I Got My Start With...

Looking back, my first ever profitable campaign was a legit "Seen on TV" offer. I think it was like Blade Master or some shit like that. From COPEAC. CPS of $29.

Anyhow, was bidding on trademark, so yea, you could imagine how long that lasted.
 


I've only been doing AM for like a year and I would be completely embarrassed to show people the stuff I started out with.

I'm pretty sure the stuff I am doing now will be the same in a few years, but at least it's making a few bucks.
 
Started buying pallets/truckloads of salvage electronics and selling them on ebay. Moved on from there.
 
Got started by completing over 70 freebie offers (email/zip submits) back then, I could spend 1 hour, $40 on trials, and profit $1k+ (My largest take was 8k, and I spent $200 bucks.) I made over 50k doing that, eventually I found out I could make money promoting them... and that led to everything else. Would have been a lot more money if one company didn't fold.

Nowadays, completing those freebies for profit is impossible and half of them just try to screw you.
 
(me as a kid)
"If you push this button, Roundabout, it will send an email to ONE person."

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Geocities + "Click the banner and copy the 3rd word on the page for the password to my ftp site," before Napster and file sharing existed, or at least before anyone really knew about it. 1997 I want to say.

At the time I didn't realize how shady this was, but actually I don't think the banner advertisers even cared. Dudes just wanted traffic, regardless of quality. The file sharing was another thing... got my internet access shut down for hogging bandwidth and a couple C&Ds that made me shit bricks.