As promised here is the second part of the story for your reading
pleasure.
Jerry Palmer: The Million Dollar Man
By: Eric Reyes
His wife doesn't receive a paycheck, although he can count on her to give him advice on design and the content. "She's kind of my quality assurance person and will say she doesn't like a graphic or will brainstorm on keywords." Sometimes she even reads his emails before he sends them to make sure he's being coherent. He keeps an office about 10 minutes from home but goes in when he needs to concentrate on something or make important calls - otherwise he's pretty content working from the home office. Plus, they live near a great park and ball field where he loves to take his two kids, who are 5 and 3 years old. "I can spend all day there." Currently, he does a kind of week on, week off. Works on the sites for a week and then spends a week riding his bike, going to the park, reading business books and magazines- Forbes or Fortune. "I can read those like some would read Harry Potter." It sounds idyllic and it is, but the journey wasn't without emotional bumps. The hardest decisions he and his wife made about quitting their day jobs was what to do about his wife's career. She had been a full-time worker since she was 16 years old, Palmer says, and changing to a stay-at home mom was jarring. It was a big step for her to quit her
job but the decision was made easier by the fact that the income from
the affiliate sites mandated they convert to full-time affiliates. "The sites were growing so much," Palmer says, "that the only thing holding them back was our time investment. So, we had to spend more time." Quitting their jobs was the no-brainer - it was clear on paper that the commissions were paying way more than their day jobs. Equally unsettling was what to do with their success. "Someguys get a little cash and they go out and buy a Mercedes or a new house," he says. But in the end, quality of life won out. As a born and raised Utahan, Palmer is definitely very family-oriented just as they teach in the Mormon church, even though Palmer says they don't
go to temple as much as he did when he was young. But the luxury of having more free time now allows him to get more involved in the kids'extracurricular activities like sports and gymnastics.

While Palmer did upgrade his home and put the kids in private school, he and his wife thought pretty rationally about what to do about their new-found wealth. They kind of played a spinning globe game - if we could live anywhere, where would it be? They thought Austin, Texas, looked attractive and the San Francisco Bay Area certainly was a consideration. But in the end they decided to stay right where they
were in a suburb of Salt Lake City. They knew it to be family-friendly and the pace of life was perfect for them.

Things have been so idyllic, in fact, that Palmer decided to share his
secrets. His recently available e-book, High Performance Affiliate Marketing, pretty much recounts how he did it and with the right elbow grease, anyone can do it.

He says the book is practical and not one of those "get-rich" books.
"I basically wrote it because I think there was a need for it," he says. Most of the books on the market, he adds, seem so dated even when they are only a year or two old. "I wanted to know if my knowledge was transferable. I led this internship with five other affiliates and they are doing Ok. I just sat down with them for five
hours and two of them have quit their day jobs." He says one even worked for NASA, surely a dream job for many, and yet this guy gave it all up to become an affiliate.

One of the unique things about the book - available at QuitYourDayJob.com - is that when you buy it you get all the updates for free in perpetuity. As Palmer adds revisions to the book as the markets dictate, all buyers get those revisions too.

Why essentially give away his secrets? "I think the Internet is a big
place," he says, "and lots of people wonder why I give the secrets away but I believe in karma. Since if I give something to the community I will benefit from it." He even offers a free support forum for the book so that if readers have questions, they just email him directly to his personal email account.

"As an affiliate I just build websites and go over numbers," he says.
"But I really enjoy the face-to-face, so that's why I reach out to the merchants. And as I operate on an island over here, the book feeds my social needs."

While he said he wants to retire at 30, his version of retirement would be to only work a few hours a day. "I've always had the entrepreneurial spirit," he says proudly. "You know, I had worked at a huge call center here and was answering tech support calls for Microsoft. By the end of my stay there I was overseeing 80 employees but was really turned off by the red tape of big companies. I said I would only work for small companies from then on, where I could make an impact. You see, there is always a ceiling and I figured if I worked for myself, there would be no ceiling."
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