Hello from Spain everybody! 
I was a sidewalk employee who lived paycheck to paycheck until quite recently.
For about a year now I have been promoting as affiliate products and services of several hosting companies, which pay me large commissions ranging from 50 to 150 dollars per sale.
Right now I earn a lot more money than I did when I was employed.
But reading the book "The Millionaire FastLane " made me realize that I am playing a very dangerous game. The book itself speaks expressly that being an affiliate of a company leaves you out of control of the process and is like being a co-driver of a car that goes very fast.
Even though right now with affiliate marketing I'm making good amounts of money that allow me to live in a very comfortable way, I'm trying to find alternatives that allow me to have more control and be as faithful as possible to the 5 commandments preached by MJ in the book.
As I have been promoting hosting services as an affiliate for some time now, I have been able to see that in this case there is a demand for this type of product, so the commandment of necessity is fulfilled and that I am also good at selling.
To try to get out of the affiliate trap, I'm thinking instead of promoting the services of these companies, better to create my own hosting company as a reseller and promote my own hosting services under my own brand.
But here comes my big doubt...
Does reselling hosting under my own brand is better and more fastlane than being an affiliate? Or is it getting out of a bad place to get me into something worse?
From my point of view being a reseller of hosting fulfills well 4 of the 5 commandments (need, access, control, scalability), but fails in the commandment of time, because the customer service would have to provide me, and being a service that requires being active 24/7/365 I'm seeing myself all day answering customer support tickets (my customers would be people who are learning to make themselves their website, so they have a lot of doubts that will have to be resolved).
I'm very worried about getting into a business that consumes me all the time.
Is there anyone who has experimented with this type of business who can give me any advice on this?
I would like to know what you think about how much or how little fastlane this type of hosting reselling business is about affiliate marketing or whether I should think better about another type of product.
Thank you so much
I was a sidewalk employee who lived paycheck to paycheck until quite recently.
For about a year now I have been promoting as affiliate products and services of several hosting companies, which pay me large commissions ranging from 50 to 150 dollars per sale.
Right now I earn a lot more money than I did when I was employed.
But reading the book "The Millionaire FastLane " made me realize that I am playing a very dangerous game. The book itself speaks expressly that being an affiliate of a company leaves you out of control of the process and is like being a co-driver of a car that goes very fast.
Even though right now with affiliate marketing I'm making good amounts of money that allow me to live in a very comfortable way, I'm trying to find alternatives that allow me to have more control and be as faithful as possible to the 5 commandments preached by MJ in the book.
As I have been promoting hosting services as an affiliate for some time now, I have been able to see that in this case there is a demand for this type of product, so the commandment of necessity is fulfilled and that I am also good at selling.
To try to get out of the affiliate trap, I'm thinking instead of promoting the services of these companies, better to create my own hosting company as a reseller and promote my own hosting services under my own brand.
But here comes my big doubt...
Does reselling hosting under my own brand is better and more fastlane than being an affiliate? Or is it getting out of a bad place to get me into something worse?
From my point of view being a reseller of hosting fulfills well 4 of the 5 commandments (need, access, control, scalability), but fails in the commandment of time, because the customer service would have to provide me, and being a service that requires being active 24/7/365 I'm seeing myself all day answering customer support tickets (my customers would be people who are learning to make themselves their website, so they have a lot of doubts that will have to be resolved).
I'm very worried about getting into a business that consumes me all the time.
Is there anyone who has experimented with this type of business who can give me any advice on this?
I would like to know what you think about how much or how little fastlane this type of hosting reselling business is about affiliate marketing or whether I should think better about another type of product.
Thank you so much
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