Success can take time.... Amazing artistic representation of success taking time (9)
Success can take time.... Amazing artistic representation of success taking time
Very few of us are born with an innate ability to do affiliate marketing. As we think about affiliate marketing there's:
Copywriting
Design
Server Management
HTML/CSS
Split Testing
Tracking Tech
Statistics
Marketing Math
and more I'm sure I'm forgetting right now
I often times see people come in to this space and say I have $500 to spend to start making money. I think this will definitely set you up to FAIL. Success in anything takes a consistent long term repetitive approach.
The art of learning is:
Reading about it
Repetition, Doing it over and over
Trial and Error, small course corrections
Asking questions and learning from others more successful then you
All of these things take time. Some people will pick this up and start making money right away. 9.5 out of 10 times these people end up in a much worse off position then the ones that fail for a while at first. If it's hard for you and you're persistent and push through you will continue to be successful throughout your career. If you see easy early success you'll probably expect that moving forward and it will elude you most of the time. At which point you'll quit.
I think one of the best articles I've seen that shows this is this Huffington Post article. It shows where artists started and where they are today. It gives you an amazing graphical perspective of what hard work & the learning process produces.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...ushpmg00000063
I've now been in this business just over 10 years. My first year I worked 17 hours a day 7 days a week and made $26k that year. $23k of that was unemployment. So effectively I made around $3k for that years worth of work I invested. Month 13 I made around $100k in profit. I finally found something that worked. I don't say this to impress you but to impress upon you:
Fall in love with the process & journey
Be committed
And Learn, Learn Learn
Live these traits and I believe you can be successful at anything.
Reposted on my blog: http://www.oooff.com/php-affiliate-s...s-taking-time/
Damn straight.
I'm teaching people lead gen skills at the moment outside STM as well as inside, and it's reminding me just how many different strings we have to have to our bows as affiliate marketers.
It's not easy being, or indeed making, green. 
Great article.
Absolutely love this post! Awesome reading your story... mad respect.
I'm new to AM, but have gotten pretty good at other skills that I've coached guys in too. One of my fav books of all-time is by K. Anders Ericsson on the learning process and building domain expertise, some excerpts:
- http://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/erics....exp.perf.html
- http://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/erics...n.mem.exp.html
- http://amazon.com/Cambridge-Expertis...dp/0521600812/
Good stuff. It's always easy to assume skilled people are naturally talented. Most of the time they've just spent a lot more time on real practice.
@adsurfer I've read some books on deliberate practice and learning but haven't seen that one yet. I'll definitely give it a read.
Wowww, i love that article! If you can improve at such a raw talent like drawing/painting then it really shows you anything is doable with practice.
People almost always overestimate the change that can occur in the short term and underestimate the change that can happen in the long term.
The path to success can definitely be shorten and one of the ways is by getting a mentor.
As stated here : http://online.wsj.com/article/HUG1754787.html
Summary:
#1: Get a mentor.
#2: Get healthy!
#3: Overcome what you fear by throwing yourself into it.
#4: Make better use of your time! Join a group of individuals who all want the same thing. eg. Stack That Money Forum
#5: Take risk!
#6: Never give up.
I wish I had a mentor in this business when I first started out - it could save me tons of money and time.
Great share man, that is a great visual I'm going to share with a friend whose doubting his ability in tattooing but clearly is his ultimate passion
Awesome Post!
Originally Posted by Smaxor
Here is a link to it in my dropbox for anyone who's interested!
Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/19mvwlwwig...%20Leonard.pdf
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