My long time good friend Jeff Roth, just launched a new blog called SuperAffiliateLifestyle.com!
Jeff and I go back a long time, back to my network marketing days where I recruited him into my downline at a local Barnes & Nobles in NJ (I was visiting my parents at the time).
That was in Dec 2002, almost 5 years ago from today.
How both our lives have changed in the last 5 years is an AMAZING story.
Back then Jeff & I were both college students, he was doing his undergrad in economics, and I was a grad student in physics.
We were both dead broke, I mean REALLY broke. But you know what, we had a dream of a better future, we had a dream of being financially free with a solid passive income coming in month after month.
I promised Jeff that I would help him become financially free.
For the next two years we busted our butts trying to build our network marketing business. We were willing to do whatever it took to become financially free, at the time we just didn’t know that we were in the wrong vehicle!
You know I laugh when I hear an affiliate sobbing about how he launched 3 campaigns and they all fizzled out. Try cold contacting 100s of people of week with a success rate of less than 1%.
Then you’ll know what real pain is.
I finally came to my senses Jan 2005; I walked away from network marketing and Jeff soon followed. At the time he was pretty pissed at me, he was in my downline and I had quit on him. After all I had basically promised him : “Stick with me and you’ll be rich!” Right!
But I have no regrets, I just knew I had made the right decision.
Around 6 months after I quit that business, I discovered ppc affiliate marketing. My friends and family rolled their eyes thinking : “Here he goes again!”
When I told Jeff about affiliate marketing he was initially skeptical, like that was surprising after all the promises I had made to him in our past business.
Well, somehow I managed to persuade Jeff into trying out affiliate marketing. This was around Oct 2005.
After a month and about 10 failed campaigns, neither Jeff nor I had anything to show for our efforts. Jeff figured I had sucked him into another scam so he quit. Now given what had happened in the past I honestly don’t blame him! LOL
Jumping ahead to March 2006, I was making $10k profit a month at that point. I told Jeff about how much I was making and he was suddenly interested again!
Jeff had a couple things going for him, as he talks about on his blog, he hated his boss, she was a total B***CH.
He was really motivated to quit his job.
He was also a great student, he listened to EXACTLY what I said and immediately APPLIED it.
The dude quit his job in 3 MONTHS.
3 stinking months!
And he’s NEVER looked back.
Over the last years his business has absolutely exploded. He’s not netting $15k-$20k/month profit.
He’s truly living the Super Affiliate Lifestyle in every sense of the world. Jeff is constantly traveling, he rented a place on the beach on Southern California last winter and spent about 2 months there.
Recently he just moved to Austin, TX. You won’t believe how he spends his time:
- He’s hired a personal trainer to work with twice a week, he wants to “bulk up”!
- Jeff’s taking sailing lessons off of Lake Travis
- He’s learning Portuguese, he hired a tutor to work with him one on one.
- Oh yeah, when he finds some time, he works on his affiliate campaigns!
Check out the BMW convertible he just bought, he paid for it in cold hard cash!
I’m damn proud of him!
It took Jeff and I 4 years of blood, sweat, and tears.
Four years of taking consistent action with NOTHING to show for it.
Four years of fears and doubts. Wondering whether it would ever work, wondering if the dream, the freedom, and that elusive lifestyle (that I call the super affiliate lifestyle) was even possible.
Four years of constant frustrations and failures.
You know what? I don’t regret any of it, because it’s in those 4 years that Jeff and I developed the mindset, the wealth mentality, whatever you want to call it. We basically got our thinking straight.
And you know what, I would have, and you can ask Jeff, he would have done TWICE as much to live the life that we both do now.
Nothing is better than freedom.
I MEAN NOTHING!
You really have to experience it to see what I’m talking about.
So let me ask you : are YOU willing to put in 4 years into your affiliate marketing business to be wealthy and free for the rest of your life?
Think I’d take 15-20k, and I’m guessing anyone scoffing at that hasn’t hit that level
Amit,
I guess you guys have a definition that differs widely from the one that most of the other big affiliates have, no offense
There’s quite a few people making that amount of money, while it is definitely nothing to laugh at (I don’t think anyone wouldn’t take it), it is not enough to join the top 1%.
Matt L: I’ll just go a ahead and assume your comment was directed at me. While I don’t find it necessary to disclose my earnings in public, I do make quite a bit more than that, and I still wouldn’t consider myself an super affiliate, but that’s just me.
Hi Konrad,
Are you saying if $20k/month profit doesn’t put you in the top 1%? I think you’re overestimating how successful most affiliate are.
Most people would consider someone consistently make $10k/month profit a super affiliate. Less than 1% of people make 6 figures a year profit as an affiliate.
I would guess that less than 1% of affiliates make $10k/yr. Think about it. How many people try this stuff and don’t make any money at all? They try for years (4 maybe) and don’t make squat. So, someone making $1/day is probably doing better than the crowd. I’d be happy just to be making that $1/day, and most of the affiliates I know are in the same boat.
So don’t criticize a guy who’s making a profit. “Super” is ambiguous, and to me, if I knew someone making $30k/year, I think I’d call them “super”.
Sheesh. I guess when you’re in the club it’s easy to look around and only see the other people in the club. You forget about the millions or billions of people who are waiting in line outside.
We need Shawn to do a report similar to the affiliate manager report, but for affiliates instead, then we wouldn’t have to be guessing around.
Oh and I didn’t criticize him. Oh well.
“Around 6 months after I quit that business, I discovered ppc affiliate marketing. My friends and family rolled their eyes thinking : “Here he goes again!” ”
I laughed for 5 minutes straight after reading this part because it is so true. Lol
This has been my path:
Wanna be houseflipper, couldnt even get that going after extensive research.
Wanna be network marketer, total failure, had no money to invest in the product, horrible recruiter,quit after year.
But now I have discovered ppc marketing, and yes, my friends and family rolled their eyes too, lol. Man,its to the point where I have disassociated myself to some degree so i can focus on this without any negative vibes.
Man, its hilarious to read someone who went through the same thing.
Kind regards,
The True King Carlos
Jeff is ridiculed?! Errr, lol I think Konrad you are full of yourself man, funny how you try to put yourself in the first line here and brag about how much you are making (*I make a little bit more than that, blah blah)
People like you tick me off, really. If you really make more than that, you don’t know how lucky you are… stupidity is a blessing sometimes.