Read This if You Need Some Encouragement
Published on August 2, 2018
Published on Wealthy Affiliate — a platform for building real online businesses with modern training and AI.
There are some days when I feel in flow with my life and business and other days when it's really a struggle. In the beginning, I struggled a lot. During my first 18 months online, I didn't make any sales and was wondering if I was really cut out for this.
At this point in my career as an affiliate marketer, however, I am absolutely CONVINCED that anyone who follows the training here can make their first sale within 18 months to 2 years. For most people, it doesn't take that long. Other people, it might take a couple of years, and that's okay. It really doesn't matter how long it takes, because as these posts demonstrate, once the sales start coming in, you know that what you're doing works. At that point, you have to just keep doing it and continue to scale up.
What if you're not at the point, though? Then you need encouragement. To help me get through those dark months, I started gathering success posts to remind myself that yes, this is indeed possible.
You only have to do these things:
- Complete the training.
- Publish keyword-rich blog posts 2-3 times each week.
- Identify areas of improvement and work hard to overcome them.
- Set your mind to success and let go of the result.
In other words, do the work, and then allow success to come.

I will also tell you that when I first started, I really needed to work on my attitude. I had to get to point where I felt okay about making money online. Those are the mindset skills that we don't always know about. The posts below cover that. The people who wrote them all had one thing in common: they developed the right mindset for success.
So, I offer this post to those of you who are struggling in your business, need a bit of encouragement, or those who simply want to read about people here who are successful. I wish you the very best in your online business. Read as many of these success posts as you need, and then get back to work!
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