Changing Course. There are more paths than one to reach your goals.

byIncomeLegion

8.7K followers

Updated 6 years ago

It seems funny to say this but the first best thing since coming back from my mental breakdown and physical shut down has also lead to a 6 year track back into many of the bad hbits that lead to a total health collapse.

The company I have done affiliate marketing for during the past 6 years has been one of the biggest in the retail affliate marketing realm for 2 decades having just entered their 20th year of business. The parent company has over 34 years of experience in MLM and network Marketing and it's leader Gery Carson is one of the smartest men in marketing today.

There have been a lot of changes along the way and recently the company has moved away from the mass marketplace to more of a community rewards platform with the introduction of two new shopping related search engines, one for online merchants, the other for offline sellers and a centeral points rewards program.

I can see the vision of the leaders and love promoting the points rewards program but most of my interest had always been in being a retail affiliate so I must admit some of the luster has worn off.

My workload though has grown still the same

I had stopped blogging for a while because I was busy recruiting over 40 people a month into the system and starting to see a good little profit for my work but as changes and a bout of pneumonia eroded at the base I found myself constantly rebuilding. So I put on hold much of my recruiting to build a better mouse trap.

I spent 3 years planning and over 1,000 man hours on developing a strategy, tools, systems, and a road map to help the masses succeed in my primary business. After a year we finally reached 200 members of which 100 of them still have active accounts, and 1-2 of them actually use the tools I have spent thousands of dollars to get to frutation after many nights of late hours finding a script that would even handle the front end.

I developed a social network, a forum, a multi-blog content network, an article and website directory and finally the most recent attempt is to add our own website traffic exchange. By now the advertising coop upgrade alone should have been paying well enough to hire 1-2 outsourced office assistants to help run and market the system but the most we have ever had at one time is 4 upgraded members. The issue my internal polling has come back with is I am trying to offer too much in one package so people get confused.

So what is next for the system?

Well I gave an ultimatumn to my 2,000+ member team today and will be broadcasting to the 200+ existing members tomorrow that unless the system begins being used they will lose the tools because right now as it stands they are a drain on my time and resources. Since start of operations over 1 year ago for this project I have basically been working 8-10 hour days 5-6 days a week to promote other people's businesses with very little to show for it and a business that is simply not growing for the founder like it is for the few I serve.

Last month for example I put out over $250 in advertising myself met with $40 in advertising from 2 opther participants. This added 34 new members to the system of which only 1 has shown any signs of life, but of the 34 potentials I personally received only 6 of them into my own team. The other 2 coop members received 15 members and 13 members respectively from my investment because I felt pushing more members to them would net some form of loyalty. Still both have canceled their upgraded memberships this month because their coop referrals didn;t start working hard on day one.

Yep I got screwed by my own generosity and investment in people, and it's not the firstr time. So what I expect is another week to two weeks of this happening and I will begin winding down that program so I can move the 2 additional domains I plan to develop into content sites over to WA, and will begin the process of selling multiple website domain names. I may keep the Traffic Exchange because it is new and I would finally have time to focus on it but I am thinking about turning 100% of my time and efforts to my blogging.

I know I need to change something because I am starting to get sick again.

So I have some cool domain properties that may come up for auction soon. One is a 6 letter domain that is related to a CyberCurrency IPO called SFI Coin. I might even recoup my last 6 years of annual expenses off that one domain as it should go for at least $10,000 at auction maybe more. I have another SFI Coin related domain that could bring in 1/3 of that or more and a couple great e-commerce domains. One thing I have always done well is building a portfolio of web real estate and this could be my year to turn it into working capital.

If I sell my domains I can use the money to not just outsource some of my content needs but to also use native ads to promote the content and grow my subscriber list. The time from not sponsoring new members in the business opportunity and the advertising coo[ or traffic exchange could be turned into more content from me and more time for my family and I at the lakes and river.

I know the lower stress levels will make it easier to be around on even my bad days. BTW my bipolar is acting up and this post is to mostly vent but will also help guide my balanced self to a decisision when I feel good again.

Thanks for letting a fat boy like me rant a bit, feedback is welcome but mostly prayers are acccepted as regardless of what I do I am still in need of stress reduction and hours to do more blogging.

Andy Zeus Anderson