The amazing power of intestinal fortitude

 

Starting affiliate marketing was exciting, intriguing and appeared to be easy. It’s not very difficult for me, but I found it hard to focus on the most important part to be successful at affiliate marketing, Traffic leads! The difficulty for me is traffic. Yes it’s an important part to make it work. Building an email list of buyers isn’t easy or hard. It depends on me, the person building the list.

When willpower is trumped by cold feet

I say it’s easy and hard because if you have plenty of money for email buys or running ads on facebook, google ads or microsoft ads can be expensive. Especially when first starting, useless you have a knack for writing and making ads that convert. There’s a learning curve that’s easy for some and difficult for others.

These are some of the problems I was experiencing. Although there are free ways known as organic marketing. It’s where you utilize your time not money. Using your time does cost you money in a sense because I say your time is worth something isn’t it.

Where’s the free traffic?

I like the idea of free traffic, but I find it hard for me to instant messaging cold selling. It takes out of my comfort zone work. The technique of using facebook groups and contacting strangers by instant messaging is fascinating and I know it works.

I know people that make 4 figures or more a month using this same facebook model. But it’s something I wanted to avoid at first because I know you can make money at affiliate marketing using it. Although, it reminds me of the old door to door salesman walking in a neighborhood knocking on doors making cold calls.

Personally I find it scary, (I know it’s all in my head). It’s up there with public speaking. You could ask two people if they would like to get onstage and say a few words. One would say heck yes, show me the way to the stage. Another person would say, hell no, no way, you must be joking right.

Where does that leave me? Intestinal fortitude that’s where.

The amazing power of having your own set of brass balls

Obviously it’s me, it’s what T. Harv Eker termed “Mindfrick”. Which stands for mind friction.

The story is, I attended a seminar about affiliate marketing and the one main thing I got from it was, to succeed, you have to have brass balls, (sorry, maybe intestinal fortitude sounds better). 

He suggested buying a pair of the Chi Brass Chiming Baoding Balls that you roll around in your hand for therapy, exercise, and stress relief. I found a set on Amazon.

I’m definitely going to buy a brass pair and display them on my desk right in front of me. That way I see them sitting on my desk anytime I acknowledge my mindfrick negative voice in my head and I’ll say, “no mister mindfrick, I have a set of brass balls – I can do this!” 

What if ad spend cost more than you make?

What do you do when your ad spend costs more than you earn? In other words your conversions aren’t enough to pay for more ads or email buys. And you run out of money to invest into more ads. 

The only choice is organic free traffic or finding a part job. This is my current situation. Giving up isn’t an option, so what to do. Do I make more money by working overtime or getting a part time job so I can invest in ads?

Or bite the bullet and start cold calling. Personally i’m not a big fan of facebook and so I don’t use it much. This creates a problem because you’re learning the ins and outs instead of getting the information out. The same goes for Instagram.

Something as simple as joining niche related groups and making contact with other members seems like a colossal task for me. Basically cold calling strangers by friending, then sending an instant message. WOW, my mindfrick is kicking in writhing this sentence. I wish you could hear it.

The silliness of being scared.

I’m staring at the brass baoding balls now to calm my stress to find an inspiration backbone. I’ve been at affiliate marketing now for almost two years. Have multiple sales funnels. 

My sales commissions are low, but I made 4 figures once and I know if I can do it once, I can do it again. It all began with the first $1 commission, then $2, $100 and $1000 in commissions. 

They’re just not consistent. This has to change and it’s not sustainable.  I only have to stop being scared by the hand coming out of my computer monitor!

I believe starting this blog is one way that helps me see and understand what to do to be successful as an affiliate marketer. It points out my silly negative mindfrick allowing me to see the issue as I write.

My only job right now is to drive traffic into my funnels.

My goal is to help others fulfill their dream to quit or retire from their daily jobs, working for themselves part time from anywhere. This is my mindset now.

The endgame is simple, peace from financial worries. With that in mind, it’s a great feeling to help others buy the car they really want and travel with their computer, be it a smartphone or laptop earning what’s needed to survive with financial peace.

Do you have similar mindset problems?

How are you getting the traffic needed to survive?

What’s the moral of the post?

Get a set of brass balls, literally and figuratively.

It’s not the affiliate marketing product system, it’s you and me. The person following the product system. 

There are many successful super affiliates that have, offer and sell product systems that have been proven many times over.

Like Dean Holland’s Internet Profits, which I believe is one of if not the best product system available online. Their help and support is top notch and sometimes unbelievable how they go out of their way to help. I can say this because I saw many shining objects and signed up for most of them. It deserves repeating, unbelievable couching, support and a great group of like minded entrepreneurs.

A peculiar quirk I see is one person signs up to a product system, then runs with it and succeeds, then there’s another person that struggles a bit. But when you dig deep into why one succeeds and one fails, It’s always the person, not the system. (I apologize for the harsh reality). It’s human nature as Tony Robbins said, (paraphrasing here): “when it snows, one person goes skiing another person is suicidal”.

You can’t blame the system when a person doesn’t do what they should do, by following instructions and suggestions. If you don’t and struggle with it, the first thing they blame is the product system, not themselves. They’re looking for something that doesn’t exist – a push button golden goose of immediate flow of cash. 

It feels good to write about my personal experiences with my affiliate marketing business. It’s good for the soul and keeps me focused not to give up. So I write a weekly post about my business experiences. In return hopes it help all of us striving to be and to do better. 

It’s great to know, even that they’re on my desk, that I have a set of brass balls to help me continue with these endeavors. To stop the silliness of why it’s taking me so long to obtain consistency.

Do you have any business or affiliate marketing struggles you would like to share? 

Until next time.

-Kenny