False starts and a new beginning (3)
Hey everyone!
Honestly, I'm not really sure how to start this thing out. *I guess I'll go with a little background, and go from there. *Long story short, I've been half-assing my way in affiliate marketing for long enough. *If you've been doing the same, maybe I can help motivate you a bit and you can join me in finally going all in.
CAUTION - Feels ahead. *Head down to /allthesefeels to skip em.
I've been dabbling in affiliate marketing on and off for a few years, never really taking it seriously. *Made a few bucks here and there, had a couple*profitable campaigns a while back, but for quite some time I*haven't really had anything take off. *If I'm being honest though, that's 100% a lack of effort on my part. *I'm not sure why really. *I've seen people having successes left and right, and I'm not a huge*fan of the day job, though it is easy. *Maybe it's part being just comfortable,*part laziness, part being scared of losing money, part being scared of failing and feeling like an idiot...I don't know. *For extra cash*I've always been able to fall back on small biz websites, which I don't really like doing anyway. *Looking back, I've wasted so much time just spinning my wheels and not really attempting to improve my situation to the degree I could. *I've spent a lot of money on tools like spy tools, forum memberships, courses, software, apps, trackers and so on in order to feel like I'm making an effort. *Like I was part of something bigger and better than the "9-5." *A few half-assed campaigns and false starts later, here I am with nothing to show for it.*
So in order to give myself a kick and spark of motivation, I changed my scenery a bit. *My wife and I sold most of our stuff, packed a couple of bags and moved down to Playa del Carmen, MX for a few months. *Of course, the way I had it going in my mind and the way that it actually played out were a bit different, so now I'm in the unenviable position of having to make something happen within a relatively short time. *That's what this thread is for. *Part journal, part follow along and having a public place to keep me accountable. I’m not really the kind of person that puts myself out there with follow-allongs or anything like that, and it took me more time than it should have just to get this out there!
/allthesefeels
Let's see...I suppose that brings me to where I'm at now. *As I said before, I do have the basics of getting a campaign going. **I've already got access to some spy tools, 
So I've been going through the spy tools for ideas, looking at the top offer emails that I get from the networks, and re-reading the emails from affiliate managers. *The biggest thing that I'm seeing is still sweeps being run hard. *From what I can tell though, most of the pages I see in spy tools and manually checking apps are very non-compliant. *Obviously these are cloaked, but damn, how can you even compete with some of these pages on those sources if you aren't cloaking? *Same seems to go for AV/utilities. *
As you might have gathered, I have a fair amount of analysis paralysis going on here. *I know that I need to settle down and focus, so picking a vertical, source and offer(s) is what I'll be doing asap. *I still have some funds in some pop traffic sources, so I'll probably start there with sweeps and see if I can get something profitable without being too shady since I don't have my cloaking game proper.
I do currently have a day job, so I can't dedicate all day to working on this stuff just yet, but I'll spend a minimum of 3-4 hours a day on it without fail.
If you made it through that, thanks for reading. *Feels good (and kinda bad, haha) to get that all out there. *I’m excited to see where it goes from here.
I am excited to see how this will go. By the way, is it just me or the way you write is very hard to understand?
Anyway, i wish you good luck with this. Subscribed!
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