[ My Journey] How i Made $133,883.387/month

[splishsplash]

You should really start creating your own products.

If you can make that with affiliate marketing you can make 20-30x more with your own products. $30k-$40k/mo profit for the work involved with affiliate marketing is really peanuts.

You can shit that kind of money with no effort doing your own products/lists.

That's why I hate affiliate marketing. There's so little money in it.

The guys who make 6 figures in profit are doing massive effort with teams, but 6 figures in profit with teams/effort in affiliate marketing, is 7-8 figures with your own products.

Affiliate marketing is good to get started with and build up some capital. It was good years ago when it was harder to run your own products, but with where you are you need to make the move otherwise you're going to just be stuck at making mid 5 figures.

With your own products you focus on building up your own lists and LTV. You build a brand up and make significantly more per customer.

You are now the highest earner on this forum. Many will be motivated by this thread.

I'm not even close to the highest earner on the forum and I make more.. I have clients that make significantly more than me, and that's just from my small sample of people from the forum. $50k/mo profit is not a huge amount.

There are people here on this forum doing $5 to $20 million per year. Probably a few doing more than that.

 

[OccultKingdoms]

You should really start creating your own products.

If you can make that with affiliate marketing you can make 20-30x more with your own products. $30k-$40k/mo profit for the work involved with affiliate marketing is really peanuts.

You can shit that kind of money with no effort doing your own products/lists.

That's why I hate affiliate marketing. There's so little money in it.

The guys who make 6 figures in profit are doing massive effort with teams, but 6 figures in profit with teams/effort in affiliate marketing, is 7-8 figures with your own products.

Affiliate marketing is good to get started with and build up some capital. It was good years ago when it was harder to run your own products, but with where you are you need to make the move otherwise you're going to just be stuck at making mid 5 figures.

With your own products you focus on building up your own lists and LTV. You build a brand up and make significantly more per customer.





I'm not even close to the highest earner on the forum and I make more.. I have clients that make significantly more than me, and that's just from my small sample of people from the forum. $50k/mo profit is not a huge amount.

There are people here on this forum doing $5 to $20 million per year. Probably a few doing more than that.

Exxxxposed.

The king speaks again!

No stupid push ads that nobody except one person like Harnur can do.

He's literally the only person that does that successfully on this forum haha.

$500k mo / $2m mo. Not bad.

That's about $15k - $60k daily. Now that's why you do!!!

$5k daily can be obtained via affiliate marketing if done painstakingly and you're doing the right things. But it's not that fruitful long term as LTV uncontrollable. That thing doesn't snowball as hard.

 

[splishsplash]

Exxxxposed.

The king speaks again!

No stupid push ads that nobody except one person like Harnur can do.

He's literally the only person that does that successfully on this forum haha.

$500k mo / $2m mo. Not bad.

That's about $15k - $60k daily. Now that's why you do!!!

$5k daily can be obtained via affiliate marketing if done painstakingly and you're doing the right things. But it's not that fruitful long term as LTV uncontrollable. That thing doesn't snowball as hard.

$5k daily profit is very hard in affiliate marketing.

The more you earn, the bigger your team usually, so the less profit.

The problem is there's no moat in affiliate marketing.

Your unique edge is :-

1) The ability to act fast.(Generally a team)
2) Faster and higher payouts. This means you have a track record and make connections, but this isn't hard to do. It takes 6 months max to build up.
3) Budget to maximize an offer.

That's it.. There's no other moat.

You're constantly tweaking, testing and trying to find new angles, new offers, new creatives.. It's awful. It's so hard to scale. $5k/day is only $150k/mo. Even that is low for a proper business.

Scale for a real business, which is your own product, whether it's a SaaS, info business or a physical product, is $1m-$2m/mo.

Net profit though becomes irrelevant.

You can't sell an affiliate marketing business. It's just a hustle. It has no value. This is why net profit is the only metric that matters.

If you have a $500k/mo SaaS that's making 0 profit because it's reinvesting it all into growth, that's a totally different story.

