Okay, I bought Day Job Killer. It was part curiousity, part greed. I was pleased to find that there was at least one solid technique that didn't involve nuking or levelling anyone. I'm a non-violent person. And I liked the idea of selling real products -- books for Amazon, auction items for Ebay, cameras for Best Buy -- instead of just Clickbank stuff (as Affiliate Project X had suggested).
Furthermore, Day Job Killer suggested I could just use the fact that there are products where there already is a demand and make a sale based on that demand. No need to first talk-down a product to gain the web surfers confidence and then recommend it or another product. Again, the talk-down approach was the primary technique for Affiliate X, and while Day Job Killer has a similar technique, it was simply one option offered among many.
So here are my problems with Day Job Killer
1) These techniques are being used by so many people now that once again Adword bids are going up. Since I started, I've made -- don't laugh (okay you can laugh I can't hear you) $1.77 in one Amazon sale and 63 cents from an Ebay sale and spent, er.... somewhere between $40 and $100 in Adwords. Now with Ebay, sales can take a while, so I'm willing to give it a bit more time before pulling the plug.
2) I'm afraid this product may really be a Day-Job-Killer. I have a day job and I keep taking a break to check on the status of my ads, just as I often take a break to check personal email. But something about Google Adwords and sales commissions is addicting. I think it's like horse race betting (not that I ever engaged in that). As opposed to the blind luck of a lottery ticket, with Google Ads or horse racing you can have some reason to think you have picked a winner and that the $10 bet you just made might pay off in $150 and you get all excited by a massive Clickthrough rate (I can practically hear the thunder of horses hooves. "COME ON SILVER LIGHTNING, COME ON!!!") and then when that bet doesn't pay off, well maybe the next one will be a BIG Winner and wipe out the other losses and I'll still go home with a pocketful of money. Next thing I know hours have gone by where I'm on day-job-time, not doing the day job. I mean okay, let's face it, for those of us that work at computers for a living, I am not alone at having misused company time. But, I think Day Job Killer and Google Adwords is the most-addicting non-company activity that I've ever gotten involved in. If I don't stop, this could kill my Day Job by getting me fired for misusing company time!
I laughed when I saw Eric's post, Making Money with Adwords is Mind-Numbingly Boring. Oh, geez, I wish I felt that way.
3)Day Job Killer is one more of what Charles Hefflin referred to as the hundreds of “money making” offers that are surely flooding your inbox. He recommends that we ignore these and frankly, I'm coming to the same conclusion myself. The reason the techniques in Day Job Killer worked so well for their author, is that he invented them (or at least learned about them before they were common knowledge). I have business ideas (both day job and not day job) that are unique to me. I think that Day Job Killer is a distraction that most likely I would be better off ignoring. IF, I'm able to make money with it (which is a BIG IF) it will take time and frankly my time is every bit as limited and overtaxed as my money. Perhaps that is what I need to remember -- yes I need more money, but I also need more time, or at least not less time, to accomplish my goals. My own business ideas aren't going to make me rich overnight. But if I don't stop getting distracted and focus on them, then surely they won't make me any money ever.
Frankly, even as I write this I'm tempted to just suspend all Adword campaigns -- the equivalent of closing the racetrack for the season.
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