full time web developers gone full time affiliate marketing

[orange_oranges]

just curious who used to be a full time web developer and crossed over to being a full-time affiliate marketer?

being a web developer myself (mainly back-end to middle layer of the web dev stack), im just getting started with affiliate marketing and see how the web developing skills carry over. at the same time, im trying to adjust to the fact that developing is just a fraction of the time spent now (using that other side of my brain filled with cob webs).

i know some of you guys probably built out tools and plugins for the industry, but the question was more geared towards developers that have more or less taken the back seat in coding and focused more on the marketing - keyword research, ad / sales copy, simple landing pages, etc?

 

[Aequitas]

just curious who used to be a full time web developer and crossed over to being a full-time affiliate marketer?

being a web developer myself (mainly back-end to middle layer of the web dev stack), im just getting started with affiliate marketing and see how the web developing skills carry over. at the same time, im trying to adjust to the fact that developing is just a fraction of the time spent now (using that other side of my brain filled with cob webs).

i know some of you guys probably built out tools and plugins for the industry, but the question was more geared towards developers that have more or less taken the back seat in coding and focused more on the marketing - keyword research, ad / sales copy, simple landing pages, etc?

I have, well kind of, started out as a web developer for close to 10 years, then moved into AM fulltime for about 3 years, then for the last two years I've been doing a mixture of both.

I found it really easy to move into AM after being a developer simply because there wasen't all that much of a learning curve, I already knew how to develop sites, I already knew about SEO, I already knew all about user interactions on websites, I already knew how to test and re-test so it came pretty easy.

 

[Refrozen]

I don't do anything full time*, but this is basically what happened to me.

* I mean I do all kinds of things because I get bored doing any individual thing, haha.

 

[erect]

If you consider adsense & epn to be AM, then I've been fulltime AM for about 3 years ... been a developer for 10.

Honestly, I'd much prefer coming from this background than anything else. The learning curve is small (if not non-existent) and some of the cool widgets we've picked up over the years allow for much more robust landers.

It's also beneficial having an SEO background so that you can tackle both ends of advertising at the same time ... now off to learn about bartering media buys.