That $500k/mo reinvesting 100% will become a $2m/mo with 60% to 75% net profit margins, or it'll keep scaling, hit $5mil/mo and sell for $100mil.

Affiliate marketing is so, yucky. You spend so much time on something that does nothing but generate you cash. You literally have ZERO at the end of it. You could do 10 years of it and all you have is cash(which most will have spent) and some connections at networks. That's it. Nothing else.

10 years with your own product, digital, physical, SaaS, ecom, consulting, agency, whatever..

And you have a reputation with a customer/client base. You could launch another business and leverage your clients/customers. You could stop advertising completely and a good company will still grow based on the referrals from existing clients.

And you probably have a business you can sell for 2-4x EBITDA depending on what you're doing.

Affiliate marketing is just a waste of time beyond building up some startup capital for a real business.

Even Alex Becker knew this. He used to hate affiliate marketing and would say if he was doing affiliate marketing, rather than be making $300k/mo, he would be doing like $30k/mo.

 

[zeeshanbutt420]

My Journey timeline

How I made...

https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/journey-how-i-made-100-day-using-push-ads-anstrex.1176563/ [10 November 2019]

https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/journey-my-journey-to-7100-month.1252989/ [30 July 2020]

https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/my-journey-how-i-made-19-180-month-with-push-traffic.1284424/ [1st December 2020]

https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/my-journey-how-i-made-35-823-month.1303158/ [7th February 2021]

https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/my-journey-how-i-made-54-000-month.1317686/ [6th April 2021]

https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/my-journey-how-i-made-77-382-month.1367092/[1st August 2021]

https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/my-journey-journey-to-682-000-in-2021.1384720/ [1st Jan - 31st Dec 2021]

https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/my-journey-how-i-made-376-288-03-in-2022.1466325/ [1st Jan - 31st Dec 2022]

https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/my-journey-how-i-made-10-262-in-1-day.1485289/ [23rd March 2023]

https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/my-journey-how-i-made-133-883-387.1489059/ [1st April 2023]

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Revenue from TikTok ($109,528.387)

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Revenue from Push Traffic ($24,355.60)

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Life is very unpredictable.

Until February, i was doing only Push traffic and a little bit of native ads.
I hadn't thought in my wildest dreams that I'll make $100K the next month.
This is my FIRST $100K month and this happened quite spontaneously.

Prior to this, my biggest month in affiliate marketing was https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/my-journey-how-i-made-77-382-month.1367092/, when i was made $77K in affiliate earnings.
It took me 2 years to cross this $77K/month milestone.

In these last 2 years, there were months when I was at an overall loss.
I have had months when my monthly profit was less than $3000.
But that's what affiliate marketing is, it's a roller coaster ride(filled with highs and lows).

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I haven't touched my push campaigns in the last 20-25 days..and it still made me a $10K profit in the month of March(how cool is that).
My main focus is TikTok ads for now.

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It's very important to surround yourself with people who are more successful than you.
One should take an effort to network and make friendships with people who are doing better than you in your field/domain. Because when you surround yourself with winners, their work ethics and knowledge rubs off on you and benefits you in a good way.

Back in Feb, i had joined a TikTok mastermind...I saw some dudes doing big numbers on TikTok and that's what intrigued me to try it myself.
Also, going to affiliate conferences and meeting people who are doing better than you...helps you motivate.

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DISCLAIMER
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1. I don't sell any courses.

2. I don't give coaching. Many people have DMed me and offered me money in exchange for coaching. If I were to help someone...I'll do it for free, i'll never take money in exchange for providing help. I have helped many people in past and will continue to do so. But currently, i have very limited time. So, please don't expect me to spoon-feed you. The Internet is filled with information. Please take some effort to research things on your own.

3. Many people have asked me, which offers I promote. I can't share that. Some things are unique to me and i don't want to give it away in the public forum and increase my competition. Maybe after a few months/years, when i am not promoting that offer anymore, i can reveal it to you people.



