Simple 4 steps to full time income from internet marketing (for newbies)



Very romantic, thank you for sharing OP.

JoseArmando said:
The only thing that really separates people who fail from people who succeed is persistence.
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By far my favorite sentence! Sum that bitch up. There's nothing more important than persistence. No amount of knowledge or execution or creativity will make up for it. No matter how many times you're told what success requires, there's absolutely nothing that can prepare you for what you'll have to endure to achieve it. But persistence gets you through. I've personally seen it turn literal definitions of average people into world famous superstars. I've seen it happen in my own life. Every self-help book is based upon it. Everything in existence is a product of persistence.

This is one of my favorite takes on persistence from PG paulgraham.com/die.html

We all live in such a success-oriented world. It feels like a giant test. Christ, most every piece of information you can find anywhere is about somebody else's success. It's no wonder everyone is depressed and feels hopeless. We're all spoon-fed bullshit. All people who reach success endure thousands of failures in their lifetime. Every single person who ever made it big has cried in pain and asked for help--from god, from the universe--and felt absolutely lost, deterred, downtrodden. Many times over. And yet all we hear about is the geniuses who sold their companies at 100m valuations and affluent celebrities and how ball'n everyone else's life is.

What's most important to internalize is that failure has a negative connotation out of pure fucking naivety; realistically, failure is a product of persistence--an achievement even--and a requirement of success; persist and fail, and persist and fail again, and persist on until you succeed.

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Great article. Thanks for sharing. This is helping me stay motivated as I get up and try again.

sk4rlet said:
Very romantic, thank you for sharing OP.



By far my favorite sentence! Sum that bitch up. There's nothing more important than persistence. No amount of knowledge or execution or creativity will make up for it. No matter how many times you're told what success requires, there's absolutely nothing that can prepare you for what you'll have to endure to achieve it. But persistence gets you through. I've personally seen it turn literal definitions of average people into world famous superstars. I've seen it happen in my own life. Every self-help book is based upon it. Everything in existence is a product of persistence.

This is one of my favorite takes on persistence from PG paulgraham.com/die.html

We all live in such a success-oriented world. It feels like a giant test. Christ, most every piece of information you can find anywhere is about somebody else's success. It's no wonder everyone is depressed and feels hopeless. We're all spoon-fed bullshit. All people who reach success endure thousands of failures in their lifetime. Every single person who ever made it big has cried in pain and asked for help--from god, from the universe--and felt absolutely lost, deterred, downtrodden. Many times over. And yet all we hear about is the geniuses who sold their companies at 100m valuations and affluent celebrities and how ball'n everyone else's life is.

What's most important to internalize is that failure has a negative connotation out of pure fucking naivety; realistically, failure is a product of persistence--an achievement even--and a requirement of success; persist and fail, and persist and fail again, and persist on until you succeed.

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Thanks for the Paul Graham article. Great to hear his opinions and thoughts about persistence and not giving up.
 
Thank you! I have to say that taking action is the key. Overcome FUD and just do something. Don't be afraid to screw up IF you learn from it and are able to profit in the future by applying the lessons learned
 
Thanks man, just the post I needed to read right now, and I am sure it will be tomorrow and the day after that and so on.
 
Great post! Insightful for newcomers and those that have been around the block once or twice.
I loved the distinction between wishing and deciding. It's SO important, and often the thing that most people ignore. Decide, commit, take action, don't give up. My friend once told me "failure is not an outcome, it's a mindset." Literally changed my life.
 
Good Motivation

This is formula for success in every aspect of life but you know miserable thing is people dont act on plans.
 
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Nice reading to fix goal by everyone in their life. Very motivational post Armando, thanks for taking the time out to write it. I am still very new to this field and have no desire to quit. Though I have not made long journey yet but like I said, I have no desire to quit, thanks once again.
 
thanks for sharing such a valuable article regarding success formula, everyone can definitely take benefit by applying these four steps in every aspect of life...
 
JoseArmando said:
I wrote this 4 years ago but I think it's very relevant for anyone that's just starting out because I still strongly believe that mindset is the most important part of success (whatever that may mean for you) in this endeavour. So here it goes:

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In the past year I've come to understand the success formula.

Right now it's crystal clear in my mind how success looks like and what it takes to make your dreams a reality. Your goals might be earning $100 per day with article marketing, publishing a new product that will attract a lot of affiliates and I'm sure some of you are definitely aiming a lot, a lot higher.

