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05-15-2021 10:24 AM #1 boomleebee (Member)
How to start building a business in this affiliate industry?

hi there, hope you are doing well.


How to start building a business in this affiliate industry?


List of problems:


- I have some consistently profitable campaigns but the too low volume ( $5-$10 /day), Mobile content vertical, I wanna scale to X,XXX/day or XX,XXX/day in profit. Should I start building a team? if yes, How to do it?


- which tasks and positions will I need?


- How to do recruitment and training?


- Do I need to train media buyer? How to deal with employees stealing campaigns?


- How about office renting? I have some choices of co-working space, and private office in an office building, which is better for an affiliate marketing team?


- Working solo is absolutely different with team working, I'm too tired of being a lone wolf. Thank you so much!

05-15-2021 12:10 PM #2 twinaxe (Senior Moderator)

I have some consistently profitable campaigns but the too low volume ( $5-$10 /day), Mobile content vertical, I wanna scale to X,XXX/day or XX,XXX/day in profit
First stay realistic.

With pops or push you will have a very hard time going to 4 or 5 figures profit per day.

There better run FB, Native or Google.

Also going from $5-$10 per day to scale to these numbers is not realistic at all, better make a plan and then achieve your goals step by step.

HERE and HERE I posted a bit how to start low and then scale in a realistic way.

When you try to run before you even can walk you most probably will tumble and eventually fail.

There´s nothing wrong with big goals but so often I hear beginners talking how they want to make 4 figures a day before they even run stable profits and these people are also the ones that you pretty fast don´t see ever again.

So before you think about 4-5 figures per day better first get a good and stable income running.
When you reach that point you probably learned enough already to answer many of your questions yourself.

Should I start building a team? if yes, How to do it?
I never had a team and I am doing affiliate marketing for more than 15 years already.

It depends, some people like me prefer to work all alone, others want to work with a team.

Important is that you should learn how to run the stuff yourself first, how would you guide a team when you don´t know have a solid understanding about these things yourself?

- which tasks and positions will I need?


- How to do recruitment and training?


- Do I need to train media buyer? How to deal with employees stealing campaigns?


- How about office renting? I have some choices of co-working space, and private office in an office building, which is better for an affiliate marketing team?
Seriously, stop thinking about it for now and better focus on getting a stable profit first.

Before you think about these questions you could better think first about the question "How will I pay my team?"

I don´t know what you are doing besides AM but with $5-$10/day you won´t be able to pay skilled people so it´s not worth to think about it yet.

As a solo affiliate it´s absolutely doable to make few hundreds per day, don´t make your life more complicated than needed.

05-15-2021 12:59 PM #3 boomleebee (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by twinaxe View Post
First stay realistic.

With pops or push you will have a very hard time going to 4 or 5 figures profit per day.

There better run FB, Native or Google.

Also going from $5-$10 per day to scale to these numbers is not realistic at all, better make a plan and then achieve your goals step by step.

HERE and HERE I posted a bit how to start low and then scale in a realistic way.

When you try to run before you even can walk you most probably will tumble and eventually fail.

There´s nothing wrong with big goals but so often I hear beginners talking how they want to make 4 figures a day before they even run stable profits and these people are also the ones that you pretty fast don´t see ever again.

So before you think about 4-5 figures per day better first get a good and stable income running.
When you reach that point you probably learned enough already to answer many of your questions yourself.


I never had a team and I am doing affiliate marketing for more than 15 years already.

It depends, some people like me prefer to work all alone, others want to work with a team.

Important is that you should learn how to run the stuff yourself first, how would you guide a team when you don´t know have a solid understanding about these things yourself?


Seriously, stop thinking about it for now and better focus on getting a stable profit first.

Before you think about these questions you could better think first about the question "How will I pay my team?"

I don´t know what you are doing besides AM but with $5-$10/day you won´t be able to pay skilled people so it´s not worth to think about it yet.

As a solo affiliate it´s absolutely doable to make few hundreds per day, don´t make your life more complicated than needed.

