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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
sounds pretty cool. how did you get into that if you don't mind me asking? the reason i ask is because most guys who do affiliate marketing typically don't have degrees in IT consulting..or do you even need one?
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Here is how:
In the mid 90s I had a friend that needed a sales guy for his local tiny IT Dial up ISP. I needed to make some cash so took a job selling dial up accounts from inbound callers for $5 a sale. Figured I'd made $200 a week as a bill collector before this gig, I maybe could make $50 extra on the side.
Day1: I made $205 in commission from inbound sales. Not bad for a 21 year old kid with no technical background. All they gave me was a 1 pager with features to say: its 56k, has 10mb of a personal web page, 5 email accounts, blah blah blah ... I went full time.
2000: Got into corporate IT sales hustling IP services (pipes: T1, T3, GigE) and saw the guys that made the paper are the "integrators" ..spent the next 6 years really learning about Networking, routers, switches, SANs, Data Centers, etc ... All from people that worked in them and asking a fuckload of questions. Reading on the Internet at night to learn more and more ... reading books.
From 2000 to early 2006: I worked selling ISP services ( Hosting, colocation, Dedicated servers, IP transit and transport ) and all these Technology jobs figured that give the sales reps Engineering training so they can learn this. Most did not, I ate it up. Took more and more classes online, asked more questions, got into more deals ... studied my ass off.
I also had some adult projects, and just worked my ass off trying everything in adult to make some paper at night/part time. Learned tons, did not make much but met some very smart people and asked a fuckload more questions
2006: Went into being a VAR (Value Added Reseller) for Cisco/Netapp/VMware/AT&T with the team I have today 7 years later. At this point, I studied all the Cisco/Netapp/VMware/AT&T classes that are offered for their partner sales reps and their sales engineers...
I also build computers for fun and just enjoy the web and all it has to offer. I learned everything from people handing it down to me and just reading on line as well alot of books combined with a desire to make a few hundred grand a year.
... I have no college degree. Only High School ... I do all from my home.. out of my office looking out over a 20 acre farm. All because I believe in me.