The $5000 day stood alone. There was another day that I would have done just shy of $5000 profit but the affiliate network refused to pay out. I had to fight with them to get them to give me half my earnings for the day. If I didn't do that I would have lost almost $5000 that day.
I spent the whole year chasing $5000 days and could never replicate them. A lot of affiliates earned that and even more though.
With that South American campaign, AFF paid the full 14 cents per click but then said that they would only pay 6 cents a click in the future. My profit was cut, but it continued for months, slowly tapering off as the ads were clicked less and less and FB gave me less volume.
I saw someone further down saying that this would sound like someone telling tall tales if not for it being the affiliate marketing industry.
I'm not trying to brag, all of you senior SV engineers make more per year than I did that year, with far less risk than I took on. I didn't get rich doing this, in fact I went through a good period after this finding out what life is like in America at the very bottom of the economic heap. There was even a time when I got on a plane and moved to Austin with just $900 and was almost homeless. My AirBNB rental turned out to be infested with cockroaches and I couldn't get a refund, my Boulder landlord refused to return my security deposit and a client wasn't paying me.
I pulled myself up by the bootstraps though and learned Python/Django web dev, real horatio alger style, and now I live the life of a well paid consultant in Astoria, NYC.
Affiliate marketing was pretty good for me though, being just out of college with no marketable skills in 2009, when the job market stood in ruins all around me and I was terrified of the prospect of having a real job.
I spent the whole year chasing $5000 days and could never replicate them. A lot of affiliates earned that and even more though.
With that South American campaign, AFF paid the full 14 cents per click but then said that they would only pay 6 cents a click in the future. My profit was cut, but it continued for months, slowly tapering off as the ads were clicked less and less and FB gave me less volume.
I saw someone further down saying that this would sound like someone telling tall tales if not for it being the affiliate marketing industry.
I'm not trying to brag, all of you senior SV engineers make more per year than I did that year, with far less risk than I took on. I didn't get rich doing this, in fact I went through a good period after this finding out what life is like in America at the very bottom of the economic heap. There was even a time when I got on a plane and moved to Austin with just $900 and was almost homeless. My AirBNB rental turned out to be infested with cockroaches and I couldn't get a refund, my Boulder landlord refused to return my security deposit and a client wasn't paying me.
I pulled myself up by the bootstraps though and learned Python/Django web dev, real horatio alger style, and now I live the life of a well paid consultant in Astoria, NYC.
Affiliate marketing was pretty good for me though, being just out of college with no marketable skills in 2009, when the job market stood in ruins all around me and I was terrified of the prospect of having a real job.