Thanks for Rea

How we can self click on our affiliate link without being blocked

 

[OccultKingdoms]

$5k daily profit is very hard in affiliate marketing.

The more you earn, the bigger your team usually, so the less profit.

The problem is there's no moat in affiliate marketing.

Your unique edge is :-

1) The ability to act fast.(Generally a team)
2) Faster and higher payouts. This means you have a track record and make connections, but this isn't hard to do. It takes 6 months max to build up.
3) Budget to maximize an offer.

That's it.. There's no other moat.

You're constantly tweaking, testing and trying to find new angles, new offers, new creatives.. It's awful. It's so hard to scale. $5k/day is only $150k/mo. Even that is low for a proper business.

Scale for a real business, which is your own product, whether it's a SaaS, info business or a physical product, is $1m-$2m/mo.

Net profit though becomes irrelevant.

You can't sell an affiliate marketing business. It's just a hustle. It has no value. This is why net profit is the only metric that matters.

If you have a $500k/mo SaaS that's making 0 profit because it's reinvesting it all into growth, that's a totally different story.

That $500k/mo reinvesting 100% will become a $2m/mo with 60% to 75% net profit margins, or it'll keep scaling, hit $5mil/mo and sell for $100mil.

Affiliate marketing is so, yucky. You spend so much time on something that does nothing but generate you cash. You literally have ZERO at the end of it. You could do 10 years of it and all you have is cash(which most will have spent) and some connections at networks. That's it. Nothing else.

10 years with your own product, digital, physical, SaaS, ecom, consulting, agency, whatever..

And you have a reputation with a customer/client base. You could launch another business and leverage your clients/customers. You could stop advertising completely and a good company will still grow based on the referrals from existing clients.

And you probably have a business you can sell for 2-4x EBITDA depending on what you're doing.

Affiliate marketing is just a waste of time beyond building up some startup capital for a real business.

Even Alex Becker knew this. He used to hate affiliate marketing and would say if he was doing affiliate marketing, rather than be making $300k/mo, he would be doing like $30k/mo.

Promotional methods in affiliate marketing are similar to those of business to clients services and products. The setup you build for affiliate marketing can be used further in business for start.

 

[splishsplash]

Promotional methods in affiliate marketing are similar to those of business to clients services and products. The setup you build for affiliate marketing can be used further in business for start.

Sure, the skills you learn, but that's taken for granted. You have nothing of substance.

If you work for even 3-4 years on a business where you own the product, you have a customer list, a reputation and a sellable business. The only thing you have from affiliate marketing is some marketing skills, which is only a small part of running a proper business. There's way more to running a full business than running ads. It's not that transferable. You still have a LOT to learn, with nothing to sell, no brand and no customers.

 

[xelaa]

I understand you can't share your niche offers but I didn't see any process information or tool you use to for niche discovery. Would you be comfortable giving people at least the starting point of how they can help themselves in not wasting time with BS offers?

 

[DennisMacdonald]

All The Best On Your Journey.

 

[MsPerfectionist]

Congratulations, Good job on that. All the best

 

[Blue_Dream]

Congratulations,
Nice work buddy.

 

[splishsplash]

I understand you can't share your niche offers but I didn't see any process information or tool you use to for niche discovery. Would you be comfortable giving people at least the starting point of how they can help themselves in not wasting time with BS offers?

This is why you're not successful.

I don't do tiktok ads, but do you know what I would do if I decided I was going to get into it?

First thing I'd do is spend the next 3 days watching every youtube video I can find on tiktok ads.

That would help me absorb the necessary core info.

Next, I'd go and sign up for a tiktok ads account.

Next, I'd create a tiktok advertising agency site and register an LLC.

Then I'd research the current biggest 15 affiliate networks and join them all. Join, not apply. No one would refuse me, because I'm signing up with a US LLC and a tiktok advertising agency site.

After that I would find a good ad tracking software.

I googled it. I can see already that the OP is using bemob. If it works for him, it's good enough. Don't overthink shit. Sign up to it and set it up.

Next, I'd create some pointless test campaigns. Absolute base level stuff with no intention of making money.

