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Figured this was too good not to post (known of this for a while but figured, heck).
solopreneurs and people in the digital space will find advice particularly useful.
I noticed @eliquid and @Blackman in the thread
Source: My 1000'th knowledge bomb early (because I'll never reach 1000 posts) 10yrs in 20min.
click over to read some of the replies.
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Feels a little weird being back on teh forums, but scrolling through here I get so many damn memories, it's been almost 10 years, and I've always wanted to do a big knowledge bomb but I don't think I'll reach 1000 posts in this lifetime so let's do this now before I disappear for bigger and bigger spurts.
For those that don't know me, in 2007-8 I started out as a noobtard trying to understand our whole ecosystem as an affiliate. Championed the aff thing and became a vendor launching 50-60 sites/digital products, got my own army of affiliates, and then magic happened. I learned some cool shit, became rich, and happily ever after for now. So here's what's most important from my 10 years of 'started at the bottom now we in charge of our destiny and time'!
Things you'll need to succeed.
* F*ck YOU attitude towards anything in your way (like moments of uncertainty, fails, getting rejected/ripped off, ran over time and time again as you fumble towards finding what lane you fit in).
* Model after success: Everything has been done, the blueprints are right there, new success stories emerge daily to vibe from. However don't just copy ideas, do them better, find new micro-niches and gaps in the market to fill.
* ABC - AlwaysBeCreative: When you touch a campaign, a lot of assets start pouring out quickly, logo's/branding, copywriting, marketing assets, all of it is an amazing chance to push limits and controversy vs just clickbait/seo/traditional shit. Literally every single one of my sites, banners, graphics, dotcom naming brainstorming sessions, etc. are put through an edge to edge test to make sure I get the most out of what I'm doing, nothing is half assed or I don't bother.
* BE NICE - Often underrated, and not to be mistaken for being a pussy. If you want to network, ppl should value you as a person with a brain and heart not just the F*ck you attitude to succeed. When you do business you're often tested in many ways re your trust, your past, your potential future if things go well in the venture... When I do business with ppl now it's like a background check on a chick before I take her seriously. Also the bigger I get, the less ppl I work with.
* FAIL OFTEN/FAST - Speed to market with an idea is crucial, even if it's just to test the waters before going all out. The faster you fail the faster you stop repeating stupid mistakes and start finding what works for you, and only repeat wins to start scaling on.
* TLC YOUR WINNER(s) - Sounds obvious but most ppl try to replicate vs scale or do both and fail at both. Once my winner presented itself by a big enough margin in my portfolio of sites, I pushed the rest to the side even though they were doing some ok numbers. I'm thankful, I knew it would have a lifecycle and when it was over I wanted to look back and be sure I couldn't have maximized my spike even more, and I couldn't.
* MENTOR - Have at least one good mentor, someone you can just chill with and don't ask them for shit - but ask them about a lot of shit. Now that I'm here I tend to want to help ppl more than ever. Or better put, if someone asks me about something in my world, they open a Pandora's box and I can talk forever just about my experience. I take for granted that loose casual chat to me is actually a goldmine to the person listening because they haven't experienced this life change yet.
----
* Thanks Norb, that's a lot of basic shit, HOW did you do it and HOW can I do it too??
- In short, LAUNCH A SHITLOAD OF YOUR OWN OFFERS and get affiliates to the ones that work. Walk away from duds, do not recruit affiliates to duds, just start over, now with more practice on how not to fail. Do it with digital product, easy overhead on fails, and on wins
.
- Find gaps or micro-niches within verticals you're comfy with (trust me you WANT to like your project if it takes off on you, you'll be stuck to it for a while during your spike and if you actually LIKE your content/project you'll maximize it more and quicker).
- Stay WhiteHat: Shout out to all the gray/blackhat stuff out there but we're talking about building a sustainable brand white-hat enough to stand the test of time and maybe even enough to be family friendly where people buy your product/service for others.
