you're being completely ignorant (it's okay, we all were at one point). stop focusing on the negative and focus on the positive, it'll make it easier to live. there is a ton of blackhat sites but nobody visits them because they're crap. "blackhatters" actually make very little income in cotrast to "whitehatters" (media buyers, email marketers, branding advertisers).
the evolution of an internet marketer looks like this:
stage 1: the blackhatter. as a noob you shy away from whitehat methods because you're broke, and you look up to fellow blackhatters because you think they're gods for making $1k a day.
stage 2: adapt or die. when you succeed doing blackhat/spammy methods, you make a ton of money, but you then realize that the big ballers in this industry convert to whitehat methods.
stage 3: whitehat. buying traffic. PPV, PPC, media buys, mobile, adult, and email marketing. making your first $100/day is the hardest part in this stage. scaling to $10k/day is easy once you can get $100/day. just buy more traffic and optimize your conversion funnel. simple. of course, owning your own product in the whitehat stage is the most important thing you can do. i've had $200/day campaigns on facebook ads only to have the offer pulled down the day after. Don't rely too much on affiliate marketing. This truly sucks balls. Figure out how these offer owners construct their conversion funnels, work backwards, put it back together, and create your own offers. if they can do it, you can too.
It's all a process, but it's one hell of a ride, and a fun one too when you look back at it. I remember joining in 2009 thinking that anyone who made a pitiful $100/day was a baller and i'd be satisfied for the rest of my life if I made that kind of money. However, $100/day in income is nothing (of course it's life changing for some, but when you've reached that point, it's not enough to live comfortably or to live a baller lifestyle that many enjoy). If you visited me in 2009 and told me you'd give me $100/day if I quit IM for the rest of my life, I'd be ecstatic and take the offer because IM seemed intimidating to me as a noob. However, that would be stupid, because if that offer of giving me $100/day and quitting IM were real, from 2009 to this day in 2014 that $100/day still wouldn't match the income I've made to this date.
I've made 6 figures with blackhat methods but you realize, like all other "successful blackhatters," that the methods used to make this money are pathetic. They're unstable because you have little control, nobody really needs the spam you're throwing at the wall, and the barrier to entry is low enough that anyone else can copy what you're doing. Oh, and it's never really passive too, so a lot of time goes into blackhat method maintenance. What a waste.
The real ballers do 5 figures a day in large-scale media buys and email drops by selling products that people go crazy for or a service that people actually need.
You've won the IM game when you've passed the $5 million threshold.
oh, and noobs, don't PM me for help. i'll simply tell you to go fk yourself
If you're cut out for IM, you'll make it on your own, regardless of what I tell you.
