Desire Mixed with Trial & Error Equals Affiliate Success
Posted: April 9th, 2007 | Author: Matt Levenhagen | Filed under: Inspiration, Tips & Advice, Your Mindset | Tags: failure | 16 Comments »Trial & Error: Are you willing to work through the failures, the trials and errors to get to profits? Can you accept the fact that you are going to need to fail a lot to learn? You will of course win a lot as well and the winners will add up to a great income over time, but in the process you are going to fall down sometimes, get some bruises.. can you keep going through that?
No eBook or guide is going to make you a success. You will gain a lot by reading many of them. There are some great systems and techniques out there to make a lot of money with Affiliate Marketing, but the elements that will find you with a highly profitable and expanding Affiliate Marketing Business lie within you and your mindset.
If you are not equiped with the desire.. real desire.. burning desire.. to win no matter what, you won’t. If you have decided that nothing will stand in your way, then nothing will. If you have decided that you can accept the obstacles, see them as learning opportunities, and move forward even when it seems you are not making much progress, then success is yours.
You must also accept the fact that you can’t put a time limit on it. Some marketers find success within days or weeks. Others it takes a few to many months. There are many determining factors as to how well you will do and how fast it will come to you.
The bottom line is you can’t say after you have put up one campaign or you have only tried this for a few weeks or months that this business doesn’t work! Have you read any success stories lately? How many times have you read it was easy for those that have found success? I’m guessing very few times.
Most of the time when you read stories of people who have built successful businesses it took effort, work and commitment combined with a solid purpose and focused direction to build a solid, profit-pulling business…
There is only one thing you need to know. Affiliate Marketing is making a lot of people a lot of money. It has been around for many years and will be here for many years to come. You don’t need a masters degree, you don’t need to know anyone, you don’t need to be good at everything, and you don’t need any expensive equipment or to invest huge amounts of money to get started.
In my opinion, this is one of the best startup businesses there is because just about anyone can do it and it takes very little investment of money.
But, there needs to be that mindset. The pure desire to succeed. You need to make up your mind that Affiliate Marketing is real, accept the fact that others are making thousands, 100s of thousands and millions in this business. And there’s no reason if you commit to the effort, have a no quit attitude and want it bad enough, that you can’t make a lot of money yourself.
Of course, it’s also true like all things in life, it’s not for everyone. You must enjoy it. If you don’t enjoy this type of work, you don’t like numbers, you don’t like studying stats, you can’t handle failing even on a small scale to learn and to get to profit, you don’t have patience and aren’t willing to go through the learning curve, then you will fail before you even get started.
Some people simply don’t have the aptitude for this type of business. Some people want to chase the opportunities that promise overnight riches, they follow the crowd, the next big opportunity, they don’t want to work, commit and build a real business. Those type of peple will find businesses like Affiliate Marketing are not for them… They will never see big success.
Anyone can do this business, but they must WANT IT BAD ENOUGH. Do you?
-Matt Levenhagen
Key to Affiliate Success – Try, Test, FAIL & Learn…
WOW, just read a GREAT article that sums up very well many of the things I’ve tried to teach affiliates over the years.
It was written by Matt Levenhagen and I hope he’ll pardon me for quoting so m……
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Great post.
The great thing about affiliate marketing or internet marketing is that it is the chap with the greatest stamina that wins. The figures state that 90% of affiliate marketers do not make a substantial income online. You can be sure that the 10% that do make it are not there by accident. I have been marketing online for a little over a year now and did not really see any income. But with drive and tenacity, the results have been impressive. To anyone out there i would say ‘Stick to it, work harder and you will get results’
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I really like the way you put this, great advice.
Great stuff, Matt! I reckon our determination to succeed is the most important factor of all. I fumbled around and made heaps of mistakes when I started online – it took me two years of trial and error before I managed to reach the stage where I was confident enough to sack my boss.
In the early days, I never dreamed that I’d eventually earn enough to buy properties in two countries and have employees in different parts of the world.
I like this article…well written, good job!
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Congrats! Really good blog.
Matt, you have reall hit the nail on the head with this post. I couldn’t agree more with everything you have said. I have been there, done that and have the T-shirt.
You wouldn’t believe all the trial and error that I have been though. But I have the desire and it is beginning to pay off. You are so right that if you stick with it long enough you will become successful.
Thanks for this post matt!
Will definitely take this one as a launching pad.
Am currently doing trial and error on adwords and aff marketing. This one really gave me some boost.
Thanks again!
I really enjoyed the article and the inspiration it gave me. I’m a newbie at affilate marketing and have a great desire to succed. I have two other business that are becoming very profitable and it took six years for one Real Estate and ten years for the other Masonry. I can’t wait to dive into this and look forward to learning everthing. Thank you all john from oreland
Thanks so much for saying what I’ve been telling myself and others for so long. It’s really hard, and there is definitely a learning curve, and sometimes…well, a LOT with me it seems…Real Life gets in the way. I still think it’s worth it, and I’m very new, and just starting to see the drawbacks. For instance, I saw a guy on Hubpages today complaining that a big chunk of his income had gone bye-bye because Google suddenly knocked his site off the front page, and his income went to zero overnight on that page. Well, that’s EXACTLY why I don’t do it that way. I don’t depend on one page for a significant amount of my income. Things change, and now that Google is trying to get away from promoting the one page affiliate sites, and getting more legitimate, a lot of those “one trick johnnies” are going to be hurting…and rightly so. Those of us who fight and struggle to build an entire site with quality content SHOULD and finally WILL rise to the top of the search engines. Good for Google and nyah, nyah, nyah to the one page wonders…bye bye…and good riddance!
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Just an appreciation note to you from a 2 mths old newbie.
Really needs lot of boost to keep going & your pointers are truly encouraging!
Thanks Tony!
Find a good system out there and apply the principles I’ve highlighted above and you’ll be unstoppable.
To Your Success!
-Matt Levenhagen
Thank you so much for this inspiring blog.
It hit the nail on the head for me!
I started IM with the intention of not giving up and have come so close because i get these highs and low. I have to remind myself that this is a REAL business and have to work it!
Anyway, thank you so much and than you to 5-star affiliate forum for the link to get here!
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Fantastic Stuff Matt!
Great post, emphasizes that we really need to streatch our comfort zone inorder to make progress. We never need to be afraid to fail, we just need to learn from those failures and charge forward.
A favorite phrase I learned “Fail Forward”
Till Next Time
Scott