First, let me say that affiliate marketing is a double-edged sword. On one side, it can bring in a nice income. On the other, it kinda goes against my internet morals at times. My wife makes a good full time income doing it. I just started Monday. Part of me loves it, because I can now stay home with my family and still earn a living(hopefully). Then, there's this part of me that can't stand some of the techniques I have to use to gain traffic.
I came from a job in IS. I'm very tech savvy. I've been an internet junkie since it started catching on in the early nineties. One thing I've always hated is the advertisements. I normally use a popup blocker and adblock plus. This keeps me from seeing many of the more annoying ads anyway. However, there's no telling how much money people have earned off of my online spending.
There's a few types of people I've never really liked. Marketing, sales, law, and politics tend to produce some of the most dishonest people. The whole money making strategy of these categories of people tends to be about fooling or misdirecting people. So becoming a marketer myself feels sort of dirty.
I'd rather feel dirty and free to come and go as I please than to feel clean and sitting in a cube from 8 to 5 every day.
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