After high school, I joined the military. When I got out, I discovered that the civilian world was an entirely different way of life. I worked at several unskilled jobs for low pay for a few years. I decided that if I was going to make a good life for myself, I needed my own business.
I tried my hand at MLM direct sales and discovered that although the presentation to get you into looks like anyone can do it, it takes a certain type of person to be successful. I wasn’t and still am not that type of person. I continued with menial jobs to get a paycheck and ended up in car dealerships where I worked into being an automotive technician. I did that for 20 years and even though it is a good job and a skilled position, I wasn’t happy.
I left the automotive industry and started working piece work for a contractor in telecommunications. I did enjoy that job but, the work load was hit and miss. You would have good weeks and you would have bad weeks. Since I had a daughter I needed to do something. I attended a seminar about having a store on the internet and using drop shippers to deliver your products to your customers. That sounded like a great deal. I didn’t have to quit my job in order to do this. I signed up quickly. struggling to get visitors to my site I spent a ton of money on PPC or pay per click traffic. The stats on my site showed I got a lot of traffic, but there weren’t any sales. I had bid on keywords to get to the first page on the search engines but, I wasn’t making sales. I decided to find a different drop shipper and change what I was selling in my store. Again, a lot of traffic but, no sales.
I knew that I was on the right track I just lacked some important pieces of the puzzle. I started buying digital products to learn what internet marketing was about and what you needed to do. Through the course of all this, I saw that many of the products came with resell rights and private label rights. The wheels started turning again. I still had my job but I could go into digital marketing and sell eBooks. No need for a drop shipper taking a cut of the sale price, I could keep all of the money. I spent the next year and a half trying to teach myself Photoshop and Dreamweaver to build my site and writing my eBook. After it was all live, I had a new problem. How do I drive traffic? In those days you could stuff your site with keywords to get ranked on the search engines but, I wasn’t even on the 3rd page. That’s when I fell into the spiral of shiny object syndrome. Trying to find the latest and greatest way to succeed online. Everything I bought told me what I needed to do, it just didn’t tell me how to do it. work slowed way down and I could no longer afford to keep my site up online so I pulled the plug.
Fast forward 10 years. I was still in the telecommunications field and suffered a series of heart attacks. After open heart surgery, it was 6 months before I could go back to work. One day I went into the email I had used for business. I don’t know why I did but I did. Then it dawned on me. If I had kept plugging away at it, I would have had money coming in while I was recovering from my surgery. I decided to jump into it again. This time though, I had a different vision of what I wanted to do. I was going to help people that want to make money online to learn how to do it without making all the mistakes I did. I jumped in and got started. 6 months into it, I started making some sales. Not a lot, but enough to show me that I was right, I can do this. If I can, so can you.
To your success, David.
P.S. If you wanted me to suggest the best way to get started the right way, this is it. Attend the training and take notes.