I hope your day is just like mine!

by kyhell

Posted: 14 years ago 46 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Hey folks I was sitting here this morning going about my daily routine and I began to reflect upon where I was this time last year and I wanted to share it with you.
First however I thought I would share what my day is like presently.
I woke up at 7:00 am got our kids up and drove them to school.
I came home and did some house work and laundry until about 9:00am
I spent about an hour talking with my fiancé about taking a trip to Colorado this weekend to shop and what not for our upcoming wedding.
After my girl left to go shopping I walked into my office and logged in to my computer. I first checked my eBay auctions and responded to questions and took care of shipping needs. All total of a half an hour spent.
On a separate computer I began to upload the previous day's dictation through Dragon naturally speaking while on another system I uploaded yesterday's articles to associated content. (Don't make much but I love doing it). 20 mins tops
I logged in to adsense and checked my earnings, slow day but pleased none the less. 5 min total
Checked affiliates for payouts, once again pleased. Another 5 min.
Logged into namecheap purchased 10 domains I had researched the day before. I always buy my domains on Wednesdays and Fridays. 15 min tops.
Answered a few emails 10 min tops.
Spelling and grammar check of dictation. 10 min
A wordpress install on my web host for an offline client. 10 min
Called client for review and follow up appointment. 3 min.
Booked trip for this weekend.
Logged off pc and left the office.
Laid on my sofa and played with my baby Chihuahua and began reflecting on how awesome my life is now compared to what it was a year ago.

1 year ago.

Wake up at 5:00am swallow coffee; rush out the door, to get to work on time.
Work until 6:00pm and rush out the door to get to my second job. Work until 10pm come home in hopes my girl would still be up. Peek in on my kids fast asleep and wonder how their day was.
Eat and then bed, wake up and repeat.
I did all of this for just under $50,000 a year. I never saw my children, my relationship suffered and I nearly lost my mind.
Today I spent time with my kids and my girl. I put in a full work day and before noon made just over $900 dollars and today was a slow day. I played with my puppy and took a sec to write this post. At 3:20pm today I will be in front of the school to pick up my kids. I will have time to make a proper meal for my family that we will eat together at the table.
The point I'm trying to make is this, when I first started out working online from home I had more failures than success. I had people constantly tell me it would never work. It took time a whole year to be exact to get this far. My motivation was that I didn't have a choice I had to make this work. Having the time to spend freely with my family is better than anything money can buy.
So if you're at where I was a year ago keep this in mind, I know at times it seems impossible and overwhelming if you stay with it and stay focused and above all learn from your mistakes you will succeed.
Anyway my girl is on her way in the house and I'm going to go spend the rest of the afternoon with her.

#day #hope #mine

Lisa Gergets 14 years ago

Fan-freaking-tastic!
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14 years ago

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Lisa Gergets

14 years ago

Originally Posted by dave147

Wow your life one year ago must have been a nightmare

It's great that you turned it around. Good stuff.

Actually, his life one year ago is pretty much what anyone in the US can expect for 40-60 years of their life. Sad, isn't it?

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ajbarnes777 14 years ago

Wow, that is inspirational and motivational! That's pretty much how my day goes except for the $900 bucks before noon thing!

Thanks for the extra motivation!
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Istvan Horvath

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Lisa Gergets

Actually, his life one year ago is pretty much what anyone in the US can expect for 40-60 years of their life. Sad, isn't it?

And in Canada and in Europe (mainly in the Western side but more and more in the former "second world", too) and probably almost everywhere in the 'civilized developed' countries.

I am old enough to remember how the "futurologists" in the 60s and 70s were wondering what would we do with all that free time in the future when the work week will be only 3 days, LOL!

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Angel2988 14 years ago

Wow! What an inspiring post. I have a wife and three awesome boys and I dream about the day that I can finally spend all the time I want with them. Congrats on living the dream my friend. I sincerely hope things only get better from here. Take care.
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theemperor

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath

Lol! I watched "capitalism a love story" last weekend - it sheds some light on why most people have to work ridiculous hours to make ends meet.

Although the film hit on wall street it didn't touch on the biggest swindles of all ... the fractional-reserve banking system and central banks. They are the reason we are working so hard. All those millions the bankers make? They are the fruits of your labour!

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Rick Meza 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Lisa Gergets

Actually, his life one year ago is pretty much what anyone in the US can expect for 40-60 years of their life. Sad, isn't it?

Anyone IN THE WORLD actually can expect this if they are not willing to take MASSIVE ACTION & turn their lives around! .. He did it, I did it YOU all can do it as well!!

