I left my 9 to 5 job today, and I’m going to Hawaii
😀Ok ok ok , so I’m not going to Hawaii forever. Its only for a week and a half Vacation/ Honeymoon since I got married at the end of last summer. But I in fact did leave my full-time job today to become a full-time online marketer. The following is a short summary of my experiences over the last few years. My story isn’t a “success” per se, but it’s more like an “on the road to success” story and I am writing it here sitting at my 9-5 desk before they finally shut down the internet to my cubicle and take my ID before literally kicking me out with a cardboard box full of my junk. Ha! Here’s how it came to this…
In 2012 I decided to hit AM hard after a few years of screwing around on clickbank for a few thousand dollars here and there through SEO and some small bits of paid search traffic.
In 2013 I decided that I needed to hit even harder because I wanted nice things and my student loan debt was crawling up my ass even though I was employed at a cushy office job albeit low-paying. I joined a Skype mastermind (<-most important part) run by a friend whom I had met through another forum. I began testing things all over the place with multiple offers and multiple traffic sources across multiple networks. I even began working on potential legit SEO projects. I had the shiny objects disease.
I decided to try TV and LI for pop traffic and some display through TV’s display/banner platform. It was here that I was able to do ~500$/day in profit somewhat consistently. You may want to ask ‘which vertical’ but I was running many different ones and I never really stopped to consider my “vertical”. To me, an offer was just another offer and I had to figure out how to run it. Ill admit though that I always stick to the ‘evergreens’. At this point it wasn’t just about making money, because I was already employed at an easy office job and I had enough to cover my expenses.
Well, over the course of the year I decided to settle on search traffic and to sprinkle in some PPV. I ended up making more than my full-time job from my campaigns. It was at this point that I began considering the potential for leaving my full-time job.
In 2014 after having given social traffic(facebook) a try in 2013 with massive fails and some minor victories I decided to hit it hard. This was extremely difficult because I was working full-time, in my final semester of my ma ...