Best place in the world to live as an affiliate in training? Advice needed. (12)
Best place in the world to live as an affiliate in training? Advice needed.
Me and my girlfriend are thinking about relocating OUT of the United States for a 3 to 6 month INTENSIVE work-cation.
Answer this riddle 
If I wanted to become a pro snowboarder, I'd move to Mammoth or Whistler and train with the best of the best
If I wanted to become the best actor - Hollywood or New York, duh.
Finish this sentence --> If I wanted to become the best affiliate marketer in the world, I'd move to ______________ and work my ass off with the other best affiliates in the world.
Extra info...
VITALS -->
*Myself - English speaker, 18 years of IM experience - some affiliate (never big $).
*Girlfriend - English, Mandarin Chinese & Spanish speaker - some affiliate experience (never big $).
REQUIREMENTS -->
*Thriving affiliate community with many face-to-face networking opportunities and/or co-working environments (w/ affiliates)
*CHEAP! CHEAP! CHEAP! -- The less we pay for living, the MORE we have for testing and succeeding with this work-cation
*Bonus points if the location is near to some big world-changing affiliate events during our stay
*Rock-solid Internet -- obviously (right? lol)
Thanks!!!!
If you are looking for cheap place with a lot of affiliates and a major global affiliate event, then Thailand is your place.
Originally Posted by cmdeal
Any inside knowledge on best locations / neighborhoods / living & work environments there?
From what I've read Bangkok is the place to be... (I wish it was Tenerife but sadly it is not)
Bangkok and Chiang Mai seem to be the focal points of the affiliate communities.
Originally Posted by jennatalia
In my research so far, it sounds like there's a pretty big community of super-low-income noobs all sharing experience and info from their $10/day tests using 2 year old tactics.
Of course, this is a generalization and based on only a few hours of digging.
I've heard it's a decent spot to live though if you do it right.
Originally Posted by driven34
Go to Philippines. Cheaper than Thailand, English speaking and you can hire you whole team there and have a local office if you want.
You can fly all around the Asia for next to nothing with Cebu Pacific Air and AirAsia.
https://nomadlist.com/
In Chiang mai at the moment, been here since sept and have no plans to go anywhere else. Life is very easy and incredibly cheap here, costs like eating out and beer are basically rounding errors. You can live a very pleasant life on 1200us as a couple, serviced apartments start at 150us a month in the downtown area, for 300 you will have a nice one bedroom place.
Community wise, I think we're a lot more approachable than other cities. If you go to bkk most people tend to work out of private offices so its actually hard to network, whereas its more of a coworking vibe here. Few people here making x,xxx profit a day, so it really depends what you bring to the table networking wise if you want to keep up, nobody will hold your hand, but we all hang out a lot
All being said, it's probably not the "best place in the world" for affiliate marketing - but unless you have BKK bankroll it's a moot point. Philipines is a shithole in the majority of places.
It's a lot more gf friendly also, plenty of female digital nomads
My baby (scooter only sadly!)
Honestly I think that Thailand in one place or another has to be the AM capital right now.
KL in Malaysia might be another good option - quite a few affiliates including some very successful ones, and apparently it's a very pleasant place to live fairly inexpensively. I've not been there, but I hear good things.
Originally Posted by nickpeplow
Can you elaborate on the living arrangements? Specifically, are there some insider websites or companies that are popular in Chiang Mai / Thailand for finding great spots to live? (6mo or less contracts)
Right now we use AirBnb extensively for all of our traveling -- but with it's popularity, I'd imagine the average is a big inflated for properties listed there. Certainly didn't see many for $150/mo US -- most nice stuff centrally located was around $500-600/mo (which still isn't bad! We pay $2300/mo in Austin, TX for a 1 bedroom downtown!). Also -- do you know of anyone in the AM community there who has an extra room they might want to rent out? Can't hurt to ask!
On that note - we want to get integrated as much as possible with the group there before we arrive.. Planning to reach out to the big names, like NickyCakes and already contacted Rio -- but are there others you hang with often that I should reach out to for an introduction? (you can PM me with this if privacy is a concern)
We bring a lot to the table in terms of IM experience, connecting/networking and skill set, and should have a decent budget compared to most beginners - I know we'll be able to offer a lot in return to the folks we rub shoulders with in your circle
To be honest, I don't think many people will respond if you're not local. There are so many people reaching out and asking endless questions, seeking permission to move etc that it becomes a huge time suck to respond.
Chiang Mai Buddy is a concierge service that can help with most things, but it's unnecessary - their website does give a good indication of prices etc http://www.chiangmaibuddy.com/accommodation-chiang-mai/ . What most people do is book a hotel for a few nights while they sort themselves out. Do things one month at a time and dont bother researching anything until you get there - most info isnt online
I think it's important to have realistic expectations of what a "thriving" or "face-to-face" community looks like. Full time affiliates tend to be busy and pretty protective of their campaigns and work environment, it can take a while to build trust and to an outsider the circles seem a little cliquey - It's not a rolling 24/7 public mastermind. BKK tends to have more long term people and the bigger affiliates, so community wise their meetups will be way better - CM is only a very small crowd (we dont even have meetups!) and it's quite transient. The advantage of Chiang Mai is that there is a wide mix of other entrepreneurs doing unrelated stuff to hang out with, more business girls etc.
Originally Posted by nickpeplow
I'm not a total noob with starry AM eyes. I've been around the block in IM for 18 years and am relatively close with a lot of big players.
That's just to say, totally get how the process works - understand your points about the community, masterminding and privacy / clique-ish-ness.
They're the same here in Austin, San Diego, or anywhere IM/AM is big. Some of the IM cliques around here drive me insane to be around, with their ridiculous egos and seemingly hive mind mentality around certain things. But I know better than to generalize too much
We'll earn our keep and won't have a problem integrating with the proper crowd(s) when we land there in either BKK or Chiang Mai (looks like we're heading down this path!)
We'll probably lock down an AirBnb in a good looking area and find our way from there.
You can't prepare for everything, but managing to meet a few folks and try to get a lay of the land ahead of time certainly doesn't hurt!
We took a trip to Dubai, Abu Dhabi & Oman in Sept for a while, and it was a HUGE success. Mostly off-the-beaten path type stuff, thanks to making connections and researching like this ahead of time.
Really appreciate your input and advice Nick - looking forward to meeting you later this year.
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