So I wanted to share that after I joined this forum (8/2012) I ended up quitting my job and starting my own business doing AM fulltime as well as managing the marketing as a freelancer for some clients.

2 months after joining stack that money, I went from making ~8k/month in my job, to $45,000/month, most of that income from a single affiliate program which I made $30k from that month, about 70% of that 45k profit.
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That said, after paying debts and whatnot, I started 2013 with $3k in my bank account. I ended up trying to start my own company over the course of the last year doing affiliate marketing, managing freelance clients, etc, and ended up making $493,000 last year at about 50% margin. I didnt even know how well I did until the accounting firm I hired showed me my year end financials. I am really grateful, but I also worked myself into a rut: I hired a bunch of people to ‘automate’ my client side of the business (I dont like dealing with marketing clients, but didnt want to get rid of them ...

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