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How Long Did It Take You Before You Made $$$

by steveshills
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This post is ment for people that are earning a 5 figuare income per mth, and the reason for my post is to see just how long it took for you to get to that income level.

people like myself making peanuts, read and take note.

See one of the problems i found when i first started internet marketing 1 and a half years ago, is just how quick i found myself chasing the quick easy buck, now of course it never happened, and that was my own stupid fault beacuse i've run an offline business before, and that had taken time to build before i saw any real return for my efforts.

So come on people, lets us know just how much time and effort did you put in to get to this income level?
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  • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
    Originally Posted by steveshills View Post

    This post is ment for people that are earning a 5 figuare income per mth
    Most of them will not answer you.

    I've worked for a lot of these people as a content writer. They don't spend much time posting on the forum. They come here to read and research, but their post counts are low - usually right around the 50 mark that allows them to send PMs.

    The three major answers to your question, however, are:

    - Massive sacrifices in the early days
    - A concentration on passive income
    - Slow and steady improvement over time

    Most of the people I've met who make a five-figure monthly income took a deep breath, plunged in, and were prepared to make a two or three figure monthly income for a year or longer. They made that "whatever it takes" commitment.

    Over the course of that time, their focus was on doing small things that needed little supervision. Regardless of what they did, large paydays were uncommon and unpredictable; most of their efforts produced incremental and ongoing changes in their income, which did not require their ongoing involvement.

    Through focus and dedication, these things added up - three to ten dollars a day on the average is about where most of the projects start to settle after the first year, and less than two years of steady production - one more project every week - gets them to five figures monthly.

    A three year turnaround is about normal, after a period of flailing around trying to figure out how to make it work. Year one is tough; year two is tight; year three starts to get comfortable.

    This is, of course, just my own perception. There are probably a lot of people out there who don't hire writers, and are doing something entirely different.
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      Cheers for a reply, it's taken me over a year to get from point a to point b, which is what you've just said, it takes time, and now i'm just building large websites, with lots of content added.

      Gone are my days of building micro niche sites or squidoo lenses, just to much time taken, i may as well build a site with 20 plus pages, this way after 6 months i can see if its worth working on still, or i can flip it for a profit because it's aged a little bit.
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    The longest I know of is 6 years, a friend who found a "killer niche" 6 years ago.. selling new technology. One problem - there was high interest in the tech, but nobody was buying/trusting it.

    He had to wait it out until public trust grew but now he is doing really well out of it and it makes up for the years of being broke. Now (almost) everybody wants the tech and he is the UK market leader.

    During the years he wasn't turning a profit he kept on going, working on it each day slowly building his business layer by layer, making new contacts and really pushing the tech into the mainstream. It's paid off for him, yet he had years of people telling him he was crazy and to "get a real job".
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    • Profile picture of the author steveshills
      See perfect example their, it takes time but the end result is worth it. One thing i always talk about is IM being a numbers game, and time. Trust in both of these factors and you will be successful.
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