{"id":149,"date":"2021-05-13T10:09:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T15:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/contactlistbuilder.com\/ackerman\/?p=149"},"modified":"2021-05-13T10:09:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T15:09:37","slug":"my-journey-into-online-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contactlistbuilder.com\/ackerman\/my-journey-into-online-marketing\/","title":{"rendered":"My Journey Into Online Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"360\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 640 \/ 360;\" width=\"640\" controls src=\"https:\/\/contactlistbuilder.com\/ackerman\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/76\/2021\/05\/zoom_0.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hello Fellow Online Marketers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My journey began about 20 years ago when I lost my job as a Tool and Die Maker. It was a totally unexpected and devastating blow. I swore I would never hold another traditional job, that Corporate America was not going to be in charge of my fate. That is where my search began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I come from a large family and one of my brothers challenged me to find something we could all do as a family and get out of the corporate rat race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My first stop on this long journey was a MLM company called Pre-Paid Legal Services.<br>PPL is a great company with a great product and I still have and use my membership to this day, although I did not succeed as an affiliate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I tried several other MLM companies including the Grand Daddy of them all, Amway. One thing I want to make clear is that, in my opinion, there is absolutely nothing wrong with MLM! Most of them have great products and compensation plans. My failure was my own, I just don&#8217;t have the personality for this type of business. It really does take a special person to succeed in this type of business model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is when I started looking for something I could do online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was seeing all these ads where you could make money for free! So, at the beginning I was totally against spending any money. I was convinced I could make money without spending any. Plus, I didn&#8217;t have much to spend in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Probably about 15 years ago I discovered Traffic Exchanges! When I first saw one I thought &#8220;This is really cool! Every time I click the button I see a new website. What a great way to find an online opportunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had heard once from a marketing guru that if you want to make money don&#8217;t be the gold miner sell the shovels. So I began my quest into the online advertising business. I attempted and failed at several websites. Some I just quit and others went out of business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somewhere along the line I found and joined Click Track Profit and began to learn more about online marketing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also found an advertising site called &#8220;My Profit Links&#8221;. These advertising sites are commonly referred to as Ad Boards. I really liked it. It had so many different ways to advertise. So I started to search for one I could start and manage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found a company that hosted and either leased or sold ready made sites that you could plug into and start using right away. I ended up with 3 of these sites and things seemed to be moving along quite well. I was building my member list and making a little bit of money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then one morning I went to check on my sites and they were gone! The company had gone out of business with out any warning! I check several other sites that I was a member of and had relations with the owners and they were gone too. That was a hard blow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I owned the domain names so I kept one of them and used it to start my traffic exchange, Tornado Traffic, which will be 4 years old in a few months and currently has 1500 members. I also am a member of some great affiliate sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am no longer opposed to spending money in order to make money and probably went too far the other way. I am retired but I have a part time job to support my online efforts until I get to the point that it will sustain itself and bring me some profit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Fellow Online Marketers My journey began about 20 years ago when I lost my job as a Tool and Die Maker. It was a totally unexpected and devastating blow. I swore I would never hold another traditional job, that Corporate America was not going to be in charge of my fate. That is where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/contactlistbuilder.com\/ackerman\/my-journey-into-online-marketing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Journey Into Online Marketing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contactlistbuilder.com\/ackerman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contactlistbuilder.com\/ackerman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contactlistbuilder.com\/ackerman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contactlistbuilder.com\/ackerman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contactlistbuilder.com\/ackerman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/contactlistbuilder.com\/ackerman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contactlistbuilder.com\/ackerman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contactlistbuilder.com\/ackerman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contactlistbuilder.com\/ackerman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}