Newbies... Don't Give Up! I Didn't... And I Achieved My Goals!

Well, I think online marketing is a perfect test of one's character. It is obvious that there are people who are making money online.

It's achievable, it's doable, it's real. If they can do it, so will I.

No matter how many setbacks I'll encounter, it will just work, sooner or later.

People with weaker minds tend to allow doubts and fears to control them and lure them back to their day jobs - which is too bad.

As Winston Churchill once said: Never, never, never, never give up.

Great inspiration for newbies. Wish I had your inspiration 3 years ago when I started out.

To give up, in some cases, is a good decision...

However, it is very difficult for beginners to estimate whether the time is right for withdrawal. They do not know what will be.

The easiest way is to give up. But as Shane Natan said: test, test, test... whether it be on IM or painting.

Hey SHANE, thanks for the inspiration, it goes a long way for those who are just getting started.. the road may be unclear, but the Pathway is SURE.. Blessings to you bro..

Your right. Taking action makes a BIG difference!
Been there, done that and yep, am happy
Dennis

Thanks for the encouragement. My first six months have been spent discovering overhype, f..ing with IM software that doesn't work unless the moon is in the 7th house, and various other tragedies.

Now, to find that rainbow.

Great post Shane.

You got to keep on keepin on - Joe Dirt

Hi Shane,

Great advise for the newbies. Success has a very simple equation ; KNOWLEDGE + ACTION + POSITIVE ATTITUDE = SUCCESS. The reason that most people fail at any thing they attempt is exactly what you elude to "Don't give up!" The last part of that equation is the very essence of the failure. Giving up . . and staying focused on the door that is closing, instead of looking at the door that is open.

Our mindset certainly plays a dramatic role in the outcome. Once we have our head screwed on correctly, we realize that we control the outcome and do something about it . . .Wow! Look at the results.

Go out and make it a great day!
Lloyd Dobson

As the original poster states - never give up, and remember there are DOZENS of ways of making money online.

My first success was in writing software. Wow, I made almost $100,000 from that idea.

I am now moving heavily into article writing. I have a decent formula going on Hubpages (see my .sig).

My friend made a lot of money from eBay.

I'm looking at Kindle next.

With so much available, it is sometimes difficult to figure out what to do next. From what I can see, it is just to keep on going. And never stop but be consistent. Thanks for the encouragement and the results. More to do today and some more tomorrow.

Yes, don't give up. Writing down your goal that energies you and looking at it everyday will help you do that.

Don't give up is not enough.

I noticed a lot of people.. who keep on pressing.. but still fail regardless.

The reason why not giving up works is, when you keep on doing it... you will somehow start to see the connection, the big pictures and the right place to put in your pieces of puzzles.

One of the main thing is... never ever jump from one system to another. If you keep on jumping from here to there (for example, this week with Google Sniper and then with Auto Blogging) you won't see any success.

Give the system time to work. At least 4 months... do not give up on yourself... and on the system you are using.



Ryan

It's reassuring to read that your hard work paid off in the end. Reading stories like this is great inspiration!

Thanks Shane

And how did you do it Shane? Did you get coaches, or WSO's etc. What do you think has made you successful?

Very inspiring TYVM.

Internet marketing reminds me of playing the guitar. Extremely hard in the begining because you ain't go not callouses (experience/resources) on your fingertips but once you do, everything starts to roll smoothly (HOPEFULLY).

Thanks for the encouragement, Shane. Your success is exciting to hear about and I appreciate the advice.

Hi Shane,

Thanks for sharing your success with us, it is great motivation. Good for you by sticking to you game plan and not backing out. So many of us including myself are indulged with so much info as to how to start, what to do, how to do etc, it gets confusing.

I have read ebooks watched videos, have read many helpful thread in this WF, but still not able to jump in the pool. I know that I can succeed but because I do not know all the things I want to know I am hesitate to act. I have a couple of web sites that I want generate income, from but not sure how to act on it.. For example I want to use Wordress, watched videos and read ebooks but not that good at it, there is so much info. I started one a couple of months ago, but its stuck in neutral.

Sometimes we need that little extra push or guidance to get us going. Fear is a tough mountain to climb. Sorry for blabbing on and on. Once again good for you Shane.

Hobo82

Hi all, I just joined the forum. I wish I'd discovered it a couple of years ago! I've been trying to get something going online for a while now. I've got a couple of sites, that are kind of niche I suppose, and making a little ( and I mean little) money through adsense and amazon but still havn't found the magic formula yet.. I have a business in the 'real' world which is doing quite well but I want something online that generates cash while I sleep! It's great to read about other peoples success and I most definitley agree that you should never give up, and that applies to any business online or not, whatever it is your doing, just keep going, and one day it'll all come good..
All the best,
G

Thanks for the advice!Im just starting out and I need all the help I can get

Here's my question.

What do you do when you are in between part and full time income but can't seem to move into the full time arena?

I'm making good money online for a newbie, but I still need to get myself over the edge and make at least 500-1000 per week so that I can quit this worthless day job and go all in on internet marketing.

Is there something that full time IMers have done that part time IMers haven't? Some secret sauce perhaps?

Two easy but most important things.

1. Take action.
2. Rinse and repeat.

That's pretty inspirational because I'm having a hard time making money in IM. But thanks I should probably get to more reading around here.

