From $15/hour to X,XXX/day with Facebook Sweeps (26)
Hi guys! Itzpeter here to give you an awesome story of my AM journey! ����
I know I'm a hidden ninja in here haha. Some of you know me and some of you are like... who is this guy? It's because I'm super shy and I stopped subscribing after I starting hitting higher numbers 
...anyways on to the story!
Basically, after graduating college with a stupid degree (philosophy), no jobs wanted to hire me. So, I had to start from the bottom (McDonalds). Eventually I was hired by a bank (WellsFargo) as a banker making $15/hour. It was the worst job I ever had in my life. We had impossible quotas and meetings where our managers would literally CURSE us out for not meeting our goals (Managers even cried from district managers ripping them a new one every month). Hence, the whole Wellsfargo scandal in 2016 - 2018 where a bunch of bankers were opening all these fake accounts and credit cards for customers.
I was done man... I couldn't afford rent/ I had to make excuses not to go out with friends because shit costs too much. Had to force myself to cook & I can't cook for sh** & I hate cooking lol... and on top of that literally got yelled at / cussed at every single day by not only customers but also by management. Because of that hellish environment it made me realized... F*** working for people!!!
Honestly, I should send a gift to my old manager and be like.. thank you for making my life hell because it forced me to build a nice future for myself.
So, I went home and just googled how to make money online. Started with amazon FBA. From there, I was researching how to do social media ads to bring more people to my listing for more sales. Thats when I found out about Affiliate marketing. I joined this forum and immediately tried Amy's (Vortex) pop ads guide. I was so bad at techy stuff it took 4 hours to learn how to set up a tracking link on
Being 10k in debt I took 2 weeks off to reflect on WTF I was going to do with my life. I decided to go back to STM and just do things on my own. I would say about another 2 months of losing money I started to read posts from Tim (stickupkid) posts about facebook. I don't know what happened, maybe I was lucky or maybe I had super power experience from losing money for almost a year, but something clicked and my first launch had 80% ROI. I enjoyed it for a couple days then I got banned HAHA. So I started to go into a frenzy and hid in my room and tested so much stuff to perfect a technique where I can launch and have the ad account last as long as possible. After losing 8 ad accounts... my next 5 ad accounts lasted 7 months and EACH had a total spend of around 50k-100k. Lost it in February during that stupid ban wave lol... it was so bad I just went on vacation.
So yeah... now I make mid to high XXX days easily and X,XXX days pretty often. I wouldn't say super consistent with 4 figs but pretty consistent hehe. enough to travel, party, buy whatever I want now, (FLEX) hahaha whatever you want to call it. I was part of the Kings of Advidi 2019 too, where Advidi (best adnetwork ever) took me to Amsterdam to party for 3 days. I taught 2 childhood friends that consistently make XXX/day now. I went to AWE recently and met Amy & Tim 
. Tim and I went clubbing and we had a THE MOST AWESOME TIME HAHA... right Tim?
So.. I pretty much owe my life to this forum. Everything I enjoy now is because of this forum. Definitely was not easy... btw I'm not smart at all lol. Everything I learned was just from hard work and repetition... I mean... who the heck takes 4 hours to set up a tracking link haha. So, if I can do it...YOU CAN DO IT. I BELIEVE IN YOU! If no one believes in you...Itzpeter believes in you
I also want to say that after teaching my two friends... i decided to start youtubing and giving out free content and stuff to help people out there who are struggling because... I GET IT MAN... it used to be me! I also want to give back. I don't care about competition because I ain't scared of you... HAHA I challenge you to make more than me bro! I'll be super excited for you. But yeah people who say the industry is not good cuz blah blah blah... too much competition... are just either lying because people are just evil... OR just can't take the initial learning phase of losing money and gave up! DON'T BE LIKE THEM. I am telling you there is so much money to be made it's impossible to not make money in this industry if you work hard.
Ok I talk to much HAHA! my bad my bad... Here's my youtube if you want to check it out. I promise I'll post more videos.. its just I have to focus on my camps! I'm HUNGRY! OK. Peace out. Love you all! <3 (Especially Amy and Tim )
SEE YOU GUYS IN AWA! I already bought my ticket. Hit me up to grab a DRAAAANK! I'm always thirsty! ��
Holy shit. I love this post a lot! Thanks for sharing!
