Stackless Newbie Wants Your ADvice (ha) (3)
Hey peeps, very thankful to have found this forum. I been slamming through posts hard, taking notes, and being a studious fucker. I almost have an Emerging Media and Communications degree finished and thought hot damn, what great degree to start off with on top of all this 
I was excited to start right away, but realized I was jumping the gun a bit for my situation. After reading the wonderful Getting Started tutorial I became enlightened, and enlightened I was to see the whole damned picture... I don't have enough cash to invest in this yet, fuck xD
I've been doing a shit ton of interviews with some marketing/sales companies, they do, however, fall under a face to face direct or B2B model. Still, I have no doubt it would be helpful experience in my AM endeavors while I do some monkey work for the investment cash ha!
My biggest question here for the wonderful Stackers here is: until I can scrape up the suggested minimum amount to burn on a couple solid months of taming a traffic source and split testing some ads/copy, are there skills I can still be working on until then?
I hate feeling like I could still be preparing or at least 'prototyping' ads so to speak. Should I just practice being artsy for the time being and get used to making fakes and brush up on my HTML etc? Would be nice to cut down on some of the work/worry when I'm buckling down with live monies.
Bonus question (lol): What would be another alternative to scrape up some extra stacks? Anyone used Fiverr? I got an MTurk account. I just started so I'm at least 4 bucks closer! 
-Mister Fister
I'd recommend looking into creating your own traffic source via organic traffic. It's harder than it used to be, but it's still doable. Once you have some visitors coming in, you can start to run affiliate offers on that and learn the basics of optimisation free!
Alternatively, learn an AM-related skill like design, copywriting or coding, and then get gigs doing that to fund your AM work.
Thanks Caurmen, you are my AM hero btw lol. Hey maybe that's it. Instead of Guitar Hero I just make an AM Hero. Problem solved hehe.
Awesome, I'll definitely look into that. Any particular resources on making my own traffic source that you'd recommend? I truly revere the advice you contribute to this forum as a whole. Either way coding is probably going to help on either side huh.
I'm sure there is a local company whose web design is STILL worse than mine lol. Starting small is still starting!
Best part of my major is that I've really got into New Media Art and am fairly confident on the design end. Loving me some remix culture: videos, pics, text, sound. Sounds are my biggest passion. You think there is a niche for sound design on websites? Shit I bet there is a way to work it in somehow. The wheels are turning!! Thanks again Caurmen
I'm a sponge right now and open to any suggestions. Thanks peeps.
Cheers,
M. Fister
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