You Are There! You Just Don't Know It!

byTJ Books

13.8K followers

8 years ago

Introduction:

I am in my ninth (9th) year of Wealthy Affiliate. I am not much of an affiliate marketer to tell you the truth. I have always preferred to market products. My son and the number of my grandchildren also market products. We are a product marketing family.

I have used the Wealthy Affiliate affiliate program, and now with JAXXY, to pay for my annual tuition’s. Belonging to Wealthy Affiliate has never cost me one red cent, but it has brought considerable incomes to me and my family members.

But Now I'm Old and Gray

I’m too old for many things now days and I don’t like spending my time shipping products which is required in product marketing with the exception of drop shipping. But I no longer even do that (well not often). I’m just too lazy, still busy doing other things.

Just the other night I was out shooting the moon with my 60X camera. I about fell on my head. I no longer have good balance.

College Money

Like Kyle and Carson and Ryan and others, my granddaughters generate full-time incomes which they used to pay for living expenses and their husband's college expenses.

One of my granddaughters is making a ton of money and is about to start a new business as soon as her brain tells her what it is. She and her husband do not need the money. He is extremely successful. She just loves doing business.

Speaking of College Money!

My son has 15 children and so he has always liked to add income to his veterinarian business. He used to own the http://www.Irishflutestore.com which he sold to a friend. He now is in the herb business http://www.homegrownherbalist.net where he sells books, training, herbs and herb textures. He lectures mainly in the West but is on his way to Texas sometime in the next couple of weeks. When he goes to trade shows, he always comes home with a pocket full of cash and orders.

How It All Began

Some years ago, my son came to me and said that he wanted to start a website. I had building a lot of websites over the years and I was operating about 30 websites at the time. But I relied on my training from Wealthy Affiliate to do things right the first time. He already had one thing that was essential to the Internet and that was a mailing list. We put up the site, he notified his mailing list, and he was in business on the net instantly.

His two daughters are in business together and at the busy times of the year the whole family seems to be involved accept me. They keep about a dozen full-time workers all year. Since their sales are during the Holiday Season and they must pay their employees all year, they have a cash flow problem with they handle by budgeting out their income on a monthly basis and preserving operating capital to pay their workers.

I am helped them over the years, but now everybody in the family is so far ahead of me, that you know who is helping whom.

Can You Actually Make Money in Affiliate Marketing?

That is the reason that you came here in the first place. What I have noticed over the years is that too many do not stay here long enough to entrench themselves and affiliate marketing. They somehow get the thought into their minds that they are in a get-rich scheme and should be making money three days after they set up their website.

Now Back In The Good Old Days

There may have been a time that income could be earned easier by affiliate marketing than it is now. PPC pay-per-click was once a very economical method for a new marketer to earn money. Now it is not only expensive, but you had better learn how to do it before you start or it can put you in the poor house. (Such training is offered here.)

It used to be that you could put up a quirky little site with an affiliate banner on it and earn $50 a month. If you set up 100 sites, you had a good income. For you who did not major in mathematics, that is $5000 a month. I have a friend who did just that. He had a bunch of writers, English majors, to provide the content for his websites.

How Long Does It Take to Make Money by Affiliate Marketing?

It takes time to start a new business. You need a business plan and you need to find a workable market. After you have designed your website, you must draw traffic to that site. Then you must maintain the site providing relevant quality information to your readers.

I’ve never done this before but let’s put up a hypothetical timetable:

1. Learn how to market. This takes forever but you can get going in two or three months.

2. Find a niche market. This process should not be rushed and it is not a sin to take one month to do it properly.

3. Build your website. If you’re going to do this right, I would suggest that you take another month to do it.

4. Drive traffic to your site. This will probably take you at least another three months.

Let’s see now, with the help of the math majors, how long does it take to get going in a profitable manner? According to my ingenious listing, it takes seven months.

The that is pretty close to what I’ve seen here at WA. I’m not talking about making to sales. I’m talking about continuous sales coming in, perhaps two or three a week. You may not be making a lot of money, but your site is making income and you know how to do it so all you have to do is wash and rinse as the saying goes.

Two Young Women

Two young women, who are probably still here at WA worked for a full year before they made one sale. But then things happened. They had gained enough traffic to create significant sales from their website.

I suggest that you work your butt off for a year before you count the change in your pocket.

What You Need to Do to Succeed at WA

1. I suggest that you go to SBA.gov and thereafter use their business plan module as you go about your work here at WA. (Optional)

2. Set up a table that lists the lessons with your timetable for learning them and implementing them. (Optional)

3. Study each lesson and make sure that you do ALL the tasks. Leave something out and you might be in danger of failure. For example: You you go to a AWeber or GetResponse to set up a mailing list and you look at the cost. You think that can wait, that you will do that after you start earning some money. Without a mailing list you will probably never make much on Internet. You will have defeated yourself.

4. Do one thing at a time. Get one nation profitable before you move on. You will never get into trouble by doing one thing at a time. You can’t be perfect at everything, but you can be perfect at one or two things that can assure you success. If those two things are providing quality information on your website pointed exactly to the problem that your readers are looking for an answer and driving traffic to your site, you will be in fat city.

Many Have Learned to Make a Full-Time Living at Wealthy Affiliate

I can name a dozen with no problem at all. Others are making a good part-time income.

It is not proper to ask people about their income. But we did see a public announcement on our blog here that said that two couples had met in a way for a certain wedding all of which was paid for by affiliate marketing.

Most of us know Veronica, our Swedish friend with two young children, who likes to stay home with their children and to travel to Sweden. This is possible because she knows how to make by the on the Internet and she learned that here at WA.

Some of you know, Ryan, who made over $500,000 while a student and who now makes up the money because he is so damned bright and clever and hard-working. He is still an affiliate marketer but he also does a lot of product marketing using Amazon’s fulfillment program. He also owns a couple of restaurants. Who knows what else is doing?

(I have always tried to get Ryan to climb Mount Moran in Wyoming. I told him that that is his mountain and that if he will climb to the top, it will give him a new perspective on life and business and that when he comes down, you will be able to buy General Motors.

As far as I know, he has not done it.)

You see why I’ve stuck around here all these years. The members are so darned interesting.

Hang in there, Buster Brown!

John

P.S. It use to be that folks read my stuff here. Now days, I have too much competition and so I seldom make the Top 10 anymore. That means that only a few of you select few will actually read this. Who wants to hear from an 84-year-old man?

Note: Pic is of Shoshone Falls near my home.