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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
See thats not what you said, you made it sound like he's old and knows nothing, he's been around longer than you, I'm older than him, chances are very good I've seen more in my life than you have seen and seeing what works and what doesn't, to just dismiss that is the sign of an idiot.
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I didn't say any such thing. You can't run your own paysite or make 7 figures in affiliate marketing without knowing something useful. What I said was that he has started acting like most people over 40 and refusing to believe anything that he hasn't done himself or doesn't understand. Most of what he calls bullshit on goes something like "There's no way that would work. I make $xxx,xxx per year as an affiliate and my income from that has been dropping for years. Therefore, you are a liar!"
It's b/s.
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Originally Posted by georgeyw
I really hope you don't believe that. That is actually what experience is  |
Uh, yes. Experience in how shit used to work, especially online, is worth fuck all in the business sense. I didn't know a fucking thing about this business when I started, I didn't even know GFY was here. I jumped in and made more than 99% of affiliates the first week and grew from there. If I had come to GFY and listened to the advice given here I never would have even attempted what I did. I know this because two years later when I did come here everyone told me how stupid my sites were, how my designs would never convert and on and on. What they didn't know is that I was still converting 1:15 raw to the page and making thousands per week without ever having their 'help'. I later found out that most of those talking shit, even the well established people here converted worse and made less money. I offered to share what I was doing with everyone when I got here but since they were such assholes with 'experience' I ended up only working closely with one person from GFY. He was a complete noob and passed up most of the shit talkers in a handful of days.
The internet moves fast. When you lose the ability to adapt and instead rail against everything that you don't understand you start slipping. So many people that talked shit to me for years are now bankrupt, out of business or holding on to an ever decreasing income that comes from shit they did in the old days. Great stuff that experience is.