget college.
if you want to add some knowledge to yo brain then go for whatever you want. if you find psychology or economics interesting, go for it.
what's sad is that most people don't go to school to learn what they are interested in, they only take the courses that will guarantee them a job, regardless of how dull the subject is, like medicine rofl.
im an optimist. 500 years from now people will be taking a class schedule that will look like:
period 1: sex
period 2: xbox
period 3: sports
period 4: eating food
if you want to add some knowledge to yo brain then go for whatever you want. if you find psychology or economics interesting, go for it.
what's sad is that most people don't go to school to learn what they are interested in, they only take the courses that will guarantee them a job, regardless of how dull the subject is, like medicine rofl.
im an optimist. 500 years from now people will be taking a class schedule that will look like:
period 1: sex
period 2: xbox
period 3: sports
period 4: eating food
If you really want a 4 year, go with computer science heavy in database theory.. Another option would be marketing / business management..
I don't use any of my degrees anymore.. I'm glad I have them, but they don't really apply to how I make money and have become hobbies..
I don't use any of my degrees anymore.. I'm glad I have them, but they don't really apply to how I make money and have become hobbies..
Finishing my capstone course for my BS in Marketing Management soon (for shits and giggles, really) and it's amazing how far behind the schools are compared to the real world. Every time I hear about SPSS, and all the other goofy shit they insist is "ground breaking" I almost piss myself. Their whole concept of online marketing consists of "getting people to follow you on Facebook and Twitter". Seriously. Huge time and money sink, and if I wasn't so close to finishing I wouldn't bother. The degree will look nice on my wall, but that's about it.
high five. seriously.
best four year degree that can tie into affiliate marketing...none. drop out. take away the backup plan.
succeed or die.
Computer Science and... Accounting (would hate to be relying on an accountant 24/7 to tell me about my own finances).
Just to echo what's already been said, there is no degree that will help you with IM. Just learn on your own outside of school. With that said, if you want a degree thats a good backup, try something along the lines of Computer Information Systems. I'm finishing it up right now and as far as undergrad degrees go, CIS majors have one of the top starting avg salaries of the entire school (close to 60k ish) and plenty of job prospects.
Overall you'll probably be disappointed with the academics. Very little relevant information and not much in the way of useful skills. Its been ridiculously easy though which gives me lots of time to work on side projects.
Even the intelligence of people seems lower than what I first expected going into college. I meet people every day who want to do web development or something related but haven't bothered to learn even the basics (html, css, php, etc) because it hasn't been part of their course work yet. LOL wtf bro u srs? They talk about buying a book on it someday when they have more time or some shit, but its like jesus christ guys, you understand how to surf facebook all day but can't look up a fucking tutorial??
Overall you'll probably be disappointed with the academics. Very little relevant information and not much in the way of useful skills. Its been ridiculously easy though which gives me lots of time to work on side projects.
Even the intelligence of people seems lower than what I first expected going into college. I meet people every day who want to do web development or something related but haven't bothered to learn even the basics (html, css, php, etc) because it hasn't been part of their course work yet. LOL wtf bro u srs? They talk about buying a book on it someday when they have more time or some shit, but its like jesus christ guys, you understand how to surf facebook all day but can't look up a fucking tutorial??
The thing that really annoys me about the people in my classes at the moment are the absolute lack of ambition they have..
For them a good life would be to sit in an office as a software developer working 9-5 for 40 years earning a decent wage but loosing out on their lives.
Where's there drive to want to build something of their own? Surely they should think if someone can afford to pay you $100,000 to work for them then the guy at the top can't be doing bad... so why not aspire to be that guy?
For me my degree is a backup so if I find myself unemployed in 20 years time then it's something more on my CV to help out.
I've learnt next to nothing useful from my BSc but if I had the choice I'd do it again for the experience and the people I've met, furthermore if your 19, 20 your young so worry about living not the bank, long life to worry about that!
Be happy.
For them a good life would be to sit in an office as a software developer working 9-5 for 40 years earning a decent wage but loosing out on their lives.
Where's there drive to want to build something of their own? Surely they should think if someone can afford to pay you $100,000 to work for them then the guy at the top can't be doing bad... so why not aspire to be that guy?
For me my degree is a backup so if I find myself unemployed in 20 years time then it's something more on my CV to help out.
I've learnt next to nothing useful from my BSc but if I had the choice I'd do it again for the experience and the people I've met, furthermore if your 19, 20 your young so worry about living not the bank, long life to worry about that!
Be happy.