How I Went From -20,000$ in debt to 40,000$/month in 3 years (My True Success Story)

Hi guys,

I used to troll around here a lot in the past, really had some of my earlier successes here selling WSO's... some of you may remember me. I used to be struggling online, like most people here I assume.

I never spent much time on forums, sometimes I would post here and there, but I mostly spent my time on reading and applying the stuff I was learning.

I had some moderate success after 2 years or so, making 200$ some months... on a really good month I'd make 1000$, and others months I'd make 50$. It was really hit and miss.

Anyway, Fast forward to today. I am happy to say that I'm now making a little over 40,000$ / month (in revenues) and it's growing pretty quickly.

In fact, at this pace, I'm hoping to hit 100,000$ / month sometimes in the coming 6 months.

I'm working closely with someone who's well known in the industry, and is helping me get there right now.

But I got here all by myself. I was just like you, in my basement. I knew no one, but all I knew was that there was money to be made online. Because John Reese said so, and I believed him. His success story was forever imprinted in my mind and I kept thinking about John Reese whenever I wanted to quit. (He was 100,000$ in debt before he was 23. AND It took him like 4 years or something to make his first 2,000$ online)

Watch this video from John, it's helped me a lot:

The Only Way To Change Your Reality Is To Face Your Reality

You must be wondering how I got here and what I'm doing?

The answer is Affiliate Marketing.

And it took me about 3 years to do it.

I used to come home from my 9 to 5, eat supper, talk with a family member or whoever was home, then work from 7 to 3 or 4 am. Every day.

And when I got fired from my job, I had decided that this was it, I was gonna give it my all.

I worked 6-7 days a week, 16-18 hours a day.. often times I would not sleep because I was so obsessed. I studied everything I could get my hands on. It then took me about 1 year after I quit my job to see my first success.

It was a $40 check for one month. I was so happy, it had confirmed that I could make money online. And at this point, I knew I was going to make it, although I had no idea how.

Next month it was $120.

And the rest is history as they say.

Last year I made a little under 200,000$ in revenue. This year I am on track to making at least 500,000$ and hopefully hit the million dollar mark before I hit the age of 30.

I have learned from MANY people, I could not pack all the stuff I learned in this post.

But I am a big believer in the law of attraction, and I have read countless books on this. And I really believe that what you think you become. I am living proof of this.

I did visualizations, I held a gratitude journal, I wrote affirmations down, I even said them out loud, I meditated.

I read incessantly, maybe an average of 4 hours a day+.

I literally became obsessed with success, and ANYTHING I read that I could apply, I would apply it to see if it worked for me.

And the majority of things did not work, mostly because I could not execute the ideas well. But the few that did, worked REALLY well.

And I just kept building on those small successes.

Oh yes, I should mention that I had MANY failures before this success. It wasn't exactly a walk in the park. And many people have criticized me along the way, telling stuff like "what are you doing in your basement, you think youre going to get rich off the internet?" mocking me and stuff like that.

Well it's REALLY INTERESTING, because I now make more money than most of them make in a year, in 1 or 2 months.

I'm not saying this to brag. Just to make the point. If YOU are SERIOUS, about this business, you WILL get these kind of comments. But you simply CANNOT listen to them. They do not know any better.

I have decided long ago to not take business advice from anyone that isn't making the kind of money I want to be making. This means sometimes being able to remain focused despite weird looks from people that are close to you in your life. That's okay. Just keep pushing.

My formula was simple.

1. Read from CREDIBLE sources

2. APPLY as quickly as you possibly can so the learning cements in your motor response

3. Watch & Study the FEEDBACK you get from the market

4. Learn from it, then adjust, tweak and IMPROVE your approach

You basically FAIL your way FORWARD.

This article was immensely influential on my operating mindset, and in shaping how I operate online today:

John Reese (TrafficSecrets.com) - Articles - How *Crap* Can Dramatically Boost Your Profits!

I hope this post was somehow inspirational to some of you...

Because I can remember a time where I was a struggling newbie... reading success stories from others... feeling inspired.

Well consider this my contribution...

Good luck to all of you!!!

Rhen

EDIT:

Someone asked more info about what resources I could recommend, and how I did it exactly.

I've had some time to reflect on this, and here's what I came up with that had the most impact on my success based on my personal experience:

1. By far the most important IMO is changing my poor/lack/not enough mindset into a RICH/abundant mindset... the way you know you're there is when you start to interpret everything as a positive. For example, when I lost 20,000$ one time... I used that as a positive learning experience, and was actually grateful for it. The underlying mindset is that there is always enough in this universe to go about (This actually turned out to be one of the best things that ever happened to me because a very positive thing happened as a result of this)... Of course I wasn't like ecstatic about it, what I'm trying to say is that I wasn't freaking the hell out like most people probably would... and I made sure to reflect on the lessons I learned so I don't repeat them again. (write your expensive/embarrassing lessons in a notebook so you can make sure that it is truly a learning and positive experience)... that way you eliminate failure instantly, as it becomes a success when you learn something new. And you grow wiser, smarter and stronger for the next challenge.

Also, getting over my fear and being OK with launching less than perfect projects. Because launching a crappy something is better than an almost perfect project that never gets launched.

I just got over the over-perfectionism mentality that had plagued me for so long, and just threw stuff out there without any attachment to the outcome.

2. Probably as important is education. My philosophy was to study from the best of the best ONLY (the bulk of my time at least). Going to the root of Internet Marketing and realizing that it is only Direct Response-Marketing simply applied to an online medium and not getting caught up in marketing gimmicks or the latest trickery software or script, but actually learning the fundamentals of marketing (where the real money is made).

The basics. The stuff that has not changed for the past 100 years and will not change, because it is based on human nature.

A few notable teachers I followed very closely: Dan Kennedy, John Reese, Eben Pagan, Ryan Deiss. I bought a lot of their stuff (on credit card).

I not only consumed their products, but I studied their marketing. (I collected all their sales letters, e-mails, etc.)

3. Keeping low-income activities to a minimum (youtube, playing games online, posting in forums, reading stuff on Digg.com, etc.)

I used rescuetime.com (free) which is a software that logs the time you spend on your PC. Its enlightening because a lot of time you dont realize youre spending so much time doing something you shouldnt be doing. But once you know you can stop it. So thats helped a lot.

4. I had developed a "take massive action AS QUICKLY AS I CAN" attitude. I never wasted time. I only invested time on a project after it had showed some promise. If it failed, I simply took the lesson and moved on to my next idea.

5. I created a mind-movie with a bunch of pictures of what I wanted, and watched this every day. Using Windows Movie Maker... which is really easy to do.

I also used to carry in my pocket a pile of fake cash wrapped with 2 or 3... 20$ bills around it with an elastic band. This gave me the feeling that I was already rich.

I'm really big on the whole Law Of Attraction thing.

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That's just my way. I'm sure it's not THE way or the ONLY way... but it's worked for me... I hope someone can use some of this to create some success for himself in the near future.