My Life Defining Moment & Motivation / What's Yours?

Danc1122 said:
Good shit, I hope it works out well
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Thanks, I think I'll do fine.

The whole point of the switch is I took on a few seo clients earlier this year that are now making between 10-200K a month off of their websites - a simple combination of a high compensation niche with good seo. In January I took on a small SEO client that we were only charging $400 a month for; being that the fee was low it's understandable that I wasn't doing too much - a most two hours of work a month.

Now, I thought things were peachy... I have quite a few clients like that, but I decided to get more involved with the client and go over their past customer profiles and it turns out he was so happy to pay with ease because I was making him a killing.

During one conversation last month I asked him "Can I ask, how much did the website make you in commissions last month?" and his respond flabbergasted me.

Now, before I give you the number I need to preface it with two important facts: One, he's been paying for SEO monthly and I personally haven't done anything that wasn't automated on his site EVER. Two, the domain name is under a year old, he bought it when starting to work with me.

So now, his response to how much did the site make him. He walked me through each lead that came in and the final statement was "About $18,000 in commissions, but normally only a few deals a month - maybe only two or three a week (average deal pays $850)."

I thought about that for about ten minutes, then thought about the clients that I've made over 100K a month and realized... "I can start up the same business; I'm just as smart as these guys".

So I've spent the past month getting my new office up, building my site, getting background checks, fingerprinting, bonding, & licensing done, attending school through Kaplan, seeking out product appointments, joining the professional associations, cavorting on the industry forums, talking to clients candidly about my plans and seeking advice , as well as applying for E & O insurance.

I should be up and running just before Christmas.

The most interesting thing was seeing my mother for the first time since Father's Day on Thanksgiving and telling her what I'm getting into. I think this will be the first time she understands what I do for a living. :)

My biggest advice to everyone is do WHATEVER it is that you want to do... If you have big goals, figure out what it'll take to get there.

It took me one year to even afford to get back into something that I wanted to do (in this case finance) and it took me another year to get out of losing everything, but by the end of this year I'll have my own advisory business w/ a website bringing me fresh leads coupled with a savings account to hold me over until the new commissions come in.

The world is yours if you have the balls to take it.
 
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Soupy's got a great point and I think it's gonna be a new "life definer" when he gets this rolling.

I honestly don't see why people offer great SEO services to other companies. If you truly are good, find a product/niche/category you totally love, make a great site, SEO the shit out of it, and enjoy it yourself. Profit margins are high for a good SEO.

But at the same time, everything I am promoting is someone else's product. Maybe some day I'll look back and think that I was wasting energy promoting their products instead of my own. But right now, I don't want to create my own and deal with the hassles of production, inventory, dropshipping, idiots suing me, call centers, etc etc. Maybe later.
 
Found this through a link from another post today. I read the whole thing and it lit a fire under my ass. I've lurked WF for a while and haven't really had anything to share but after spending the afternoon reading this whole thread I feel some sort of pent up energy to share my story thus far. Maybe it will clean my brain out and let me sort some shit out in my head or maybe it won't, either way I couldn't give a shit I just wanted to share. This story is not about my online successes but of how I became free and happy.

As a 19 year old I began skydiving and it quickly took over my life. I fell in love with it, it became all I wanted to do. I would fall asleep thinking about it and wake up craving it. I started during my summer break from my first year of college at state school. That year had been a drunken binge surrounded by the same old high school friends. I found nothing of interest in my classes and generally hated school and felt it was a waste. I kept skydiving and started working fulltime on a local business website. I was making decent money but couldn't handle the weather up north (USA) where I was living in because it was gloomy and depressing almost year round. I spent one winter there and almost lost it because all I wanted to do was skydive. The job was paying the bills but the weather and location was fucking me. I arranged to work remotely the next winter and spent 6 months down south skydiving my ass off and working over the net. This was the first point in my life where I had experienced being truly happy. I remember only a couple weeks after moving south that it suddenly felt as if someone had lifted the clouds away from my mind and opened a world of possibility.

