I have Quit my Day Job Finally

[vinruna]

Vohooo ... i have officially signed down the papers and Oct 8 will be my last day.

My Journey :

3 yrs before at my 21- a freshman out of college computer student who was so happy after landing a job with Oracxe. And now I am happier leaving that job to do IM(something I like).

pre Jan 2008 :

I was a regular software engineer happy with what I am doing and what I am getting.
Jan 2008 : Read about IM somewhere and decided to try out. I decided to try with $100 of my hard earned money.Bought hosting, bought domains - my websites are still alive but does not make me anything.

Tried PPC with direct linking - burnt some $50.

Lesson learnt : Dont do anything before learning basics.

Feb 2008 :

I decided to come up with a landing page and I choosed a review style landing page and designed some cartoons to presell the product. Used PPC for traffic and got good conversions. I must say I was lucky.
I earned $1000 in my first month - net profit.

March - July 2008 :

Tried different products, made ends meet. But never got much profits. But I had converting kwds,ads and landing pages.

August - Nov 2008 :

Tried offers from different networks, none of them worked. Took very little to no profits.

Lesson Learnt : Focus and never give up. Picked up some time management.

Nov 08 - April 2009 :

Things really started working. I saw $500+ days in net profit. Learnt a lot. Made new friends. New partners.

Important lesson learnt : I was spending $100 in PPC on one campaign and I get 3-5 conversions for that product from a review page. I changed nothing but moved product at 2 to product at 1 to test out. Here product 1 had a higher gravity and I assumed it converts better. But to my surprise, the day I switched the products and tested, the product 2 with a lesser gravity converted way better than first product and it pulled in 10-20 sales / day with the same advertising cost. I am stressing here, higher gravity does not mean, it will be best for you.

May 2009 :

A month break at Himalayas and when I come back, a lot has changed.
Lesson learnt : To live on the edge being in IM.

Became a vendor and released my first product. Found new friends and partners.

June 2009 :

All my domains were slapped and QS went to down to 1 from 10. Affiliate earnings stopped to Nil.
I was also struggling finding new affiliates. It was a new game.

I partnered up with some people for few products and work started. Gravity for my first product reached 10.

July - Sep 2009 :

with new affiliates, i could push so much sales. I had the same product in plimus as well as clickbank and both were bringing in constant sales. Joined NC and gpt some really cool friends, partners and some good deals as well. Increased net profits by 40%. New products launched, tweaked and set on to sell on auto pilot.

Also revamped my affiliate campaigns as I already had the converting keywords. Results are good. I am at $50/ day as an affiliate. I will soon start all my campaigns and work is going on.

I am still learning and there is always something new to do everyday. This is what I like the most about this.
I decided I no more want my job and lost interest.

Just thought it will be a good read.

Namaste
Vin

Note : Now I have more time and I am trying not to waste time.

[MedicAffiliate]

If you're from India, then you definitely have my respect, I know exactly how much pressure it is from people around you when you do anything other than a 9-5 job. Congrats and all the best for your future.

[mill123]

nice work man. you moved quickly!

[Blackman]

Great story, was interesting to read

Looks like PPC really worked great for you. You may want to try out other PPC platforms and try your luck, because Adwords is annoying nowadays.

[NCMedia]

Worthy of boob points - congrats

[cliqz]

NSFW tag, thanks!!!!

[vinruna]

If you're from India, then you definitely have my respect, I know exactly how much pressure it is from people around you when you do anything other than a 9-5 job. Congrats and all the best for your future.

Yes I am in india right now ... It was little bit of pressure from family leaving a "So called High Paying Job".
Even after I showed them I could make all that I make in a month in a day job in just 4 days in IM (as of now).

They were still wtf. Why do you wanna leave a Permanent Job. I am like, "Mom, they can fire me any day, and I can do no fuck about it."

But then I explained that I am just 24, I still wanna explore more and I don wanna regret later that I did nt try.
They understood. I will relocating to a nice place called Goa(Beaches n stufff) and will be diving for the next 6 months.

If any of you coming down to goa, you can count on me...

All - Thanks for the wishes

Namaste
Vin

[hornetss]

PROUD OF YOU MAN!!!

[antantnz]

mate, awesome story ....

the best thing is, it's real ... you showed that you had good times and bad times as well, but that by keeping on innovating and trying new things, that was the key to your success!!

great to have you here and i'd love to check out goa one day, i hear it's awesome

[SirKhan]

You believed in yourself and you made it happen no matter how many obstacles you had to get over. This is huge, you're already in the 0.01% of Earth's population, congratulations! Keep it up and don't forget to enjoy life too! Wishing you all the bests in your future.

Namaste,
Mark

[vinruna]

mate, awesome story ....

the best thing is, it's real ... you showed that you had good times and bad times as well, but that by keeping on innovating and trying new things, that was the key to your success!!

great to have you here and i'd love to check out goa one day, i hear it's awesome

Sure mate ... The best time to be in Goa - Dec to jan 10. Lot of parties and crazy night life.
Too much of crowd as well ...

Namaste
Vin

[hyperlite635]

You're making $50 dollars per day and you're quitting your job? Or did I read that wrong?

Congrats either way!

[adorton]

$50 a day as an affiliate. He publishes as well, read the story and check the sig! (Hand to forehead)
Besides $50 a day in some countries is a decent wage, hell in Cuba that would make you El Hefe's best f'n friend.

Even though we compete in the same niche as publishers congrats Vin! You have my respect

[vinruna]

You're making $50 dollars per day and you're quitting your job? Or did I read that wrong?

Congrats either way!

Yes you got it wrong .. i make $xxx everyday ... and upwards of $xxxx per month .. and still not in the $xxxxx club and hope to be there soon. My new project shows promising results with PPC. So I will be there soon.

I quit the Job for trying out what I like not because I am earning better in IM. Hope it clears.

[JOHNBOY]

GREAT post man, and well done - really motivational to follow your story.

Love it!!

More and more success to you.

'all the best from me
John

[lucidflux]

"and I can do no fuck about it." ?Hmm, I like that expression, haha.