These days I'm working on a app that helps marketer with tracking phone calls generated through native advertising i.e Facebook ads (etc.) it seems to meet all 5 commandments so.... I'm quietly hopeful it will lead to something promising

The app is ready. I've had a few people sign up for beta and gotten feedback from a couple of people. Getting ready to start sending ad traffic to the offer.

The app kinda ran out of steam. It was buggy and I ran out of capital (my coders wanted more $$$ - even though he was originally given equity). What ever. Moved on to other stuff.

Did a little bit of lead generation (it generated $4k+ month for a while). Stopped promoting that 3 months ago, now I'm promoting affiliate products (just 1 atm) and managed to clear nearly $50k in 3 months. #DebtFREE #ThankYouLord

The affiliate stuff is still going strong, I decided to incorporate and scale things up. Hopefully I'll be scaling up by Nov/Dec.

Affiliate marketing stuff is still going well, it pays the bills - and about 3 weeks ago I hired an agency to help me scale up. So far its going okay (they took control just before x-mas so the CPA was high due to high competition on FB's ads platform). But I'm quietly confident they'll improve and deliver what they've promised me in about 1 month's time (5x ROI) Will update in a few months.

Welp, the agency struggled to deliver on what they promised - at best they were making me maybe 50% ROI - not good enough for me. Had to let go.

My facebook ad account got shut down, TWICE. So now I've stopped promoting that offer and been taking a little break from things (getting into all sorts of shenanigans lol) and working on some projects that could potentially make me $100k+ per month each with the added fastlane principle of "Control" which was lacking when I was promoting products as an affiliate.

Project 1 is a shopify store selling an item for $999 with 400-500% markup LOL.

Project 2 is a web app that I worked on last year but couldn't finish because of my coder. I've found a new coder so he's tinkering with that to see if he can make things pop off.

Stay tuned for more Talk soon

Hey, so project 1 ... failed. People didn't see any value there. And I really didn't add much value - just rebranding/redesign / better presentation. But it wasn't enough.

$2k down the drain and a month or two wasted. Live and learn.

Project 2 - couldn't be completed with the new guy, however the old programmer did fix it (for a small fee). Its finished and in beta.

Since around Feb. my income has totally tanked. My affiliate marketing earnings have come to grinding halt.

That's the bad news, the good news is, I had enough capital stored up that I've been able to live off previous 6 months work without actually working. I'm also due a small refund from my government around $20k for paying too much tax. Hell yeaaah.

I'll be using the tax refund to clear some debts, which will leave me with about $10k to play with. I'll spend that $10k on project 2 (from earlier) by hiring an agency to show me what they can do with the app (they are in many ways my target market). So they'll get paid to beta how lucky.

And at the same time, they'll be promoting an affiliate offer for me (using my app that they are beta testing for tracking).

A lil info about "project 2" and the beta app.


Talk soon.

Welp, got my refund - but had some debts I needed to clear and didn't have an income so I've had to dip into that tax refund to cover living expenses for a while now.

I'm in the process of building a funnel & brand - where I'm going to help people that have a health issue. I'm about 50% done with it. Will post an update in a few weeks/months.

So I'm pretty much done with v1 of the funnel & brand - but I might need to pivot and create a new Top Of Funnel offer, since the one I'm using right now isn't powerful enough.

Right now I've got no income, £3k worth of debt, a few domains and a banned FB profile/ads account. I want to get to £1 million profit before Dec 31 2019!

Welp, 14 days in, I'm £5k in debt.... 0 income. My old FB account is still banned, however they did manage to restore another old FB ad account I had from 2010.... so I just launched new ads on that one today.

I've hired 2 different companies to see if they can help me generate leads. So far no results from them.

So, looks like Facebook and Google have set up some restrictions on my niche. So basically you can't advertise the product/service I was promoting without a certification, however to become certified you need to actually run one of those types of businesses (not just be a lead generator like me). So basically I'm f*cked. Welp, thank you incumbents for putting up barriers to entry Nice chess move.

Welp... now I have to put all my money on the 2 guys I've hired, they aren't using FB/Adwords to generate leads, so hopefully they'll be able to generate some leads for me and I can make a small profit when I re-sell the leads.

Welp... what I was trying to do before didn't work. Too much competition, low barrier to entry.
I did launch a few other projects; all of which fail. One did have a little bit of traction - but I couldn't make it work at the price point the market was responding to.

I've decided to put digital marketing and that stuff a break. I'll return to it when I have enough capital to hire TOP talent and can have them execute to such a high degree that competition will be irrelevant. For now, I'm going to become a farmer. I'll post an update when I have data from farming.