My Story! Need personalized Help please!
I am going to share my journey on the internet and need personalized help from you please.
- I'm 24 right now and turned to internet for making money around 4 years ago
- Having no idea how it all works, I just joined Freelancer.com to get data entry work as I was having no specialized skills
- Got no data entry work but somehow got a rewriting project
- I'm not a native English speaker but after getting the rewriting project and after seeing some money coming in I turned to writing
- Did freelancing for about 1-2 years but it was taking me too much time to write and then correct mistakes, communicating, applying for the projects everything so I realized writing is not something I can depend on in long term and to earn good money. I was making money but nothing great!
- During this time, I was searching and reading many different methods to make money and thought everyone saying start a blog blah blah
- So I started a blog in 2012. Let me admit my mistakes, if today I think about that blog there were many things I've not done properly before going to start it. I had done no keyword research and the idea was really really broad and only thing that was driving me was like there is only 1 website already doing the similar thing. I was wrong though. And my competitors were really large companies and been on business for years. 1st Failure! Did not make even a single $.
- Started a second blog in 2013. The idea was to make money with Amazon affiliate. It was better than the first one. I was aware of how I am going to make money and it was a niche blog, not a micro niche. OK let's open it(there is no reason to hide), it was a blog related to kids electric toy cars and I was writing reviews. But again here, now I know reviews work best when they are targeting product related keywords. You know Product Name + Review, but I was targeting generic keywords. Got 2-3 sales only when it was around Christmas. Ended. 2nd Failure! Made less than $10
- In 2013, I came across the idea of dropshipping and eCommerce and making money with eBay, Amazon etc Now this is still the thing I am most interested in and feel great about doing this. But being in a country where there is no PayPal yet and not allowed to sell on Amazon, eBay(because no PayPal) and most other platforms I had a real hard time searching alternatives and to somehow make it work. People would not believe that I put countless hours into it. Finally got a merchant account with CCNOW and opened a Etsy shop(sending invoices manually with email upon order conformation). I was having no money to invest or buy stock so I was relying on dropshipping so that was altogether another journey. Almost no local supplier was aware of dropshipping (for single items though they were more than willing for bulk). Finally found one and started selling on Etsy. Sold for 2-3 months with some Good profit margin. But woke up one day to discover that they have suspended my shop. Let not go in the reasons, they closed and they only option I found to sell physical stuff died. All countless hours of reading, finding alternatives, months of efforts wasted. Made several 100s of $$$ I would count this as Failure!
- As I was convinced with selling physical items so I decided to go the wholesale route and purchased Alibaba Gold supplier membership. It was a huge money for me to spend. I was having an arrangement with a local manufacturer to make it work. Bought it in Feb 2014. Again let me admit, it was lot of hassle. I was getting leads and getting trail orders, but no one was returning to buy in bulk. It was getting harder and harder to convince my Manufacturer to make custom samples for me when I was bringing no wholesale orders for them. After first 6 months of 1 year membership, I almost quit and let my paid membership expire without any gains. Another Failure!
- During the above period, I tried clickbank and peerfly too with 7search. 1 sale with clickbank (which I would call just random because it was after several 100s of clicks) and some $$ with Peerfly game offers but it was not in profit. Probably another Failure!
So After almost 4 years, I'm earning $0/day right now. But these 4 years include my freelancing career as well. $0/day of income with my own business, so just rule out the freelancing as I am no longer doing it.
I decided to start again in the start of 2015 with basics. Now I've a website with 40+ good written articles. Yes, this time I done proper keyword research and took into consideration competition, CPC (in case if I've to rely on Adsense earning), avg monthly searches etc. Around 6 months old but started posting regular content from 15 March 2015, and now it has 40+ good helpful articles and is getting 5-8 visitors from Google(without any link building). Also have published two reviews of hot selling clickbank products but no sales yet. I can see my site residing for tens of keywords with decent monthly searches at positions like 40,50,70 and for some others it's beyond 200 in Google SERP.
Really a Long Long post but I'm writing this out of desperation. Now what help I want from you, the long story above was required to make you aware of my whole journey:
- I've always been very excited about the idea of making money with Internet because of all the associated benefits you all know. But from past few weeks or perhaps months the feeling like: I wasted countless hours and after 4 years I am at $0/day is overcoming me and making me feel I've wasted 4 years. I was studying when I started and this feeling also arousing that it affected my studies too. Do I really wasted 4 years? Is it only me or is it the path most of the people follow with no money to invest or go with some mentor? Is people following this path can ever succeed? Should I quit this whole MMO stuff and look for doing something else without wasting anymore time?
- Now the biggest motivation for me to continue with the idea of MMO is this: I'm from a country where minimum legal wages are $150/month and most of the people even work at less than that. Unemployment is booming. I am well qualified, graduated as Electrical Engineer in Oct 2013, worked as an Intern Engineer for 1 year (from Feb-2014-Feb-2015) and now again looking for a job. If I found a very Good job, it would max pay me $450-$500/month. This kind of job is really a Dream Job for Millions here in my place and yes it's very hard to find such a job. With my qualification and professional experience, the average job I can find is around $250-$300. And yes living is cheap here and one (family too) can survive with such income here but of course forget about savings or getting rich etc. Now this is the biggest motivation for me, I've put many years into this, I'm ahead of many people, I've somehow tried some methods, I see people earning daily online more than the amount I will be getting monthly from a full time job locally. Perhaps you can see the Motivation!
- With my experience so far and doing analysis, I can say generating free traffic (can't afford to buy) is what is the biggest hurdle for me. Looking at my experience or exposure online, what should I do? I've a website with 40+ articles getting around 10 visitors daily but no income. I'm not aiming anything crazy anymore. I want to reach $100/month by the end of May or even by the end of June. I can do it with services/Freelancing but no I'm not interested in that. I can afford to wait a few months to build something for long term.
BTW during my whole journey I was not doing it full time. Earlier I was studying and then working offline for an year. And let me admit this, most of the time I spent online during these 4 years is in searching, trying one thing than the other, or perhaps reading to figure out things, yes learned a lot, too.
Now I am completely free, no studies no job. Willing to put full time online for at least 2 next months to reach $100/month (no freelancing). What would you suggest, no generic answer keep in view my experience please? Or I've given this enough time and I should quit without wasting any more time? Is there any business model where traffic is already there? Like something legit on Youtube without any fear of being reported and getting everything down?
I'm writing all this to bring it out and perhaps out of feeling I am having from past couple of months that I wasted 4 years and I should quit! Even if no one replies to this, It may still help me feel better
Meow!
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