22 Years as an affiliate marketer today! Help Celebrate.

Hey folks, 22 years ago today I bought my 2nd computer and was playing around in a Yahoo Group on gardening I created, and was told by a member I could be making money with my group in affiliate marketing. I was directed to the forums at AdlandPro.com to meet other affiliates, and I haven't looked back since.

Today's mission will be to write the first post and fully launch my new website and new personal brand on theBlogMan.com, sort of figure it was about time I owned the domain because from groups to forums to blogs in a year was my fast-paced move into content marketing.

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The post will be part walk down memory lane and part looking forward, and should be a fun read. What I could use is some of our more experienced members to remind me of things we had and no longer, or are new for this business. I know we used to have a lot of things like Yahoo Geosite, Google Groups, Yahoo Groups, and MySpace profiles. Tools like LinkedIn and Facebook were either not yet or were still infants. Nearly all of us learned to build social followings in forums, and WordPress was the big game changer, an upgrade from those crappy Blogger.com blogs.

I made my first sale in under three months, and it was just $1.80 from the sale of a Garen Tool and some Gloves on the eBay Partner Network. Amazon still loved its affiliates back then, and nobody seemed to trust anyone online. I suppose some things change, and some don't, but back then, avatars were everywhere, and only the bold showed their faces because, somehow, showing your face online would attract stalkers offline.

Anyhow, I have some sleep to do and then a full post to build out.

Andy Anderson

theBlogMan