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A Small Success After 4 Months of Joining STM (52)

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Hi guys, I just want to share with you guys a small success of mine and thank those who have contributed to this. I would like to thank all the Moderators (mr.green, caurmen, stackman, maynzie, finch, MrAttila, cmdeal etc. and especially Zeno for giving me such detailed answers on all of my questions) and other STM guys here for providing such helpful information. At first I was doubtful whether joining this forum would actually make me profitable on my campaigns; the result was that I was profitable so much faster than I thought. Here's the screenshot of my earnings.



Out of the 42k that I generated for Maxbounty, 14k of that was profit (not much at all compared to a lot of people here but compared to my old day job's salary, this is a HUGE IMPROVEMENT); and the money I invested in 4 months of STM membership is just $400. Now if this is not a wise investment then I don't know what is.

I hope I can continue posting good earnings in the future to inspire newer guys to take action and STM guys to create more great content for people

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That is Fantastic man! You're more then welcome for our support, this stuff makes our day, and it motivates the hell out of all the other users!

You deserve the success man, I hope you keep on progressing forward from here and hit those $xx,xxx/months,

Upwards and Onwards you beast!

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thats amazing, so motivating for someone just starting on their journey like myself :P! hope to see those numbers one day!

could ask I (generally speaking of course) what category you were promoting, i.e. health, gaming, finance etc... and what was the method of traffic you found best i.e. facebook, ppc, ppv etc...? I appreciate that it might have been a few sources and that is a fine answer as well. Also asking more out of interest. Also did you start off with one product and one source and branch out from there?

I am currently trying out gaming on FB with maxbounty.

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Hi aady83, I can't tell you my vertical but I can tell you that my earnings was generated from Facebook (not all of it).

At first I tried POF but there was too little traffic for me to even think about scaling up with my offer so I switched to FB. I started off with dating on POF but switched to another vertical the moment I used FB.

Since you are trying out gaming with FB, you should consult Zeno because he's the master at Facebook + Gaming and he is such a helpful guy (God bless him!).

Hope everything goes well with you aady83.

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Wow, $42,000 of revenue in 4 months!!!

That is awesome.

If my memory serves me right, I believe your initial goal was to make more than your job in Vietnam earning $250 a month?

If so, I think you just made more money in the past four months than you would have made working in your day job for several years!

Well done!

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thanks - thats fine about the vertical, no worries. Yes have been following Zenos O so wise advice. Had to break for a couple of weeks due to work and study but getting back on it now!

keep it up and great work - again so inspiring for newbs to see other being successful!

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That's correct cmdeal I exceeded my expectation by a great margin. On a particular day, I made as much as I would have by working 3 months at my day job. All thanks to you and other STM moderators and members!

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wowwwwwwwww

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Haha I know, maynzie. This probably is what happens to people from third world countries trying out AM

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Congrats! You deserve it mate!

You followed the process, worked at it, and got the reward. Rinse and repeat for big numbers!

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That's a very good success story. Congrats man!

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Am proud :-)

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This is amazing , good job bro keep it up !

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Awesome job man! keep it up

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haha you're a boss. 40k in your first few months! My first few months only cost me money

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Yeah I was actually very surprised too because I was expecting to lose money in the first few months as well. Must have been the STM magic

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thanks for sharing this really helps to keep the hopes alive =D

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Keep pushing mate. Don't cool off because you made some profit. Go for bigger numbers now and diversify into other verticals after you've scaled whatever you are doing. Use a part of the money to test other niche.

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Awesome! Congratulations.

As pain2k says, make sure you keep pushing - when it's working is when it's time to really push what you can do.

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In the borderless world of the Internet today, coming from a third world country can actually be a significant advantage.

Because each dollar is worth A LOT more to you on a relative basis, you are therefore willing to work a lot harder.

You value it more.

You are hungrier.

In the past, people from third world countries seeking a better future had to often risk their lives to immigrate (either legally or illegally) to another country.

Now, they just need a broadband Internet connection, a laptop computer, a lot of hard work, and an STM membership!

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Yeah cmdeal, I actually think that I'm pretty lucky to be able to do AM from a third world country since the cost of living here is so cheap; therefore I don't need to start making 3k-4k/ month when starting out in order to feed myself. Moreover, I will be able to keep all of my AM earnings instead of paying some toward tax since it's really hard here for the government to keep track of the money made online

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Theres also another advantage coming from a 3rd world geo.. you can easily become significant to many traffic sources where they have target revenues per country.. and enjoy many perks!

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Haha yes exactly!

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Not only that, you can scale up with additional staff a lot faster and much less expensively than people in other countries. You can speak the local language, and as a result you can build up trust quite easily. Furthermore, you have an amazingly well educated segment of the population who have nowhere near as many opportunities they could pursue if they were living in Silicon Valley, NYC or London.

One of my best friends (who is an incredible entrepreneur) actually set up his operations in Vietnam for the same reason.

He came to the U.S. as a refugee from Vietnam, then got a scholarship to do a Ph.D. at MIT in computational linguistics under Chomsky, and later co-founded Agamatrix, a company I personally invested in and which developed the first FDA approved medical device for Apple and Android (and which is now doing a purported $100 million of revenue a year).

He has now teamed up with John Sculley, former CEO of Apple, and raised a large round from Peter Thiel's Founders Fund to create an amazing wearables technology company called Misfit http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/27/the...t-raised-7-6m/ and he has set up his entire engineering operation in Vietnam.

Knowing him, I am sure Misfit is going to be another massive success like Nest.

