Bankruptcy to Millionaire

I mentioned yesterday that I was going to issue another challenge. I am going to hold off on my cash prize challenge to my readers for just a little while. I’ll explain why in just a second.

My true dream is to build an online empire by making money online. I want to create websites, and resources that people can find true value in. The other thing that I’ve learned/(am learning) is that making money online isn’t easy OR automatic. It takes work, effort, time, and ambition.

I am 100% will to put in EVERYTHING it takes to get to where I need to be. And I’ve been weighing my options, on the best path to get to where I need to be. And after looking at my current stats I haven’t been putting enough time and effort into tracking my numbers. I have also realized my income is RIDICULOUSLY lower than it should be. I happen to have a talent (which I will share with you all very soon) that can decrease the hours I work by over 75% and increase my monthly income by 30%.

It is my own stupidity that has kept me from reaching my potential with this talent. Because it takes (a little) work to get to where I need to be. But I know it can be done in less than two weeks–with a little thought and planning. But always told myself that I don’t “deserve” it because there are many out there better than me at this. And that this talent isn’t my true PASSION.

But here’s the problem with my thinking! I have literally be losing TIME AND MONEY to do what I truly love. If I had put in the two weeks to get where i need to be a year ago. I would have had THOUSANDS of more hours to put into what I truly love. Where would I be then? Millions? Maybe…

So here is my personal challenge to myself:

Put in the time, and do WHATEVER it takes to increase my performance time from 1 day to 4 days a week.

That’s it. If I can share my talent with others 4 days a week, I will be making more than I am at my “full time job” working only 8 hours a week. Why the hell didn’t I do this sooner?

What is my talent? What do I mean by performance? I will share all of this with you tomorrow.

How would you like to discover exactly how I made money LAST NIGHT, WHILE I WAS SLEEPING?

Just three days after I threw down the challenge to ALL of my readers (it’s not too late to take part! Take action now!) I have been seen RESULTS. Yes, you read the right. CASH IN MY POCKET.

Am I going to tell you what I sold? No. Am I going to show you the eBook I’m using to promote it? No.

Not yet at least… affiliate marketing is a HIGHLY competitive field, and if I find a successful nice, I just CAN’T afford to give it up (and risk someone copying me). But what I am going to do is tell you what I did, to find success.

First, as I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I’m taking MASSIVE ACTION. And conditioning myself for success.

I was working on my projects after I got off of work from my “real job”. I worked until about 10 pm, writing a sales letter, setting up auto responders, etc. I created a long list of To Do’s in order of priority, and just got to it. I told myself I would NOT leave until what I got done what I needed to get done. In this case, it was a fully functioning site, with a download page, auto responder, opt-in form, etc.

(I’ll provide you with my resources for these items soon.)

So I got it up and running, and I woke up this morning to the following stats of my niche site.

(Note: I’m testing 4 out of about 100 ad groups. So there is HUGE room for expansion if the averages play out.)

I woke up to the following amazing results from 10 PM yesterday - 11 am Today:

• 28 click throughs on adwords ads. @ 1.9% CTR on my adwords ads (I’m paying LESS THAN $0.40 for each click!).
• 9 Email Opt-Ins to receive the newsletter, and free eBook.
• 1 Email Testimonial praising the eBook.
• 1 $24.55 commission (sale)!

So not only do I have a profit of about $19, I also have a start of a mailing list that I can promote niche products to!

I can’t wait to give a further update on all of the techniques I’m going to use to promote via email, and eventually snail mail. So make sure to subscribe to my RSS so you get all of these juicy details!

I can taste my first $100 day already! Are you head toward your goals, or away from them? If not toward why not? Challenge yourself for success!

- Tevin

P.S. If you don’t already, make sure you check out a GREAT AFFILIATE MARKETING Blog: UberAffiliate.

Success is a marathon. It doesn’t happen over night, it takes work and effort on a continuous basis.

You don’t expect to run a marathon after sitting on your ass for the last decade and actually finish do you? You shouldn’t expect anything different from success.

When I challenged my readers to work their ASS off for two weeks to reach a substantial goal that they set. I also am giving myself the same challenge.

I have challenged myself to work my ASS off to PROFIT $100 by January 28th. Just two weeks from the start of the challenge. But for me to work my ass off, I must CONDITION MYSELF. If I’m not conditioned I’m going to be warn out by the end of the first couple days.

Instead, I am forcing myself to take MASSIVE ACTION in all areas of my life. I am going to bed earlier. Getting up early and eating a hearty breakfast (a meal I am notorious for skipping). I am forcing myself to read.

I am reading equal parts of:

Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins & Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

When I drive I am listening to Yanik Silver’s copywriter workshop (about 12 Audio Cd’s).

I am forcing MASSIVE CHANGE in my life, to achieving MASSIVE SUCCESS. I am skipping lame television shows. I’m not wasting time Entrecard dropping. I am focused.

In the two days since I proposed the challange, I have:

1. Put together a 75 page eBook, that I am giving away for free.
2. Launched a niche blog to promote the ebook
3. Tweaked the blog to look like a sales page and not a “blog”.
4. Put the affiliate links necessary to promote the niche products in the eBook.
5. Tweaked my adwords campaign to promote the free eBook.
6. Started work on a “make money online” section of this blog to rank in the search engines.
7. Listened to two full CD’s on Yanik Silver’s Copywriting course which gave me some fantastic ideas to promote the free eBook.

And that’s just in the last two days. I can taste that $100 day coming!

What are you doing?