would you work at 'yext'?

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because i'm graduating and am considering it...

as much as i love affiliate marketing .. i'm just not sure if its the right profession for me .. no matter how much dough i could make, i think i need the atmosphere of being around other ppl my age
 


im just not totally ballin in the affiliate monies yet ... i make money, but not enough where i could live in a big city like NYC .. plus i have zero experience working as a college grad .. seems like something i should experience to give me more insight about if i really want to do affiliate marketing full time

i just am thinking about yext as a nice startup .. and if i get my foot in the door early i dont know what could happen
 
Do you even have a job offer from them? If not I wouldn't do too much mental masturbation over it.
 
aeisn said:
Do you even have a job offer from them? If not I wouldn't do too much mental masturbation over it.
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no but i mean theyre hiring like crazy .. i see it on facebook and on my schools recruitment site ... i think w/ my experience and my academics i should be able to score a job with them .. its just somethin im considering b/c i'm sill on the fence about what i want to do when i graduate

as much as working for somone else sucks ... i'm young stil and want to experience what i can. I think if i work there or in another corporate environment i'll at least be able to know that i rather work for myself than somone else
 
leadsupplier said:
explanations plz? even if minimal
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honestly it'd be more of a personal thing, but it would depend. they're very quiet about benefits, and instead list their free lunch/dinner as a benefit rather than traditional benefits - they're trying to draw in college grads and it doesn't look like the long term. the only thing I see related to long term is "pre IPO stock options", and that's a really ambitious statement, maybe too ambitious.

i mean honestly this is just affiliate marketing on the local end, and done by a company. if you want to do this you can look up shoemoney's local affiliate marketing post, do it on your own, and probably make more money
 
true .. but how i'm lookin at it is like this

i'm not the average joe, i'm not gunna sit there and not go above and beyond and even suggest new things to higher ups. my goal would be to get a higher position just based on who i was ... if it took off i'd be in a good situation

i know thats a stretch but i'm just pretty amazed at the fact they raised so much money .. and in the tech crunch article .. they said VC's were begging to invest in the company

you and me both know that even tho we probably could make our own money off a similar venture.. that doesn't sell with VC's .. ppl are nubs when it comes to affiliate marketing.

i'm figuring that i'm just not sure what to do after school .. i look at it like this ..

1. i get a job at a company like yext .. i work for a start up ... gain valuable experience .. grow in the corporate world to see what its like

or

2. i work at home w/ my rents maybe .. if not i get a small apt in my local town of 14k ppl, hopefully i make a shit ton of money thru affiliate marketing.. if not i have to get a job and i'm behind of where i could have been.

the more i think about it ... with money aside ... i feel like getting work experience in corparate america is the most valuable for me right now. then i can have a clearer vision of how corporate america works .. and also if i want to work extra hard to be self employed
 
No one can decide that for you but yourself. I used to work at Microsoft in Evangelism. It was fun and had lot of perks... you know shit like travel and staying in 5 Star Hotels etc. But it was just not for me.

Lot of people would kill for such a job but I found it much easier to be in control and do whatever the fuck I wanted to do and fuck whosoever I wanted to... without being answerable to anyone or reporting anywhere.

So yeah, stop creating all the bullshit threads you keep creating and decide for yourself. This is one decision which no one can really help you with on the interwebz... we don't know you, we don't know your personality, we don't know your appetite for risk - so you will have to decide if this industry is for you.
 
leadsupplier said:
true .. but how i'm lookin at it is like this

i'm not the average joe, i'm not gunna sit there and not go above and beyond and even suggest new things to higher ups. my goal would be to get a higher position just based on who i was ... if it took off i'd be in a good situation
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lol right. don't be so smug about your own abilities or accomplishments, because there is always someone better. so basically you are the average joe, because you, like everyone else, say "I'm capable of more than being a paper pusher, I'll rise to the top!"

leadsupplier said:
i know thats a stretch but i'm just pretty amazed at the fact they raised so much money .. and in the tech crunch article .. they said VC's were begging to invest in the company

you and me both know that even tho we probably could make our own money off a similar venture.. that doesn't sell with VC's .. ppl are nubs when it comes to affiliate marketing.

i'm figuring that i'm just not sure what to do after school .. i look at it like this ..