I'd pick 5 niches and 5 offers in each.

For each I'd run 5 campaigns with 5 different videos.

25 total.

Next I'd google some basic costs..

Average CPM is about $9. Minimum is $0.50.

That means I can get about 5000 views for around $50.


Now I have a super specific question I can ask the OP

"Quick question for you if you don't mind. What's a rough minimum number of clicks I should expect per 1000 views? And in your opinion, based on your experience, what's a good figure to aim for?"

Easy question, and he will answer that for you. Asking him about "niche discovery" or "process information" is weak. This is not the mindset of a leader. If you want to make money. BE A LEADER. What's a leader? Someone who solves fucking problems. What's a follower? Someone who asks for help.

You know how many people I ask for help with my business? Zero. There is no one. The buck stops with me. I solve ALL problems, no matter how hard. People come to ME with problems. That's the difference between a winner and everyone else. Get into the habit of being THE problem solver. The last point of contact.

Now, I'd run these 25 campaigns. 25 * $50 = $1250.

I don't care what I'd make. I'm spending $1250 to give me base data. Without base data I can't do shit.

This also helps me get to grips with the process of building ads on tiktok.

By this stage I'm intermediate with tiktok ads. I'm no longer a beginner. I've not got any profitable campaigns yet, but I'm very comfortable with everything and primed for the next move.

What's the next move?

Research tiktok ad spies. Choose a good one, sign up and study what people are running. You've got some base stats now to work with, so you know what to expect and what to tweak. The combination of your base stats and the ad spy will allow you to build your first campaign.

Gather data and spend a few days building sheets. I'd use airtable.

Based on that I'd choose ONE niche. Something I can see working.

I'd choose the best offer I can find for it.

I'd split test 5 networks to make sure I get one that's not shaving and/or scrubbing.(These are different things. Google them if you don't know)

Now I'd build 5 more videos and do $100-$150 each.

I'd come up with a unique angle based on what I've seen, but a twist on what others are doing and put together a good lander.

I'd keep testing different videos. Same offer. Once I've got data on the videos, I'd move to tweaking landing pages. Same offer. After testing I'd have lots of data on what videos with and what landing pages are best, and which landing pages pair with which type of videos.

From there I'd come up with new angles for the same offer, and create multiple campaigns.

I'd then keep tweaking when ctr's go down.

I'd then choose another offer in the same niche, and repeat the whole process.

I'd keep doing this until I'm running multiple offers, tweaking them as ctr's go down.

Once I've maximized a niche, I'd start in another niche.

Once I don't have enough time, I'd build a team.

Within 2 years I'd be making 7 figures in profit.

That's how you do it.

What you don't do is twiddle your thumbs and ask some guy on blackhatworld "Uh bro, hey, how do I do this bro?!?!".

You get your ass to work and make it your mission to build a business around it.

 

[Canadiancanna]

Love to see this man. Congrats! Hope to find a way to crack this too while its still around

 

[OccultKingdoms]

You do heavy repetitions (tests) on heavy weight (affiliate marketing ads). That's how you build strength.

Don't isolate things and zoom in hard into a single thing. Think of a broad image. Get it all tested with test budget. Now for me $2k was enough to test 50 variables.

I have image off that that impresses me. I didn't expect so much info off $2k.

 

[splishsplash]

And just to keep it going, after a year, when making around $100k/mo in profit..

I'd make a course , with real data. I'd show start to finish campaigns with nothing held back to teach others how to replicate. Start a youtube channel and build it up a little. Do retargeting to sell the course with yt and fb ads.

I'd charge $1997 for the course.

Aim to make $20k profit on mostly autopilot with a good webinar. (For steady money to keep funding the agency should I need it since the main tiktok ads/affiliate business is winding down)

I'd let all my ads run dry and take my focus off that.

Use one of my media buyers if I'd already hired one, or hire one to manage the course/answer questions and keep building campaigns to keep people hooked in on the course.

I'd start tweaking my channel to target small/medium sized business owners rather than "make money" people.

