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I swear if I read about one more successful affiliate marketer who made over a gazillion dollars generating leads and now for whatever reason wants to create a new product from scratch and thinks that is what "The Fastlane" is about, I'll blow my brains out.
First of all, let's make one thing clear, MJ DeMarco made a fortune in affiliate marketing. Now of course, he didn't make a fortune generating leads for fly-by-night companies and being the middle-man of the middle-man of the middle-man, or sending every single one of his leads to a single limousine company. He created a brand with Limos.com, but that was an affiliate site, just like many other million and billion dollar companies whose business is distribution are. He didn't go out and try to create a limo company and drive limos around, he connected customers to businesses, or businesses to businesses and took his cut. That is the goddamn definition of affiliate marketing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affiliate_marketing
So if you've become a beast at generating leads but are tired of the ups and downs, build your brand and transition into something that uses your strengths and is scalable! Affiliate marketing = generating leads! Ignore the people who aren't knowledgeable about the subject and force it down your throat that affiliate marketing equals dealing with some shady affiliate network or making people fill out forms for payday loans. That is but one tiny sliver of the whole affiliate marketing/lead generation industry, in the way buying pump and dump penny stocks is a tiny sliver of the investing world.
Affiliate marketing = generating leads for hundreds or thousands of businesses, as opposed to generating leads for your own one business. @MJ DeMarco made his money with the first, and whether he now wants to say what he did with Limos.com isn't Fastlane, or people are just misinterpreting what he says and all he means is that you need to build your brand and not have your whole business depend on one company is irrelevant.
When you taste success generating leads and hit your first speed bump, stop being a lazy a$$ Slowlaner who can't deal with the cutthroat business world and now just throw your hands up and say "See, I knew it, affiliate marketing is so hard and risky and so blah blah F*cking blah". You will hit speed bumps no matter which route you take, but if you already generated over 6 figures being a freakin' rockstar generating leads, don't come here all ashamed of yourself because you think you were doing something to be looked down upon.
In reality, you kicked a$$ at doing the exact same thing the owner of this site and the author of this book did, you just haven't created your brand and haven't made the leap into turning your lead generating business into a scalable and self-sustainable one, and anyone who tells you otherwise doesn't have a goddamn clue what they're talking about, so don't throw all your work and talent away because they failed at making the transition and don't think you're capable of doing it either. Take your skills, take your experience at being a lead-gen monster, and build a brand just like the very author of TMF did.
First of all, let's make one thing clear, MJ DeMarco made a fortune in affiliate marketing. Now of course, he didn't make a fortune generating leads for fly-by-night companies and being the middle-man of the middle-man of the middle-man, or sending every single one of his leads to a single limousine company. He created a brand with Limos.com, but that was an affiliate site, just like many other million and billion dollar companies whose business is distribution are. He didn't go out and try to create a limo company and drive limos around, he connected customers to businesses, or businesses to businesses and took his cut. That is the goddamn definition of affiliate marketing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affiliate_marketing
So if you've become a beast at generating leads but are tired of the ups and downs, build your brand and transition into something that uses your strengths and is scalable! Affiliate marketing = generating leads! Ignore the people who aren't knowledgeable about the subject and force it down your throat that affiliate marketing equals dealing with some shady affiliate network or making people fill out forms for payday loans. That is but one tiny sliver of the whole affiliate marketing/lead generation industry, in the way buying pump and dump penny stocks is a tiny sliver of the investing world.
Affiliate marketing = generating leads for hundreds or thousands of businesses, as opposed to generating leads for your own one business. @MJ DeMarco made his money with the first, and whether he now wants to say what he did with Limos.com isn't Fastlane, or people are just misinterpreting what he says and all he means is that you need to build your brand and not have your whole business depend on one company is irrelevant.
When you taste success generating leads and hit your first speed bump, stop being a lazy a$$ Slowlaner who can't deal with the cutthroat business world and now just throw your hands up and say "See, I knew it, affiliate marketing is so hard and risky and so blah blah F*cking blah". You will hit speed bumps no matter which route you take, but if you already generated over 6 figures being a freakin' rockstar generating leads, don't come here all ashamed of yourself because you think you were doing something to be looked down upon.
In reality, you kicked a$$ at doing the exact same thing the owner of this site and the author of this book did, you just haven't created your brand and haven't made the leap into turning your lead generating business into a scalable and self-sustainable one, and anyone who tells you otherwise doesn't have a goddamn clue what they're talking about, so don't throw all your work and talent away because they failed at making the transition and don't think you're capable of doing it either. Take your skills, take your experience at being a lead-gen monster, and build a brand just like the very author of TMF did.
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