I am Sebastien Page, a 29 year old French native living in Southern California. I moved here in September 2003. I was supposed to stay in the US for a year but I fell in love with San Diego and met some of my best friends, which made it really hard for me to go back to France.
2003:
I initially came here for a job as a Government Sales Manager for MDF Technologies, Inc., a contractor for the US Department of Defense. This job wasn’t made for me… First, I didn’t like the products I was selling (mostly parts that are going on aircrafts, boats, etc…), but most importantly, I felt like this job was making my brain shrink as it was always the same routine. I stayed with this company for about a year.
2005:
I then got a more interesting job as a Marketing Coordinator for Franchise.com. Marketing is what I’m good at. After all, I didn’t spend years (and thousands of dollars) in a Masters in marketing from a French business school for nothing… This job was my first experience with franchising. I loved it right away! The job was very fulfilling and I learned a lot, especially through my boss at the time, Nancy Ghanem, who was a pioneer in the franchise industry and who taught me a lot and introduced me to the key players. I stayed on Nancy’s side for 3 years.
2008:
In February 2008, I accepted a position as Vice President of Marketing for World Franchising, a network of franchise business directories. They also publish some of the most highly regarded franchise guides, such as the Bond’s Franchise Guide and the Top 100 Franchises Guide. I worked with Rob Bond, another pioneer of the franchising industry. I didn’t stay there for too long as I quit in December of the same year to start my own ventures.
2009:
With the support of my amazing fiancee, I started flying on my own and created a few ebooks that I promote mostly via affiliate marketing. The great thing with affiliate marketing is that you have other people do the heavy job for you (ie. selling).
2009 was also the year my iPhone blog started doing very good. It draws over 700,000 visits each month and is growing really fast.
More About My Personal Life…
I live in San Diego, CA with my fiancee Tina. We have great friends and a great way of life. We live less than a mile away from the ocean, which is just perfect since we surf a lot. We recently embarked on a few-months trip around Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, India, Thailand and more… So exciting! You can follow our adventures on our travel blog.
You can learn more about me by checking out my different profiles on social networks such a LinkedIn, Myspace, Flickr, FriendFeed, and you may also follow me on Twitter.
Or simply click here should you want to email me.
Twitter Updates
Nice way of life, Sebatien! I work as an ad strategist in Porto Alegre, south of Brazil, for Wal-Mart and other clients. I’ve got so many friends living in San Diego and they love it, they’re my “surf friends”. We went to Australia and New Zeland surfing all the coast (Sunshine Coast, Lennox Head, Gold, Newcastle, Coff’s Harbour to Regland, Piha…) I’ve got a fantastic dog too and it’s really nice to meet some people with similar visions as you.
I hope we could meet one day. I’m already following you.
Regards,
@betobina
What has been your successful strategies with starting out in affiliate marketing?
Thanks for dropping by, Matt. I don’t really have a strategy for my affiliate programs. I guess the goal is to find a niche market. Once you find this, simply put up and good sales letter, find as many related keywords as you can, and advertise the hell out of it on Google.
Thanks for the last response. One last question how much do you find you spend in the beginning to market and how fast did you make a return.
With that what is a good ratio of money spent marketing vs money made in commissions.
Thanks again!
It completely depends on the product. I usually spend between $50 and $90 a day on Adwords. I usually make between $170 and $240 from that.
That is great. Did you study a “system” or just go out and do it?
No, I just did that on my own.
hey sebastien, i am gurtey (living in Mumbai)
Its great that you have been making money in affiliate marketing, coz ive got many of my friends whove put up the investment and struggling to recover, so can you share some affiliate marketing tips
you seem to be an intresting writer feel free to contact me and write for my blog here
http://www.gurtey.com (we can have a dea, like i will give you link back)
email: b.sunil47@yahoo.in
thanks,
gurtey
Hi, Sebastian
I’m impressed with your Twitter following in 35 days. I’d like to invite you to contribute a post to VatorNews about how others can do the same.
Best
Bambi
Great way of living! but your facebook link appears to be invalid!!! Double check it!