Nice, good advice. Thank you so much!

05-15-2021 05:13 PM #4 jack_l (Veteran Member)

Quote Originally Posted by boomleebee View Post
hi there, hope you are doing well.


How to start building a business in this affiliate industry?


List of problems:


- I have some consistently profitable campaigns but the too low volume ( $5-$10 /day), Mobile content vertical, I wanna scale to X,XXX/day or XX,XXX/day in profit. Should I start building a team? if yes, How to do it?


- which tasks and positions will I need?


- How to do recruitment and training?


- Do I need to train media buyer? How to deal with employees stealing campaigns?


- How about office renting? I have some choices of co-working space, and private office in an office building, which is better for an affiliate marketing team?


- Working solo is absolutely different with team working, I'm too tired of being a lone wolf. Thank you so much!
There's many solo affiliates doing well into 6 figures per year...

So you definitely don't need to hire someone to have success in affiliate marketing/media-buying...

Hiring someone and turning a profit on their labor is a tricky proposition... and in media-buying, the skillset is so incredibly specific and so constantly changing that in my opinion, the only way it pays off to hire someone to do it is 1) if you yourself can run media profitably and train the person you hire (hundreds of hours of training minimum), or 2) you have a finely-oiled machine where you have super specific systems in place and access to awesome offers/partnerships.

If you're interested in it, James Van Elsywck has an awesome course on building a team in media-buying/affiliate marketing, but again, I would not invest any money in it until you're doing 6 figures of profit on your own.

And then finally, just for interest sake, I would definitely not rent any office space for a digital marketing company nowadays. Unless maybe you're in some super cheap geo where the cost is almost non-existent relative to the businesses other expenses.

If you're getting burned out on working alone, I would try to work more on building relationships with other media buyers (are there any in your area you can meet up with IRL?) rather than taking on a business partner or employees... or find a sense of camaraderie/brotherhood in another manner (weightlifting with other dudes, an MMA club, etc)...

But yeah, you definitely bring up some great questions my man! Its a fascinating discussion re: the 'best practices' of affiliate media-buying and what is the best way to do things




Edit: You can also certainly hire a VA to help with the logistical tasks (see my post on OnlineJobs.ph) but again, I wouldn't do that until the business is consistently profiting enough that the VA's wage is a pretty small part of the monthly expenses).

05-16-2021 12:16 PM #5 boomleebee (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by jack_l View Post
There's many solo affiliates doing well into 6 figures per year...

So you definitely don't need to hire someone to have success in affiliate marketing/media-buying...

Hiring someone and turning a profit on their labor is a tricky proposition... and in media-buying, the skillset is so incredibly specific and so constantly changing that in my opinion, the only way it pays off to hire someone to do it is 1) if you yourself can run media profitably and train the person you hire (hundreds of hours of training minimum), or 2) you have a finely-oiled machine where you have super specific systems in place and access to awesome offers/partnerships.

If you're interested in it, James Van Elsywck has an awesome course on building a team in media-buying/affiliate marketing, but again, I would not invest any money in it until you're doing 6 figures of profit on your own.

And then finally, just for interest sake, I would definitely not rent any office space for a digital marketing company nowadays. Unless maybe you're in some super cheap geo where the cost is almost non-existent relative to the businesses other expenses.

If you're getting burned out on working alone, I would try to work more on building relationships with other media buyers (are there any in your area you can meet up with IRL?) rather than taking on a business partner or employees... or find a sense of camaraderie/brotherhood in another manner (weightlifting with other dudes, an MMA club, etc)...

But yeah, you definitely bring up some great questions my man! Its a fascinating discussion re: the 'best practices' of affiliate media-buying and what is the best way to do things




Edit: You can also certainly hire a VA to help with the logistical tasks (see my post on OnlineJobs.ph) but again, I wouldn't do that until the business is consistently profiting enough that the VA's wage is a pretty small part of the monthly expenses).
Got it! Thank you so much

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