5 years till you start seeing profit? You gotta read this
So, I wanted to write something here quick for you guys to read and hopefully help give you more motivation and more drive to achieve your goals. I've been involved in online business and different affiliate programs for almost 6 years now, and I've read a lot of articles/post's on how long it actually takes to start making a decent amount of profit from your online business or affiliate program.
A lot of articles/post's i've read i see a lot people saying that it takes years and years to build a successful business and starting seeing real profit. Now i agree with that in the sense that if your opening your own brick and mortar business, or inventing your own product, then yes it will most defiantly take that amount of time to see decent profit if not more, because there is so many overhead cost's and licence's and all that stuff.
Now when were talking about an Online business or affiliate program, I strongly disagree when people say it takes years and years to start seeing profit, strongly disagree. With the internet at your fingertips you literally have access to billions and billions of people all around the world. With this being said you also have millions and millions of niche ideas to choose from and with the social platforms we have today you are able to pinpoint your audience and have your products or programs being in front of there eyes within mins.
I was able to grow an online business from $0 dollars to making 6k/mth in under a year. How did i do this? With Dropshipping programs almost everywhere, you can have a full online store with hundreds of products and be able to sell worldwide and not have to touch a single product or hold any inventory. Because of this you can test so many different niches without going broke on inventory. and when you find a winner that converts well you can scale from there. and because you have the internet you can literally target worldwide and have your products in front of billions of people and learning how to market is absolutely key, being able to get your products in front of the right people. Now as i've read a few articles on here where people say it can take 5 years to see real profit with an online business, you will be able to tell within a month if you've chosen a winning niche. With platforms like instagram, you can pay not even 30 dollars and have a page on instagram directly related to your niche with 100,000's of followers post and ad for you and have there entire audience focused on your products. and you will be able to tell if anyone is interested in your products pretty quickly and you'll know weather or not you should go on. I have countless friends who do the same thing and have grown stores bigger then mine in under a year and continue to make new stores all the time and building them.
Now when it comes to affiliate marketing if your strictly focus on just a website and getting referrals from there then yes it will take you a long long time to build a decent amount of profit. without a doubt. but with things like instagram, snapchat, facebook, youtube etc you can again have your affiliate program in front of triple the amount of people you had before without even spending a dime, just posting the same content on all the different platforms. With all my affiliate programs I'm involved in at the moment only about %10 of my referrals come from my website or blog it self, the rest come from having people reach out to me and hoping on a phone call and closing the deal like that. People feel much more comfortable when they've actually talked you to invest in your program more then they would just reading something. Your website isn't your money make you are. Your Personal Brand and how you market yourself will be a direct result on how well you do. I know people personally who have been able to quit there full time job strictly from affiliate marketing and they did that by getting on phone calls daily and closing deals. and this didn't take them 5-6 years, they've done this within 6 months. Kids at 18-19 buying Ferrari 's and Lambo's because they've mastered the art of marketing and knowing what the customer wants to see.
Now don't get me wrong, i'm not saying at all that these are ways to get rich quick, cause all the stories above those kids including me would put in 19 hour days just grinding and working for a few months cause it will pay off. if your in a niche and its been more then 2 years and your still not happy with your income from that business its time to move on. you will be able to tell within a month whether or not you will be able to scale that certain business or program to something big.
Thats very very little on my insight on that, i would love to say more the blog would go on for days. I really hope this eases some peoples minds on that it wont take 5 6 years to grow an online business, its gonna take a lot of days with no sleep and lonely nights grinding and building business's or closing deals with people if you want the results your looking for. but it will happen sooner then you think as long as you learn how to properly market, and know when to bow out when a certain niche or program isn't working.
Again with everything I've said, you gotta be willing to spend a couple hundred on testing a few products, or running some ads to your website or affiliate program. You gotta spend money to make money.
If anyone ever wants to discuss further about this topic or if anyone is feeling discouraged and wants to just talk about business feel free to pm and ill send ya my number and we can hop on a call.
