Affiliates full or part time ?

[marky]

Hi and Good Afternoon

My name is Mark and I am new to this forum

I know this subject has been mentioned before, but I was interested to find out now, aproximately what proportion of affiliates also have a full time 9-5 type job.

Of the the people who are affiliate marketing full time, how long did they work for someone else at the same time ?

I only ask, as I am fairly new to this game, only having started last year. I also have a full time job (which can be ludicrous hours) . I would like to work towards doing this full time in a year or so, and am also aware that time spent working for someone else is slowing my personal plans down. At what point do you say ..blow it I'm retiring from 9-5 to run my life from a laptop in the caribbean ?

I would be very interested to hear any personal stories

Many thanks

Mark

p.s. I am not a journalist ...

[UKOffer]

Well I did affiliate marketing part time for a year whilst holding down a full time "real" job too. I made sure that I had enough in the bank to cover a year's worth of mortgage payments, bills etc. before I took the leap though. But what a great feeling when I did become a full time affiliate, nothing better than being your own boss and working to make yourself money, not someone else.

Cheers!

Kieron

[marky]

ohh ...its like waiting for Christmas ... the great day of resigning and everyone asking which company you are going to ...your own...congratulations for doing it.
Many thanks for the advice on the cash front. I kinda thought about the savings side of things and have the beginnings of a buffer (tried really hard to be more frugal) .
Was your job at all related to affiliate marketing ? I mean even from working for say a widgit company with an affiliate program ? My own job doesn't have any similarities ...

anyone else out there on this cold Sunday afternoon ?

Many thanks

Mark

[dungdee]

I don't live on the money i earn but its a nice extra

[marky]

similar story to me, I have yet to actualy take a penny in earnings.
Small profit made which is banked to finance new websites (only been doing this shortly) most revenue seems to cover my credit card bill which I use for ppc etc.
I started doing this thinking I could maybe get an extra holiday out of it, but I now want to do this full time. A time will come where I will either be succesful enough to leave my job, or I will have the balls to get out ...
Anyone who made the break know what it was that helped them make that desision ? ..or anyone about to do it or seriously thinking about it for the very short term ?

Rgds

Mark

[morleymouse]

well I went from full-time aff marketing (kind of) to a part-time real job. why? because I was getting fat and lazy at home all day.

currently work monday (9am-5pm), tuesday (9am-Finish > about 10pm) & Thursday (9am - 1pm ish) as the part-time real stuff.

do aff marketing when ive nothing else to do.

contract web work, design, scripting etc when it comes in.

and out of everything I do, the part-time real work pays the least.

and only reason I have a real job is because of stuff I picked up doing affiliate marketing, and from this forum. so I really do owe a lot to everyone on here.

on a side note, booked 2 weeks in crete for this summer! gotta love affiliate marketing at christmas

[marky]

I quite like that balance. There is no way my employer would go for it , but a three day week would be perfect. Never work another Monday morning again ..except in my pj's at my pc ...

has anyone else gone from full time affiliate to going back into working to someone else ? I mean this could be for more reasons than salary, like missing office atmosphere (?) to wanting to give time to help others like working for a charity or vso type organisation ? Or maybe an employee gym membership ......

Re Morleymouse at Christmas , did anyone actualy make a sale on Christmas Day ?

My stuff is mainly finance, so Christmas was quiet on the affiliate thing.

I think i need some fresh air ...

[Tauctionshop]

Hi guys I am also new at this affiliate thing but no luck yet can someone please give some cool tips that will help me and other affiliate user how to improve affiliate and make real money from it Thanks .

[marky]

Hi

I don't think any experienced guys out there are going to tell people how it is done just like that, but why don't you summarise what you do very briefly with your interests ? What have you done that works so far, and what have you done that has failed. Maybe the responses will give you some insights

Rgds

Mark

[dungdee]

Product feed is good and pays well

[morleymouse]

Re Morleymouse at Christmas , did anyone actualy make a sale on Christmas Day ?

actually, yes, made a few! scared me, why were people shopping on christma day?!

[UKOffer]

Originally posted by marky Was your job at all related to affiliate marketing ? I mean even from working for say a widgit company with an affiliate program? Mark

No, not at all. I was a Sales Manager for Nestle Rowntree.

But I suppose that was the good thing about it, after a full day of real work talking chocolate and managing people it was nice to switch off and concentrate on something totally different.

Kieron