There are ways to make a lot of money with affiliate marketing, but that can involve a lot of trial and error and can (usually does) involve bootstrapping with a lot of your own cash or a credit card. Although I know of at least one person who turned millionaire after bootstrapping by maxing out his credit cards, I would never suggest doing that. It's a deep hole to climb out of if you fail and for every success story, there's probably 100 failures not talked about. In short, the successes I've seen involve buying advertising to get people to a landing page that generates leads with commissions that (hopefully) pay you back more than you spend getting the traffic. It's a delicate operation that pays well only if you get the landing page and affiliate choices right.
I've also seen wealth generated with mailing lists. This is another affiliate marketing play that can be done without feeling too spammy and can still add value to the user.
Similar to a mailing list, a forum can be easy to set up and maintain. Also like a mailing list, if you create a large enough user base, advertising can pay off.
One of the better earners is a subscription model for just about anything. Software provided for free with a "premium" set of features for $x per month is a good way to generate a user base more easily.
A couple things to keep in mind:
1. You will almost always have more success when you're passionate about the subject matter.
2. It will take time. Most overnight successes are preceded by years of ramp-up.
I hate spam as much as the next guy, but this is more of a case of the plaintiff not reading before he clicks and agrees to things. We all do it, but we don't then sue a company for it. I really wish a ruling like this was made on a case in which there was no opt-in, but this guy (even by his IN-action of NOT un-ticking the box) opted in.
Great concept, but I don't know how comfortable I am giving them access to all my accounts when all they do for me is choose which card to charge. And how do the purchases show on my card statements? Are they all from Wallaby now?
The author left out a detail? Does his account impersonate someone else? I think that's an important part of the conversation, even if the messaging is presumptive.
The author's name is David Bushell. There are 25 David Bushell's in the UK who have accounts on LinkedIn. I have no idea how many David Bushell's there are world wide.
I assume the author wasn't pretending to be any of those other David Bushells.
Just for clarity: A few of the Dan Beales, or DanBCs, that show up on Google searches are not me. I've never worked in radio, for example.
The first thing I did when I saw Famo.us last year was rip into the code. With a little persistence, you can pretty easily use the code without waiting for their release.
I prettified the code myself too, but it's really unreadable. Have you extracted the parts into a nice library? Mind sharing your efforts?
Honestly, without going into the source code, I was like, this is matrix transformation, this is matrix transformation.. then I saw matrix3d and I was like yeaah!
I believe that no software can excel without a good mathematical foundation. What I see coming is that this approach will be extended by P2P Load-Balancing. Similar to what Bitcoin Hackers [1] were doing and still do [1].
I absolutely want one of these. They've thought of everything. As I went to pledge my money for it, I found that the starting pledge that actually gets me a wheel was $550 and that's all gone. So to get one will run me $590 and presumably more in retail. This is where "more accessible" as one of their goals falls short.
It looks great, but I'll have to pass at the price.
I've also seen wealth generated with mailing lists. This is another affiliate marketing play that can be done without feeling too spammy and can still add value to the user.
Similar to a mailing list, a forum can be easy to set up and maintain. Also like a mailing list, if you create a large enough user base, advertising can pay off.
One of the better earners is a subscription model for just about anything. Software provided for free with a "premium" set of features for $x per month is a good way to generate a user base more easily.
A couple things to keep in mind: 1. You will almost always have more success when you're passionate about the subject matter. 2. It will take time. Most overnight successes are preceded by years of ramp-up.