{"id":1253,"date":"2007-04-09T16:00:36","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.automationsphere.com\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2021-12-15T09:55:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T09:55:36","slug":"how-i-make-money-from-home-my-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.masteryace.com\/blog\/how-i-make-money-from-home-my-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Make Money From Home &#8211; My Journey &#8211; The Pitfalls &#038; Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1809 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/masteryace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/road-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"road\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.masteryace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/road-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.masteryace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/road-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.masteryace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/road.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Let me tell you how I get started with my online business.<\/p>\n<p>The journey that I undertook to <strong>make money from home<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, I would like to say that it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>WASN&#8217;T easy<\/strong><\/span>&#8230; There was WAY TOO much learning curve that I had to go through.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere in the year 1998, I was studying in a local polytechnic majoring in Business IT. I stumbled upon a website that had my eyes fixed like a glue.<\/p>\n<p>It was Allen Says&#8217; Internet Marketing Warriors! (Unfortunately the sales copy is no longer being used) Allen had a sales copy that was so powerful in my opinion&#8230; so powerful that I read it from beginning till the end.<\/p>\n<p>It was a simple one. He wasn&#8217;t using the copy writing formula from great copywriters like <em>Micheal Fortin<\/em> or softwares like <em>Push Button Letters<\/em> from <em>Marlon Sanders<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But the sales copy consists of mainly a few <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>important elements<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bullets &amp; Benefits (TONS of benefits&#8230; like as though there&#8217;s nothing else except for these)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Extremely High Perceived Value<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Members&#8217; Testimonials<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Positive Mindset<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Basically that&#8217;s all that there is.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>And that was the sales copy that made me frantically search for ways on how to make a purchase online<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>That was the sales copy that diverted much of my attention away from my studies at that point of time (Yucks!! Don&#8217;t do this please&#8230;:-)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>That was the sales copy that made me willing to wait in a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">long queue<\/span> to apply for a debit card from a local bank.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>That was the sales copy that get me started into Internet marketing&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But guess what.. &#8230;After joining the membership site, I faced the similar problem which MOST newbies encounter when trying to make money from home:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><strong><br \/>\nINFORMATION OVERLOAD!!<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1254 size-full\" title=\"overload\" src=\"https:\/\/masteryace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/overload.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.masteryace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/overload.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.masteryace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/overload-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s simply <strong>too much information that I didn&#8217;t know where and how to get started<\/strong>. The only thing that I understood at that point of time is to promote the membership site which will earn me a cool $30 commissions for every sale.<\/p>\n<p>So I started looking out for classified ads (This is the wrong way folks!) There were so much promises of high returns from these advertisers.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know why?<\/p>\n<p>Because <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>they claimed<\/strong><\/span> that they had tens &amp; thousands of subscribers. So I was thinking that since there are thousands of subscribers who will be seeing my offer, I will definitely get many sales easily&#8230; (yeah right!!). That&#8217;s how most newbies think. But&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I know <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">nothing<\/span> about <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">open rates&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>I know <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">nothing<\/span> about <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>conversion rates<\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>I know <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">nothing<\/span> about <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>email deliverability issues<\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>I know <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">nothing<\/span> about <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">loyalty of readers<\/span><\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All I know was if they have 30,000 subscribers, ALL 30,000 of them will open and read my offer in their inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds familiar?