It Won’t Work… Or Will It?

It was always the best excuse….heck, the only excuse… It didn’t work out because the bloody thing wasn’t good! … or was it?

I look back at all the shinny objects, essentially online courses that were sold to me with the premise of almost becoming a millionaire with a few clicks of a mouse and one thing always comes back to haunt me: I had the perfect excuse…it didn’t work.

Did I put all of my energies and thoughts into making it work? Did I focus on that one program to make it successful? Most of the times. But one thing was for sure, I sure didn’t put all the focus I had to make THAT ONE work. Most of the times, I’d hop onto the next shinny thing before even finishing the course I had purchased!

Changes

Internet Marketing and more specifically, Affiliate Marketing has gone through so many changes over the past 5-10-15 years that anything that wasn’t possible back then, you can easily do now. I remember when you had to pay handsomely for a web-designer to get a website up; and don’t forget about those server fees! wow, many were out of this world!

Today, you’ve got so many programs that simplify everything that you can have a website or blog like this one, up and running with a few clicks. Now granted, getting to know how WordPress works is another thing but essentially speaking, you can become quite good at it quite rapidly.

But back to our discussion. There’s practically no reason why anybody who puts their heart, the energy and time into it to NOT succeed. But there’s always a caveat….

You’ll still find that shinny object out there that will sell you the idea that since it’s so easy now, you can actually make more money more quickly than before! Three clicks and there goes five thousand dollars made! A few clicks more and we’re up to ten thousand!

Reality

The reality many of us have come to learn about this is that you can still make some pretty darn good money online – literally millions – but as my mentor Dean Holland mentions in his book The Iceberg Effect, focus will get you where you want to be. Without focus, you’ll still click on those other “shinny objects” and see if you can’t get to the “promised land” of financial freedom another way.

One of the first things I did once I started working with Dean was to unsubscribe and delete all the other emails I was getting or was subscribed to that offered all these promises. It was funny to see that instead of having 40-50 emails per day, (I was important), I now was only getting maybe 3 or 4 and those were pretty much easy to delete.

Give Yourself Time

The other little thing that you have to also include in all of this? Time. You can’t believe that you’ll become good at Affiliate Marketing without any hiccups or time. It just doesn’t happen.

Everybody who is a mentor didn’t become one overnight, it took time. With time, you’ll not only become great at it but you too will be able to help others achieve financial success.

Another Reality Tidbit

If you went back and started talking to any one of the owners of those programs you had paid for (some quite dearly I’m sure), and bluntly asked them how many of their students or clients had been successful with their program? I’m positive one of the answers you could anticipate would be: “it really depended on the focus and amount of time they all put in…”

Another reality might be of those who had purchased the program, how many had actually completed it and made some money with it. If you’re a positive guy like me, you’d probably figure that the amount would be high… then again, reality can be somewhat somber and show you that many would have also jumped off to the next shinny object.

Working A Proven System

It’s been said so many times: “don’t try to reinvent the wheel”. Find a system that works and work at it. As you may know, many of the programs out there are not only selling a pipe-dream, they’re out there just to make a buck; and that is the other reality of it all.

On the other happier side, you have mentors, like Dean Holland, who will not only teach you how to work a proven system but will also make sure that everything you need to succeed – whether it be support, email support or video support, is available. The first step you only need to do is order his book, The Iceberg Effect and pay only the shipping and handling fees.

Success IS Around The Corner

After reading this, you’re probably saying to yourself: “ok, so when can I anticipate success?”. The answer to that question can be easy…and can be hard.

I chose to follow Dean Holland because I found out that he was not only a great mentor for Affiliate Marketing but he also cared about your success. No kidding; he does! The one thing he does expect is this: Focus and putting the time you have – whether it be 1 hour, 2 hours or anything in between or less and putting everything in place for you to succeed.

If you look at the past year and what I’ve published – or not – you’ll see that it took me a bit of time to realize that and make sure that I kept focused on my success and what I needed to do to be successful at Affiliate Marketing.

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To your success…to our success!