I know i said it before but i do hope this ease's some of your minds if you've been stressing about how long its gonna take to see profit or anything like that, just know that with the Internet today you can easily be making a 6 figure income within a year in these business's, its just up to you to go out there and expand your personal brand and start closing those deals!
Cheers everyone,
Thomas
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Hi Thomas, what program of yours are people calling to invest in?
It was a high ticket sale affiliate program, it was called the Aspire system!
That's a rather pricey program! Especially to access the full big ticket range. Entry to that level is around 20,000, right? Or have I got the wrong program?
You have the right program! That one is the one where people would want to talk to you first before making that purchase! That’s what I like affiliate programs like this where you can make a nice risidual Income!
Sure, but 20K to gain access to that kind of opportunity is not the kind of upfront payment many venturing into online commerce have lying around!
Even the practice of scaling up operations after split testing products is beyond many starter budgets. I’m familiar with most of the programs and business models online, even the illegal ones being floated on darkweb. I am also familiar with the stats for how many ecommerce businesses start and fail. You need to have some nice money to burn upfront, and be willing to risk it, to see results with such experiments.
Anyhow, nice though it is to see some success, I’m not happy about seeing people spend their last retirement savings on those kinds of programs when their margins of comfort are already so slim. I actually feel quite protective of people, when I see how vulnerable they are, and how hopeful they are that the next ecommerce promise will be the one
That’s what makes this program refreshing. It’s a realistic, no upsell offering, with lifelong, transferable skills, and no need to pay into an elite offering of products or take special calls somewhere private and offsite. It’s all in plain sight, and I really value that.
So how does this place compare so far to your prior experiences with online learning?
You don’t start off paying the 20,000 dollars tho, that’s the final program you would take after going through all the other stages and making money through there! Or the people who choose that plan have a business already going and can afford that! That specific program isn’t really meant for people just starting out! And like I said above, you gotta spend money to make money, you can’t expect to make 5-10,000 a month but only invest 200 dollars, you would start with the program that costs a lot less and work your way up, and that’s by getting on the phone with people and closing deals! The biggest thing right now is attraction sales, those are what sell and close the most deals! And this program is amazing, because it’s easier to close deals because of the very moderate price and you can build an insane residual income from this if you leverage the proper social platforms!
And yes with here they teach that you don’t need to take special calls or anything like that, but it’s my past experience I’ve found getting on those phone calls it’s what closes the deal and ultimatly makes you more money!
Sure, but on the theme of 'gotta spend money to make money' there are many more ways to do that than multilevel marketing, and most of them are less risky and offer a greater ROI.
My extended family is peppered with examples of such successful business choices, but I think if anyone were to propose MLM to any of my big-rolling relatives as an investment opportunity, they'd decline, after making a quick calculation in their heads.
I like that I know what I'm paying for here at WA, and I think I get more than I'm paying for. But with MLM, where one pays their way up, the calculation of value per unit of anything is not so transparent.
Hey, I note that in your original post you invite people to PM you to get a phone number for a chat... if you haven't already done so, you might want to check our spam rules here to be sure such offers don't land on the wrong side of WA site prac. Spamming, in all its gloried forms, is taken pretty seriously here. Advertising of any kind is not permitted, as the site is set up for support and education, not cross promotion.
Yes nd I agree with you in the sense, and that is just one of the programs you asked me about, and I told you! I use that to focus on a different demographic, then I would with wealthy affiliate! And without fully going into the system and understanding everything about it it’s hard to make that judgement, cause it’s not a MLM! It’s completely different! And I did read the rules, I was offering my phone number so if people would rather call then message back in fourth as from past experiences that builds stronger connections! I wasn’t even gonna mention that program until you asked what it was, as it has nothing to do with how I’m gonna promote wealthy affiliate!
Understood, Thomas! Just be sure to read to spam rules closely. Plenty of our really experienced posters have accidentally crossed the line when they were only trying to be helpful. Better to be sure!