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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
This is the thing that just cracks me up about this business.
Every day someone comes in here and asks for basically a roadmap to success.
Hey tell me about your site and how much money you make and what things work and don't work.
In what other business do people try this without being laughed out of the fucking room?
The information you get from these requests is more likely to be misinformation than anything else. Who the hell wants to educate their potential competition?
Unless you have a friend already doing well in this biz, then it's going to be trial and error, just like it was for the rest of us.  |
To expand on this a bit.
There was a time, many years ago, when affiliate reps were pretty knowledgeable and could help a newbie along.
This was back when margins were huge and programs could afford to pay 100K+ per year to have outstanding reps. It was in their interest to help the newbs because some newbs would eventually become whales and remain loyal to the program.
These days that doesn't exist anymore. Margins are slim and there are no dollars to be had from newbie affiliates, only pennies.
There was a time when a newbie affiliate had a pretty good chance at becoming very successful if they worked hard and learned the ropes. Nowadays, your chances of succeeding here are pretty much the same as they are in any business. Very few will make it.
If 100 newbs start sites today, in 6 months 90 of them won't be here. In 6 more months, only 2 or 3 of the remaining 10 will be left, and only 1 of them will have any significant amount of traffic/signups.
It's just not worth it anymore to try and cultivate newbie affiliates on the off chance that the guy you're talking to will be that 1 guy.
Although I'm sure a bunch of failed webmasters.....errr sorry, affiliate reps will come in here and pay lip service to how much they're willing to help newbies, the people those programs have hired to help you are as clueless as you. They just answer requests for banners and content etc.
Do you really think a guy who takes a job for $400-500 per week can teach you how to make 10K+ per month? Does that make any sense at all?
Programs are putting their money into building up their own traffic sources internally, because that's the future.