It's been years. Glad I am back.

I have been working online for a little over 18 years now, pffff, the thing me and my colleagues did over the years. Domain names flipping, brokerage, selling POD before if it was cool, SEO social media, content creations, SP-logging of course lol - CPA and affiliate marketings, funded Startups, service agencies, AI backa decade ago when it was simple machine learning gigs you outsource to your guys and make hundreds to thousnads of dollars for work you simply point to the right talent.... man, do you recall the traffic arbetrage grazness that went on for couple years? I had feedreft, made few bucks from it but used it to land clients haha. offf, looking back at what you have done and the hundreds of variables you went through, teaching yourself to set up your very first VPS and running your backend work, selling whitelabel solutions to clients with 2x - 3x profit. managing WordPress sites, creating them, even here as a BST lol .... wow, many many things.. You just look back at all of this, and you just can't help but feel "PRIDE" but also confused a little bit, what the Hell has been going on lately with us digital marketers? Are we being pushed by average nobodies doing stupid shit on TikTok and YouTube? SEO merged with AI, and it is awesome for those who can see the potential here (wink wink) , but things are extra hard now, to be frank; each day introduces thousands of possibilities, yet lots of issues along the way. Well, guys, glad to be back, excited to see what the rage these days is about, sure hope no more social media marketing panels around, haha, just kidding. Come on, guys, say hello, tell me what you have been up to

Welcome back, things are both easy and hard now
Easy because you could now achieve a lot with ai
Very hard, because competition is extremely high

Welcome back

medialounge said:

Welcome back, things are both easy and hard now
Easy because you could now achieve a lot with ai
Very hard, because competition is extremely high

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Points well made. thats the calling right there, find what ever is next and be there whaen it happens.

Thank you, glad to be back.

Welcome back bro, having people with so much expertise is what makes bhw ever better!

are we getting pushed around by average nobodies? nah, it’s more like average nobodies filling the top of the funnel so your job becomes harder: you gotta differentiate more than “i post links and hope”

Bro joined bhw when I was 15. Crazy.

Welcome back.

itsworth said:

Welcome back bro, having people with so much expertise is what makes bhw ever better!

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Thank you, glad to be back.

Santiago93 said:

are we getting pushed around by average nobodies? nah, it’s more like average nobodies filling the top of the funnel so your job becomes harder: you gotta differentiate more than “i post links and hope”

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For those of us who automated shit tons of stuff, did real SEO before it was cool, like a big paragraph of text injected with buyer intent keywords would have gotten you 20X what you get per click now, and that's just a click. Affiliate marketing has become so saturated, I just feel bored... i used iMacros and no-code and low-code and CMS and even terminal to build sites and blogs and backend systems for clients; the least of them is a clinic with many services. We even experimented with a game engine like GameSalad and launched a couple of joke games, which was fun, you know... now, it's about what you offer and solving that problem fast. DOESN'T MATTER which tech is used to build it, just a good solution with good UI and a customer acquisition plan. domain, cheap hosting and off you go....

Vynith said:

Bro joined bhw when I was 15. Crazy.

Welcome back.

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Hey, been here years after i registered. Oh, and a secret confession, i had 3 accounts back then

Welcome back! You've definitely seen almost every era of digital marketing. It's crazy how fast things have changed, but at the same time the fundamentals are still there. AI has made the game move a lot faster, yet experience is still one of the biggest advantages. Looking forward to hearing more of your stories and seeing your insights around here again. Great to have you back!

Ben Arthur said:

Welcome back! You've definitely seen almost every era of digital marketing. It's crazy how fast things have changed, but at the same time the fundamentals are still there. AI has made the game move a lot faster, yet experience is still one of the biggest advantages. Looking forward to hearing more of your stories and seeing your insights around here again. Great to have you back!

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Thanks. Sure, I might do a 20-year looking back thread that will most definitely be banned by the moderator