Bankruptcy to Millionaire

So the time is ticking down on the challenge I made for myself, and EVERYONE of my readers.

But here’s the sad part, I got so little of response to the actual challenge! I’m thinking people aren’t as serious as they say they are…

I had great response to my entries on:

The Success Attitude - What 90% Of People DON’T Have & The follow up post where I showed you EXACTLY how you can begin to TAKE CONTROL your emotions so that, you litteraly CHOOSE YOUR MOOD no matter what’s going on in your life, in my Controversy Strikes Again entry.

People gobbled this information up. I had a huge spike in views and comments than my average post.

Then I posted my challenge to all of you.

To set a goal, and to achieve it NO MATTER WHAT IT TAKES. And sadly, too few, if ANY actually challenged themselves for success. It seems too many readers of blogs are “All read. No action.”

C’mon people! You can’t just read all these make money ‘ideas’ and say to yourself “Yeah! That’s a good idea. I could totally do that!” And then never EFFING DO IT!

You have to take action. And you have to TAKE ACTION NOW. Otherwise, you’re never going to get ANYWHERE.

There are a combined ~450 Make Money Online and Internet Marketing blogs on Entrecard alone! And I would bet that 80% or more of those blogs are doing nothing more than posting to those blogs, other things they’ve read, or have seen in the past. They are NOT taking MASSIVE ACTION on a DAILY basis.

If you are reading this and thinking to yourself: “Yea… that’s probably me. I really don’t do as much as I could. But my day’s are already busy, and ya know. There are a few new TV shows on tonight. And CSI: I’ve Seen This a Dozen Times is on, and I can’t miss that!”

I’m talking to you!!!

(The reason, I know you’re saying this to yourself in your head, is because that’s how I talked to myself for MANY years, when I read all this great information.)

If you don’t get out of this habit, you are going to be sitting on your ass forever, dreaming of the gold strike. And you’re going to be broke. So my question to you is:

Are you ready for change? Are you 100% COMMITTED TO SUCCESS? If not. You’re doomed.

Here’s the deal: It’s 8pm. I got off work 2 hours ago. I’m still sitting at my desk, writing this entry. I’m probably going to be here for another two hours, tweaking my landing pages; writing content for a sales letter; a number of other things on my to-do list if I have time.

Because, I’ve cut down the distractions in my life. I’ve prioritized. CSI: Boring Edition can wait for when I’ve made the money I need to make.

Where do you stand?

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So I’ve finally made money online! In fact, I made it completely on ACCIDENT. “How can this happen?” You ask…

About a week ago I launched a campaign for Christmas Card printing through a CJ.com offer. I used exactly 6 keyphrases (4 of which never ended up getting any impressions at all). I was even so wimpy as to set a $10 a day budget.

I then decided to launch the campaign. We were off to the races, I let the campaign run through my work day. I checked back and I had used like 5 of the 10 bucks, then I noticed I hadn’t made a sale yet. I then *thought* I clicked the “pause” button that evening in my adwords account thinking I would spend a few more hours optimizing and whatnot.

Then I completely forgot about the campaign entirely by the next day. And 4 more whole days go by where I don’t even remember setting it up. Then I get an email from google telling me they are banning that campaign. I think “banning what campaign”? Then I log into the account, and sure enough I had spent $49.50. I had an ASTONISHING 6.9% CTR on apx. 900 impressions I thought:

DOH! What a waste of money.

Then I moved on… about 30 minute later I thought… Maybe I should check my CJ acount. and BAM! There is was staring me in the face! I had turned a $39 profit, in 5 days. COMPLETELY ON ACCIDENT. I was kicking myself–why hadn’t I paid more attention? What if I had run a $20 or $50 a day? What if I had spent some time on more key words? What if I had split tested ads!?

I made this without even trying! Now I’m “disallowed” because of my redirect affiliate link redirect on Adwords. I would concentrate on figuring out a way to promote the offer more, but the offer expires in 3 days because of Christmas. But my suspicions are now confirmed.

MONEY CAN BE MADE ONLINE.

I’ve tasted it. Now I want more! (I’ve already launched my next campaign.)

So if you’ve felt discouraged, just know. Money is out there for you. Just think a little outside the box, and grab it!

Cheers all,

- Tevin Anderson

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P.P.S. Three cheers for UberAffiliate for inspiring me.