I used to think organic traffic was for people who couldn’t afford paid ads. Then I watched my friend build a business that became harder to kill than mine. I remember early on, when I first started running paid traffic, a friend of mine was just starting his organic SEO strategy, building websites, and trying to rank for keywords. First year results: Me: I started doing 10K-20K profit per month. Friend: Income was around 1K per month. I laughed when we talked, and I told him he was wasting his time and that organic was “too slow”. Year 2: Me: 30K-50K profit per month. Friend: 3K-5K profit per month. I was so busy scaling campaigns, running offers, and media buying that my wins only confirmed what I already believed: organic methods were for “broke” people. Then something happened the following year. My campaigns stopped working, the offer died, and traffic became too competitive. I was struggling to find a campaign that worked and losing money hand over fist. Nothing seemed to work. Year 3: Me: Zero profit per month. Him: Income grew to 20K-30K profit per month. I fell victim to the Affiliate Curse. I was so busy building someone else’s product, offer, and brand that, in the process of making money through arbitrage, I didn’t technically own anything. It was an illusion of ownership, but the reality was that I had a very thin business model. I was building a mansion on land owned by someone else. My friend, however, was building an empire on land he owned. Fortunately, after months of losses, some close friends put me on to a vertical that put me back in the game. Otherwise, it would have been game over. Since I knew the type of profit I could make with paid traffic, I resorted to what I knew best and ignored everything else. (Confirmation bias) Year 4: Me: 5-figure profit months, then eventually 5-figure days. (Active) Friend: Income was steadily over 50K-75K profit per month. (Passive) Did my friend have some setbacks? Of course, some Google slaps, core updates, algorithm changes, traffic losses, etc., but instead of being at the complete mercy of someone else like me, he was simply harder to kill. His recurring income, backend, email list, customer data, MRR, and organic traffic compounded and grew year after year. The moment my campaigns stopped, so did my income, even though I had spent years running those campaigns. If you want to last in this game, you need to build towards ownership; there is no other way. You have to own assets that make you money while you sleep.   Year 5: Me: 10K profit days. Friend: 10K-15K days, mid 6-figure profit per month. The compound effect really started to snowball for my friend. His entire business became a cash-printing monster. At this point, even though my income was high, I was exhausted by the roller coaster of running campaigns and going from feast to famine every few months. It felt like every day could be the day my income evaporates and goes back to zero. My lifestyle upgraded, so did my expenses, so I knew at this point in my life, starting over was not an option I wanted to explore. From that point on, every action and choice I made in business had to be for the long term, not just for what I could make today, but how I could survive in the future. Some takeaways: Paid = costs money Organic = costs time Affiliates and Ecom guys often lack money or patience, which is why they choose one or the other. Typically: Paid = fast results Organic = slow results The big mistake for me was always wanting results right now, instead of having a longer-term vision for my business in 1-2-3 years. The whole debate of paid vs organic was the wrong way to look at it. The real lesson was ownership vs the illusion of it. I had made a lot of money, but I didn’t own much of what was making me that money… Don’t get me wrong, fast money is great. But if it doesn’t turn into assets, distribution, customer data, backend, MRR, revshare, brand, or something you actually own, your income is fragile. You need to “hustle” for today, but “build” for tomorrow, both at the same time. The mistake is thinking one is better than the other. If you want to last, you need both working together to build something you actually own.⚔️

Is email your biggest channel?

They want traffic but they want it risk-free. So they make you prove yourself first. Problem is, proven affiliates don't need to prove anything. They just go where the money is best from day one.

I swear I have very short attention span on reading stuff but this is thing is banger really recommend it

When the aff manager himself can't believe his boss approved your terms. That's how you know you negotiated correctly :) negotiate harder. that's the lesson.

Jsyk... -Uber owns no cars -Airbnb owns no houses -Amazon owns no stores -Spotify owns no music -Netflix owns no cinemas -Drug dealers produce no drugs - Dropshippers owns no products Middlemen always profit the most.

New money influencers has ruined Monaco F1 season. Sad to see. 2023 was probably the last good time to go, most of them don’t even watch the race, they’re for social status fitting with the “trend” Tuscany/Bodrum/Montonegro then once they find out about that we can shift back to SOF. I just hope they never find out about wellness resorts like SHA or chenot or farmhouse retreats like six senses duoro valley/reschio.