Hey.
I just started with IM maybe 3 weeks ago. I wanted to start 1 year ago but I didn't take ACTION ... this was a big mistake because now I see that IM is really a thing that is amazing.
I started wit my first page in a 9k viwes/month niche. I wrote the content build the site and so on. Then I decided to take action. I bought the webspace and the domain and my page was online. This was the first amazing feeling to IM. I did some bookmarking work and wrote 2 articles, submitted them to 4 big directories and sit down. Yea I think I was a bit lucky cause my page was approved on adsense a half day after going online and 24h after launch my page was indexed at google site 3. My friend told me that it is great but I still wanted more. I worked hard writing articles searching for new possibilities to get backlinks and finally I got my first 3 clicks. Again amazing. This was so ... ^^ I think everybody knows what I am talking about. Now 3 weeks after launch my page hit rank 10 on google. One of my articles is right behind my page on rank 11. But no clicks at all. I knwo that's quite good but the last 2 days I felt like come on give up and try something different because I don't know what to do to get the people to click ^^. (yea this sound ridiculous)
but now I read your posts and I am back. You guys hit your aim and I will be the next one. So I shouldn't repeat it again because you said it so often ... but I will:
Take ACTION!

Thanks and I hope I will give back some useful infos anytime to this great forum.

Really inspiration post Shane, thanks for sharing

I'm a newbie and don't want to give up. I believe money can be made it just hasn't happened yet.

Thanks Shane. I think my main problem is patience. Seeing it took you about 4 years to get to where you are now kind of makes my stomach twirl. Hopefully I'll be able to stick with it and come back with a nice story of my own!

Really, Really inspirational post Shane.

I've tried so many how to make money at home products, and how to make money online products, I'm too embarrassed to say. And each time I gave up when the going got hard, I complained when I didn't have enough financial resources to push a deal through.

My friends and family scoffed at me and told me I was insane, stupid, crazy, and just plain easy to be fooled for wasting thousands and thousands of dollars over time on these scams.

I was even told that maybe I just have an addition to this stuff and should seek help. I tried and tried, but could never get anything to work. So I would just give up. I would stop and huddle back into my safe sucky job.

Then, a few months later I'd either see a late night infomercial, or I would read the various emails, and testimonials about people making money... And I would jump back into the fray of making money online once more.

I jump from this system, and jumped to that system, and still couldn't make any money. Then, I forgot where it came from; ebook, book, audiobook, or webinar. I learned something that I never heard before. "If you always try something, you are already setting the ground work for failure".

So the very next opportunity that I ran into was to be an affiliate for a product launch. And the payout was about $69.50 per customer who bought there Multi-Guru Extravaganza. I did my usual thing and told myself, "I think I'll try that." and I started working on getting some sales. And three days before the launch was going to close I still had not converted one single visitor to my site.

I told myself, "Yeah, I knew this wasn't going to work." And then, I don't know why, but I remembered that little tidbit, about just trying something came to mind. So I said, "No, I'm not giving up. I have just being trying to do this thing. Now, I'm going to DO this thing!"

And that's when everything changed. I took down the site. I asked myself what did I want to do. I research why I thought that there were no conversions. I came to the simple conclusion that there wasn't anything in it for the end customers. It was all for me.

With that focus in mind I wrote a long page salesletter (It was all the rage back in the day) I made it customer focused. I lined up some bonuses that would complement the products & services. And then with only one day left, I made the site live and drove some quick traffic via paid email ezines.

After the launch was over, I went in and check my stats...no sales, no conversions, nothing. Well I felt kind of low and optimistic and the same time because this time I didn't give up.

A couple weeks went by and I was on to something else when I received a weird email. I kind of didn't recognize the (From). The email said, "We apologize to all of the affiliates that couldn't get their payout & sales information. Due to the size and high response of the launch, one of our servers crashed. So we are sending out customer sale data, so you can see how many people converted through your affiliate link".

I said, "What?" And then my heart started to beat real fast, and my hands actually started to sweat, (they're sweating even now while I'm reliving this story) I thought to myself, "Oh My God.." Then I looked below. And there under customer conversion was only one number; The number nine. It wasn't 50 or 100 or 250 it was just the (#9).

Somewhere along the way in the last few hours before the launched closed. Among all the visitors that made it to my site. Nine of them read the long page salesletter. Nine of them went to the bottom and looked at the bonuses, (which weren't that exciting to tell you the truth.) Nine people said, "hmm, this sounds pretty good. Let's check it out". And nine people actually purchased the very high priced products and services.

I had converted 9 people at $69.50 making my commission, $625.50. Just because I didn't give up, and decided not to try something. I decided to DO something.

It was the very first time in all the years of trying, that something actually worked. I had made my first money online. I don't want to get mushy, but, let's just say, I became a little emotional.

Thanks for the inspiration...

You are right, there's alight at the end of the tunnel as long as you keep going. Making money is possible online, believe it!

Cliche but true - Winners never quit, quitters never win

It's eye-opening and life-changing when "taking action" becomes your nature, doing instead of trying, when your "addiction" is healthy.
Money is a measure of success, but it is only one--and not the ultimate--thermometer.

I have always been fascinated by people who persevere even when hard work yields nothing if not very little at first. And I'm truly amazed at those who when in the brink of quitting suddenly make their first sale. You will all always serve as an inspiration to everyone out there trying make a living or their first sale. Thanks for sharing your online experience.

Been at this for a little over 4 months, quit 2 weeks in, but getting yelled at during work inspired me to get back into it.

I spent the first 3 months not knowing what I was doing and just recently, I've started seeing my stuff rank on google, but no sales yet. I just experienced a "google dance" today which brought my article down from #1 on google to page 3.

I'm pretty confident that Sept will be the month I make my first dollar. I'm never giving up!

the winner always know the way to make money