Full Time Marketers - When did it get easy for you?

It is all relative...

It is easier than it was in the beginning, because in the beginning I had no experience, and now I have years of experience under my belt...

But, while the process gets easier with more experience, it has never stopped being hard work...

when you start making more money than you spend
so you have the money to invest back and try things without the fear of failing and loosing your month's labor earnings...

LOL This is a great question!

It really never gets easier...you're always learning (hopefully)! One thing is true...it is NOT easy. It is hard work just like any other job you'd do, but the benefits of being able to do this whenever and wherever you want are priceless (well, to me anyways!)

I can't say it is easy because you still have to put in the work but when I realized how I could make a nice living with my skill set it became easier.

I tried a lot of different ways to generate revenue for probably 8 months or so before I found out that I could drive traffic to my site using articles and since I like to write it clicked then.

Like a knucklehead, I never accessed my skill set... I just tried a lot of different methods that are out there thinking one would make me money.

Just like the "real" world, one needs to see what they are good at and find some methodology that would generate revenue using those skills.

According to Abraham Maslow its after you get out of survival mode... Hierarchy of Needs - Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

I tend to agree. Things are all downhill after that.

Getting out of survival mode comes when:

A: Your bills are paid
B: You have identified a successful system that can be duplicated successfully without alot of thought.

Dont over complicate. Find out what brings you a dollar, then start using it to bring more... duplicate. The hard part is finding that duplicable system, but then even that is not that hard.

What hard is our "heads"... just do what others have already proven and be dumb enough not to think about it alot... just do it like they did.

My brother was the number 1 sales person of three hundred, selling commercial pest control... when he went to the awards banquet to accept his reward... they asked him how "He said I guess I was just dumb enough to do exactly what my trainer told me. I just say the pitch verbatim".

Sales are easy for him. He doesnt think. He just works the system.

Now he applies that same concept of being "dumb enough" to MLM, and he is a one in a million guy who has a 10k residual income from it now after a year or two of working PT...

Just find a running stream and flow with it.

It took a year to get easier, and I was startin from a background of developing blended learning courses, web design, and other associated skills. Its easy to under estimate the learning curve if you want to do more than recommend clickbank stuff.

Once you've built a responsive targeted email list and a steady influx of new subscribers, it gets super easy.

hmm i guess i'm asking when did it seem that you were able to do things you once struggled with quickly..... that's really what i'm getting at.

it seems to me that theres a point where you move from incompetence, to conscious competence, to unconscious competence where you execute your business almost on "autopilot."
the point where your learning curve is shortened and you go from niche research>list building>product creation>traffic generation>lauch>$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ alot quicker than you did in the beginning.

i look back on things that were once difficult for me, but now while they may be difficult for some, I can pretty much do them without thinking. i look at internet marketing the same way. it's a set of skills that once learned properly and once a profitable business model's in place these activities can almost be done on autopilot

When I stopped trying to do everything myself and learnt the power of leverage

Once I became 'certain'. I got that certainty after I did my first launch and saw how REAL it was to be getting sale after sale after sale in mere minutes.

After that, everything got very easy for me... although there was a time I lost that certainty after someone I worked with tried to put me in the gutter... but rather than crying about it I just kept building...and building...and building.

It's very necessary to visualize the RIGHT end, and then work backwords all the way to what you need to do today... when you think $50,000 / mo you come up with a strategy to get you there that differs quite a bit than if you had envisioned $5,000 / mo.

When you start to use leverage. JV, outsourcing, scalability, etc.

DIY = Hardwork

Easy Answer.

It got easy for me when I stopped marketing on the
internet and started Direct Mail. I like consistency &
pacing. IM rarely provides that. Things change every
few months and it's hard to keep up with the changes.

DM is ALWAYS constant with 1 or 2 minor changes
every few years (mostly postage stamp increases).

It clicked for me -- when I started thinking outside
the box and not being stubborn on how to make money
fastest.

It made sense mostly with trial and error and belief
that DM was a far better, and stress-less alternative.

Persistence. And than a multi-millionaire mentor showed
up when I least expected it and...well, let's just say
I'm doing fairly well for myself with projections to
earn mid 5-figures in 7 months.

The big breakthrough and lightbulb moment was belief
and confidence in something that had not worked yet...
and choosing to believe it could work b/c it worked for
others despite screwing up big time twice.

