To clear anything up, here's the situation as of early this year. I was earning well and spending money like a mad fool late in 09 and coming into 2010. When that whole credit card fiasco hammered mainstream rebill offers I lost two of the best converting offers I had. I was getting $55/lead with payouts on demand from the network I was promoting through. Basically i got an instant payout whenever I wanted it, and I was growing fast. I was pouring money into longterm SEO projects and custom scripts to automate the building process, that wound up going nowhere. As soon as my campaigns went to hell I stopped and began spending foolishly on new PPC campaigns and burnt off a lot of money fast failing to find anything that stuck again. When offers started coming back, payouts had been significantly decreased, and finding a new offer that even converted on par was hard. That combo made making monies again difficult.
Where I was bringing in $500 daily in profit through November I was up to almost $1k/day by Christmas, almost overnight I found myself putting out hundreds a day with a negative return. I essentially went from the high point in my online career looking like the sky was the limit, to square one. You also gotta figure in my "nigga rich" spending on pointless new shit. New snowboard gear, new computer, buying rounds like crazy. Expensive Christmas gifts for the family and other dumbshit.
At this point I started experimenting with mainstream niche affiliate stores, which were doing well for small startups, but take time to build, and are slow going building up those earnings again when you're collecting 4-15% commissions. The intention was to continue rolling with this type of project. Mainstream niche stores coming into now were my primary earner. Most of which were built up SINCE the last available backup. Which leaves most of my promising projects toast.
My truck caked out on me and left me with a massive bill. Living in a resort town I continued partying spending more money that I probably shouldn't have. Expenses were racking up, and recovering my old earnings back to a point where they were enough to live off still was cutting it close. hence why I was quick to accept the offe4r of good paying job when it was offered to me again about a month back.
First priority was getting my truck running and insured again. I sent over an initial payment to cover what I could after getting my truck running again on my first paycheck, which I also hd to pay rent, insurance and my other bills out of. Getting back to work cost me a fair share to start with. new tools, new work gear, yadda yadda. I had hoped that the partial payment would buy me some til the next payday to cover my remaining debt. I guess it didn't. My fault.
The niche affiliate stores were showing promise, but take time to build up. My s4rver was down, a few people here new the situation and were waiting for things to come back up. I would have continued building them over the summer, and with things on course again, by fall I should have had a reasonable base built back up. With the start I had gone though, I just don't feel like starting over again. So be it. I'm working with a good company, collecting good paychecks on a regular schedule again, and to be honest it's kind of nice. It's not a bad life.
Come fall I'll take my layoff, and join what is formally referred to as the "EI Ski Team". I started in this whole business with the only intention being a way to pay for my snowboard seasons while I drank, got high, and enjoyed the slopes every day. God bless communism and it's support programs. So y, I'm essentially better off with no online income, which would hinder my employment insurance payouts, lol. So this winter I'll be snowboarding on the taxpayer's dime. Fuck it. This was never a career for me, just another job. All I've done is found a new one. Hell, it's the "Albertan Dream". Make big money for a few months, get layoff, then cruise by on EI payouts for the rest of the year.
I'll still be around in the future once in a while. But I'm an official surfer now.
