This is not for me I QUIT

Well, I don't buy so much IM stuff like I used to.. not anymore!

Marian

I have yet to have this feeling, because I like to change what I do online now and then, just to keep it interesting. Doesn't mean I tear old sites/projects down though.

I almost quit several times (been doing this for over six years.) I wasn’t making money and my home business was actually costing me more than I was bringing in. People working in $10.50 an hour jobs were making more in a day than I was in a month. But something inside of me told me to just keep going, and I’m glad I did. I’ve given up on so many other things in my life, but just could never bring myself to give up on this. I’m too old to quit at this point and have been doing this somewhat successfully for too long.


My home business was a complete joke for the longest time it was really like “Business? what businesses? businesses make money you aren’t making money so therefore you don’t have a business.” at my lowest point I felt more like a struggling artist, writer or musician than a business person/entrepreneur.

Success in Internet Marketing is usually not visible over a night. Sometimes there are some lucky guys/girls who make a profit over night for long term. You need to have a patience and never give up.

Been in this game 8 years. I still can't figure out why I can make $800 one week and $30 the next.

I know it's already been mentioned but it's definitely worth saying again....information overload! There just seems to be a never ending list of things to learn. I knew I would never quit but I definitely can understand why some would.

I've never felt like that.

Just keep going steadily. Don't overdo it. Maintain a balance by doing sports and exercise. Dont spend 20 hours a day at your PC. You need balance and perspective to work smart.

Welcome to WF,

Let me get this right, you want us to write our most terrible moments so you can turn it into a product and sell it?

ileneg

I gave up on making my first million as it was tooo hard and started on the second.

A lot easier second time round.

Quentin

In April of last year, I was laid off from a six-figure position at Microsoft.

My wife and I agreed that I would now stay home with the kids and she would go back to work, because she was really tired of the whole stay-at-home mom thing.

For reasons I didn't understand at the time, and still don't entirely understand, the money ran out. My unemployment wasn't enough. So I came to the Warrior Forum, and started looking into ways we could earn a small income online to keep our heads above water.

Then we got our eviction notice. My wife had simply... not paid the rent.

I started freelance writing on the forum, and rapidly built up some good money.

We got evicted anyway.

In July, we had to move into a hotel.

In August, we moved down to Oregon.

In September, my wife packed up the kids and left me, then I was kicked out of the hotel. I came back up to Washington.

In October, I got a $5,000 writing client. Things were looking up. I planned to take November off from writing and develop my own product.

In November, the client disappeared with the work and never paid me. The state of Washington began seizing half my unemployment check to cover a $12,000 child support debt based on paperwork my wife had filed behind my back.

To increase her own cash benefit on the paperwork, she had reported that I still worked at Microsoft and still earned the six-figure salary I'd lost six months earlier. She either didn't know or didn't care that the state was merrily running up a $2,000 monthly child support tab for me behind the scenes.

On November 22, I dropped my still-unfinished product on the WSO forum and managed to make a little money with it. It still sells to this day; it's not a bad product.

On December 11, between the lack of clients and the reduced unemployment, we had no money. We hadn't eaten in three days. We couldn't afford to remain in the hotel. We moved all of our stuff into the car and parked in a Safeway parking lot.

We would live in that car for two weeks before my parents returned from a trip to Ohio and let us move into the basement.

During that time, I received two writing orders from Warriors who never received their work. I kind of spent the money on silly things like food, but was so heavily stressed and unable to handle anything that I just plain couldn't get the work done. I haven't forgotten these debts, I am not in any way trying to hide from them or conceal them, and they will be repaid.

But I digress.

Sitting on my desk right now, I have a notebook. And that notebook is open to this page.



This is what I did on December 12 of last year. It was just after midnight, and I was unable to sleep. My girlfriend and my four cats were in the car with me, and it was 17 degrees outside.