Guess I should really check out FB one of these days... 
Wooow amazing and super inspiring story @itzpeter!
Originally Posted by itzpeter
Keep crushing it and thanks for sharing your story.
Cheers,
wakeboarder
Big up peter! I will not be at AWA to be your side-kick, but hell I experienced already you can (also) party very well without me haha. Next time.
And keep them xxxx coming in man, really glad I could help you out a bit!
Congrats bro, really proud of you. It shows anyone can achieve anything as long as you are persistent and never give up. Next step is to hit 5 figures a day. Well done!
Woohoo!! Thanks for posting your story!
I'm sure a TON of members can relate - they may be where you were and doubting whether affiliate marketing even "works". Success stories like yours are crucial - they help instill faith in people - to motivate them to keep trying until they see concrete proof themselves.
I also remember fondly our interview at AWA 2018 when we first met:
It was lovely to meet your girlfriend at AWE - you guys looked so happy together!
Thanks for everything Peter and congratulations on your success - I look forward to seeing how high you'll soar!
Amy
For anyone wanting to get started running sweeps on FB - here are stickupkid's threads on the topic:
https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...t-No-Cloaking) <---stickupkid wrote this thread - posted while still working at that network
https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...S-Sweeps-on-FB
https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...nt-No-Cloaking
https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...-All-verticals
https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...0-ROI-No-tools
https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...eeps-virginity
https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...n-in-fb-sweeps
https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...ook-u0080u0080
https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...s-follow-along
https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...acebook-sweeps
Read all these threads, take notes, (optionally) get an FB spy tool to do some spying for additional inspiration, then test away!
Just make sure you only run sweeps on accounts you can afford to lose! And keep in mind that your ANGLE will directly affect whether or not your account will get banned (or at least how quickly you'll get banned).
Also: I'm putting together a guide on sweeps which is due to come out in 1-2 weeks. That should provide some insight as well. Please stay tuned!
Amy
Philosophy is not a useless degree ... some of the most successful people in the world studied philosophy ....
In today's world, you need to know how to think for yourself and not just follow the herd like brainless sheep or lemmings ... a rigorous analytic philosophy is probably the best intellectual training ground to develop such skills.
Hedge fund manager George Soros was a philosophy major at the London School of Economics.
Soros, the chairman of Soros Fund Management, is one of the most successful hedge fund managers of all time. He's particularly well known for a 1992 bet against the pound, which earned him the nickname "the man who broke the Bank Of England."
In college while studying under renowned philosopher Karl Popper, Soros worked as a railway porter and a waiter to pay his tuition.
Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield got both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in philosophy.
Butterfield founded Flickr with his then-wife Caterina Fake in 2004. About a year later, Yahoo snapped the photo-sharing site up for $35 million. He recently IPO's Slack, a workplace communication tool for $16 billion
Both his undergraduate degree from the University of Victoria and his Master's from Cambridge were in philosophy, focusing on the philosophy of the mind.
PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel was a 20th century philosophy major at Stanford University.
Thiel is a co-founder and former CEO of PayPal. He currently serves as president of Clarium Capital and as a managing partner at venture capital firm the Founder's Fund. He was also the first outside investor in Facebook.
Despite his well-publicized criticism of higher education, Thiel got his undergraduate degree in 20th century philosophy at Stanford in 1989, and a law degree in 1992. His pronounced libertarian streak came out at the school, and he co-founded the conservative/libertarian Stanford Review newspaper in 1987.
LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman got his Master's in Philosophy as a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University.
"My original plan was to become an academic," the entrepreneur and venture capitalist told Wired, and Hoffman was on track to make it happen: after graduating from Stanford with a degree in Symbolic Systems, he won a Marshall Scholarship to study philosophy at Oxford. "What I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture — I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be."
Frustrated by the pace and impact of academic work — "it didn't have enough scale," h e told Wired— he changed directions and became a software entrepreneur. After working with his Stanford friends (including Peter Theil) at PayPal, he launched LinkedIn in 2003.
