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You have no idea how true your story is to my life, lol. I was in the same situation. When you make $40k a year at your job and start bringing in $40k a month i
by johnward 13y ago
You have no idea how true your story is to my life, lol. I was in the same situation. When you make $40k a year at your job and start bringing in $40k a month in revenue it's a bit shocking. I didn't handle it right. Traffic and offers dried up. I still ended up bringing in about 80k over a 4 month period after the FTC crack down, by running game install offers. During that time I almost quit my job. I'm not sure now if it was a good or bad idea. It's probably good because I still have the security of a job, but if I would have focused full time I might have been able to really scale. Lately all I do is lose money testing offers. I didn't invest that money back into my business (or arbitrage scheme if you will). After being "rich" for a few months I couldn't really handle normal life. I mean my family never had money, we always lived paycheck to paycheck. So in the end that's what I did with the money. Then I didn't adjust to not having that income and ran myself into debt. I'm actually dealing with some pretty severe depression right. Now I'm just working my normal corporate job day to day trying to figure out how to escape.
- kposehn 13y agoI've seen affiliates that can't handle the money. At Affiliate Summit West in Vegas, I was at a party in the Palms. This big suite had tight security and was packed with "super affiliates". I remember at one point drifting to a group of affiliates that were wearing more money than I bought my car for. And it was not a cheap car. I asked them how much of their income they were saving - every single one said they were spending it, but it was ok because they would make more money next month. None of them cared that the gravy train could come to an end, except one.
- vinhboy 13y agoSo what exactly happened? Did things just dry up? Have you been able to find any new leads lately?
- johnward 13y agoWell I can still generated leads but I haven't been able to break even on things lately. I really don't have any disposable income that I can keep testing offers and losing until I can find a campaign that I can optimize to profitability. I hear there is big money in mobile but I was never really able to generate mobile traffic. There is also bound to be a crack down on mobile because people are running the same type of scammy shit. Like opting into auto billing by clicking a link.
- kanzure 13y agoI have reverse engineered >100 mobile ad networks and have historical mobile ad data going back more than 12 months across the majority of Android and iOS apps. Contact me.