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<blockquote data-quote="Suits" data-source="post: 1206603" data-attributes="member: 4308">I don't speak from experience, but this might be a big part of the stress. My understanding of AM is that you're engaged in activities to sell other people's products. The methods are more technical, but it isn't that different from commission-based sales work. With AM you have far more autonomy and can choose the products you want to sell, but you don't really own anything except your knowledge and experience.Since you have very little leverage and basically no ownership, you are at the mercy of other factors. What if Google changes a policy and you get fucked over? What if the company running one of the affiliate programs you have invested a lot of time into lowers that commission percentage? These questions would keep any sane person awake at night.I'm a big advocate of a product based approach to business, where you own your own products and have a business this is bigger than the products themselves.Sure, even this approach is not without it's challenges and stress, but it seems preferable not to be at the mercy of every rising and lowering of the tides.I suggest this to prompt discussion, not because it's an opinion I'm attached to. GT, what do you think?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Suits, post: 1206603, member: 4308"] I don't speak from experience, but this might be a big part of the stress. My understanding of AM is that you're engaged in activities to sell other people's products. The methods are more technical, but it isn't that different from commission-based sales work. With AM you have far more autonomy and can choose the products you want to sell, but you don't really own anything except your knowledge and experience. Since you have very little leverage and basically no ownership, you are at the mercy of other factors. What if Google changes a policy and you get fucked over? What if the company running one of the affiliate programs you have invested a lot of time into lowers that commission percentage? These questions would keep any sane person awake at night. I'm a big advocate of a product based approach to business, where you own your own products and have a business this is bigger than the products themselves. Sure, even this approach is not without it's challenges and stress, but it seems preferable not to be at the mercy of every rising and lowering of the tides. I suggest this to prompt discussion, not because it's an opinion I'm attached to. GT, what do you think? [/QUOTE]

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