I’ve been in the affiliate marketing business for the past year and a half or so. I began dabbling in PPC about 6 months ago and had some great success with it. However, I’ve gotten to a point where I’m ready to move forward onto bigger and better things. Now, I’m not saying that there isn’t money to be made in affiliate marketing, I just feel that affiliate marketing, at least promoting network offers has very little stability. You constantly have to know what’s going on in the market, find new ways to promote network offers that a million other people aren’t already doing, etc. You can keep up if you like reading and have a creative mind, but eventually, at least in my case, you start getting burnt out. Another problem with the stability aspect of promoting network offers is the fact that your campaigns can have a million different things that can and will go wrong with them. You can wake up to find the offer has been pulled, the advertisers site went down, a new person has stepped into your niche and is competing with you on the exact same offer, using your ad, and a similar landing page, your quality score for some reason can just decide to tank after running fine for 2 months straight. The list goes on and on. With all that said, most of my affiliate marketing efforts have been put on hold for now until I find some direction. I’ve been coming up with ideas to build a business however nothing for me has really stuck. I’ll come up with something, lose sleep over it for a week or 2, and then eventually come to a realization it’s not feasible for some reason or another. With that said, I’m still planning to get an office here in the bay area within the next month. The plan is to hire a few college interns when they are just finishing up school in June (at least the local colleges) to do several coding projects I have in mind. I can get them cheaper than college graduates and I can also find some real talent that many big companies have overlooked and won’t go near because they are CS or CE majors (at least I think).

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