Your Best and Worst Moment in Affiliate Marketing

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Just wandered what your best and worst moment in affiliate marketing ?

Was your best when you made a large suprise commision amount , or leaving your job to do it full time etc and maybe your worst was leaving a google ad on and loosing hundreds etc .

So feel free to post them here, will be interested to see what some peoples highlights and lowlights have been since there time in affiliate marketing.

I'll start:

Best moment : Finally finding a website that makes a nice income with minamal effort and realised that AM works

Worst Moment: Went away for a week with no net access for first 5 days, checked on and seen my site had gone down due to me not putting enougth bandwidth availability on hosting for a domain and seeing that google had been sending so many clicks and costing me lots for people to see "bandwidth exceeded"

[Flightmapping]

Best moment: Hitting our target of £xx,xxx in commission, which equates to just over £1,000,000 worth of travel products - in January 07. Being so focussed on this target that I had no idea what was going on in the real world outside this. I guess this was eclipsed further by getting back after the January g2g to find out that my favourite band had reformed & had completely sold out MEN Arena in one hour. Tickets were like gold dust, but I didn't mind spending a bit of my ill gotten gains on Ebay .

Good moments: Have now been away for almost a week twice with no net access, and no need to check on anything, apart from the odd text message back to mission control.

Worst: We still haven't fully recovered from June 27th 06's Google update, but I guess we're doing ok regardless. Any time when the supposedly reliable and automated payment systems don't cough up the cash!

[morleymouse]

Best, a bit insignificant compated to James' 5 figure some in a month but I was very proud when it happened - got back from school one day a few years ago to see about £250 commission in my TD account, t'was a good day and really made me see what was possible!


Worst, not had one It used to be hard work, still is and always will be but its bloody fun

[Paul Smith]

From a merchants perspective, worst moment was most deffinately last August when my tech team introduced our new website platform and things didn't go as swimmingly as we'd hoped - lessons learn't by all.

Best moment was last Xmas, stonking affiliate results indeed.

[Geno_AMNavigator]

Best Moment: opening my newly published affiliate marketing book (got 'em in only about half an hour before the deadline for its official presentation in Las Vegas!!), and inhaling the smell of a newly printed book.

Worst Moment: hosting of one of the crucial websites (one that hosts templates that affiliates use) down with noone from the hosting company reachable.

Geno

[tbp]

Mine aren't very exciting

Best Moment: Finally reaching the target level to get my first payment from the network!

Worst Moment: Realising that the first site I created for affiliate marketing, and put months of work into, was actually one of the worse sites to start with (shopping directory) Still, I wasn't put off and carried on, and although my first site is practically dead in the water, I have gone on to create successfull sites that have started earning me money!

Was entirely my fault, as I jumped into affilate marketing with too little research, and the arrogant attitude that some of the current sites out there were crap and I could do much better! After a month of the site running, I realised that it wasn't a good idea, and although it has earned me a few quid, I made the decision to abandon it and start again (which was hard after literally putting in months of hard work!).

Now I know better, and have gone on to create some sites that are making money (although not enough to give up my day job, but a nice little side income).

opening my newly published affiliate marketing book (got 'em in only about half an hour before the deadline for its official presentation in Las Vegas!!), and inhaling the smell of a newly printed book

LOL, it is a nice feeling isn't it. I`ve had 4 published in the past, and getting the first one through the post really made my day! Used to love walking into the bookshops and seeing my book on the shelf (to the point that I used to rearrange the shelves for them ) The excitement sort of wore off after the first one, although it was nice to see the finished article each time, after the huge amounts of hard work that went it.

It was wierd for me, it was my lifes ambition to get a book published, and I held published authors as some sort of god! However, when I did get my first one published, I expected to feel "different" in some way, but it didn't happen lol and it no longer felt so special. When I became one of the people I previously looked up to, the magic seemed to fade and they didn't seem so special any more...