About Me

For this About Me page I am going to break it into years and show you exactly how I got into the affiliate business and my progress since.

2005 ish – I think it was around 2005 when my buddy had found out about poker affiliating and started doing the Party Poker “Free $50″ promotion – he was making some good money off of it and I was interested.  He showed me the PAW forums, where I read up a little bit but didn’t end up doing much because I had zero knowledge with creating websites and I was only like 17 years old.

2007 – I headed off to University for business and took a Computer Science course which introduced me to building websites with Dreamweaver.  I was still really into playing poker at this time and remembered about the Poker Affiliate forums.  I googled and found the forum again and starting reading and asking really stupid questions (hey it worked!). I got some help from a few very nice affiliates and created my first poker site that was targeted at poker players in my city.   couple months went by and I was learning things everyday (not making much money at all though).  I stuck with it and created a new website targeting poker bonuses.  By the end of 2007 I started to see a bit of money roll in and was getting excited.

2008 – Doing bad in University, I was starting to see some progress with my poker sites.  I created a couple more poker sites at the start of 2008 including Bonus Poker Review (which I sold in 2010) which is doing well to this day.  By the time summer rolled around I decided I could go without having a summer job and could write for others to earn some extra money on top of the ~$1000 I was taking in per month from affiliate programs.  I didn’t do too well in University and didn’t enjoy it at all – I decided to take the year off and just work on my internet business and play hockey.  This was the best decision of my life!  By the end of 2008 I was making some good money and set some big goals for 2009.

2009 – I made the decision that I would go back to school in September of 2009, this time to a College which is easier, shorter and more focused than a University here in Canada.  Up until September I worked almost full time on my affiliate sites and began expanding into other niches including: casino, sports betting, bingo, dating, and health supplements.  Poker affiliate income is still by far my biggest right now, but with my Sports Betting Odds website getting a lot of traffic I am starting to see some good revenue from that.  Right now it is the end of September and I am trying to balance school and working on my sites, with all of my goals in the back of my mind (and written on my whiteboard )

2010 – Well 2010 was a pretty big year for me. I started off the first half doing very well with my sites generating quite a bit of income.  About half way through the year I got into talks with another poker affiliate about my network of sites, and after a long debate I ended up selling my poker affiliate network for a good chunk of change to focus more on sports betting affiliate, which is a bigger passion of mine than poker is.  I still have a couple new poker sites kicking around, but have been mainly focusing on sites like my NHL Picks site and others.  My monthly income has decreased since selling my poker affiliate network, but I am working on getting it back up there and hopefully can surpass my 2010 income (lets hope my investments into my business pay off).