You have earned a million from affiliate marketing, now what?

Acquire knowledge. Go read , "Who took my money" by th Japanese dude. It should get you started.
 


From browsing the forum over the years I think there are some astute investors here on the forum that understand austrian economics and can see huge risks with "safe" investments touted from conventional financial advisors. I kinda hope some of these stupid asswipe kids that think they are some hot shit lose to inflation because I always tell these smart asses that its not how much you make its how much you keep.

I was doing lead gen for bear stearns funds. You think I trust any information on an investment anyone gives me if they have anything to gain? Hell no.
 
Down-payment for a 5 million dollars real estate.

Rent out.

Collect passive income(rental) while the value goes up.

Now do w/e with the rest.
 
buy real estate while its cheap, it will shoot up in a few years .Sell it, rinse and repeat. Invest in offshore mutual funds especially asian which offer decent returns of upto 15-20% YoY. Become a angel investor and invest in small startups
 
Buy the bottom of your traffic, taking Google content network as an example, you're paying $100 a day to advertise on a site, its backing out to a nice $200 a day, you know 65% of the spend is going to the site owner, use those figures, calculate how much you think the site is worth and buy it.

As you control the end-to-end analytics e.g (Google SERP>Site>Landing page>merchant) you know which traffic is ultimately backing out into the leads/sales, use this data to optimize the funnel.

Pay the investment off quickly by increasing the sites revenue by 300% - 500%.

Repeat.

Hey - At-least your investing into what you know and not getting sidetracked learning about real estate, gold prices, forex and wall street.
 
Assuming there's $0 you have invested into a retirement account, here's what I'd do:

Divide the money in half. Half for today, half for tomorrow.

Seek out safe, diversified investments. Put half of the money into a tax-deferred retirement account; the other half invested into these safe funds in case you need them should your business go belly-up.

Forget about the money, and go build the rest of your business. You'll live better knowing there's money behind you in case the worst happens.

Buying real estate could be a good plan, but remember that fixing up houses and being a landlord takes a lot out of you. It will distract you from building your business. I am the owner of a house that needs help, and this is what it's like for me.

If all else fails, coke and hookers.
 
Help the poor and destitute with a little, get yourself something you always wanted to have but could not get.

Invest in real estate and gold. :D :D If you interested in stocks, that is also a good option. MAybe i'll se a post in a few days, made 10 million now what to do.. lolz
 
Read "How to get rich" by Felix Dennis. He's worth about $750M, and he went down the crack, coke and hookers route. It was awesome apparently, until the bit where it nearly killed him.

Minority in the wealthy community. Plus how many other wealthy guys are trying to sling get rich books (his in the magazine business, and sells on sensation). Come on think about it, with my advise a million bucks would be gone in a year.