I sit here in my room and my future is finally clear. Not long ago I thought I'm at the mercy of random events that are happening around me. Obviously, I knew I can make sure I won't be just some homeless guy on the street but at the same time I had NO idea I can choose my future.

But now I know I can. And this is why I want to share a special piece of knowledge with you...

... you might not like it... but it's how reality works. In its essence it's a bit like a step by step guide to success.

Once you'll really understand, and I mean UNDERSTAND TO THE VERY CORE OF YOUR BEING that you can literally sculpt your future, it will become inevitable you'll achieve everything you've ever wanted. I'm not even exaggerating... See, once you understand that you can have a dream, a goal and that you can really make it come true, you won't be able restrict yourself from crystallizing it in your life. I think it's pretty obvious by now that the first step of goal crystallization is to make a decision. Don't get me wrong... I'm not talking about "wishing" something to happen. That's not a real decision.

What I'm talking about here is making a decision that's so strong NOTHING could make you abandon it - not even YOU. See, the main problem with most people who get into affiliate marketing is they think they decided to make a full income with it while in fact they're only wishing it to happen. It is the main reason why so many people quit from affiliate marketing. They mistake "wishing" for decision making.

Can you see a difference?

If you want to make $5000 per month
or
if you decide to make $5000 per month.

With the first type of "decision" you are wishing something to happen and once you put a bit of energy in it and it doesn't come true you say to yourself "I guess all those people are either gifted or they're lying" and you abandon your dream about financial freedom.

but... BUT with the second type of mental attitude you've told yourself what will happen NO MATTER WHAT.

This is why it's vital to understand the importance of decision. You need to make a decision about what you want. Make it and let it be so strong you're absolutely sure the only factor in when your goal is going to crystallize is THE AMOUNT OF ENERGY YOU PUT INTO YOUR GOAL. Read that again.

It's simple. After you've made a decision you need to understand the more energy you'll put into your goal the faster it will crystallize. And the less energy you'll put in it, the longer it will take to achieve it.

1. Knowledge

After you've made a decision and understood that the only factor is ENERGY you put in your goals you need to start putting energy into gathering knowledge. Knowledge is the ingredient from which ideas are born. It's the fuel for your motivation. It's the MAP that guides your actions.

Consume as much of it as it's possible. Learn about copywriting, learn about PPC marketing, learn about article marketing, learn about persuasion, learn about SEO, learn about design but above all...... learn from people who already achieved what you want to achieve. Model them and know that it's not long until you'll achieve as much as they did if not even more.

2. Action

Knowledge is important but it's worthless if you don't inject a good amount of action in the success recipe. In general one should dedicate at least 5 hours of work to internet marketing per day. These are called action hours.
What this means is that you don't learn during these 5 hours. Instead all you do is take action based on what you learned up to now. Do your daily dose of SEO, write that couple of articles, post a few blog posts, outsource whatever you can and take even more action after you've finished with all of those.
It could be said this step is the most important of them all. It is the step that is the most problematic for people. You may think you are a procrastinator. You think you are lazy.
But let me tell you, you're only lazy when you haven't made a strong enough decision that's aligned with your real desires.

3. Persistence

Trust me, you will have weeks and sometimes even months of no apparent success. It will feel as if the success formula isn't working. You will start losing motivation and thinking about trying out other ventures. This is good, let yourself discover other possibilities but at the same time understand you've made a decision and you accepted the fact your path won't be easy.

It is true that sometimes things take time. It is often like that in internet marketing. The only thing that really separates people who fail from people who succeed is persistence. Think about it... internet marketing is a whole new endeavour for you. It's not a simple thing and it takes some time to really internalize hundreds of concepts that are thrown at you.

Just trust me on this one and NEVER ever stop trying. Failure is simply not an option for you.

4. Creativity

Now it's time to get creative. You've learned a lot. You've taken a lot of action. You've been persistent.

You aren't new to this internet marketing anymore. This is the time to innovate and use all the knowledge and experience you've gained up to now. Sure, it's not that you shouldn't be creative up to now, but after you've been into internet marketing long enough and if you still haven't seen the results you want you should probably start being more fearless and trying out things which aren't so conventional.

As cliché as it sounds, you really need to spread your wings at some point, stop listening to gurus and do your OWN thing. See, at the start you couldn't really innovate too much because you didn't even understand the basic principles of marketing and persuasion. Now you do.

This is the four step success formula that got formed in my mind in the past few years.

All you need now is a belief it is possible to achieve your goals and a strong decision. People around you will tell you you can't do it. It's VERY common to have people around you not believe in your capabilities. When I started doing internet marketing I was told it's a scam and it's not possible to sell anything through affiliate marketing.

