As if we haven’t already had enough of these threads lately.. ;) First xx,xxx month!

Well, after letting Maynzie in on what kind of success I’ve been having lately, he thought it might be a pretty good idea to post my success story on here and I agree with him as well. The value of this post hopefully isn’t in the “OMG LOOK AT THESE NUMBERZZ”, but instead to show how someone can go from emotional rock-bottom to something completely different and positive altogether. This business can be emotionally BRUTAL at times, especially depending your surroundings/peers, so I just want people to know that it can be done.

I started Affiliate Marketing in the summer of 2011 – and by “starting Affiliate Marketing” I mean I spent about a month or so Googling “How to legitimately make money online” and dicking around on newb-friendly forums. While doing so, I was working at a dairy store making minimum wage while taking classes at my local community college.

September 2011 came around and by then I had a few things figured out: affiliate marketing as a concept, how you start it, and my traffic source that I wanted to start on – Facebook. It’s worth noting at this point that I also determined that I really wasn’t happy in school, so I … dropped out. Cue the pants-shitting from my parents, brother, and pretty much any extended family member who had any knowledge of it. As per suggestion of all my (fucking insane) Affiliate Managers, I started out doing dating in the US.

It bombed. Hard. I went 1100 dollars in the hole over the course of 2 months. So now here’s where the crucial part pretty much came in. My girlfriend (who is a good damn angel and has supported me more than any of you would freaking believe) bought me a Stackthatmoney membership for my birthday in November of 2011. That’s where things started to get better. I learned some absolutely groundbreaking information on this forum, and made some really good friends that led to my first pretty big campaign mid-November. I can say that things I learned from here (and the people I met here) literally directly contributed to my first successful campaign. So I hit a campaign where I started to make 500 dollars a day, but guess what? After two weeks the advertiser stopped paying, and because I was a dumbass and listened to Ryan Eagle telling affiliates….

“Bro… if they deny an ad… just resubmit it! It’s easy! It’ll get approved eventually! 😎 :inserteaglepichere:”

…BANNED.

Preface to the next part of my story: BenPOF is ...