I've been in a "reflection mood" lately, so I wanna share with you some of the BIG lessons I've learned over the past 4 years making my living online.
1. Enjoy the process of building your busi ness, because the end result won't make you any happier…
I wrote about this the other day on my own blog and got a lot of good feedback from my readers. Most people live their lives hoping the future will get better and make them heppy. Here's the truth … It won't. If you're not happy building your business , you're not going to be happy when you finally "make it".
2. Working from home is a LONELY experience…
As a copywriter, I've written a lot of copy for "work from home" type products. I always try to sell the person the dream of quitting their job, and making thousands of do llars while sitting in their pajamas (cause thats what they want). Well the trut h of the matter is, working from home can be a very lonely experience. And it's even tougher w hen you're going through a hard time like a break up or the death of a friend. We don't have the same kind of social outlet that most people do when they're at a job with 50+ employees.
3. At some point you have to treat this like a "real business "
When you're starting out, or you're an affiliate making a few bucks you can kind of do wh atever you want. But once you get your business to the point that it's doing $100.000+ you need to start treating this like a real business. This means you have to commit you rself to doing certain things every day, every week and every month. This isn't what most newbies want to hear, but that's what it takes to be successful.
4. The more money you make, the e asier it gets…
You're probably familiar with the phrase "the rich get richer"… When it comes to your business, this is definitely true. I noticed when my 31 Day Fat Loss Cure product started to take off, we saw a BIG snowball of new revenue streams coming in. We made more direct sales, we got more affiliate s, even our search rankings improved. Once the ball gets rolling, you need to ri de the momentum and cash in on all the opportunities that start showing up for y ou.
5. The less people you depend on, the better off you'll be…
One of the surest ways to drive yourself nut s is to depend on other people for your success. This includes affiliates, product launches or even search rankings in Google. If you want to have complete control over your business you need to learn how to drive your own paid traffic from multiple sources (Facebook, PPC, Media Buys, Offline etc..)
6. Discipline is ev erything…
My buddy Craig Ballantyne has helped me a lot in this category. When I talk about Cr aig to other marketers, the only word I use to describe him is "Machine". Craig might not be the "smartest" internet marketer out there, but he makes more than 99% of people online because of his consistent disciplin e. I'm pretty sure he does 7 figures a year currently, and if you looked at all the "stuff" he gets done, you would see wh y. Staying disciplined is not fun, or sexy… but it's essential to running a business for multiple years (and not just a few months).
My Wrap Up
A large majority of the people you read abou t online are nothing more than a "flash in the pan". They make a few thousand dollars, tell everyone about it and then are never successful again. I've been doing this full time for 4 years… Shoe's been doing it for 10+. While our businesses are completely different, there's a lot of similarities as to how we got where we are…
Shoe was in debt and unhappy with his life and decided to turn things around. Back when I hit rock bottom, my girlfriend of 3 years broke up with me, and I lost my big c onsulting client that was 90% of my income in the SAME week. I was miserable and 2 months away from being dead broke. The only place I could go was up.
I went o n to make The 31 Day Fat Loss Cure one of the top fat loss products on Clickbank in just a few months – and since then I've realized that these 6 ideas I just discussed were what helped me to get there.
Feel free to leave me a comment below if you have any questions o r you'd like to share some of the BIG things you've learned about making money online…
- Justin
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