Blog #5

I interviewed a person who is a African-American work at mom

She's been doing Internet marketing for total of 10 years now. The first six years she had phenomenal success, raking in $200,000 a year. In the last four years, she followed that advice from so-called success coaches that steered her in the wrong direction. In fact let's call this work-at-home mom Debbie. Because in the last four years her income was so low that it only allowed her to pay for basic expenses, she wasn't able to pay a professional success coach hundred dollars an hour, $250 an hour $750 an hour etc.. Instead she bought 30 lunches to feed her success coach for the coaching that she received. The success coach lets call him Fred, suggested that she takeout $30,000 out of her savings account and from there she created a product. As of today, Debbie only sold $1,200 worth of this product and is in the hole $28,000.

what is the lesson learned?

You've heard of the saying you get what you pay for. If you are seriously interested in making $500, $1000, $2000 extra a month with affiliate marketing, do not follow coaches that cannot prove that they have students in his classroom that are making that same amount of money. I strongly suggest that you work with a person that I will not announce as of yet. I want to find it if he or she has affiliate program. His course is not cheap. In fact if you don't have $15,000, you probably do not want to work with him. However I would rather pay someone 15,000 or more to learn how to turn $.50 into $1.50 then having to take a loan of $30,000 and be paying interest on the loss of $28,000. This is not to mention the 600 hours wasted that Debbie could have been focusing on something that would actually make our money. She created this product and it took for 600 hours of her sweat blood and tears. The total return on investment was less than $1200. So if you decide 1200 into 500 hours, Debbie was making two dollars an hour. Because she lives in North America and not in Pakistan, India, or Thailand or Vietnam where making two dollars an hour is actually saying that you're very rich, it was not any very smart business decision to follow this success coach. The moral of the story is you're not going to get a free lunch, there is no such thing as a free ride. If you live in some type of illusion that taking someone out and feeding them for 20 or 30 or 40 to lunches is going to get you to make $500, $1000, $2000 extra a month with affiliate marketing, you are in for total disappointment and I can speak about this from Debbie's experience.

Please come back tomorrow when I talk about how much you should be paying to get professional coaching that will get you the results that you want