<\/p>\n<p>You see, this is the exact same problem everyone will face if they do not have the <strong>right guidance &amp; mentor<\/strong>. A mentoring coaching program may cost you thousands of dollars but believe me (I&#8217;m speaking from experience), <strong>mentoring will help you build your online business the fastest way you can ever imagine&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not like me who took <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>almost 6 years to break even<\/strong><\/span>..<\/p>\n<p>Because I didn&#8217;t have the right mentor and guidance.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">I learnt blindly from trial and error.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So folks, especially newbies out there&#8230; &#8230;When you want to start your marketing journey to make money from home, make sure you <strong>follow the right guidance<\/strong> from the right people. Stick to just one PROVEN method and focus on it. You will be able to find success in the shortest possible time.<\/p>\n<p>Ok now back to my story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So what I did afterwards (after despair and sadness overtook my soul for losing so much money) was to develop a membership site like Allen Says&#8217; Warrior Group.<\/p>\n<p>Hey why not?<\/p>\n<p>I was under the assumption that the more products I have in a membership site, the better will it be&#8230; (Is it so?)<\/p>\n<p>So I started purchasing resale licenses to many products and I did spend around $8,000 just for this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[quote]One of my biggest mistakes was I spent TOO MUCH TIME building my product and NOT focusing on building a list &amp; generating traffic<\/strong>.[\/quote]<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to make my product PERFECT! So most of my time was devoted to product creation (and I didn&#8217;t even know if people are going to buy)<\/p>\n<p>I charged $297 for the package. The first few weeks, many sales started to pour in.. Wow! I thought I&#8217;m going to be rich in no time and be able to make money from home for the rest of my life. But after a few days, one after another, my customers started asking for refunds. They said they&#8217;ve tried so hard but couldn&#8217;t get them to work.<\/p>\n<p>Well of course it won&#8217;t work! Because they&#8217;re reselling what I&#8217;ve sold them&#8230; and if you don&#8217;t have the knowledge about marketing, and on how to market online effectively, then there&#8217;s no point spending so much money to obtain resell rights products. Just after a few weeks later, people have started to resell the products at much lower price..<\/p>\n<p><strong>So it was a disaster for me! \ud83d\ude41<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was forced to lower my price to just $50 cuz that&#8217;s the price range that many people were selling. In the end, the products became almost worthless because they could be found almost everywhere on the internet at low prices&#8230; these products have saturated in the market.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first lesson I learned&#8230; <strong>never to offer Internet marketing products that come with resell rights with the hopes of making a long-term killing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It could only last for a while but once the products have been circulated widely at low prices, the profits could nowhere to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, <strong>I also lost a lot of customers&#8217; trust<\/strong> because they felt that they were <strong>fooled and deceived into believing that these products will make them rich<\/strong>.. just be reselling the same products over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>So I was wrong.. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Apart from these, <strong>I also spent a lot of time and money trying to learn all the technical stuff<\/strong>. I used to spend at least $25 to get just one CGI script installed. And I bought so many scripts but I couldn&#8217;t use all of them effectively.<\/p>\n<p>I hired programmers to do this and that&#8230; &#8230;But my business wasn&#8217;t running as good as I wanted it to be. My dream of making money from home doesn&#8217;t seem to work out well. I spent most of time on &#8220;perfecting&#8221; my product.<\/p>\n<p>This was the <strong>stupidest mistake<\/strong> I have ever done. Mind you&#8230; at that time there wasn&#8217;t any &#8220;marketing automation system&#8221; yet. Now there are plenty of them. So there is a lot of learning to do.<\/p>\n<p>My Internet marketing journey is far from over and I simply can&#8217;t afford to write more details about it here. There are more failures than successes during my &#8220;early years&#8221;..<\/p>\n<p>But what I can say is this:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Internet Marketing WORKS!!<\/strong> &#8230;as long as you have the burning desire to succeed, motivated and follow the <strong>EXACT SIMILAR PROVEN models from successful people<\/strong>. Don&#8217;t re-invent the wheel.. and you&#8217;ll be fine.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll be on your way to making money from home.<\/p>\n<p>BUT you really have no choice but to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">work hard<\/span> and to learn the basic technical stuff of running a computer, websites, and other technical stuff (of course unless you can afford to hire professionals to do all the work for you)<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now&#8230; Thank you for reading and I wish you all the best in embarking your Internet Marketing journey!!<\/p>\n<p>To Your Online Success!<br \/>\nZai Adi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me tell you how I get started with my online business. The journey that I undertook to make money from home. First of all, I would like to say that it WASN&#8217;T easy&#8230; There was WAY TOO much learning curve that I had to go through. 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