The life defining moment came to me at the end of that 6th month as I moved back home for the northern "summer". Upon returning home I felt as though I had dove head first back into those clouds that had been previously lifted. I spent the next month planning my return to the south where I had found my happiness and freedom. I gave my two weeks notice and a proposal for contract work that I had already proven I could do remotely. Two months later I was back down south, jobless. This is the defining moment for me and something I will never forget. I put my emotional happiness first and my financial needs second. This is the most important lesson I have learned to date and one that I will follow for the rest of my life. I guarantee you I will die happy with no regrets. This is true in this very moment I am writing this post. Also, I do plan for my pockets to be bursting at the seams with cash...

Over the next couple months I spent time working on some AM sites without great success. I ended up receiving the contract that I had left with my old job working from anywhere I want, any time I wanted for over twice the hourly pay was getting paid before. I also got my dream skydiving job. Over the last two years I have been extremely happy. Living is easy. I fell in love with the girl of my dreams. I am making a comfortable living which is growing steadily.

This thread today started me thinking about the small restrictions of my current job and made me want to say fuck the system even more and separate myself from the real world. Even though I consider my situation to be fucking awesome, I know I can always do better and I have a burning desire to keep pushing this shit and to grow my knowledge, experience and ultimately income. I have been expanding my currently small affiliate business, just today getting approved to market the product I have been shooting for the last month. This thread helped turn the shit that was in motion into high gear and I appreciate all the responses here, although I realize they are a bit dated, they are still kick ass.
 
The defining moments for me were anytime anyone told me what to do at work.


I don't like being told what to do so I became my own boss.
 
gbmack said:
Great motivation.

When I was 15 I pocketed tons of $$ from affiliate marketing.

Now, I am 16 and junior year in HS is fucking stressful. I get tons of homework that I hate. Why the fuck must I learn french? What is the point of graphing y=sin(x+1)-3? Who the fuck cares about king george III?

I do enjoy some of my classes like psychology, physics, and writing, but I'll probably never use those.

I'm seriously contemplating dropping out of HS and going AM full time, but it's just a dream I have. My parents would kill me if I dropped out of school. I just get blazed to relieve the stress and get back to working like a slave.

Even worse, I have less time for AM nowadays.... fuck the education system. Sure, you may be a better person for being educated, but you're only being used to make the corporations rich. Our education system is fucked up. Most students don't even want to go to school, but they have to or else they won't get a degree so they can make money, making the corps richer. Something is wrong.
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Finish school. I made it big in affiliate marketing when I was in highschool as well. I'm now entering my last year in college.

Could I have made more money if I dropped out of school early on? Possibly. Bottom line is that I still managed to attend school, play sports and be successful in affiliate marketing with the little time I had left over. I decided to continue onto college because balancing the workload throughout the day is definitely possible. Not to toot my own horn, but even with school, I still made much more in AM than others who treated AM as their full time job, so it's another case of working much smarter.

Believe or not, I've gotten to the point to appreciate going to my college classes. It's a quick break from the business world. Looking at numbers all the time is fine and dandy, but at some points it makes takes a toll on you. Having all your conversations with relationships revolve around money takes you away from society. By going into college, I could keep actually socialize with people on topics outside of how much we ballin and who has what payout. I finally get a chance to get some air.

Finally, I want my motherfucking diploma. I didn't give so many years of my life to school without seeing the end result. I need that fucking diploma to put school to rest. I can't start something and not finish it. Which is why I am were I am.

True Fact: I make more money when college is in session than I do during the summer. When I go back to having a discipline schedule, and using my brain for many different subjects and topics, I become more efficient with work. Much more in the mood to use all my time wisely.

edit: Just noticed how old this thread is.
 
mGrunin said:
True Fact: I make more money when college is in session than I do during the summer. When I go back to having a discipline schedule, and using my brain for many different subjects and topics, I become more efficient with work. Much more in the mood to use all my time wisely.

edit: Just noticed how old this thread is.
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true story
 
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