Are you working for around $0.18 hour?

That’s the exact question my husband asked me last week.

I am still new at affiliate marketing but very determined. I keep saying that Rome wasn’t built un a day. Still people who don’t exactly know or understand what is affiliate marketing will slightly tilt their head, like a puppy who just chewed your favorite pair of shoes, and make a weird face when you tell them that you can make money online.

Some will tell you that all success stories are written by scammers who want your money and that you are wasting your time. Like most of you, I don’t believe in the get rich quickly without efforts otherwise, I wouldn’t be here.

Last week, I was excited over the fact that so far, I’ve made a whooping $11 online. Personally, I’m really proud of that. I’m building something slowly but surely. When sharing this good news with my hubby, he told me that he was really happy for me but continued to point out that if I divided $11 per the amount of hours I spent working on my site and marketing, it came out to around $0.18/hour. What a party pooper. That’s okay, he just doesn’t want me to waste my time on a wild goose chase. Over the past few years, I’ve looked at many ways to try to make money online, so has he, and hit a wall every time.

I’m sure that many of you have heard the same thing from a spouse, a family member or a friend. It’s normal that people who don’t understand what we do here at WA, can’t grasp that we may have high-speed Internet but creating a strong and profitable affiliate network is not a high-speed process.

Don’t let other people determine your path. If you’re having fun creating your site, coming up with ideas, writing rich content articles and sharing your findings in order to help other people, you’re already one step closer to reaching your goals.

I invite you to share in comments if you had similar experiences and what you did about it.

Keep it up!

Marie-Lou