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Reading stuff like this is worth the $100/month! Congrats and nice job! Keep it up!!

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Well done my friend, Keep going..Today you are motivated us

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Most definitely agree the success posts are some of the best on this whole forum, they act as a flick to the mindsets that this is reality and people are becoming wildly successful.

I can put it down to the WealthyAffiliate forums long long ago, their success stories are the main motivation I had to make this work and write my own

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Ahhhh yeaah!! Congrats man!!! Fantastic!!

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Congrats, thats quite a big difference from the $250/month!!

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Awesome!! Fantastic work my friend!!!

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Congrats! It seems you made better choices than me last 4 months, so jalous but great to see that people are having succes! I'll post here soon enough!

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Congrats mate! What was your initial budget to play with?
Hoping to beat you by a month... 2 and a half to go

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Wow that's an incredible story cmdeal. Starting up companies are getting more popular in Vietnam because of the low wages. People are definitely getting tired of the exploitation of big corporations. Moreover, many Vietnamese are fluent in English and know how to program so it is very advantageous for us to go this route since we usually have enough skills for a tech start-up.

I attended many start-up conferences here and usually the spirit is through the roof lol!!! Vietnam is a good place to both outsource to and start investing in, I think.

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Hi tomsko, my initial budget was 12k. Maybe the decent amount of capital I had gave me some confidence in testing out new things.

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You are in a very nice position.

You actually have a lot of advantages, and if you play your cards right and leverage all of these advantages, you can become really big player in a relatively short period of time.

Keep it up!

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Congrats. Is it Mobile AM?

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I believe OP mentioned it was on Facebook.

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Yep it was a web offer with Facebook as the traffic source

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woow nice achievement Have u used cloaking ? Thanks

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No I did not use cloaking. I think it is still possible to be profitable with white hat stuff on facebook, albeit harder

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Hi Buddy,

You make it work, good job

CafeDen

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Really nice experience.Bro.

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yay for whitehat compliant AM-ers!

Curious.. I followed a few of your posts, and in one you mentioned you ran dating offers. How were you able to run dating successfully? I thought dating offers were no-no unless you were whitelisted.

Another one..so you never had your FB account banned? No issues at all?

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Oh I did not try dating on FB, it was on POF

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I am inspired. TQ

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Congratulations to Sonny and to Vietnam! This is probably the largest entrepreneurial exit of any Vietnamese centred company in history.

Fossil Group Buys Health-Tracking Wearable Startup Misfit For $260M
http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/12/fos.../#.j0bgkv:ldhj



Watchmaker Fossil Group said today it would acquire Misfit, which creates various wearable and sleep trackers in addition to a health-tracking platform, for $260 million. Sonny Vu, CEO of Misfit, will serve as Fossil’s CTO.

Misfit makes devices like the Shine, a wearable fitness and sleep tracker that costs $99 that the company says has a 6-month battery life. The company came out with an updated version of its Shine tracker in October just a few weeks ago. Misfit also has a lower-priced wearable, the Flash, that costs $29.

To be sure, the wearable and fitness-tracking market has become increasingly crowded. There are plenty of competitors like Fitbit, which also offers similarly priced activity trackers. Even Tag Heuer, with a $1,500 smartwatch, is starting to get into the connected device market. Misfit’s pitch was that it was more aesthetically pleasing, and with the Fossil brand it probably gives the startup a little more visibility.

Fossil Group, as part of the announcement, said that it would offer consumers traditional timepieces and fashionable connected accessories. In an interview with the WSJ, the company’s chief strategy and digital officer Greg McKelvey said Fossil Group would continue making Misfit’s wearable devices.

It’s tough to say where this puts the Misfit tracking platform relative to some of the other devices it works with, like the Pebble. With the addition of Misfit, the Pebble essentially went from just a smartwatch to an activity tracker, showing some of the potential of the service as a platform. Misfit also has an app for the Apple Watch, the Misfit Minute.

This is potentially alluded to in the announcement as part of a “multi-brand” strategy, but it still doesn’t offer an outright statement on the subject.

“Our world-class design and global distribution, combined with Misfit’s technology platform, creates a significantly advantaged, multi‐brand and global wearable technology business poised to drive the convergence of fashion and technology.”

And here’s what’s written in the company’s earnings release:

The Company believes the acquisition provides the opportunity to integrate Misfit’s software and hardware platforms in the next generation of connected accessories, further advancing Fossil Group’s connected accessories initiative.

Of course, Fossil could always decide to simply isolate the Misfit platform to Fossil watches, turning it into a walled garden of sorts.

In total, Misfit raised $64.4 million across three rounds of funding — most recently a $40 million round in October last year. Investors include GGV Capital, Xiaomi and Founders Fund. The deal will be done with a combination of cash and bank debt, according to the announcement.

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Congrats bro! Stories like this always put a smile on my face...keep it up

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Awesome work, inspiring as hell.

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Hi , this is very encouraging , thanks for posting !

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Hi

you know what is important here? that you took your time to actually realize the value of your success and the help received.
Sometimes we are struggling with so many day to day tasks and forget to enjoy our important achievements.

Keep up with the good job and keep a close eye on new opportunities to expand

Best regards,
ilana

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Congrats man!! That is truly a great job, i always love to read these success stories. Way to go!

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Hey avn_0903,

I know this was over a year ago but awesome job! What kind of offers were you running? From what i saw in my search within MaxBounty i see your are not active with us anymore, what happened? Did you loose the offer you were running? Let me know

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