I started Internet marketing last 2002 and registered my adsense account last 2003. The first couple of years mostly wasted in HYIP, GPTs, and other odd activities. I created my first SEO blog last 2005 but after 3 years sold it to the owners of webpronews (now it's one of the top 10 SEO blogs)... I can say I accomplished something but I was not satisfied with my first 5 years performance. Lots of ups and downs as a result of demotivation, boredom, and laziness. I was employed back then. I started CPA, Clickbank, and Amazon affiliates last 2007 while maintaining 2 blogs for my adsense. The result was still unsatisfactory...There were even times that I held 120 blogs for nothing... I left my job last 2009 and focused on CPA while offering writing service. Since I was unemployed, I focused on the following (since end of 2009) 3 big sites dedicated to CPA (2 are top page of google) 1 adsense authority site about health (now with thousands of pages) 1 authority site for clickbank (with around 700 products) An article writing service So, I only maintained 5 sites and 4 are heavily maintained. I read thousands of ebooks in affiliate marketing, CPA adsense, clickbank, twitter, facebook, amazon, etc and frankly, I found them useless for someone like me who have passion in SEO. I have no plan to buy any of these ebooks anymore as most of the content are recycled. After that very long journey in IM, I can say I am okay now with the sites I preferred to keep and maintain. Reading new ebooks and new techniques everyday would result to nothing. That's my ultimate opinion... How about you? What have you accomplished so far after 5 years of learning IM? Care to share? regards, adie