How about $5…or $50. How about $10,000… or $50,000… or (if you can imagine it) 100,000+?
Well neither is mine…and that’s okay!
There was a time back in 1998 and before when I never knew you could make that kind of money. I was raised as a single parent household by a mom who worked as a Legal Secretary for the same guy for 38 years. And yet she never made more than $38,000 a year. I started working two and three jobs when I turned 18… even got a college degree and went into computer programming for about seven years… and the most money I ever made as an employee was $65,000 a year (and I didn’t actually get a chance to earn that because they let me go after 6 months due to lack of contracts.)
That’s when I went into business for myself and started my journey of “What?! You can do that from home? And make THAT kind of money?!”
Of course my first reaction…and my 2nd, 3rd, and 50th for that matter…was “Yeah right!”
After a lot of “in our house” meetings (no circle drawing…I did that one back in my college days), I finally found someone who I thought was telling me the truth. Of course at the time, I also looked at this shy, quiet, can’t put my first and last name together in a sentence guy and thought, “Hell, if THIS man can earn $13,000 a month, I can blow it out of the water!”
I had NO clue what I was doing so I had no choice but to just follow what this man said to do. And I was still shocked when it worked.
During my first 3 months, I just over $36,000 (with the way the compensation worked, $8,000 of that was mine to keep). After that, it just kept getting better…right up until the man who founded the company decided he was going to make some drastic changes to everything and turn the company into an MLM (and I have nothing against legitimate MLMs…I’ll talk about that one later since that’s a whole other topic).
In less than a year, the company went under and I nearly lost my home.
There’s was no way at that point I was going back to a regular job. I knew what was possible for me and knew I just had to start searching for another company that I could stand behind. It didn’t take long. A friend from the first company approached me and asked if I’d like to assist in building a new company.
Start-ups are scary, especially in the direct sales arena. Over 90% fail in their first year! I trusted this guy, I had to do SOMEthing…so I went for it and figured I’d make a lot of mistakes and still learn a ton. Fortunately, it paid off.
I LOVED being with that company! I got to host live calls, train from stage, travel the world first class with my son to THE most gorgeous places. And most of all, I got to assist thousands of people in changing their lives too.
Did I make mistakes? Yes. Did I trip and stumble a bit? Yes. Did I always feel confident? No. Did I break new personal income records? Yes.
So, after this long dissertation of my life, what’s my point?
The point is that it doesn’t matter how much you’re earning in your new internet marketing business. Whether it’s $5 a month or $50,000 a month, it makes no difference. If you keep growing as a person, learning about your business, and listening to successful people who have walked the path you’re on and succeeded (and I’ll talk about how to weed out the REAL income earners on another post), you WILL get to where you want to be…and it doesn’t matter whether that place you wanna be is $300 a month or a whole lot more.
So whatever your goal is….GO FOR IT!!
Oh, I almost forgot…no, I’m no longer with that company. I left there 5 years ago because it started becoming more about the money than the people…and I just don’t work that way.
Nope, at the moment my IM business is not paying me $5k a month, but it used to.
Online ventures come and go, especially if they are reliant on web2 properties for instance. Whenever the ‘free’ web2 property changes guidelines or starts banning niches, or simply shuts down forever, your IM business is down the drain.
So, being too stubborn to give up just yet – I’m banging away at building a new site, and incorporating some of the product IM pages, as well as kindle publishing, as well as my own range of niche ebooks, and building a PLR business… I figure SOMETHING’S eventually gotta give, right?
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I’m sure it will Helene. And it’s proof that keeping everything in one “basket” isn’t a good idea. The issue is while you’re building the first thing to be a success before you move to the next, it keeps you on unsteady ground. The thing I know is that, if you did it once, it makes it a bit easier to not give up the second time because you know that YOU can do it!
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