1. i get a job at a company like yext .. i work for a start up ... gain valuable experience .. grow in the corporate world to see what its like

or

2. i work at home w/ my rents maybe .. if not i get a small apt in my local town of 14k ppl, hopefully i make a shit ton of money thru affiliate marketing.. if not i have to get a job and i'm behind of where i could have been.

the more i think about it ... with money aside ... i feel like getting work experience in corparate america is the most valuable for me right now. then i can have a clearer vision of how corporate america works .. and also if i want to work extra hard to be self employed
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are you serious? this sounds more like you're afraid of getting a normal job first, or don't have the grades or test scores for grad school/mba something. of course a company is going to say that VCs are drooling over them, are they going to say they suck? and wtf do you mean "people are nubs when it comes to affiliate marketing" - do you not think direct response advertising has been around for ages? internet marketing is new but there have been "affiliates" in a sense for as long as marketing has been around. what do you think a car dealership really is?

again - major and gpa?

you aren't a unique snowflake that will instantly rise to the top. you have a bullshit entitlement complex is all it is (hurr BMW lease out of college but still live with my parents!). Get a real job and do something instead of asking WickedFire for approval every time you question yourself.
 
leadsupplier said:
the more i think about it ... with money aside ... i feel like getting work experience in corparate america is the most valuable for me right now. then i can have a clearer vision of how corporate america works .. and also if i want to work extra hard to be self employed
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Don't take this personal, but you're not cut out to be an entrepreneur.

Entrepreneurs crave challenges. If you're not ready to work hard, better to be someone else's bitch.
 
i'm an IT major w/ an Entrepreneurship minor .. my gpa isn't stellar its about a 3.0

I've always wanted to own my own business my whole life. I wish i titled the thread something like "how many of you worked in the corporate world" because thats really what i'd like to know more about.

right now i'm impatient and gung ho about working for myself .. but at the same time i feel like working for a big business will help me achieve that goal even more if i end up not liking working for someone else

as far as "nubs" i dont mean like ppl are retarded about affiliate marketing ... but i mean more along the line of old school business people vs new school. if you go to some old real estate investor or someone like that and talk to him about SEO, PPC, Landing pages, and Ninja Optimization .. hes not gunna know what the fuck your talking about ... and for all he knows you could be taking him for a ride, but hearing all that shit will make him think OMG this guys is the SHIT... case in point .. dennis yu

he supplied one of my classes w/ a donation for the google online marketing challenge and my teacher whos not in the "affiliate biz" still thinks hes a great guy. and him getting his tech crunch article and now going on a news show validates my point of ppl being nubs when it comes to this type of shit

i mean how many ideas have ppl and media eaten up .. when half the ppl on here that know what theyre doing are like ... WTF that was it?


EDIT: in response to me not being cut out to be an entrepreneur... never in my life did i ever expect to be an entrepreneur using the internet. i always invisioned myself getting into real estate or owning some kind of B&M business. so again, you don't know me, and i do work hard. Given my limited technical experience i'm gunna say i did a pretty damn good job of diving into affiliate marketing and learning a bunch of shit. Overall, its still not the idea i had of being an entrepreneur in my mind.
 
leadsupplier said:
i'm an IT major w/ an Entrepreneurship minor .. my gpa isn't stellar its about a 3.0

I've always wanted to own my own business my whole life. I wish i titled the thread something like "how many of you worked in the corporate world" because thats really what i'd like to know more about.

right now i'm impatient and gung ho about working for myself .. but at the same time i feel like working for a big business will help me achieve that goal even more if i end up not liking working for someone else

as far as "nubs" i dont mean like ppl are retarded about affiliate marketing ... but i mean more along the line of old school business people vs new school. if you go to some old real estate investor or someone like that and talk to him about SEO, PPC, Landing pages, and Ninja Optimization .. hes not gunna know what the fuck your talking about ... and for all he knows you could be taking him for a ride, but hearing all that shit will make him think OMG this guys is the SHIT... case in point .. dennis yu

he supplied one of my classes w/ a donation for the google online marketing challenge and my teacher whos not in the "affiliate biz" still thinks hes a great guy. and him getting his tech crunch article and now going on a news show validates my point of ppl being nubs when it comes to this type of shit

i mean how many ideas have ppl and media eaten up .. when half the ppl on here that know what theyre doing are like ... WTF that was it?
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that's why you don't talk to these people about your techniques, you just tell them you do direct response, and get them results. they don't give a shit about your methods. give it to him for free for a few weeks even to prove it for your first few people.