I also relized something that is critical...

the relationships you have with people DOES determine
where you are headed in life. I surround myself with
business men/women and they DID have a massive
influence on me. Their knowledge and wisdom helped
me get to where I am today...

and if not for them I wouldn't be as far as I am today
at only 22 years old.

My relationship with a mult-millionaire led to mentorship
in Direct Mail. It led to future real estate investment
deals. It led to lucrative partnership deals...many of
which I don't have the time to take advantage of...

You can NOT make it in any industry alone, I don't care
what anyone says...and if you do, you will not have the
kind of success you want until you learn how to have
powerful connections and relationships.

For me it was a lot of little things together that made things click.

The best example I could give from my experience is before working online I was a joiner, with this I did 3 years as an apprentice to learn the trade and in that time I learnt lots of little things that built my knowledge of the trade.

Online is a little different to this kind of training as there is no certified experts as such, so you could end up learning off people who offer bad advice, but if you get good advice its a similar learning curve, you learn lots of little things that all tie together to make it work.

My turning point online was when I got rid off a lot of email lists I was on and just stuck with a few I knew were actually making money and gave good advice and were not just trying to sell me stuff, then instead of just reading all the time I actually got stuff done every day till something worked then kept doing it, there is a lot to be said for trial and error everyone makes mistakes and if you don't you'll never learn anything so just get stuck in to things

My breakthrough came when I made the mindset shift from trying to make money using "free" methods to paying for ads via google adwords.

I started with US$50... made US$100 in commissions... and pumped back the money into ads... rolled it all the way to 6 figures...

Some people may say I got "lucky"... Maybe I did... but I had to make the lucky break happen myself...

I don't like the word Easy. I don't like anything that is easy to do either.

It is not Easy to make money, may that be online OR offline. Period.

Simple?? yes. It is as simple as it gets with Online Marketing.

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Direct answer to your question, I've been working online for over a year now, and guess what, it has never been hard. NEVER.

Cos all the while, all the tough times, near evacuation from my house, one meal a day, countless hours of screen time, almost no social life = wasn't hard at all.

you wanna know why??

Because like Jim Rohn said, I was working on my fortune

I had but one goal in mind, to be working for myself, online. Period.

When you look at things with a different perspective, there is always a positive point you can hang onto when times are tough. So yes, I've had some tough times, but now that I look back, was it worth it?? I hear a resounding yes in my head.

Who wants easy? when you can make a fortune just by trying a little harder than everyone else it doesn't seem hard at all.

Maddi

They are working you over. Don't buy into it.

Even if something comes easy, there is still a lot of hard work backing it up. Hopefully that makes sense.

Here is when things got easier...

1. I started to make sales and learned the process of making my own info products.

2. I repeated #1 above and turned it into a "system". This means, once I discovered what I wanted my info product to be...I outsourced to speed up the process.

The more I do step #1 and #2 above, the more I can bank. The more I bank in profits, the easier things become because I create a life of more freedom and financial security.

But don't get me wrong...it STILL takes work! And secondly, not everything you do is going to be a winner. You just have to learn to keep moving forward, taking risks, and never stop learning new things.

Jeeze this is one inspirational thread. Just reading through this gets me pumped up to go out and make a couple more sites hehe.

Thanks everyone.

It became easiest for me when I systemized everything.

You have two options as an online marketer: a) create a job for yourself b) create a business.

You know you have created a job for yourself if you stop working and the money also stops coming in. A business will keep making money, even if you die.

I've worked very hard over the years to completely automate my sales funnels.

Also, know what you like and dislike about your business. Then, outsource the mundane tasks you hate doing. Not only does this free up time, but most importantly it frees up my creative energy and allows me to fully focus on the tasks that really make my corporation the most money.

In short, it gets easy when you know you can stop working and still make a comfortable living doing absolutely nothing. But who would want to do that? Marketing is much too FUN to abandon, even if you're a multimillionaire!

Cheers,
Matt

I think I have to agree with Steven in that it might get easier but not 'easy'.

For me I think it got easier when I decided to focus on one project instead of constantly moving from one to another trying to find something better. All this did was depress me when I wasn't getting anywhere.

When you choose one project and settle down and focus solely on that it does start to get easier because you start seeing results and you really learn how to do that one thing well.

Things got easy a year back when i finally understood that all you have to do is to take ACTION! nothing else matters....