More importantly affiliates see you're not just a churn/burn vendor that will disappear soon. Most blackhat dudes I know are opportunists and have to rely on spikes vs something to grow for x years. Eventually most do find something though, and they explode THEN incorporate some BH to x fold their results (every great empire started with a great crime or something something). I'm not encouraging it, just value your skills and don't underestimate your potential if you have talent no matter how abstract, apply it right and you win big.
- You probably won't know you have a winner until it wins. I think back to all the random dumb shit I saw make the vendors around me into millionaires, and I couldn't believe some of them. Water4Gas, Earth4Energy, Magnets4Energy, BuildingAFuknCHICKENCOUP?!
I talked to all of them and we did a few products together here and there because we understood the formula, but the one's you hope go big due to said knowledge of formula still don't compare to organic virility for whatever the reason (the earth4energy dude and I talked a lot at one point, he got the idea after watching a newscast on renewable energy getting a lot of attention in the world, so he made a book or building your own solar panels, it F*cking BLEWWWWWWW everything away on clickbank for a while, created 30 competitors, he created a ton of subsites, videos, other renewable stuff re water/wind/and bang, millies!).
So don't be shy to simply try shit, you never really know what will take off. I actually didn't know my big winner was a win until about 6months it, total sleeper, then suddenly it just boomed kind of out of nowhere.
- Embrace noobtards: While everyone here was laughing at CB, at WAFO, at digital point indians, I was recruiting them as aff's and saving their asses from promoting another MMO and to try promoting my established whitehat site, and made a shitload of ppl a shitload of money and success stories in third world countries, that shit just feels good and mom is proud lol.
- SO WHY CB? WHY NOT CPA? - For me it was too scary once anything got past 10K in the CPA world, everyone getting scammed, and the few offers I tried to host on CPA networks as they kept wanting my offers, were shady as F*ck so I just stuck to CB. Here's my breakdown though as I did enough CPA to be able to compare the two fairly:
---end of part 1 (10K text limit reached, F*ck yeah).
Figured this was too good not to post (known of this for a while but figured, heck).
solopreneurs and people in the digital space will find advice particularly useful.
I noticed @eliquid and @Blackman in the thread
Source: My 1000'th knowledge bomb early (because I'll never reach 1000 posts) 10yrs in 20min.
click over to read some of the replies.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Feels a little weird being back on teh forums, but scrolling through here I get so many damn memories, it's been almost 10 years, and I've always wanted to do a big knowledge bomb but I don't think I'll reach 1000 posts in this lifetime so let's do this now before I disappear for bigger and bigger spurts.
For those that don't know me, in 2007-8 I started out as a noobtard trying to understand our whole ecosystem as an affiliate. Championed the aff thing and became a vendor launching 50-60 sites/digital products, got my own army of affiliates, and then magic happened. I learned some cool shit, became rich, and happily ever after for now. So here's what's most important from my 10 years of 'started at the bottom now we in charge of our destiny and time'!
Things you'll need to succeed.
* F*ck YOU attitude towards anything in your way (like moments of uncertainty, fails, getting rejected/ripped off, ran over time and time again as you fumble towards finding what lane you fit in).
* Model after success: Everything has been done, the blueprints are right there, new success stories emerge daily to vibe from. However don't just copy ideas, do them better, find new micro-niches and gaps in the market to fill.
* ABC - AlwaysBeCreative: When you touch a campaign, a lot of assets start pouring out quickly, logo's/branding, copywriting, marketing assets, all of it is an amazing chance to push limits and controversy vs just clickbait/seo/traditional shit. Literally every single one of my sites, banners, graphics, dotcom naming brainstorming sessions, etc. are put through an edge to edge test to make sure I get the most out of what I'm doing, nothing is half assed or I don't bother.
* BE NICE - Often underrated, and not to be mistaken for being a pussy. If you want to network, ppl should value you as a person with a brain and heart not just the F*ck you attitude to succeed. When you do business you're often tested in many ways re your trust, your past, your potential future if things go well in the venture... When I do business with ppl now it's like a background check on a chick before I take her seriously. Also the bigger I get, the less ppl I work with.
