Rohail Rizvi- Entrepreneur in the Making

Earnings Screen shot 5/26

Update: $328 Commission Today Screen shot
Wish I had taken this screen shot a few minutes earlier, because it would have said $328 next to “Commissions Today”, before the clock hit midnight.

Just had my first $100 profit day and feeling pretty good about it considering I’ve only been at it for three weeks or so with PPC.

Funny thing is, last night I left post it notes everywhere around me room with $75 a day written on it to remind myself of my goal for the deadline of June 15th. Looks like I hit it a little early .

I’m running with CPA Empire and it’s a great network to run with. The people there are pretty awesome, especially my AM, Doug. If you want to start making money, check out CPA Empire today. And let me know if you have trouble getting into the network, I’ll see what I can do.

So a lot of you know I recently left school. Whether it’s a break or for good, I still don’t know.

Questions are all around me about what I’m doing and sometimes it sucks because you can’t be straight up with some people. Sometimes hearing about doing something that’s not the norm is too scary for some people’s reality.

While I enjoyed my time at college, met tons of people, joined a fraternity and all, at the end of the day it felt like I was paying an enormous amount of money just to get a ticket to be stuffed into a system. And nobody has a guarantee on whether that system works although a lot of students like to pretend it does.

Nothing against kids going to college. But there’s a huge difference between going to college to get an education (aka you love learning and you’re intrigued by your classes), going to college to get paid (an unrealistic idea, and not the best way to go if you’re goal is to make a lot of money).

I was actually enrolled at the Rutgers Business School- a fairly difficult and competitive business school to get into.

However, in my time there, all I saw was people trying to fit into the typical “business student” persona, bragging about what stocks they own and how the market is doing, and students lying to their friends about what internships they’re getting or interviews they have. Business is not supposed to be nice- I know that. But this is college- where you get to learn with your peers- not against them.

Other things I saw were the traits of obsession with stats that followed all the way through from the administration of the school down to the students. Maybe I’m just different because at a certain point in my life I stopped placing value on myself as determined by my test score or my rank. Unfortunately, people in the business school still place their own value based on these scores. Hell, the graduation speech put forth by the Dean wasn’t even about the students and their accomplishments- it was about how the business school is awesome and keeps going higher on the rankings (aka last minute re-assurance to the hundred graduates sitting in front of you that their $80,000 was well spent before the reality of debt hits them).

The sucking-up, brown-nosing to employers, cut-throatness, and overall LACK of an educational atmosphere is what really turned me off. I’m not sure if all business schools are like this, but this was my experience at RBS. I’m not the only one either– people have gone into RBS loving business all their life and a year in they already hate it.

Okay. End rant./

What are your thoughts on college and do you think business school only prepares you for the corporate world and fails to focus on students interested in entrepreneurship?

• You get to be your own boss.
• You make tons more money than you would at any ordinary summer job.
• You’ll keep making money even after the summer’s over with little effort on your part.
• You don’t have to go door-to-door or sell knives to family and friends.

What job am I talking about? I’m talking about being an Affiliate Marketer.

An affiliate what?

Affiliate marketer- in simple terms- a person that gets paid a commission every time they sell a product for a business or get them relevant information like leads on people interested in buying cars.

Now, there is a warning attached to this. Affiliate marketing is not just for anyone. You have to be dedicated, willing to take losses, and creative / forward-thinking. This industry is definitely not for someone who’s not driven.

If you are driven, however, there is tons to be made just by being creative and proactive in the everyday world that you live in. Business opportunities start to pop up everywhere once you get in the affiliate marketing mindset and money making opportunities are everywhere.

One of the best things about affiliate marketing is that it is the way the majority of business will be conducted in the future. Everyone knows that people buy what their friends by and affiliate marketing is one step detached from that. It’s not your friend telling you what to buy, nor is it the company, but rather someone in between. Plus, business would rather you risk your advertising dollars than they risk them themselves and are willing to pay people like me and you- who know how and who to market- to bring more business to them.

If you’d like to learn more about affiliate marketing, I suggest checking out this lens on how to make money while in college with affiliate marketing.

I was never a big fan of the term “building your credit.”

It all seemed like a ploy to be rewarded for building liabilities, and the credit card companies banking on you to not pay them back on time.

However, in this day in age it’s nearly impossible to live without a credit card, and so when you’re looking for one you should definitely look hard for one that provides good terms such as a low-interest credit card with small or no annual fees.

I remember when I got my first credit cards I pretty much applied to whoever sent me a letter in the mail when I entered college. I asked my buddy how he picked his credit cards and he said he went with Capital One because they were the first ones to send him a credit card and “won the race” (which he now regrets having in his wallet).

And if you don’t have such great credit, you should also do your due diligence and look for a credit card that will help do the most to keep your credit in good shape. There are credit cards out there designed for people with bad credit, and with due diligence I’m sure they can find a credit card that works best for their needs.

If you do have bad credit, check out sites like RestoreMyCreditReport.com.
Just be wise and financially responsible when it comes to your spending, and you should be able to build or turn around your credit score.

Now that I don’t have “school” anymore, I have a lot more time to do the things I’ve always wanted to do.

Here are some of the business and personal goals on my agenda.

Business

• Get to $100 per day with affiliate marketing by June 15th.
• Get to $200 per day by August 15th.
• Kick start Walamu again for Fall and maybe upgrade it’s features.
• Teach one other person how Affiliate Marketing works and have them earning as much as me.

Personal

• Visit London in the next few months.
• Get in the best shape of my life.
• Start being financially responsible and practice budgeting.
• Cook for myself (related to #3).
• Eat more healthy- Do a detox and start eating right.

Those are my goals for now. Doing a little bit everyday helps.

Oh and since it’s obvious that I’m in affiliate marketing, I want to assure everyone that I wouldn’t promote anything on this site unless I really believed in it. BANs and Wealthy Affiliate are two products that have my highest recommendation.

I have a bunch of things going on right now from personal to business and I don’t really want this to be an aimless rambling of my life. If you guys have any ideas as to posts you would like to see, please let me know. It could be about anything from being an *ex*-college entrepreneur, affiliate marketer, traveler, whatever.