What do you hate/despise about this industry

papajohn56

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Everyone loves that we can work at home if we choose, or have freedom etc but what about this do you hate? The people, the offers, etc? List it.

Offer stability is a big one for me.
 


Glad I'm not an AM for that reason alone, the instability; though the rush of finding a great offer and scaling with a high ROI is something I've never experienced :[

I honestly can't say there's anything I hate about what I do. Maybe dealing with moron clients but you'll have that every where.
 
Clients who wait to pay invoices 30 days after it's due, people too lazy to do research before asking questions, the acceptance that a great deal of things in the tech world are out of your control.

Those are my big 3.
 
Anti-socialness. No coworkers = spending most of your day alone and trying to rally everyone who just came home from work and are exhausted.
 
stability is the main concern . Google can kick your ass when ever they want , it does not mater how big your business is. If you are big, as facebook or you have quality news magazines online , than no reason to worry about stability .
 
I don't hate any of it. We're living a dream.

For nearly all of humanity, past and present, it doesn't get any better than this.
 
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I don't hate any of it. We're living a dream.

For nearly all of humanity, past and present, it doesn't get any better than this.

Agreed.

We literally are living dreams of all past generations and have total control over our lives, which can probably be said for the first time in human history.

But to be specific to affiliate marketing, I get really annoyed when advertising platforms where I was running profitable shit get anal and don't allow me to run it anymore.
 
I don't hate anything but I am grateful every day for this gift.
I have built an immunity to people, offers, networks and spammers and see them as elements of the game.
 
I agree with guerilla it's hard to top what we do. Even as someone who only does this part-time (student the other part -- partier all the time :smokin:)

All kidding aside though I have two pet peeves when it comes to IM/SEO. The first being the amount of people who think they can come online and do this, I understand that's how we all started off (or at least I did over on NamePros), but read the tutorials, scan the forum for helpful threads and responses, brush up on your English (if needed), and THEN ask questions. Most people seem willing to answer questions here and other places as long as it isn't giving away some money making secret, but I refuse to answer a question that can either be Googled, I can't understand due to poor grammar, or I know there is already a thread open and decently active about it.

The second thing that really annoys me is people's inability to understand that even though you may be reading some typing on a screen, another human being typed that shit up. There are a lot of people out there (more clients than colleagues) who feel that they aren't really talking to another person due to the lack of true personal communication (face to face talking, shaking hands, etc) and this results in some people either ordering something and then all the sudden not responding to my messages because they backed out and felt it wasn't necessary to contact me, or they attempt to treat you like trash. I'm sure most people don't put up with being ignored or being treated like a robot instead of human, but it's really annoying when you run across those folks.

Flash4Ever said:
I have built an immunity to people, offers, networks and spammers and see them as elements of the game

This is good way to answer the question and view this industry. :)