So then I made my first sale.

As I announced I made my first sale I got told I'll never get that money.

So then I made more sales and I saw I had my first check sent to my address.

As I announced I have my first check flying to me I got told it'll never come.

So then I got the check and I got told I'll never get the money from it.

As I got the money from my first check directly into my bank account I got told it was the only check I'll ever get and that it was a fluke.

But then, lo and behold I started getting checks every 2 weeks. I got told that yes, I get the money but that I'll never be able to make more than a few hundred bucks per month.

And finally as I started earning a full-time income from internet I was finally told that this might work.

Yes, internet marketing might work after all.
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wow very nice how did you learn everything about am?
 
miggylocs said:
how did you learn everything about am?
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I approached marketing as anything else I decide to learn in my life: obsessively.

I believe that's the only real way to become truly good at something. You have to let it devour your free time and get yourself to a point you start to constantly think about it. But it all started with an ebook I read that instantly sucked me in.

The whole thing is a bit like when you get people who ask you to fix their computer and to them what you do is magic. You apparently know how to fix anything that goes wrong with it. But in reality all you did was type the error code in google and followed the instructions someone posted there probably years ago.

It's the same process here. You learn about basic principles and you start looking deeper and deeper in to it. Absorb, deconstruct, put back together. But you have to be curious and be able to dive in a certain topic.

When I was starting out I literally downloaded anything that could even remotely help me. I was reading a different ebook every single day (you can get them for free if you look a bit around). Watched seminars, read blogs, forums. There's so much information out there...

I joined all the big marketing forums, found members that were posting great info and I read their whole post histories. Takes a while but it's totally worth it.

Blogs are great too because bloggers have incentive to put at least some real info out there since it increases their readership. So you can learn a ton there too. When I came across a good blog post I read all blog posts that person ever wrote. An example of a blog worth reading every single post of is directresponse.net. Rich was posting incredible stuff a while ago, still does from time to time.

Another source of a ton of useful info is your competition. I went through funnels of sites that were interesting to me. You see ingenious stuff people come up with to monetize traffic. And you see it first person, so it's a more intimate experience than in you were just told what to do. There are even free sites that can give you a bit of competitive intelligence like Moat Ad Search (for banner research)

Becoming friends with cool people also has its own perks though it was never my goal - I'm primarily interested in someone I can shoot the shit with because in real life I only have my brother to talk about stuff I do online openly. Some of the stuff I learned from guys I talked to over the years is literally impossible to learn from any other source simply because it's stuff no one will ever disclose on a public site.

I think that's the whole process. Oh yeah, another thing: if you work with someone else you'll learn all this stuff even faster. I could go in to why exactly that happens here but it would be another long ass post. Enough to say when you work alone, your output or learning curve is 1. But with another person 1+1 doesn't equal 2. It's more like 10.
 
Well, i think everybody had commented well. You had a good writing there. Nothing that I against. But the whole idea about being successful in anything we do, is going back to the one rule: perseverance. Just keep doing what you currently doing, and you will reach your goal point no matter what.

Nothing can be achieved easily. Even for the smartest guy on the planet. It's all about unbeatable mentality. Always get up again when you fall.

I like to quote this, which i donno exactly where it came from: "success is the accumulation of failure and the method to walk again no matter what."

To anyone who just started online effort, trust me, you are in the right path. This is the gold mine, you just need to take one step out of time.
 
I used to do D2D marketing for 4 years. Ever morning we would have some motivational shtick the managers and a few of us senior reps would do to motivate our troops. Oddly enough it worked. It didn't take me long to get why. People are sheep, unfortunately no matter how much we want to think otherwise.

This post is exactly the type of a "morning meeting" we would run. I absolutely love this post. Thank you OP.

I started in October of last year. Been learning, applying some. Just recently I decided I wont any longer take that look that my friends give me when I tell them what my life goal is.

Sick of it. Kinda angers me to a point where i want to abandon the bar were at go home and just dive into the website. But I digress. Thanks again. Ill be reading up on your history from now on.
 
Great read. To write that over 4 years ago and not have to change it tells me it's solid advice.
 
hankqny said:
Great read. To write that over 4 years ago and not have to change it tells me it's solid advice.
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I couldn't agree more. Any advice that can stand the test of time is solid.

Post like these give me hope that I can succeed in IM. I'm finding out that it takes a lot more work then I've been putting in and out of shear frustration (or maybe desperation) I'm more dedicated than ever!
 
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