Sharing My Ups and Downs Online (My Story)
I started about 3 years ago after reading the 4 hour workweek from Tim Ferris and I learned the value of having a passive income. At the time I had just quit my fulltime job at lowes home improvement center to pursue my passion of being a pro BMX racer.
At that time I quickly found out that the pay involving my hobby wasnt exactly much to write home about so I was forced to start hustling and figure out a way to make income which still left me time to train and ride my bike.
I started training people to gain muscle on the side to fund my bmx career and after reading Tims book I made a low budget DVD teaching bmx racers how to get faster on their bikes. I would sell this outta my back pack between my races at events and eventually taught myself wordpress and began a daily video blog talking about bmx and training.
After almost a year of making videos and blog post I was only making around 1,000 bux a month barely able to get by I moved back into my parents house to continue my online ventures.
I learned the the hard way about niche validation, the market for bmxers wanting to get strong is very small.
This point I was led into the world of affiliate marketing and since then I have had a ton of ups and downs but I can say I have been fulltime online now for the last 2 years.
I started affiliate marketing when I discovered the power of sniper sites, you see I just so happened to review a popular product and at the time that it launched I made something like 50 sales. What i had done was what now is coined the term "Launch Jacking".
After the initial shock of having a 1,000 dollar day I reverse engineered what I had done and began on a mission to create 100 sniper style blogs selling affiliate stuff. I have since hit that mild stone and last year I sat back and passively collected about 50k in commissions into my clickbank account.
this brings me up until about a few months ago when Googles little panda/penguin updates reered its ugly head.
I was about to learn why you shouldn't build your business on the sand known as Google
Since January I started to slowly watch my income become less and less consistent so I began to aggressively work on growing my email list.
I want to add that my niche is muscle building not internet marketing.
Since january I have been able to build my list to 7k subscribers and I email them daily.
This year I am on pace to do about 75k fulltime online so i am expecting a 25% growth from last year with the added bonus of my key asset, my email list.
I am a big fan of talking to your tribe everyday, I believe it has been the key component as to why I was able to immedietly recover my income and I will now be able to grow my income much higher and I have a legit asset of email fans that want to hear from me everyday.
I hope maybe this inspires some of you guys who may be in a rut. Keep taking action it will always pay off.
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