7 Months, No Sales, No Worries
I got my first affiliate sale just over 2 months of applying everything I learned from Wealthy Affiliate. Everyone is different. I see WA members making their first sale within a few days, there are others who can do it in their first month and there are those who can take a few months before coming up with their first sale.
I would like to share with you this entry from another WA member who doesn’t have any sale yet after working hard for 7 months. I’m not embarrassed to admit that I got teary eyed after reading his post. All I can say is this is the kind of attitude that you need if you really want to take control of your life and shape your own destiny.
I’m happy for him because he didn’t let himself become one of the 97% of those who failed, quit their dreams and opted for the easy way out. Hope you enjoy reading this one…
The fifth of this month signified a huge milestone in my life, because it was7 months ago that I signed up for Wealthy Affiliate, and it’s 7 months of basically no sales, basically no money earned (1 referral of a friend to WA).
7 months of diligent hard work has brought me to this moment right here. At this very moment I could say without a doubt that in terms of raw success, you could say I was a failure. General opinion would state that doing something for a long time with no results is failure.
But I don’t really register what general opinion normally is, because general opinion is normally wrong.
While I passed my seventh month, I ran across a post in the forum the other day, where a very angry person was obviously ranting about why WA is a fraud and affiliate marketing is one big pyramid scheme.
As I was reading this I began to feel his emotions rise up in me. “That dude’s right, these motherfuckers are ripping me off…etc,etc.” For a moment I actually let myself indulge in blame and self pity and all that other crap that is useless is getting me from point a to b.
And just as all that was happening I realized that this was that exact same point where most people quit. That normal threshold of failure that the average person can stand is that moment. Most people can’t stand doing something without a result for a long period of time. It’s a reason why 95 percent of people fail at this stuff.
I don’t know the purpose of this writing but I can safely say that I’ll look back on this 6 months from now and laugh because I know that I’m really close to breaking through and I’ll be damned if I become part of that 95 percent who give up.
