My journey from MLM to Affiliate Marketing - Thank's WA Community

byknauerma

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Updated 8 years ago

It’s been just over 14 months since I started really focusing on internet and affiliate marketing. Yes, a little MLM flavor here and there, but the mechanics of what we do (what I do) day to day are VERY different.

Years and years ago when I was (very) actively pursuing success in MLM-world, these kinds of things would make up my “work day”:

• Make sure my many cell phone batteries are fully charged
• Make sure bluetooth headsets are fully charged
• Work through email and voicemails
• Start pounding the phone…cold calling leads
• Miss lunch (lovingly prepared by my wife)
• Handle never ending “3 way calls”
• Start eating my now cold lunch
• Pretend I’m having a great time
• On to second batteries in all devices
• More cold calling
• Call leaders individually, help steel (prepare) them for home parties this week…make sure they’ve got people showing up so I’m not wasting my time
• Obsess about where my next $1000 is coming from so I can avoid going over the limit on all 4 of my credit cards
• Pretend I have total time freedom
• After constant (mental) exertion all day, crash in front of the TV

…I could have easily made that 40 points.

But hopefully you get the idea. Constant frenetic energy, lots of stress, lots of obsessing about where the next recruit was coming from…everything but “freedom”.

In 2015 I joined WA and learned the skills of affiliate marketing, traffic and list building.

In the first months I struggled with my organic traffic... no leads, no sales... no income.

Of course I know that there are thousands of bloggers & affiliate marketers out there who make a bunch of money... Anyway for me it did not work.

Maybe it was because I'm not the born blogger ;-)

So, in fact I changed two things.

First: Switched from Organic Traffic to Paid Traffic

Second: Instead of Wordpress Blogging and hoping for organic traffic, I integrated plugins in my siterubix Wordpress sites, which allowed me to build high performing sales funnels.

The concept: Get in front of many people and show them one banana (ONE SINGLE PRODUCT/SERVICE) instead of a full fruit basket (ONLINE SHOP).

Here’s what an average “work day” looks like for me NOW:

• Wake up whenever
• Realize I have no stress
• Enjoy family time and breakfast
• Get through about half of my work for the day, in 60-90 minutes, which includes:
• Listen to music while working through email, Skype messages, FB messages, etc
• Create Content (Blog and/or Broadcast to my list, Post to Facebook, etc)
• Make sure my marketing is on track
• Education – reading and/or reviewing new tutorial content

"I want to thank you Kyle and Carson and ALL of YOU, for giving me something I can't find anywhere."

The “Affiliate-Model” that WA employs as their business model is like nothing I’ve ever seen. If you’re not a marketer but you have a desire to make extra money online, then this is your dream come true. This business model affords “average people” the option to truly “work from home”. Do the work, get paid.

My “income producing activities” are clear cut and make sense.

Outcomes are predictable and fun.

The skills I’ve learned and developed here will serve me well for the rest of my life.

And ya know what? So much of this is “kid stuff”! It’s just so easy!

I’ll probably have a $100+ day today and will have “worked” all of 4-5 hours!

Is this kind of success normal?

NO (but I’m not normal either!)

Is success in WA (I define success as MAKING A PROFIT) …normal?

The fact that WA offers the masses a simple way to truly “work from home”, absent all the things “average people” detest (recruiting, selling, marketing, etc) ….enables people like me (marketers) to have extremely fulfilling, never ending oceans of opportunity. You see, the world is FULL of people who just want to make an extra $100-200/day, part time.

Not only have I learned how to market, but when I take on a new clients, they are now in a position to quickly learn list building, marketing, leverage, etc…and within a few months, this “newbie” can (and often does) go from “don’t know anything about internet marketing” to a very well compensated Affiliate/Internet Marketing Pro.

I’ve done it, you can too.

Stay cool

Mat