Heavily discouraged, but not out

Hello World. I sit here on this Wednesday morning extremely discouraged. Here's why: My site flipping venture has gone in a downward spiral as of late. I am nowhere near as successful as I was, say, three months ago. My two auctions on Sitepoint aren't doing so well. Here are the links to them, I guess:

Auction 1
Auction 2

Here is the story on those: I first placed the first site up for sale with zero promotion and whatnot but it didn't receive a single bid. So I decided to keep it for a minute and get traffic to it. Did some light promo with it and traffic has shot up. I even lowered the price to the point that if it did sell, I would actually LOSE money on the actual sale (when calculating all the costs) but would gain some money back. The current bid is at $65 but I am not that desperate to let it go for that much.

The second site I also promoted. More than the first site, even. But it's not getting any bids. It won't sell either.

Both sites do have proof of traffic.

Here is the moral of this entire story: Unless you're SuiteJ, TheAtHomeCouple, Desmond, or Kate Anderson, flipping startups on Sitepoint no longer works. It did back then, but it doesn't now.

Now I am stuck with two monkeys on my back that may unfortunately get abandoned. I haven't the slightest clue on what to do with them now. I've talked to my boy Swastik on Skype and he told me that I needed to build a list on the sites. That wasn't my intention nor was I prepared for it. Not to mention it decreased my confidence a bit. That should have been done BEFORE I even started to build the sites. It's too late for that now - they're too much promoted. And even then, I'd still need to outsource the creation of e-courses, which will cost me more money. And now, I'm out of $32 more.

As discouraged as I am, I can't let this failure get me out of the game. I'm here to tell you guys that I'm keeping my head up. This isn't a big deal. I just wanted to vent a bit but being the determined individual I am, I REFUSE TO LOSE. Not only am I going to prove that little teenage chick wrong (you know, the one who told me to go to Publix and ask for a job), but I am going to break the usual life cycle in my family. My family is way too old school as far as life is concerned, but I am way too smart and way too tech savvy to be in a grocery store, a restaurant, a retail store, or otherwise dressed up in some ridiculous uniform working for somebody else.

Here is why I'm sticking with site flipping: It HAS worked for me, and I am certain it will continue to work for me. I just gotta change my game plan, iron out some kinks, get more advice, and take action.

I don't know if you guys know this, but I was a member of Wealthy Affiliate last year. I thought that was my way out. Seven months and $210 later, I left it. IM hasn't made me a single penny and I'm not foolish enough to keep wasting time and money on something that is NOT going to work for me. Listen, if in six months something doesn't work for you, LET IT GO. It's stupid to keep going because in six months you should have learned enough to make it work. Site flipping on the other hand HAS worked (made $1100 total profit with it in three months) and that is the reason why I am going to use it to break the cycle in my family. They don't know my intentions, nor do they deserve to know.

So I will leave you guys with this encouraging post:

Presistance Pays

Biggy Fat will still be flipping sites. But it's back to the drawing board for that. God will show me the way. He WILL make a way, guaranteed. I'm putting it in his hands.