Where To Go From Here? [MMO In 2025]

So...I've been doing digital marketing now for a bit, but I'm at a crossroads and not sure what to do next, thought I would ask for some help. A brief timeline:

• I started in 2018-2019 selling shitty products on facebook organic.
  
  
• Dove into SEO in 2020 with my own site doing SAAS product reviews and other reviews. Made 100k in sales for a company and then lost 50% traffic in December 2020 with an update (and another 50% of that, later on). Basically lost all my income.
  
  
• Started doing mass page affiliate SEO in 2020. Did that for 2 years. Had a little system going. Was actually pretty hard NOT to make money (after 2 years of tweaking the strategy), but I wasn't finding a way to scale. Started seeing diminishing returns in 2023 and abandoned it completely. Lost all my income again. Trying to see if it still has a heartbeat, but I'd say with AI, it's pretty much done for.
  
  
• Late 2023 got into search PPC for branded keywords, was spending 1k to make 5k. Life was good. Got account blocked. Lost all my income for the third time.
  
  
• Then did 8 months of native ads in 2024. Spent 8k, made 6k. Fucking brutal. Nothing makes any sense with native. (I tried and gave up, 13 times).
  
  
• Late 2024 did some facebook ads direct to product, way too expensive even after finding the buying audience.
  
  
• Did some kindle publishing, did POD back in the day and dropshipping in 2018 too.

So anyways my question is...

Any ideas what's a good thing to be doing in 2025 that doesn't suck balls, to make some money?

I think most people just want something they can do on the side, that is repeatable somewhat scalable, that doesn't instantly break the moment you leave it alone for 2 minutes.

Even if they don't like it.

If you actually like marketing, you'll do great. But I don't think 99% of people "like" to be doing this stuff.

I don't, and I'm a 6 figure affiliate (whatever that's worth in todays day and age).

Does it REALLY have to come down, to you whoring on Youtube, showing your face, building a brand and a community around something that you might be interested in now, but not in the future?

Would love to hear your thoughts

I’m at a similar crossroads! Would love to see other people’s thoughts

Grass Popstickle said:

Does it REALLY have to come down, to you whoring on Youtube, showing your face, building a brand and a community around something that you might be interested in now, but not in the future?

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They sell courses do you want to sell courses make money online, dropshipping, seo, sales marketing? Then it's worth it.

There is this youtube channel
youtube.com/@brunotraductorofficial
It's dominating the serp results for evey clickbank affiliate review keyword.
Some times ranking 4 5 vids. It's absolutely
brilliant how it's able to do it.
You say you have cracked the affiliate marketing code see if you can decode their success?

Who said I said I cracked something? I didn't crack anything.

And yeah they either bought or rented a youtube account with a ton of subs. Then they hired some random chick to lie for 2 minutes, 3 times a day. And then they buy a bunch of fake comments and people to give them watchtime. And there you go.

I wouldn't say it's brilliant. I would say it's spam. Meaning they have to keep doing it or after 1 week their videos die off. But hey.

Grass Popstickle said:

Who said I said I cracked something? I didn't crack anything.

And yeah they either bought or rented a youtube account with a ton of subs. Then they hired some random chick to lie for 2 minutes, 3 times a day. And then they buy a bunch of fake comments and people to give them watchtime. And there you go.

I wouldn't say it's brilliant. I would say it's spam. Meaning they have to keep doing it or after 1 week their videos die off. But hey.

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You don't get it, they are killing it with clickbank reviews, they are totally dominating the video pack of serp results. There is 0 competition to them.

IM Dude said:

You don't get it, they are killing it with clickbank reviews, they are totally dominating the video pack of serp results. There is 0 competition to them.

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I am glad you mentioned this, do have any idea how much this @brunotrader dude would be making?
I agree he is literally dominating the SERPs, the first page results are filled with his review videos