Originally Posted by Angry Jew Cat

If I lived in some shithole country where the cost of living was next to nothing, I wouldn't be complaining either.

Fact is though for North American affiliates that there is as someone mentioned earlier, a "perfect storm" happening at the moment. A lot of factors are making it very hard to continue right now and there will be a thinning of the herd. There already is. Those who tough it out will come out on top. Those who come up with new ideas will make big money again.

Porn is out, everybody jumped ship to mainstream CPA, which starting early this year with the shitstorm over mainstream rebilling and continuity offers has that in rapid decline. Every guy who hit it big a couple years ago with CPA started his own CPA network. You can see dozens of them folding now too. Even big networks. Go look up the nightmare Hydra Network ah fallen into. Now those shitvultures have a serious shitcloud raining down on them.

There will be another wave. Something will come along that makes a lot of people a lot of money online. Just gotta be around when it comes, and keen enough to catch it early. I made a lot of money closing out last yer on that whole male acai wave. Wasted the fuck out of it. Learned a hard lesson about managing money. Spent it all, then January came around and all the offers kept dying. The good converters all dropped, and payouts started going way down The competition went way up. It's the name of the game.

The continuing strength of the Canadian dollar hasn't helped either. I'm sure some Canadian webmasters can back that up. used to be nice making a few hundred extra just off the exchange rate every month. When you're making regulr working wage online, that few hundred extra can make the difference between living comfortably, and having to be tight with the funds.

Oh well, things will come back around. Times will change. The people who think 2 steps ahead will prevail, and a handful of lucky ideas will come out big. Keep at it. Even porn will have it's day again.