can you explain what an IT major is? honestly I really don't know, is there programming in there or is it being a sysadmin or something. the "normal corporate world" is not like a lot of these startup businesses. is that good? bad? who knows. but if you want a taste of that, then go for one of those established companies.
 
papajohn56 said:
that's why you don't talk to these people about your techniques, you just tell them you do direct response, and get them results. they don't give a shit about your methods. give it to him for free for a few weeks even to prove it for your first few people.

can you explain what an IT major is? honestly I really don't know, is there programming in there or is it being a sysadmin or something. the "normal corporate world" is not like a lot of these startup businesses. is that good? bad? who knows. but if you want a taste of that, then go for one of those established companies.
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Honestly man, IT is the most vague major i've ever seen in my life. me and my buddies would talk about this early on in our college careers. all our teachers would say IT is a combination of people, organizations, and technology .. seriously whatever the fuck that means

to this day i have no idea what IT is, and i can tell you that i dislike programming, and hate databases and networks. What i've come to learn is that IT just give you an edge. You can go to a business and say .. "i have an IT degree".. to me this says "i can do shit with computers" I have no specilaization in IT... but how i'm going to play it off to businesses is that i know online marketing and have experience.

as far as startups go ... i rather work at a startup than an established business like deloitte or accenture. the reason is because i feel like i would actually matter. Now i don't care if you belive me or not but i get tons of ideas running through my head every day, and if i can express those ideas to a company that may actually benefit from it... hell yea i think thats an advantage. more ideas = promotion.

i dont know if theres any job like that .. but i'd say coming up w/ ideas is my most valuable asset. throw me in a business, i'll come up w/ some logical, out of the box ideas. a start up is probably the place for that.

As far as affiliate marketing goes, i have the ideas, but the experience and technical abilities inhibit me. the only way to overcome that is to just stick with it. but doing that right out of college will keep me wondering if i could climb the ladder in the corporate world
 
leadsupplier said:
"how many of you worked in the corporate world" because thats really what i'd like to know more about.
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I did. Don't bother.

All the other stuff you are talking about is not going to be solved by asking at this forum. Since you have never had a "real corporate job", if you feel the need to try it on then do it. Spend a couple years to figure out what type of career will make you happy, if not affiliate marketing.

Just don't do something you hate because you'll regret it later on. The only people who do shit they hate are people who have to do it to feed their family.
 
Having worked in both, the choice is simple: do you want to make yourself rich or make someone else rich?
 
I've had a lot of stock options in my day. i've even had a lot of executed shares of stock. I've never made a lot of money from that though and consider now the years of taking less money for more equity in various companies to be completely wasted effort.
 
FerrisHilton said:
I did. Don't bother.

All the other stuff you are talking about is not going to be solved by asking at this forum. Since you have never had a "real corporate job", if you feel the need to try it on then do it. Spend a couple years to figure out what type of career will make you happy, if not affiliate marketing.

Just don't do something you hate because you'll regret it later on. The only people who do shit they hate are people who have to do it to feed their family.
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fcu_1 said:
Having worked in both, the choice is simple: do you want to make yourself rich or make someone else rich?
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Sonny Forelli said:
I've had a lot of stock options in my day. i've even had a lot of executed shares of stock. I've never made a lot of money from that though and consider now the years of taking less money for more equity in various companies to be completely wasted effort.
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well it seems like climbing the ladder takes a lot of time. but what i have to ask is this. all three of you guys worked in the corporate world .. how do you think that affected your drive and motivation to succeed in affiliate marketing?

i'm gunna be honest ... i'm pretty lazy. I still have yet to focus strictly on affiliate marketing because i've been taking 19 credits ... but i still got a fair share done. i just dont know if by working in the corporate world i might end up hating it so much that i'd never give up on affiliate marketing. thats not saying i am anywhere near doing that now either. just kind of one of those things where you appreciate what your doing more because you know what its like if you don't
 
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