* FAIL OFTEN/FAST - Speed to market with an idea is crucial, even if it's just to test the waters before going all out. The faster you fail the faster you stop repeating stupid mistakes and start finding what works for you, and only repeat wins to start scaling on.
* TLC YOUR WINNER(s) - Sounds obvious but most ppl try to replicate vs scale or do both and fail at both. Once my winner presented itself by a big enough margin in my portfolio of sites, I pushed the rest to the side even though they were doing some ok numbers. I'm thankful, I knew it would have a lifecycle and when it was over I wanted to look back and be sure I couldn't have maximized my spike even more, and I couldn't.
* MENTOR - Have at least one good mentor, someone you can just chill with and don't ask them for shit - but ask them about a lot of shit. Now that I'm here I tend to want to help ppl more than ever. Or better put, if someone asks me about something in my world, they open a Pandora's box and I can talk forever just about my experience. I take for granted that loose casual chat to me is actually a goldmine to the person listening because they haven't experienced this life change yet.
----
* Thanks Norb, that's a lot of basic shit, HOW did you do it and HOW can I do it too??
- In short, LAUNCH A SHITLOAD OF YOUR OWN OFFERS and get affiliates to the ones that work. Walk away from duds, do not recruit affiliates to duds, just start over, now with more practice on how not to fail. Do it with digital product, easy overhead on fails, and on wins
- Find gaps or micro-niches within verticals you're comfy with (trust me you WANT to like your project if it takes off on you, you'll be stuck to it for a while during your spike and if you actually LIKE your content/project you'll maximize it more and quicker).
- Stay WhiteHat: Shout out to all the gray/blackhat stuff out there but we're talking about building a sustainable brand white-hat enough to stand the test of time and maybe even enough to be family friendly where people buy your product/service for others.
More importantly affiliates see you're not just a churn/burn vendor that will disappear soon. Most blackhat dudes I know are opportunists and have to rely on spikes vs something to grow for x years. Eventually most do find something though, and they explode THEN incorporate some BH to x fold their results (every great empire started with a great crime or something something). I'm not encouraging it, just value your skills and don't underestimate your potential if you have talent no matter how abstract, apply it right and you win big.
- You probably won't know you have a winner until it wins. I think back to all the random dumb shit I saw make the vendors around me into millionaires, and I couldn't believe some of them. Water4Gas, Earth4Energy, Magnets4Energy, BuildingAFuknCHICKENCOUP?!
I talked to all of them and we did a few products together here and there because we understood the formula, but the one's you hope go big due to said knowledge of formula still don't compare to organic virility for whatever the reason (the earth4energy dude and I talked a lot at one point, he got the idea after watching a newscast on renewable energy getting a lot of attention in the world, so he made a book or building your own solar panels, it F*cking BLEWWWWWWW everything away on clickbank for a while, created 30 competitors, he created a ton of subsites, videos, other renewable stuff re water/wind/and bang, millies!).
So don't be shy to simply try shit, you never really know what will take off. I actually didn't know my big winner was a win until about 6months it, total sleeper, then suddenly it just boomed kind of out of nowhere.
- Embrace noobtards: While everyone here was laughing at CB, at WAFO, at digital point indians, I was recruiting them as aff's and saving their asses from promoting another MMO and to try promoting my established whitehat site, and made a shitload of ppl a shitload of money and success stories in third world countries, that shit just feels good and mom is proud lol.
- SO WHY CB? WHY NOT CPA? - For me it was too scary once anything got past 10K in the CPA world, everyone getting scammed, and the few offers I tried to host on CPA networks as they kept wanting my offers, were shady as F*ck so I just stuck to CB. Here's my breakdown though as I did enough CPA to be able to compare the two fairly:
---end of part 1 (10K text limit reached, F*ck yeah).
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