Time VS Monies! Whats Worth Your Time?

Posted on Apr 5, 2011 in Life | 20 comments

Are you trying to save dollars or are you trying to make dollars? As a full-time affiliate you work for yourself and have nothing to fall back on so you need to hustle! At first hustling is shitty. Your working really hard and your constantly in the red, if you keep hustling though it can get really fun, you work 18 hours a day, and you see checks coming in to show you that your time is well spent. Even many years later hustling is still fun, but certain things just aren’t worth your time if your running a business and still want to enjoy other aspects of your life.

Running an $800/Month Campaign?
This one i’m tied between, but i’m 70% pro for not wasting time on small campaigns. Is it worth your time running 2 campaigns making $1600/month (taking up 6 hours a week in work) when you also have 2 campaigns doing $xx,xxx/month? I personally don’t think it is, but a lot of people would disagree with me. They’d say: “why not work 6 extra hours a week to make another $1600, thats $266 an hour bro!” Tim Ferris says it best when he said he’d rather make $350,000/year and have a lot of free time to enjoy that money than make 1 million/year and have no time to enjoy anything.

A couple months ago i absolutely wouldn’t run campaigns unless they made a good chunk of cash a month, but now i’m trying to get my head focused and motivated enough to run smaller campaigns. It really depends on the time i have available every week. I know for newer affiliates out there your probably thinking $800/month campaign is HUGE! It’s not what you think though, you don’t just launch it, leave it and go on a MDMA binge for the week — there’s bid adjusting, testing new images, landing pages etc.. to keep your ROI at a certain %! It’s all relative to your situation though, once you start having larger checks come in on a somewhat regular basis your time is better spent on larger single campaigns, it allows you to focus more on what’s bringing you in 80% of your revenue. If you start worrying about an extra 15% over smaller campaigns then you head starts mixing things together and your focus is lost. As you can see i’m torn between the two, whats your thoughts?

Fighting For $100/Month In Wrong Bills
This is the worst because it’s more about the principle than the money. I read a tweet from my friend Geofferson a couple months ago, and it said: “One thing that sucks when you’re making more money – if you get ripped off for small amounts, it’s no longer worth your time to fight it.” This is something i’ve been dealing with forever. I’ll get ripped off on something, or i cancelled something and the payment still went through. I’ll have a friend of family member ask if i called and complained and i tell them i have no time, then they look at me like i just lit a $300 bill on fire, but they don’t understand time vs money.

The looks i’ve gotten in the past from friends and family members about losing money are beyond hilarious. No matter how i try to explain it a lot of them don’t understand the time vs money theory, and will forever lose respect for me because of that. Nothing i can do there though, there the ones who i feel bad for, they’ll never realize that there’s more possibilities out there than trying to become the supervisor of PetSmart.

It’s usually always Visa related, some extra charge or charge i didn’t know about, secret phone bill charge etc.. I could fight it and probably get a refund for the $59.99 fee, but that would be an hour long phone call, 9 transfers to new agents, and many frustrations, which is much less $ per hour than if i ran those extra campaigns. How about you? Is it worth your time to fight it?