After 1 & ½ years, I consider myself as a newbie in online business. I am going to describe my experience in that time, so that any new comer in ‘online based home business’ will understand he is not the only one and he has to go through a process of time.
Expectation: As soon as I joined my first affiliate program I was expecting to earn money, because that’s what program promised. Well, I got nothing in couple of months. So I decided to leave that one and find a ‘better one’. I found the ‘better one’; and this one was subscription based. I was paying the subscription by the month and taking part in their co-op advertisement. I was happy, because I was getting hundreds of ‘sign ups’.
Frustration: My frustration began after six months when none of the members joined the program and became a ‘paid member’. I supposed to get a commission from the subscription of my ‘down-line’ and there was none.
Resignation: I tried couple of other programs; one of them had a real product. But, unfortunately none of them worked for me. So, I had to decide.
I decided to analyze my failure in those programs. One thing became clear to me; I knew nothing about online marketing. I was on ‘set & forget’ mode and that was the main reason of my failure.
I started to look at those people who seem to be successful in online business. I checked their websites, blogs etc. and followed their links. I learned a lot of things by just reading articles and posts in forums for a particular subject. I have found articles and forums for everything. There are a lot of valuable free e-books that helped me learning something, even the rubbish one.
So, I set a process, which helps me to achieve my goal
•Set target: first I decide what I want to achieve. Sometime it is a target within a target. Optimization of a website is a target within a target of creating a website.
•Find ways to get it: I google the main key word of my target and get all information I need.
•Plan: Keeping the big picture in mind, I set all the information in an orderly manner on a piece of paper. (To create a web site I need a domain name and hosting plan; contents, title and key words for them; design of the web site, etc.)
•Apply: Start working according the plan
•Analyze: I analyze all my work to check if I have achieve my target. I try to find the bottle neck and a solution for it
•Fix the problem (it seems to me a continuous process).
•Repeat analyzing and fixing processes until I get it.
I must confess that I am not 100% successful, but it is working for me. And I am learning everyday. I work for 3 hours everyday on my target. I print articles or any information that I like and keep them on my coffee table to read them.
I have noticed all successful marketer have years of experience behind them. So my plan is to be one of them in 3-5 years.
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But I just want to clear it up a little for you. When working a regular 9-5 job your basic income level is capped, by capped i mean you can only make so much money in a 24 hour period. Basically you sell your time to a company and work for an eight to twelve hour period, there is only so much money you can make with an hourly rate for that period of time. Also don't forget you have to eat, sleep, spend time with family and friends and so on which also cuts down the amount of money you can make in a days time. Home based business' are different they actually generate income 24 hours a day 7 days a week. So there is no cap on how much you can make. You can also add multiple revenue streams to have your online business making money from all sorts of angles, We will cover Multiple streams of income later so don't get to hung up on it. As you can see generating money from your home based business is endless.
Excitment is also a big part of owning your own home business, most people aren't happy with their current jobs but have to drudge through with them to pay the bills. You can make a home based business out of anything that interest you. When you are excited about what you do it makes it less like work and more like play, this gives you a better quality of life and a better home business. When you are excited and happy it makes patience, learning and mindframe much easier to succeed at. As you can see it's like one big circle each part helping the others.
Stepping out of your comfort zone.
Stepping out of your comfort zone or thinking outside of the box, can be a very intimidating task. Let me explain ever since I was little I was taught to grow up, go-to college and get a career and trade your time for money. After paying your bills hopefully you have some left to save or do something with. This is the most common a safest way to go about living. Every job I had never gave me what I thought I was worth, that is why I choose to start a home based business. How are you going to know whats best for you if you never try new things.
I heard a saying once, that I thought was right on the money it went something like this ?the sweetest fruits are at the end of the branch? basically meaning sometimes you have to go out on a limb to reap the rewards.
Never give up, in the beginning I have made numerous attempts to make a living online, with each attempt put me further in dept. I never gave up and I am happy that I didn't, For every attempt that failed I looked at it as a lesson learned. That's why it's important to take this information and learn from my mistakes so you don't make them as well. The Internet has made a huge impact on the amount of self made millionaires, believe me that's not an easy task, but it can be done. But I believe the only way to go about it is to learn as much as you can, and get rid of the ?get rich quick? way of thinking.
I have devoted so much time to making money online, that it has become my passion. Most of that time was failures, but I always learned from everyone. Once I got it though it all came together. Making Money online is like a big puzzle, there are a bunch of little peices that need to be placed in order to see the picture. Once you get all the pieces together and working together, you will see the big picture, by big picture I mean your online home based business as a whole.
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