Success Stories… It Starts In the Mind!

I’ve had an excellent start to the week so far in my online business. Why? Not because of great sales this month (it was a good month too by the way) but I feel just so good this week that I’ve managed to help others succeed online on a personal level too!

Well if you look at my blog posts last month, I was promoting a few affiliate marketing courses. One by Chris X and another by Eric Rockefeller. In my opinion, these are really awesome products because they teach SPECIFIC strategies to make money as an affiliate on Clickbank as opposed to many other courses that teach a very GENERAL approach to making money online.

I’ve helped Chris and Eric sell quite a few copies of their product. However, soon after, I received emails from some of the people who bought the product through my affiliate link that they were struggling to make it work. I realized that as good as the information were in these courses, people who are new to affiliate marketing, Google Adwords and Clickbank always seem to struggle a little in the beginning. And if you think about it, this is perfectly normal. You have to learn to crawl before you walk. Then learn to walk before you run right? Some were even on the edge of giving up.

So I decided to take time off from my other projects in order to personally help some of these new affiliates. After all, my mission when I chose this particular market niche is to make money by helping others make more money online.

Some of them were openly skeptical about ever being able to make money online. That’s the toughest challenge - changing the mindset. Steps to make money online = easy. Helping people believe they can do it = hard!

I have to admit, there were times when even I wanted to quit helping because it was just taking so much time and energy. 90% of the time, my advice is, “read the manual do the steps”. A very common experience is that people who are new to online marketing gets so overwhelmed with fear and doubt that it paralyzes them and hence no action is taken. My so called “mentoring” is asking the question “what does it say in the manual?” followed by the prescription “Ok, go do that”. Simple.

I am so glad that this week, our joint persistence finally paid off. I received emails that after a few unsuccessful attempts, their campaigns finally started to convert. The code has been cracked and with it the old beliefs too and now the sales are coming in. Here are some of the testimonials and their stories (click the “play” symbol to listen):

Joel Huenink, Nebraska

Jane Shimmin, Colorado

The lesson here is simple. I believe that ANYONE can really make a full time living online. However, you have to expect that there will be a learning curve. You will need to get out of your comfort zone and overcome fears. You will need to learn by doing and that often means learning by making mistakes. But is it worth it in the end? You can bet on it.

In a period of rising inflation and slower economic growth, there’s nothing better than having multiple sources of business income.

In the end, its all about how much you believe in yourself and whether you are willing to pay the price of going through the learning process to achieve your goals. To me, my greatest joy is being able to work from home at my own time doing what I enjoy. And now, being able to pass that ability on to others too. I truly hope this post is helpful to those of you who have thought about making money online but haven’t yet taken the plunge. :)

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