God bless
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PS.- oops! sorry, CONGRATS man!!
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BSco 14 years ago

Fantastic and motivational story!
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steve-wilkins 14 years ago

What a great read, thanks for sharing. I had a similar storey around 2 years ago, it's great to let people know that with a little motivation and application, we have it in our own hands to turn things around for the better!
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Lilach 14 years ago

Woohoo! Must have been great writing that post!

Always good to look back on what we have achieved.

Wonder where you will be this time next year!

Well done

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JuliaParkerNYC 14 years ago

quite a motivational story.. hope everyone get such life

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aldowins 14 years ago

Really inspiring, thank you for sharing this.
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richporr 14 years ago

I am so happy for you.

I think the worst thing that could happen to any of us is to come to the end of our lives having regrets. And the only regrets we will think are important at that time are the ones that are connected to the people we love. We won't worry so much about whether we missed a promotion at work or could never afford that big boat.

Family first! And IM is a wonderful way to make that happen. Congratulations.

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ChristineP 14 years ago

Love it - I'm happy for you and for your kids and your girl!
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simplenfun 14 years ago

This is the most motivated story i ever read! Thks for sharing with us.
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- birdie28a 14 years ago
  
  Very motivating, great story.
  
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poker princess 14 years ago

Inspiring and motivational schedule
Any secret of buying the domains on such particular days of the week ?
You must be really happy with your daily routine now. Guess mine is totally different as I am just a newbie in the internet marketing world as well as monetizing.

Hope you have your desired weekend in Colorado
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- kyhell 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by poker princess
  
  Any secret of buying the domains on such particular days of the week ?
  
  Thank you for your kind words it means alot. to answer your question. i try to break up my work through out the week, one day ill do keyword research and on another ill buy domains. no real reason other than it gives me a tangable schedule i can work in. there are a few things I do on certian days for a reason. such as i always try to have my ebay auctions close by 9pm cst on sundays.
  good luck with your business. stay focused you'll go far
  
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kyhell 14 years ago

i just wanted to say thank you to all of you that have left such kind words. I feel very lucky to have what i do. It really is my wish that every one has the chance, like i did today to reflect on where they were and where they are. I hope you feel the same way i did today. it really was the first time i took a moment to reflect like that and i was amazed. Thank you for allowing me to share it with you.
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entrepreneurjay 14 years ago

Great story I love motivational success stories like these congratulations my friend!
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- Hanz 14 years ago
  
  Good on ya kyhell. So do you recommend site-flipping and all that? How long does it normally take for you to create a good site and getting traffic?
  
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  kyhell 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Hanz
  
  Good on ya kyhell. So do you recommend site-flipping and all that? How long does it normally take for you to create a good site and getting traffic?
  
  Seo is not my area of expertise. i was very lucky that a friend of mine has a few pr4 websites in a similar niche and has been kind enough to float me traffic and basiclly sponser my site. my biggest two money makers are a paid membership sporting website and of course ebay. I am attempting to create a large blog network of 100 or more sites in the hope that i can sell the entire network in a years time. I also do a lot of offline work with website and hosting packages that I do for people and companies in a 100 mile radius of where i live. with that i also do content management for some of them and that also pays well.
  the website in my sig is a little experiment im doing. trying to see what can be done with content seo only on a free host with a few backlinks. nothing serious there just trying things out and testing a few ideas i have picked up here and there.
  I am looking into buying established sites in the near future but i am leary as i have been burned a few to many times.
  i also do alot of writing and im selling it to AC i average about anywhere in the ball park of $100 to $175 a week doing that. considering doing some writing here but am holding off for a month or two before i post an ad in the wso area so i can finish up a few projects.
  
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chewie49 14 years ago

do you make money on ebay with droshipping or buying and selling products?
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- kyhell 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by chewie49
  
  do you make money on ebay with droshipping or buying and selling products?
  
  with eBay I buy and sell. did the dropshipping thing once and will never consider doing that again. paid a membership fee and the mark up was just to high to profit once you figure in all of eBays fees. not to mention most of the time the items were out of stock. honestly one of the best things i do is occasionally i purchase from liquidation.com and resell on eBay. but you have to be pretty selective about what you buy. there is a lot of junk there but from time to time you can find some diamonds.
  
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chewie49 14 years ago

and even buying on eBay to sell again on eBay you can find good prices with a decent profit margin?
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- Hobo82 14 years ago
  
  Hey Kyhell, what a great post, you said the truth. What you were doing a year ago is what the majority of people do these days. I invision what you are doign now, having a wife who works hard and a daughter I understand. I hope I can get things started, I am sort of running in place. Great post.
  
