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Everything is relative so i find the "I'm doing great!" and "I'm doing shitty!" arguments so amusing.
Perhaps an affiliate makes 5 sales a day but lives in an area of the world where $400 a week is a lot of money. So therefore he's happy.
Another affiliate lives in a major city, has 3 kids and a wife, and needs 20+ sales a day to just get by. A sponser can be selling 10 memberships a day without affiliates and think he's doing great because he lives 100 miles outside Cleveland. LOL
Everything is relative people. Profit, overhead, standards of living, employees, splits, taxes, property taxes, mortgages vs. renting, single vs. family, etc etc etc.
There is no way to determine an entire Industry's success by vague comments on a message board like "I'm doing great!" An affiliate can come on here and share their experiences and compare past success with current struggles but even then there are so many factors as to why THAT affiliate is "struggling" that it's almost impossible to compare. Then you mix in hundreds of niches and sponsers and traffic sources....no, threads like this are a waste of time.
PS: Homegrown is a great program and I'm glad you're doing well and bouncing back so nicely. You do have some advantages that other programs do not have, including mine, but what you say about CONSISTENT (hard) work is spot on. Traffic is here today, gone tomorrow so you MUST ALWAYS be pumping or you simply lose ground and eventually disappear. Best of luck to Homegrown (I'm an affiliate full disclosure)!
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