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What was your BREAKTHROUGH moment?

by MatthewM
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Every successful marketer at some point has a breakthrough moment that shifts them from trying to make it happen to making a living. I'm just a little bit curious

What Was Your Breakthrough Moment?

Honestly for me my breakthrough moment was learning about affiliate marketing in general. Before I found affiliate marketing my method of making money online was MLM. You know the phone calls the meetings.

Yea great way to make money for some, but for me personally it was hell.

I actually was rather good and was able to recruit people consistently but my downline on the other hand wasn't to quick to catch on. I ended up having to recruit people not only for myself, but for others and I'll still have nightmare to this day from all the 3way calls. To make it worse, one day I went to log into my main company's website and it was gone.

The next day I tried to log in, It wasn't here. A week went by nothing. No replies from staff. 2 weeks later.... Red Hot Mad Angry Pissed Off and Angry. Fed Up to the point of giving up. I quit every program even the ones I had checks coming in. Canceled all my autoships and said there is got to be a better way.

I don't mean to bad talk MLM I'm just speaking from my own experience. I know many warriors make good money with MLM just not me.

And then I found affiliate marketing and that when everything changed. I though how cool is this. Promote other peoples products make money, but heck I can promote products people heard of and wouldn't have to convince people to try something they've never even heard of.

You mean I don't have to pay to join up. Really? No autoships? Sound good. The rest is history. I learned about review landing pages. How to make a list. How to target keywords people buy from. I was off to the races. Jumped right in to ppc lost a little learned alot. I basically paid for my success with the cost of advertisement.

Learned about ezinearticles and seo later.

Discovering affiliate marketing changed my life forever.

Care to share your breakthrough moment experience.
#breakthrough #moment
  • Profile picture of the author x3xsolxdierx3x
    I'll speak in some vague generalities here simply because...well...I've seen tremendous success with just my first product.

    With that said...I'll back up a few months....

    My 'breakthrough' moment was the culmination of quite a bit of research into various Web 2.0 social media, content aggregation/article submission/revenue share platforms. I began to see some serious trends, and identified weaknesses and deficiencies in everything from functionality, to general offerings, and even management.

    I was/am 110% confident that I discovered something...a culmination of that research....that noone else had found. Excited, I kept close guard over it, and spent 5-6 months writing. I began to catch the attention of rather prolific bloggers, who, even me, without any blog or website to my name (yet)....began approaching me about guest posting and doing interviews.

    My 'breakthrough' moment was vindication that I could succeed...and succeed quite well, just by providing true value to others. As a much broader lesson, I think we can all learn from each other here....I'm proud of the research I did, even though, I GUARANTEE I ruffled alot of feathers because of the nature and complexity of my project (long story).

    Every step of the way, I taught myself from the ground up. I purchased products, and bookmarked the heck out of every social media/marketing/MMO blog I could find. I commented for days on end, and formed strong lasting relationships. I really can't take all the credit for my "breakthrough moment" though: I owe bloggers like Yaro Starak, Pat Flynn, etc. a great deal of credit for providing the CONTENT, methods and strategies, that I took, synthesized, learned from, and moved forward with. I owe alot to those guys.
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    • Profile picture of the author AndrewCavanagh
      I can't think of any one thing in particular but I do remember having the realization that regardless of how broke I might be I could create a site that looked just as professional as anyone else's because ultimately sites are just html code (to be fair back then most sites were pretty simple).

      The internet is an interesting leveller.

      A large business doesn't necessarily have a significant advantage over an intelligent one man operation.

      Online they can look identical or the one man operation can be dominating the search engines, have a much more effective sales process on his website etc etc.

      The secret is to have the mindset that you really can produce something online as good or better than anyone else regardless of where you're starting from.

      Kindest regards,
      Andrew Cavanagh
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  • Profile picture of the author Ernie Lo
    It was when I posted a thread here complaining that I couldn't make it. Many fantastic warriors made me realize that I did have many successes in the past but I just never stuck to one thing long enough.

    I've now been doing Adsense for last 6 months and each month income is at least doubling

    I now take action every single day and realise that it's a slow process of many repetitive and tedious tasks to get where you need to be...but for some reason I still love it
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  • Profile picture of the author xstrobex
    When I got my first clickbank sale

    Then again when I finally got accpeted into a CPA network and just started ballin from there
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    • Profile picture of the author regska
      When I realized how important is to have a mailing list. Prior to me building a subscribers list, I just focus on selling. I've experienced selling in Ebay, Amazon, and Clickbank. I sell for about two years without really trying to build my list because I just want to earn money immediately. But when my sales started to go down, I heard someone said, "the money is in the list", and "if you want to build a stable business, you should build a list".

      That's when I realized that building a subscribers list is the number 1 priority whatever you do online. When I started building my list, it was really slow in the beginning. But when I had enough number of subscribers, that's when it started to snow-ball. i started doing some ad swaps, and created a product about list building, recruit affiliates, turn my subscribers into affiliates, and I was able to leverage my efforts that exponentially grew my list.

      That was my breakthrough moment, if I had not experienced my sales gone down. I wouldn't be able to start building my list.
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