Work the man vs working for the man

Watching the Mayweather fight on Saturday night and seeing all the Mayweather Promotion signs it made me think about those in the rat race working for the man vs people who have figured it out and banked. Dave Mathews band took control of the reigns and allowed its concert goers to record and distribute those recordings however they wanted. This blew up the band in the 90’s. Dave Mathews is also one of the few bands who takes a percentage of concessions and all merchandise at all of his shows. Marshal Mathers (Eminem) after making several successful hits under DR Dre’s After Math record started his own record label called Shady Records. He found many successful artists including 50cent... who would go on to create his own record label called G-Unit Records. The list goes on and on. So how does this relate to Affiliate Marketing. Lets look at the pyramid: Look at all the Affiliate Networks:

• Jason Akatiff was a top affiliate who started ads4dough
• Ryan Eagle was a top affiliate who started EWA
• Joe Speiser and Alex Zhardanovsky started AzoogleAds (Now Epic Direct).
• I have shoemoneyoffers (just for internal use for the most part).

Actually I can't think of any top tier affiliate network that was not founded by a affiliate who saw the real money was in running a network. And to continue that thought more once they owned the network they saw the REAL money is in owning the offer and being the AOR (Agency Of Record) they took it to the house. I learned this with our ShoeMoney System offer. But not many want the risk. So they always will work for the man.