I agree. I'm 19 years old, but I don't look any older then 16. When I bring in checks that are X,XXX - (low)XX,XXX the 20+ year old bank tellers gawk. The girls around here love the monies.
What do you hate/despise about this industry
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I agree. I'm 19 years old, but I don't look any older then 16. When I bring in checks that are X,XXX - (low)XX,XXX the 20+ year old bank tellers gawk. The girls around here love the monies.
Sometimes I can't believe how lucky I am.
I worry about the stability of my traffic sources, get annoyed by idiots who think they are spamming comments but send them through my contact form, etc. - but you have to love this work!
^ all that
Also the 24/7 nature of the business and not really being able to take a real vacation in terms of leaving your laptop and cell phone at home.
I'm commenting on blogs for hours on end, but I try to pass some value in that comment and I try and get away with no more than two links. I know this qualifies me as a spammer, but when I refer to "fucktard spammer" I'm referring to those that pass zero value raping the pages with nothing but links and they do this to as many pages as they can across a domain. Very frustrating.:xmas-smiley-010:
shady advertisers/ones who don't have their shit together..constantly amazed at how so many people will burn bridges in the name of the quick buck.
When I first got into AM I guess I had some type of mental picture of advertisers being these big companies with shiny offices. I thought they wanted to work with me and build real business relationships.
The reality is more like a 28 year old guy who just dropped his last $20K to fill his apartment with diet pills that he now needs to unload and try to make a buck.
I never got into the rebill game but lead gen is no different. People throw up offers with the generic form fill on the right + stock photos & generic info on the bottom and expect to sit back and watch the cash start rolling in. It's very clear they have done little to no testing on their own and that's why their back end is shit.
Then they have the nerve to be unspecific in the terms & conditions about what type of traffic/leads they want because they know they can just go back later and call "fraud" or say "the leads didn't back out" like that's a valid excuse to not pay up.
I understand there are tons of affiliates out there trying to rip off the advertisers and the networks with all kinds of black hat methods that provide very low lead quality, but I think the advertisers hold a little too much power when questions of quality come up.
Prime example and advertiser calls fraud and wants to see my ads or get data on my campaign. Sure now why don't you fork over all the stats and data on your back end and prove to me that they leads really didn't convert?
Situations like this come up more often than they should and I guess that's why these days its more important than ever to work with a solid network that you trust to have your back.
/rant
When I first got into AM I guess I had some type of mental picture of advertisers being these big companies with shiny offices. I thought they wanted to work with me and build real business relationships.
The reality is more like a 28 year old guy who just dropped his last $20K to fill his apartment with diet pills that he now needs to unload and try to make a buck.
I never got into the rebill game but lead gen is no different. People throw up offers with the generic form fill on the right + stock photos & generic info on the bottom and expect to sit back and watch the cash start rolling in. It's very clear they have done little to no testing on their own and that's why their back end is shit.
Then they have the nerve to be unspecific in the terms & conditions about what type of traffic/leads they want because they know they can just go back later and call "fraud" or say "the leads didn't back out" like that's a valid excuse to not pay up.
I understand there are tons of affiliates out there trying to rip off the advertisers and the networks with all kinds of black hat methods that provide very low lead quality, but I think the advertisers hold a little too much power when questions of quality come up.
Prime example and advertiser calls fraud and wants to see my ads or get data on my campaign. Sure now why don't you fork over all the stats and data on your back end and prove to me that they leads really didn't convert?
Situations like this come up more often than they should and I guess that's why these days its more important than ever to work with a solid network that you trust to have your back.
/rant
Suburban prep school gang banger wanna-bes, but I just ignore their preening, couldn't care less really, it's just one aspect of the industry, were it to disappear tomorrow, I wouldn't miss.
I despise Google for being against manual link building. They want it all to happen naturally. Guess what? I let it happen naturally for 3 years, my site has been featured in magazines, any many of the largest blogs on the internet in which I received 30,000 uniques in 1 day, 1300 natural Facebook fans, 1000 customers. Where has it got me? 30 organic hits a day from Google, fuckin' 30. FUCK YOU, I'm going to spam the shit out of everything now. The nice guy never fucking wins.
Probably get banned...
Probably get banned...
You are following orders given to you by some arbitrary authority which you have absolutely no reason to obey morally, ethically, spiritually or intellectually.
Think about the power in this relationship. You're approaching Google like a supplicant, on your knees, and then ultimately you get disappointed when Google disregards you as an inferior entity which is exactly what you tried to be to win favor.
You seriously need to walk up to Google and slap it with links, and slap it with links until it does what you want it to. Trying to play nicey nicey with a multi-billion dollar digital corporation is futile. You would have better luck teaching a dog to sing.
My two cents.