This is a comprehensive plan for a major product. A guru-style product, that comes in a big box and costs $2,500. And while the plans have changed somewhat, the core elements laid out on this page of the notebook are still the same.

I can't say outright that this is the difference between failure and success in this industry, because I'm no success yet. But my gut tells me that this is what makes the difference - that when things are at their darkest, and you're not really sure whether that light at the end of the tunnel is a train, and you start thinking that you should quit...

You plan your multi-million dollar product launch instead.

@CDarlock, that is one hell of a story there. I wish you the best in you endeavors and hope you frame that page when you reach the success you desire. Wow. I'm speechless after reading that.

I once set up an Adwords campaign and accidentally set both the display and destination URLs to the vendor's sales page sans affiliate code.

In a related story, a friend at the time had his campaign running for a while before discovering he'd set the destination to his download page rather than the sales page.

Biggest thing I've found to remember is not to be put off by a bad day, or even week but keep your eye on the end target - helps get over the inevitable moments when you just feel like giving it in - few things more souls destroying than investing hours and hours of your time in something that generates zero return!

A friend of mine who got me into this told me when he started in PPC, he was excited to make his first $30 only to have an adwords bill for $1000 an hour later.

You are 2 posts into IM and you're already thinking about I Quit moments? Seems like a bit of jumping the gun....

Caliban,
Dude, I already appreciated your contributions to the Warrior Forum but I have a whole new respect for you now my friend. Hopefully some newbie who is deciding whether or not it's worth it to continue in IM will read your post and tell themselves "If Caliban can go through all this s--t and still survive I can do it too."

Wishing you success as you continue your journey!
Jim

I agree with several of the other posts in that I almost quit due to Information Overload.... I still suffer from it.. I have to remain focused on each project and stick with it. I generally choose a few projects to work on at a time and don't start anything else until each one is finished... some are a success, some are not.. but maintaining focus is soooo important.

Funnily enough, I just put up a post about something related to this thread, and I had no idea this thread existed, small world

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...not-worth.html

After reading so much information about affiliate marketing and still wasn't able to make the money each said I will make, I said "I Quit" but then remembered quitters never win and winners never quit. I don't over burden myself with a lot of those e-books, I have drawn a plan and stuck to it and now am seeing the benefit of it. Was lucky I didn't really quit.

I did say "I Quit" with affiliate marketing, but it wasn't affiliate marketing that I quit - it was trying to implement methods that didn't work for me. Because I my long term strategy is fits my personality, affiliate marketing has become fun again. Now to go hunt down my next million dollar payday

I've never thought about quitting, it's not an option for me and has never been.

When did I get most nervous/scared during my IM career? When the money was running out and I didn't know where I was going to live the following month. I was resigned to live out of my car if need be.

The financial ups and downs were hardest for me to take in the beginning.

Ryan Biddulph

I almost quit when I realize that my expenses are much bigger than my income. But I really love IM. And once I love something, I never let it go ^_^. Good luck for u

I never really thought about actually quitting...

Instead, what I found frustrating for quite some time was traffic generation...which boiled down to keyword research.

When I got a grasp on doing correct keyword research, a lot of stress disappeared.

Interesting.. I had to think about if I ever thought about completely quitting..

Since the day I decided to pursue IM 7+ years ago, I never thought about quitting totally (I knew I'd do something.. no option) - really my dream was to just do this full-time.. and I knew there were a ton of options/models for me out there and if I stuck with it long enough, tried to avoid the scams and schemes, worked hard and focused I'd figure it out.

And did. I quit a lot of 'IM Models' and had to make several attempts at different things to finally make the level of income I needed to go full-time.. but I never thought about quitting completely.

I took a lesson from Napoleon Hills, Think and Grow Rich and applied it. I had made up my mind.. I didn't know what form it would come in, but I knew in my heart if I stayed the course I'd make it.

Great thread...CDarklock.....wow......respect from me......thats one hell of a history!