Then I'd push my agency site I created and turn it into a real agency. Generate leads from my channel, from my brand I've started building up, from cold calls and from warm lead gen.

Build up the agency helping businesses with my tiktok skills and scale that to a $1mil/mo profit agency.

I'd start general and refine in on a niche for businesses that's highly profitable and I can charge a lot for.

Aim for 2-3 clients per state. $50k/mo to $100k/mo ad spend budget. 20% agency fee. average 1.5 per state, that's 75 clients. average $60k/mo, 60k*75*0.2 = $900,000 per month. Job done. Run it for a year or 2, then sell it for a 2.5x EBIDTA.

Boom, you're sorted for life. And it all started from that little journey you saw on bhw, and because you got off your ass, took action and didn't ask "uhh bro, help me bro"

 

[OccultKingdoms]

Now that's $30k per day method.

They keep on asking for $3 per day.

You get what you ask for in life and biz.

A self fulfilling prophecy... It's what life is sometimes.

 

[awesomewebsites]

You should really start creating your own products.

If you can make that with affiliate marketing you can make 20-30x more with your own products. $30k-$40k/mo profit for the work involved with affiliate marketing is really peanuts.

You can shit that kind of money with no effort doing your own products/lists.

That's why I hate affiliate marketing. There's so little money in it.

The guys who make 6 figures in profit are doing massive effort with teams, but 6 figures in profit with teams/effort in affiliate marketing, is 7-8 figures with your own products.

Affiliate marketing is good to get started with and build up some capital. It was good years ago when it was harder to run your own products, but with where you are you need to make the move otherwise you're going to just be stuck at making mid 5 figures.

With your own products you focus on building up your own lists and LTV. You build a brand up and make significantly more per customer.





I'm not even close to the highest earner on the forum and I make more.. I have clients that make significantly more than me, and that's just from my small sample of people from the forum. $50k/mo profit is not a huge amount.

There are people here on this forum doing $5 to $20 million per year. Probably a few doing more than that.

$5 million to $20 million in profit or revenue per year ? I doubt it will be pure profit.

 

[splishsplash]

$5 million to $20 million in profit or revenue per year ? I doubt it will be pure profit.

Most people have doubts like that and see the world as being lacking in financial abundance.

The reality is the world is abundant with opportunities and money beyond what you can imagine right now.

"profit" is also not a massively useful metric.

How are you defining profit here?

Gross? Net?

With or without reinvesting?

Amazon have very low profit, but that doesn't mean they're not making money.

They're using their money, leaving a low profit.

$20 million in revenue for any good digital business is going to leave you plenty of free cash.

Unless you're doing stupid things like spending $15 million to make $20 million, then have another $3 million in hard costs.

Most good digital businesses have very high gross profit(which is the important one. Net profit should be low as you should be putting money back into the business in the year it's made)

Yes affiliates are spending $50k to make $100k.

No, real businesses with products are not spending $10 mil to make $20 mil.

Businesses that reach that level are making multiple returns on their advertising investment because the LTV of clients/customers is much higher.

They might take less profit in the first few quarters in order to generate more money over time, but that's not lower profit. It's just lower profit initially.


If you can get a client that will spend $200k over 10 years at a rate of around $20k/year, then you can happily spend $40k to acquire that client and make 0 profit for 2 years.

Your 10 year gross on that acquisition spend is still 80%.

10 years is an extreme example and you really need to know your industry to do that, but that's how you can CRUSH everyone. Insurance companies do this.

A more realistic one is zero profit in 3 months to 6 months then make money over 2 to 3 years. At 6 months over 3 years that's 84% gross on acquisition price. At 2 years it's still 75%

Most people throw around these terms like "pure profit", but the reality is, it's a meaningless term.

 

[awesomewebsites]

Most people have doubts like that and see the world as being lacking in financial abundance.

The reality is the world is abundant with opportunities and money beyond what you can imagine right now.

"profit" is also not a massively useful metric.

How are you defining profit here?

Gross? Net?

