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Originally Posted by AmeliaG
Choose sponsors with good reputations, who strike you as honest.
Do the occasional test join, if you like. I know I don't care if an affiliate wants to buy something on his or her refcode and most revshare programs won't mind.
Mostly, do the math on whether what you are doing is profitable and worthwhile.
Edit: Ya know, when you talk about getting back in the game, it is clear that you in fact do have a safe office job. You were name-calling in that other thread and acting like your office job gave you the judgmental right to force other people to live by your rules for them.
Most importantly, regarding this thread and that one, you are not just extremely risk averse, you are unusually loss averse. This means that you would actually rather spend $100,000 to have a $20,000 loss covered. It also probably means that entrepreneurship is not for you. Most successful entrepreneurs are risk neutral. If you view risk neutral as basically risk taking (which you do), then business is not going to be your thing.
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A) Getting back into ADULT, mostly hard goods with sending surfers to pay sites as an added bonus. I have been self employed since 2001. I have had 2 businesses prior to the point, each sold at a nice profit.
Mainstream, has been good to me. I work out of home offices in Boca Raton Florida, the Smoky Mountains and Long Island NY and go where ever the weather and fishing is better all year long.
B) I have been burned hard in the past and I am wise enough to cover as many bases as possible. I plan on working for maybe another 10 years and I am done having to work - without scaling back my lifestyle. Could do it sooner, choose not to.
C) People who I have trusted most in the past burned me the hardest. In one case a business partner and best friend of more than 30 years.
D) My risk tolerance lowers each day I am on this Earth as I am in my early 50's. At this point in my life I am more careful and I don't have to take chances.
I don't want a regular office and people under me along with the responsibility any longer, I just want to work at what I enjoy and get paid for what I do. My goal is to build things up now adult in order to flip them.
I do not want to chase people for money nor deal with scumbags who cheat, thus this thread.
It may sound crazy but I would rather make $10k in this with honest people that $100K with scumbags.