My story of success and failure

Four years ago (when I was 18) I remember staying up late at night because I couldn't sleep. I was soon going off to college at UNLV and like most incoming freshmen I had no clue as to what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.

I grow up around computers. My dad had made me a nerd lol. We would take apart computers and put them back together and unlike a lot of things in life; computers were something I understood.

So, I was up late at night and this cheesy commercial came on about making money online. The pitch was ridiculous as I think back now. "I will build you a money making website. Just pay me $500/ month ( some b.s like that). I had no idea what affiliate marketing was or how to make money online but the thought of working from home was a dream. So that was what I set out to do.

I began hitting the internet HARD for anything and everything about making money online. I would read non stop for hours on end about anything I could find. How to make $300/day, how to make a passive income online, how to be successful online & a million get rich quick schemes.

After months of reading late nights I finally became bored of reading and was ready for my first venture into the online world.

Sadly, my first website was a disaster! Embarrassing really, I had the idea of remaking video game trailers and adding a comedic twist. My plan was to rank for the keywords of the newly launched video games and use the traffic from those YouTube videos to direct my viewers to my website. I taught myself dreamweaver to edit my site and adobe premier to create the videos. My website had a bunch of affiliate offers from commission junction. We'll I dove in head first and spent $700 on this silly website that looked like... well you know. One video actually did rank number 2 for the keyword I was shooting for: Max Payne 3. I quickly gained about 50,000 organic views but was soon banned.

I dropped the idea and moved on. I soon stumbled upon flippa.com and found a website the really interested me. I didn't know it yet but I had hit gold. The website had an affiliate system that sold auto insurance leads to insurance companies. I bought the site for $300 and began to drive traffic. I quickly found a traffic source that began to bank me 5k a month in affiliate revenue
( not bad for being 18).

I ran though many more failures; more than I can count really. I always knew what I wanted though; to make money online. I continued to learn the craft of making monkey from home. At 21 I forced myself to be successful. I moved out into a condo out here in Vegas living off of my online earnings. This forced me to figure things out quickly because if I didn't make money then I didn't eat. I'm 22 and I've started a very successful online PR company with a partner.

My point is this, you will fail a few times but every failure will be one step closer to what you really want. Don't be afraid of failure. I wish you the best & God bless.


" Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm"
~ Winston Churchill