Overstock.com founder and CEO Patrick Byrne got a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University.
Byrne almost made philosophy his career. After getting an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth in Chinese studies, he went on to get a doctorate in philosophy from Stanford.
Byrne did teach at Stanford briefly but ultimately decided to pursue a career in business. He helped found Overstock in 1999, took over as CEO the same year, and took it public in 2002.
Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina was a medieval history and philosophy major at Stanford University.
Fiorina was president and CEO of Hewlett-Packard Company from 1999 to 2005 and served as chairwoman of the board from 2000 to 2005.
In addition to her undergraduate history and philosophy degree, which she earned in 1976, she holds an MBA from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, and an M.S. in business from MIT's Sloan School.
Activist investor Carl Icahn was a philosophy major at Princeton University.
Icahn is the chairman of Icahn Enterprises and is one of the most well-known and aggressive activist investors of our time, buying and eventually folding Trans World Airlines, and more recently trying to take over Netflix.
His philosophy thesis for his 1957 degree was titled "The Problem of Formulating an Adequate Explication of the Empiricist Criterion of Meaning." He also went to New York University's Medical School, but dropped out without graduating.
Former Fannie Mae CEO Herbert Allison Jr. was a philosophy major at Yale University.
Allison Jr. rose through the ranks at Merrill Lynch, eventually becoming its chief operating officer. He left the company in mid-1999 and went on to serve as CEO of Fannie Mae and to oversee the Troubled Asset Relief program.
He earned a B.A. in philosophy from Yale, served four years in the Navy, and then got his MBA from Stanford.
Former Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin was a philosophy major at Haverford College.
Levin joined Time Inc.'s HBO in the 1970s and helped develop the business model that made HBO a huge success. He later engineered the merger with Warner Carner that turned the company into a true media giant. He became CEO in the early '90s. However, his tenure ended less positively with a disastrous merger with AOL.
As a philosophy major at Haverford College, Levin studied the continuity between Jewish and Christian theology.
You have no idea how much I needed to read something like this today. THANK YOU!
Love to hear such epic success stories, not only of our affiliates but in this industry overall!
Sometimes only if you knew how close you were to success, you wouldn't give up now. Wish more people persevered like you did! All that struggle was for a reason.
Sweeps have been making some mind-blowing surprises on our dashboard over the last year too, so glad we decided to focus on this vertical after mobile content started becoming more strict. Network happy, affiliates happy, advertisers happy - win, win, win 
Amazing story bro, super inspiring, and am in a similar spot being 8 months in and having ONLY lost money.
Thank you itzpeter and Amy!!
Good news: A couple days back, Peter had generously allowed me to interview him for that sweepstakes guide I'm wrapping up this week, during which he practically outlined his entire method.
Please stay tuned for that guide - I'm planning on posting it around the end of next week.
Amy
Hi Peter, very inspiring video. My son worked for Wells Fargo and had the same experience as you. He's gone onto better things also. I'm splitting my time between FBA and CPA while working full time, but would really like to go all CPA marketing. Thank you!
tried sweeps via Facebook last year, unfortunately it did not worked for me, I think i should try again. Thanks!
Originally Posted by William Yang
Originally Posted by stickupkid
Originally Posted by William Yang
If you need to see some examples to get inspiration, I'm just wrapping up a sweepstakes guide which will be posted this week - I'll be attaching some examples I got from MagicAdz that may give you more creatives ideas. Please stay tuned!
Amy
You're a champion mate! Love this thread
Hi Amy,
can you please link this guide? I'm interested. (newbie here, 1 campaign, 0 conversion )
Originally Posted by brobee
can you please link this guide? I'm interested. (newbie here, 1 campaign, 0 conversion
)https://stmforum.com/forum/forumdisp...weepstakes-101
Amazing story!
Thank you for sharing!
yoo this was cool af thank you for your story you're an inspiration for sure homie
Great story!
Great post.
Thanks for inspiration !
Taking initiative on new things is one of the most challenging and risky move, those give a shot never regret, keep it up
Omar Jr.
Thank you for sharing Peter! What an inspiring story! Love that! I'm a newbie following Amy's tutorial and just subscribed your YouTube, btw.
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