I know every single one of you that take your affiliate marketing seriously and are really deep into your journey, probably have gotten past the frenzy of telling other people how you make money online from scratch… Usually when asked, you probably go “oh me? I play with computers” or “I do marketing stuff”…

Because you know that if they drag you into elaborating on it - it will turn into an hour long conversation - and in about 10 minutes you will be ‘right into it’ and find yourself recruiting again while you are just supposed to be having a chat… “I Do A Lot” Is my usual answer, I can’t sum it up because I touch many branches branches in the marketing arena so there is no ‘one hour’ I can dedicate to an overall explanation. You know what I mean?

Do you find yourself trying to explain it to someone, even the basics, and they just scratch or heads - OR - They think”WOW - YOU are brilliant!!!” and you think “Umm, not really - there are thousands like me - millions like me!”. I then remember that not everyone understands everything about marketing, or use their computer for much more than simple daily tasks at work/home/msn/email/little web surfing… I then remember ‘Wow - you’re ‘not even a newbie yet’ - how in the world am I going to explain ‘what i do’ to you? Ummmm… I… sell stuff…. no I make stuff to sell…. but I don’t sell it I get others to… yes I pay them but not until it’s sold… umm… they just find me, i scout for them to help me sell and give them good money for it… .

Yes - they get a lot of ’stuff’ to help them sell… no i don’t know most of them… yeh i have many ‘products’ and teams all at once and I sell the odd product for someone else too…. .. .. no I don’t invest a penny, just time/talent/resources… .. yeh I make a killing - sure i can teach you - just go to… blah blah and sign up, then go to blah2 and sign up, and blah3 and start to market stuff with blah and blah totally free, then buy adspace at blah for targeted traffic - oh that’s the traffic you need to get, no you can’t just buy 10K for $10 and get sales… why? because it’s… oh wait - yeh umm we were supposed to chat about the weekend and that cottage weren’t we? How did we get you here? Yes I know you want more money and to automate your life but hang on lol!!! I usually just try to avoid the topic now really.

I’m at a point where my studio is actually CLOSED and I’m rather enjoying NOT taking on anymore clients for a while too - I’ve managed to automate a few projects really well and get to focus on partnering with people I want to work with for future projects So now when someone asks me what I do for a living - I might say something like… I do NOTHING - and I make money - in fact - by the time I finish this sentence, I will make money It took me years to do ‘nothing’ and earn from it - but I’m finally here - and what do YOU do?

It’s a deregulated market guys, a lot can happen overnight - I’ve been developing branding material for big firms and smaller businesses for long enough - this might bite me in the butt but I kinda don’t want to build any more marketing campaigns for ANYONE other than my internal team ever again! You have no idea how hard this industry can be sometimes - I’m owed well over 200K if not more over my last 11 year stint working with suits/powerhouses/illusive entrepreneurs… I’ve made a heck of a lot and it balances out however I’d rather minimize that risk and worry have to worry about ME ripping myself off - much better problem to have

So let me ask you THIS - please answer it in a comment below: If a stranger asked you today “what do you do for a living?” How would you sum it up in less than a paragraph?