The long road of freelancing | My view

 Being a freelancer is not for the weak. It takes a lot of time, and effort to get yourself know and then when you think you have you footing anything and everything can knock you off so do not get to cocky. 

I am a freelancer but I am also an affiliate marketer and when I tell you I have done this for 9 years let me just say there were a lot of roads that I had to travel and a lot of ropes that I had to grab quickly. A lot of people are affiliate marketing so do not be surprised when you make barely anything from it.

 Also watch contracts with companies because sometimes you do not make nothing but change. It takes a lot of dedication and thinking to create blog post, social media posts and try to entice people to buy things. It is not easy to do and  you have to be creative and find a lot of places to be seen. I currently use Tumblr, reddit, BlueSky, twitter(X) and Facebook, Pinterest to be seen. I also used Quora but they banned my first account and I do not feel like remaking it. I had a lot of wondering why it isn't working a lot of what ifs, a lot of questions and a lot of frustration but eventually it worked out but it is not always steady and not always certain. Be sure to use tags on social media to pull your audience and get seen more.

 What I am trying to say is be sure you have multiple modes and sources of income. Do not quit your main job thinking this is going to take flight instantly. Not saying it cannot but it does take a long time for it to do anything.

I am not just an affiliate marketer. I am also a content creator and make gaming content on Youtube, Twitch occasionally, Tiktok and Rumble(Due to the way I record my vids, I cannot upload some). I also have a gaming blog. 

My affiliate links here : https://lovely-me19.blogspot.com/p/my-affiliate-links.html

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@taintedlg

Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tainted.co

Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/LovelyGrizzly

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/grizzlyxlovely

Kick: https://kick.com/lovely-grizzly

Blog: https://taintedreviewsgaming.com/

What started affiliate marketing for me 9 years ago was adult toys. I was selling adult toys and still sell  them for two different companies. Here is my adult blog if anyone is interested. 

I also an a photographer and enjoy taking photos of nature on my free time. I actually only sold 3 photos within the past 8 years and I am proud that I even sold anything.

My photography sites below:

500px

Adobe Stock

Shutter Stock

Viewbug

Dreamstine

My ko-fi

And finally, I work Clickworker, Prolific, in which is pays me income the other things above does not pay really but this does.

There are different levels to this that you are going to have to do to make it and sometimes, you are going to be a bird with no wings and got to figure out how to fly because it may seem easy but it is not. Don't give up doing this because eventually it will work out.

TikTok Shop

 

Let me start by saying, most of the things you can buy on tiktok shop is on Amazon, Temu, Ali express, CJ Dropshipping and a few other places.

 A lot of the products from TikTok are over charged and cost way more when you could of bought it some place else and got a refund.

 Lets not forget the lithium battery products are blowing up left and right and causing damages on a lot of things. Things on there are cheaply made and then charged an outrageous price on some things. The shipping is also expensive on products. 

Yes some of the things on there are alright and cheap but some are not. 

Another thing is that those who buy or get a sample and are in the creator program or the affiliate program, they are forced to do a review even if they do not have the product, they still have to make a video. If they do not then their page will get a strike and they could loose it. This is not worth it to me and to be honest, tiktok is kind of acting funny on a lot of things since they came back up from the ban.

 Lot of things are off on it and lots of people are getting in trouble for certain things that they say or do while others are not getting in trouble and they are plain out saying horrible things that they should be banned for. 

So if you want to help a small creator that is not on tiktok, be sure to buy something from any of my links and that will help me a lot! 

My links are here! 

The Truth about being a Content Creator (Streaming, Recording)

 Not enough people gets enough credit from being a gamer or content creator. It doesn't matter if your content is good you will end up sitting with no views talking to yourself. Every time you go to end the stream you will be sitting there looking at the 0 views, 0 comments trying to figure out what went wrong and what happened or the famous question "Am I good enough?" "Will I ever make it?" 

The truth that no one talks about is even if you make it to affiliate on twitch there is nothing behind it. You won't get views, you barely even get chatters. Trust me I know the feels, I have been a twitch affiliate since 2018 and its not worth it. No matter how many times I shared, joined servers branched out it doesn't help. I even promoted my streams using Gamerized and Streamers Network but just like always my streams were me talking to myself so there for I quit streaming for a little while, it did not matter anyways I barely had anyone come in, I felt like I was alone. 

It sucks thinking you can make it and it doesn't get anywhere, people that follow you just to be following you in hopes you would drop them a follow also. I even made a discord server called Creators Unite where we are more than creators but family; but then again people only used me to help them get to affiliate and it was so much on me that I had to quit and transfer ownership to a close person to me. I felt like I was suffocating myself to help everyone else rise to the top when they weren't helping there selves, I was the one going hours and hours throughout the day sharing their stuff from reddit to twitter and basically everywhere I could just to try to help them. 

I am still somewhat making YouTube recorded videos just to be making them hoping one day it would take off but its never a promise. I also have Facebook gaming and a ko-fi in hopes something takes off but I won't get my hopes up to high since we are like stars and have our own time to shine but don't give up maybe one day it will be your turn. 

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