What did you do before becoming a gambling affiliate?

**WagerPod** · 2 April 2015, 2:59 pm

What were you doing before you got into the gambling sector? for me, I've worked in SEO for about 7 years, starting as an marketing executive to contractor and my last job as Head of Search, made the leap to make my own sites mainly due to spending about 60% of my time explaining the benefits of it.

What about you?

**Triple7** · 2 April 2015, 3:14 pm

A banker and actually I still am

**RamsesCasino** · 2 April 2015, 3:20 pm

Vice President of Lawyer Company .

**Sherlock** · 2 April 2015, 3:25 pm

+EV gambler

**nwalker** · 2 April 2015, 5:10 pm

I worked in IT for 30 years my last position was IT Director. Got made redundant and was introduced to this business by a friend. Had a year to make it work and am now just ending my second year, so must be doing something right

**Peterf21** · 2 April 2015, 5:25 pm

Actually I was in the music business since I was a teenager - grew up - recorded records - still touring with my band - but also enjoying the casino business...

**WagerPod** · 2 April 2015, 5:44 pm

Some interesting stuff, before selling your soul to the gambling industry but I can see RamesCasino never had one to start with

**sweetbet** · 2 April 2015, 9:12 pm

I was a substitute high school teacher.

**golfbettingsystem** · 3 April 2015, 6:51 am

Ever had one of those extended warranty letters after buying something at Dixons/Currys/PC World? That was me up until about 2010. Thought I'd get into gambling as it's a rung or two up the social acceptability ladder

**Triple7** · 3 April 2015, 6:55 am

Originally Posted by golfbettingsystem

Ever had one of those extended warranty letters after buying something at Dixons/Currys/PC World? That was me up until about 2010. Thought I'd get into gambling as it's a rung or two up the social acceptability ladder

You made the textual input for those letters? I remember them. They still do exist actually.

For me banking or gambling, it wasn't a that big difference actually

**golfbettingsystem** · 3 April 2015, 7:00 am

Originally Posted by CasinoVergelijker

You made the textual input for those letters? I remember them. They still do exist actually.

Yes indeed, I wrote & maintained the copy and managed the various suppliers who physically got the letters out to customers. Some of my old team are still there running things to this very day!

**Aris1985** · 3 April 2015, 7:16 pm

I was an seo manager for an operator and before that I used to work for a web design agency doing seo for clients, also I'm in an indie band and have been for 5 years now playing gigs mainly in Scotland.

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**RacingJim** · 4 April 2015, 6:49 am

The amount of people who come out of SEO agencies and into affiliation is exactly why I don't employ any SEO agencies to do my SEO for me! I don't want any clever people in the SEO company seeing my business model and my whole set of targeted keywords and thinking, "hmmmm this is better than earning £25k-£35k sat in this SEO agency". I know there are NDAs you can get people to sign but often they're not worth the paper they're written on.

**dfiocch** · 4 April 2015, 6:57 am

Spec Ops soldier (It), officer (Captain). Seriously injured in Iraq in 2005. Then I leaved...

**Aris1985** · 4 April 2015, 7:33 am

Originally Posted by RacingJim

The amount of people who come out of SEO agencies and into affiliation is exactly why I don't employ any SEO agencies to do my SEO for me! I don't want any clever people in the SEO company seeing my business model and my whole set of targeted keywords and thinking, "hmmmm this is better than earning £25k-£35k sat in this SEO agency". I know there are NDAs you can get people to sign but often they're not worth the paper they're written on.

Yep you need to watch who you hire i guess and keep your cards close to your chest, no pun intended..The market is saturated enough at this stage, last thing we need is more SEOs to compete against..

**Triple7** · 4 April 2015, 7:36 am

Everybody can start a SEO agency and everybody can call himself or herself a SEO expert. There's not such thing as a protected title like accountants, doctors, lawyers, etc do have.

I agree with Aris 1985 and RacingJim. A lot of times you also see that SEO is just one of the things they are doing...

**allfreechips** · 4 April 2015, 7:43 pm

Lotus notes/ Domino admin for a few fortune 500 companies, left all that behind 3 years ago now

**WagerPod** · 4 April 2015, 7:51 pm

Originally Posted by RacingJim

The amount of people who come out of SEO agencies and into affiliation is exactly why I don't employ any SEO agencies to do my SEO for me! I don't want any clever people in the SEO company seeing my business model and my whole set of targeted keywords and thinking, "hmmmm this is better than earning £25k-£35k sat in this SEO agency". I know there are NDAs you can get people to sign but often they're not worth the paper they're written on.

Personally I think this is the wrong attitude, an SEO guy who goes solo will do all the same keyword research and market saturation tests by themselves, I've never worked in the gambling sector in agency before starting out. The staff who work at agencies normally do not sign NDA's, they are normally agency level NCA.

Not going to lie, if anyone is good at SEO they should ditch their clients and go solo, most people who I came across in the industry were learners, having said that many people don't want the hassle of running their own business.

If someone could use your data to their advantage do you not think it would be the hosting companies? They can see far more data than any SEO agency could through Analytics

**Moonlight Cat** · 5 April 2015, 4:34 am

During 10 years (after my university degree) work for Russian government. Officer in criminal investigation unit and public prosecutor in Russian federal prosecutor's office (it's like US DOJ). Leave this job several years ago.

**Renee** · 12 April 2015, 10:35 pm

I was a web dev for a year before I started at Rewards. Before that I will still at uni/working for a telcom call centre.

I've been here for the majority of my working life so not much else to tell really.

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