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  Hanz 14 years ago
  
  I remember one thing I did by accident a few years ago. There was a new Russell Peters DVD that came out in stores. I bought it for a friend of mine for $15.99 I think it was on the same day it was released. My friend already had a copy though which he also bought that same day. So instead of returning my copy to the store, I decided to throw it up on eBay starting at .01 cent.
  Within a few hours, there was a horde of bids and ultimately I ended selling the DVD for around $33 to a gentleman in the U.K + about $5 for shipping.
  The point of this story? People lap up whatever brand new product or gizmo comes out. That's why eBay selling is still mighty big business.
  The auctions which get the most attention are the ones which start at a penny with no reserve.
  I remember the Wii Fit making mad sales on eBay a little while ago when it came out.
  
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  kyhell 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Hanz
  
  I remember the Wii Fit making mad sales on eBay a little while ago when it came out.
  
  ~Grin~ I remember them too... fondly I might add
  
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Edk 14 years ago

Getting there friend. Inspirational, wow!
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bgucor 14 years ago

That's a real inspiration. Congrats on that. I have kids too. I'm hoping to get there soon.
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robrave 14 years ago

Thank you for this inspiring posts!

It makes me realize that I shouldn't give up and eventually and inevitably, good things will come.
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money2k 14 years ago

Sounds like a sweet day. I'm hoping I can share my experiences soon. Very inspirational
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ina696 14 years ago

Great story. Inspired me! Thank you, kyhell.

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numba8 14 years ago

ugh 5am wake ups!?! The only time I'm up at 5am is if I haven't gone to bed yet =p Thats a great story though, Internet Marketing is tough to break into but if one sticks with it, it can be very rewarding, as you have proved.
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sande 14 years ago

Just what I needed thanks.
Grace
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thetrafficaddict 14 years ago

You've come a long way.

Good job. You should realize that you're living the dream life of a lot of people in the forum. Continue doing what you do.
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Charann Miller 14 years ago

The fact that your life literally changed in a year is inspiring, goes to show what you can achieve. Nice one.
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ChrisChoiSEO 14 years ago

Great glimpse into the Internet lifestyle. I can see how people can have a 4 hour work day but the whole 4 hour work week always sounded impossible to me.
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amujtabaa1 14 years ago

I hope I never get a 9 to 5 cubicle job. My mom had one and she hated it. Now she is self employed and loving it. She says she has ultimatum job security.
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windtalker 14 years ago

It is great you was able to change your life kyhell, congrats!
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Madelaine 14 years ago

Woow, good job and the way you are improving I can only imagine how it will look next year
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kyhell 14 years ago

I was reading through the comments and I wanted to just throw this out there... A lot no Most of my success has come from networking. My business is where it's at because of the contacts I have made. For instance as I stated above I have a dear friend that runs several high ranking websites and if it wasn't for the relationship I developed with him my sites wouldn't have the traffic they do. With my eBay business I depend on repeat customers. Service after the sale is as important as the sale it's self. My advice to those that are just starting out or even those IM vets that are "stuck" Is to find yourself some friends or a mentor. Reach out to people and make contacts share what you know and soak up what you can. IM can be a very lonely business if you don't have someone to lean on from time to time. But by far the most powerful thing I did in my life that ended up changing my life and my business is that I began to surround myself with the kinds of people I wanted to be. I know it sounds cliché but true none the less as I tell my 18 year old son "Positive people create positive people!"
Thank you all again for your kind words. Your positive feedback truly does motivate me.
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- luckystepho 14 years ago
  
  Thanks for sharing- really positive and inspirational! I hope to be there very soon.
  
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TJCarter 14 years ago

Watch ya fella.

It seems to me that life is treating you well at the moment.
Aren't you glad you started your online business?

Before l became an internet Marketer l use to be a self employed carpenter. I did enjoy my job but l hated getting up at 5 am in the morning and not getting home until 7 pm. The other disadvantage of being a self employed carpenter is that l always had to chase people who owed me money.

There are many benefits to starting an online business, including low start-up costs, passive income, and the ability to work at home.
The biggest advantages in owning an online business is that it can be completely liberating. You can create your own schedule allowing for greater flexibility for you and your family.

Good luck to ya kyhell. Hope things carry on going well for ya
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Riz 14 years ago

Congratulations on an amazing turnaround, i'm really happy for you.

Fantastic read and very inspiring for anyone out there struggling to turn their lifes around.

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