With or without reinvesting?

Amazon have very low profit, but that doesn't mean they're not making money.

They're using their money, leaving a low profit.

$20 million in revenue for any good digital business is going to leave you plenty of free cash.

Unless you're doing stupid things like spending $15 million to make $20 million, then have another $3 million in hard costs.

Most good digital businesses have very high gross profit(which is the important one. Net profit should be low as you should be putting money back into the business in the year it's made)

Yes affiliates are spending $50k to make $100k.

No, real businesses with products are not spending $10 mil to make $20 mil.

Businesses that reach that level are making multiple returns on their advertising investment because the LTV of clients/customers is much higher.

They might take less profit in the first few quarters in order to generate more money over time, but that's not lower profit. It's just lower profit initially.


If you can get a client that will spend $200k over 10 years at a rate of around $20k/year, then you can happily spend $40k to acquire that client and make 0 profit for 2 years.

Your 10 year gross on that acquisition spend is still 80%.

10 years is an extreme example and you really need to know your industry to do that, but that's how you can CRUSH everyone. Insurance companies do this.

A more realistic one is zero profit in 3 months to 6 months then make money over 2 to 3 years. At 6 months over 3 years that's 84% gross on acquisition price. At 2 years it's still 75%

Most people throw around these terms like "pure profit", but the reality is, it's a meaningless term.

Very complicated answer for a simple question. I do not follow this approach. Does not mean that it is wrong, to each it's own.

 

[splishsplash]

Very complicated answer for a simple question. I do not follow this approach. Does not mean that it is wrong, to each it's own.

1 + 1 = 2.



There are those that follow that, and those that think 1 + 1 = 3.

Although it's more accurate to say, that your understanding of profit is from a smaller, more limited perspective. It makes sense for very small businesses with simple financials where you just have sales - direct costs = gross profit and sales - direct costs - operating costs = net profit.

But for larger businesses, generally anything over $1mil/year, profit becomes increasingly meaningless as a single metric, whether gross or net.

Gross is somewhat useful, because direct costs are static and really don't change, but advertising is an operating cost, not a direct cost.

Direct costs for digital businesses are a bit more complex actually. You just choose them yourself.

If you run a SaaS company, by traditional metrics of gross profit your gross profit would be near 100% as there isn't really a "cost of goods", which is what direct costs are.

So what you generally do is take any operating cost that is absolutely essential to the business and slap it into CoGS.

Ie, hosting, domain renewals are one.

If you have a SaaS company that needs 1 frontend dev, 1 backend dev, a db admin and a security admin then those would be direct costs, since without those, you essentially have no product. Devs working on expanding the software would be an operating expense, but the devs who maintain are direct costs. Usually anything where if you took them, you wouldn't have a functioning product.

Advertising is never included though.

That means gross profit is a sensible metric, but net profit is an entirely useless one by its self.

Ie, what if you have a net profit margin of 60%, but quarterly growth of 0%?

Compared with a net profit margin of 10% but quarterly growth of 30%.

You might look at the first company and say "That's a better/healthier company"

But it's not. The second is far more valuable.

If the first makes $1mil/mo with 60% net profit, that's $600k/mo. or $7.2mil/year. In 5 years that's $36 million cash accumulated.(Ignoring tax).

The second company, after 5 years, would have $189 million cash accumulated.(Ignoring tax)

Even with just 15% quarterly growth they would have $31 million cash, but the difference is if they took that extra 50% out like the first business giving them 60% net, they would now have $8.5 million per month. In just 6 months they would have $45 million + $31 million = $76 million and on top of that a business that's worth 9 times more in value.

And 15% quarterly growth is quite low for reinvesting 50%. That's more like the type of growth you'd expect from a healthy company that's built a really solid brand and is growing based off referrals alone.

20-30% is more realistic for accelerated growth with higher amounts of reinvestment.

So this is why I gave the complicated answer, and it's not quite to each his own. There is an answering that's taking the nuances of business into account, and one that's over-simplifying.

 

[MisterSexhunnys]

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