You Will Not Get Rich From This Blog

I don’t know if it was the whole spring break thing that jinxed me or what, but my ads really weren’t pulling as usual last week. What should have been a forty to fifty new referral week, turned into a twenty three referral week. Ten for NeoBux and thirteen for LinkGrand.

… to quote Eddy..

“Sometimes you hit ‘em out of the park, sometimes your left scratching your head wondering what the F@#k”

Okay, so that wasn’t an exact quote, but pretty damn close, and another reason why we should never assume we are going to see the same results from our previous success’s. We’ll talk more about this in a future post.

So yeah, slow week online, but honestly. It’s normal. Some days you can do no wrong, other days you want to hunt your moms stuffed animal collection with a bow and arrow ( true story, long time ago, I’m better now ;) ). Even with the slower than hoped for week. I managed to maintain an above double increase in daily earnings for the month on NeoBux ( direct referral earnings ), and my LinkGrand daily earnings has moved up a few cents more per day. Everything else has pretty much stayed the same, except for one of my refs buying a Gold Lifetime Upgrade over at “MatrixMails”, so that was another $15 in extra commission.

Most important though, IS THAT I DIDN’T SPEND ANY OF MY OWN MONEY!!. I just kept moving the money I’m already earning, into ads on ClixSense. Yes, ClixSense is my default venue for advertising. Once again, another post on this soon.

Since I’m on the subject of ClixSense.

Ya know, in the year and whatever months that I’ve been a member of ClixSense I have really never paid attention to the ClixGrid game. ClixGrid is simple really. You have 20 chances to win a cash prize if your a free member, or 50 chances if your an upgraded member. You simple click on random parts of the grid and view members advertising for no specific period of time; either you win or you don’t.

I won $5! Sweet. Even sweeter, is that it’s instantly added to your ( MY ) account balance. More advertising money for me. Of course I don’t expect to win everyday, but I think I’ll be adding this to my daily routine from now on. Just can’t complain when it’s FREE Money.

Anyways,

The theme this month is most definitely about the patience and persistence needed to build an online business. Whether you just want to make a bit of extra spending cash or are focused on the bigger and more bad ass paydays to come later down the line. There is a bit of patience and perseverance required. It could be a half hour a day or, like Lynn, thirty six hours a day ( future millionaires require little sleep ).

Here’s a little analogy I thought of recently.

Walk into a little mom and pop store in your town or city and look behind the counter. Often you’ll see a dollar bill or even a five dollar bill displayed on the wall. That bill represents work, determination, motivation and months or even years of hard work.

We of course, don’t need to rent or lease a store or office, stock our store full of inventory, and probably won’t have to say, “Thank you for shopping at “Ed and Ethel’s – Tupperware Palace”. We just need to practice a bit of patients, work with whatever time we have available and not buy into Get Rich Quick nonsense.

Margaret ( creator and mastermind behind My Instant Biz ) wrote in her post, “How to Kill your Business in Six Simple Steps”

If you were opening a business downtown and only worked when you wanted to, never bothered to try to understand what you were doing or set your store up properly, complained to all your customers when they came through your door and decided to close your doors after the first 5 days because it was not an instant success, you would have exactly what you are going to have if you treat this business that way. Absolutely nothing!

Eddy ( yes, I feel the need to quote Eddy in most every post ) wrote in his recent update…

Everyone is looking for a quick fix. Sometimes it’s justified because if you have bills to pay, the collectors don’t really practice delayed gratification. So in those cases I understand the urgency. But I’ve noticed a lot of folks who aren’t in that situation just aren’t willing to stick it out to achieve their goals. At the sign of any obstacles or failures, they’re quick to give up. Worst still, they sometimes blame others for their failures.

As I’ve said many times, “I’ve been at this awhile”. I’ve learned to build downlines, found ways to add a couple more dollars a day to my paypal account and made crap loads of mistakes, and I’ve learned that desperation, debt and depression don’t mix well. So has all this continued knowledge and constant growth made me my first million? Nope, I’m a about $980,000.23 short of that ( I made that number up ).

…but what really took me a long time to understand, is that I am indeed building a business. Leaning the basics, throwing in a tool or resource here and there, building my subscriber list for this blog ( My List ), and not giving up, even when I have bad weeks.

Phil ( philsfault ) Ames

As I was writing this post, I took a break and read Lynn’s latest. Really fits in with today’s rant..

Those that do those things are getting somewhere and getting results, even if they’re slow and steady – but even slow and steady is getting results, and patience and persistence is the key (as well as branding and promoting YOU, of course, lol). I don’t really have just “a business” – I AM my business.