New 2018 Goals, almost quit because no progress but soon realize I have to keep fighting
Well I hope everyone had a wonderful New Year celebration I knowI did. I went to the Dominican Republic. I drank danced ate had lots of fun. My wife and son had less fun trying to control me but overall we all had fun.
Anyways this post is not about me and how I spend my new year's vacation. This post is how I was feeling down lastnight and almost quit this journey called “trying to make money online workingfrom home” last night.
You see I’ve been trying to conquer this online affiliatemarketing dream since 2014 when I moved to Florida running away from standingbehind a snow blower in Providence Rhode Island. You see back home I was a successful small retailbusiness owner and real estate investor. I did well with those businesses and still own some property today thatbrings in some income. Now you can say Iam a failed online entrepreneur because I sold my cellphone store to become anonline marketer ( I guess you can call me that since I don’t have a job andsolely try to live off rent and trying to make money online.)
Now I’ve had success with google AdSense and Clickbank at somepoint and there were times when I made $2500 in a month yes I have but thensomething always happens the traffic source changes, the offer stops being appealingother marketers sniff out my campaign and copy so good that they outbid mybid. I don’t know I don’t mindcompetition but the most discouraging thing is when they banned my google AdSenseaccount or my Facebook ads account.
Well right now I am working with bing ads and facebook adspromoting maxbounty peerfly and clickbank offers and is going terrible…well notthat terrible but I feel I am not making enough progress. I will invest $70 in ads and make $130 inreturn some of you look and say well that’s a 60 dollar profit and yes it isbut I have to pay $70 a month in a dedicated server $30 a month in a VPS 30dollars in proxies I have about 80 domains registered and other monthly onlineobligations that I need to pay monthly. On top of that come all my house bills and everything else that $60dollar profit doesn’t cover. I amresponsible for my own failures and wins and sometimes I get discouraged andthink about getting a job to work for somebody else. I hate the idea of having to go back to the workforceafter being an entrepreneur on my own for almost 10 years.
I was looking at some of my facebook groups that I used to beactive in and I saw a live video post someone shared. It was from a very famous inspirationalspeaker who like me used to be very successful and has had a few bumps in theroad. Les Brown has always inspired meand I think he’s one the best when motivation comes to mind. His video is titled “Keep on Fighting” https://www.facebook.com/TheRealLesBrown/videos/10214518131884552/ it really touched me.
Well I hope everybody here doesn’t mind my long post but it gave me a chance to vent a little bit and if you ever need inspiration please watch this video from Lester which is is one of his first ones where he inspires thousands.
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That's exactly what we need when we get down, motivation. I'm glad you found the video and decided not to give up.
"Nothing beats a failure but a try". keep pushing. I wish you all the best.
Thanks for sharing the video BTW.
Thanks there's ups and downs and I've had both but sometimes you need that extra help to get up from the bottom...lol is easy to fall but hard to get up
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Can't you scale up what your currently doing?
For example spend $140 on ads and make $260 in profit and then keep increasing your ad budget to make more money.
It sounds like your on the right track.
I have tried with facebook ads. I increase my daily spend but somehow I don't get the respective results. I am going to increase my daily spend from 5 a day to 20 a day today to see how it goes. But I have done it in the past and it brings in the same conversions ...I will post to see what happens for a week.