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Last Updated on January 20, 2024 by Work In My Pajamas
- Tell me about yourself?
I’m Simon András Péter, a.k.a SimonTheSorcerer. I live in Hungary, Eastern Europe. I’m the owner and founder of Simon’s Online Marketing Kft.
- How did you get started in affiliate marketing?
I started my career as an intern in the online marketing department of the biggest life insurance provider in the world NN (they were called ING back then) as content manager. I was also briefly a freelancer. And I worked as an online marketing manager at an online marketing agency in Budapest, working for really big US and UK companies before I started my own B2C online marketing agency in 2013.After 2 years we switched focus and now instead of working on the websites of clients, we build and manage our own.
- I noticed you promote “difficult” niches. Can you explain to my readers what exactly “difficult niches” are?
Difficult niches (e.g.: Forex, binary options, Bitcoin gambling, viagra, e-cigarettes etc…) are market segments notorious for black hat marketing techniques (SPAM, link buying, hacking websites, misleading customers, publishing fake reviews, manipulating review websites etc…). Consequently they are unwelcome on most websites (e.g.: most social media network, many PPC networks) and they are barred from many other forms of advertising as well. They are ’‘difficult to market’ niches, that’s where the name comes from.
- What is your favorite niche to promote? And is this your most profitable?
The company focuses on building affiliate blogs using white hat online marketing techniques. There is a huge demand from companies for ethical, professional affiliate blogs in niches with unsavory reputation. We regularly donate part of the revenue to charity (using the non profit organization Kiva) and this is what I enjoy doing the most, supporting charities. To answer your question, I like promoting Kiva the most, and I make no money doing it. 🙂
- Do you have any advice for my readers who want to be as successful as you?
If you are thinking about making money online with your affiliate website in 2016, I suggest you should start doing something else. If you don’t have specialized online marketing and content management knowledge and years of experience, or you don’t have a lot of money to invest, you don’t have a chance. I’m sorry, but this is the truth. The competition is unbelievable, and it is only going to get worse. The internet is not the digital Wild West anymore, it’s very corporate, very saturated. Most niches are dominated by big media companies and very well established 10+ year old websites. A newcomer with no experience or deep pockets does not have a chance.
- What are some interesting things many people may not know about you?
I’m not a native English speaker, yet I create successful English affiliate websites for a living (native Hungarian speaker, I also speak German). Another interesting thing is that I was actually born in the USSR, I lived in a communist country till I was 4 (I still have my old birth certificate, that’s half Russian with a huge red star and other Communist symbols 🙂 ).
Feel free to add me on G+ if you use it. Thank you very much for the opportunity! All the best.
I am sorry but Simon Andres Peter was in the “Boondocks” chat room spewing hate speech. Making general comments that all black people are “niggers” and making very degrading emojis. Really sad.
On YouTube, Simon repeatedly encourage an anorexic girl to keep starving herself, an addition to calling her fat. He then proceeded to reply to any comments expressing concern for the girl, calling people “jealous fat wh*res” and other hateful comments. Truly disgusting behavior.
I was buying links from this guy (his email: Simon Andras ), on sites:
focusstrategique.com
busterbay.com
thesportingway.com
damonsgrill.com
after I paid for links, he removed links, and never replied to my emails.
Avoid this guy, he is cheater. I can do screenshots if need to prove.
This idiot trolled me on a youtube video about furries – without me saying anything to him that might have triggered this, I just got told to commit suicide because I am, I quote, a “sad old furry fuck”. Checking his youtube account, he has extremely racist anti-SJW videos up, and he does this all under his own name, which leads me to believe either he is totally bonkers, or that the account of the real Simon was hijacked by this troll. At any rate, this won’t do any good to his online marketing scams, er, work, when THIS is the first thing you can find about him online. Down the rabbit hole indeed…
This man is a con artist he ripped off a few of my associates, by providing them with false and none existing links.
He thimk it is appropriate to refer to black people.ad Monkeys on Youtube. I don’t see how anyone can work for him.