An Alternative Lifestyle
Tue, Apr 7, 2009

I spend 50 hours a week, wasting away my life in a 6×7 cube with no windows and blinding florescent lights. My job is turning my passion into a prison! And for what, the weekends that we zombies have come to warship, and 10 days of vacation each year?
Over the last ten years I have worked both client-side and agency-side handling marketing strategy for some of the largest US companies. I’ve even worked from a home office as a consultant. But all this experience has one thing in common.
I was making a lot of money for other people!
Just because I’m an affiliate failure, doesn’t mean I suck at marketing. I’ve increased profitability on PPC campaigns by over 90%, and I’ve ranked websites in the top three of Google for keywords with millions of indexed pages. One of my best PPC campaigns had a 42% CTR and 18.5% conv. rate!
So why don’t I just stick to online marketing for clients? A driving force inside is pushing me to adapt my skills for an alternative lifestyle of freedom.
~ Freedom from a desk and chair
~ Freedom from the confines of an office
~ Freedom from one physical location
I want to learn how to make money regardless of where I live, play or work!
While I don’t claim to be the best online marketer, I am good at what I do. Subscribe to our blog and I’ll share all of my failures and lessons learned. Hopefully this insight will help alter your lifestyle as well.
Tags: day job, lifestyle, motivation, work







Update: Well, I broke free of the prison and am now consulting full time. The new problem is that affiliate marketing is more fun, but it’s not paying the bills yet! I’ll keep pushing though . . .
First of all I’d like to say, awesome post! I’ve got a small question bothering me, I really enjoy the layout of your blog and tried to install the same design on my WP website. Yet, there is some kind of weird coding error in the footer. Do you have any hints, which settings are you using? Please PM me on Twitter @FitnessGuru or per e-mail.
This is a perfect article, I’m ecstatic I stumbled upon it. Ill be back again in the future to check out other posts that you have on your blog.
Thanks for the positive feedback!
I made a few edits to the template footer, but it didn’t have any issues on install. Is the site your linking too the one your looking to update? I hope so as the layout is very busy
Thanks