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Coaching by one of the successful guys here? (19)

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Hi guys
It's been a month since I left my 9 to 5 day job because I couldn't take it anymore. I'm trying to get back to the IM field after having a very good period a few year ago, but I'm kinda stuck now unfortunately and not making too much of a progress. I have a decent amount of money to burn before I give up and return to my nightmare (day job)....Any chance one of the guys here is offering a 1on1 paid coaching?
I'm really determined to do this with everything I've got....I feel like I need a little bit of a guidance to get myself going

Thanks!

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I think a lot of guys on here do that, and for sure some of us are running biz opp offers so there's always that - pay to take someone's course.

As far as going back to the 9-5.....get that out of your head. Burn those ships right now while they sit at anchor, they are not taking you home. You either execute the mission or die trying.

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Thanks for your reply bro.
I'm less interested in buying courses, I bought countless courses in my life, this is not what I'm looking for, I need someone who can really monitor my progress and fix me where it's needed, I'm willing to pay for that of course as much as needed.

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I'd strongly suggest getting a job and doing internet marketing on the side - it's a wild painful ride and can take months (or never) to find a campaign that pays the bills after tax. You really don't want to be gambling your last $1k on traffic as more times than most it flops painfully. Being able to pay the bills with a salary, you can inject that spare cash into testing and get a much better return. A compromise might be working on Upwork.

AM lonely also, you'll miss the social interaction of work.

The alternative is moving to a cheap nomad location like Chiang Mai, Thailand

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Hi Nick, thanks for your reply
Luckily for me I don't have too much pressure to pay bills for the next few months, I have a free mind to focus on what I want. The problem is that I don't know where to focus all or most of my efforts. That's why I would like to have someone helping me with this with 1on1 teaching.

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Coaching isn't really necessary.

You can find everything right here, everything that someone would tell you would be just rehearsing the materials that you can already find on forums or somewhere online.

But different people have different learning progress, maybe for you it's easier to be guided.

In that case be careful who you go with, you can be "scammed" out of your money pretty fast as most of the 1 on 1 coaching's are in the $xxxx-xxxxx ranges which could be rather used towards running traffic.

Just my 2 cents.

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meanwhile you could start a follow along and get feedback from the community

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I agree with Erik, pretty much everything you need to know is already here on the forum. And there is a lot of people here who'd be willing to help you out. Starting a follow along is very similar to having someone coaching you. It's missing the personal approach for sure and it takes some time to get a reply, but it's still a very solid alternative.

Maybe you just need to be moved in the right direction, so ask questions on what you don't understand.

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Lots of information is here on the forum no doubt...but that's maybe also one of the problems...I can't tell what is relevant and what is not, what is still working and what belongs to the past.. information overload as it's called.

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Make sure you have some idea about which traffic source and which verticals you want to run first. I mean SEO via Google is totally different than push traffic, I hope you have some preference right? Same for verticals.... Once you have a rough idea read/learn the basics first. It's very expensive if you pay xx hours to a mentor, and you gonna ask questions which are SO obvious you rather avoid them to ask during the lessons.

Also you can ask more relevant and less broad questions if you have some basic knowledge upfront, so your feedback from the mentor will be worth much more!

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I totally agree with nomore9to5 in this case even though every information looks like treasures after reading them I feel like I'm overloaded with information and finding what is right and wrong, what's works and not and what to follow exactly is hard as a beginner, may be this is the way of this business.

I don't have any issue with the technical staff but when its comes to campaigns one day it looks like working perfectly but next day not working at all.

First I follow Amy's $1 guide, Then 40 day training, Then some push campaigns, Then again Amy's tutorials on Afflow (Monetizer) campaigns. Thanks to Amy and others in this form I learn a lot, and also first time in my life make some money too but no profits, all the time -60%,-70% ROI. One time with Afflow(Monetizer)campaigns I got up to -30% but next day again went to -70%.

I am pretty sure this is working but no idea what to do exactly. Going everywhere on the net watching all the videos, reading all the articles, joining more and more forums buying more and more courses just to find something working and now feels like got lost inside the information.

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He who chases two rabbits catches neither - Ancient Chinese Proverb

Hone in like a laser on a proven segment or traffic source and make it work.

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It's true that we have a lot of content here on the forum and since it's running for quite a few years already, some of the info might be outdated. A good hint is to look at the date of each thread and also on the replies. The more recent it is, the more likely the info still holds true.

Generally speaking, pretty much all of the tech stuff and AM fundamentals are still the same though, so all of these threads are still relevant. What changes is what traffic types or offers are doing the best at the moment. That's why we compile a "whats working report" every year. Those who didn't see it yet can get it here: https://stmforum.com/pdf_reports/Wha...ng-in-2019.pdf

And you can always ask about any particular thread or piece of info, we will tell you whether it's still relevant or not

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Where are you stuck right now?
Thing are always changing, but at the same time fundamentals remain fundamentals.

Which is your performance-bottleneck at the moment?

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I understand and it's true, too many informations and then you easily got choice paralysis.

When I personally started the first thing I had to to is decide on traffic source I want to pursue.

Once you have this question solved (you just have to choose -> example: is adult something I'm comfortable doing? Or I would rather do Facebook, or maybe push or native is the thing that lure me the most?) you can focus just on that sub forum and try to soak as much as you can.

The best is to read other's follow alongs and see how they started, where they struggled and how they solved their issues.

This is also why we recommend you to start your own FA and people will guide you on your journey and at the same time you can learn and realise your own mistakes.

Maybe you even discover that the traffic source you chose is not the right for you, so you will try another one.

Anyway, you have to start, by doing you will be learning and getting experience.

No coach/guru will do this for you, you will be still on your own running your campaigns and standing in front of the decisions that they bring.

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Tracking is one of my main weaknesses

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Have you considered hiring an expert on Fiverr or UpWork, asking him to setup your tracker while you are watching every step (TeamViewer is a great program for screensharing)?

In this way, you would overcome your biggest weakness in a couple of hours, spending something like 50$.

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Lol I think tracking is EVERYONE's biggest weakness at first

Just email the tech support of whatever tracking you are using and ask them what you need help with.

I use Thrive but I'm sure they're all good in that regard. Just tell them "Hey I'm about to start running ads on ___, can you tell me what I need to do to have the tracking setup correctly?"

Often the tracking stuff will be different with every network/tracker combination, so even if you understand tracking really well, often you need to check with your tracking company on how specific variables are supposed to be set up and stuff.

Just remember the aphorism "fall forward" - you're gonna make mistakes and have things go wrong and fall down a lot when you're starting, but if you accept that is the case and make sure to always "fall forward" and learn from each thing and stick with it you'll get to your destination much faster

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Day 9: Setting Up Tracking on Voluum

https://stmforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=42335

Probably a good place to start for a tracking overview. It will make a lot more sense if you get some traffic flowing through. Perhaps follow the forum guide that’s part of and start s follow along?


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