Online money making using Blogs.......If you are just starting online you need to know what to do and what to avoid. One of the ways to learn it is from people who are successful online. Those who are successful today must have made many mistakes on the way to reaching their goal. If they are willing to share it with you, it will be a great help for you to avoid such pitfalls and start on the right path.
Here is a post by Andrew Hansen on FirePow blogging software. Andrew shares with you his failures and inspires you to move ahead towards your goal.You can also learn how to keep your blog with fresh content
Hello everybody,
I'm Andrew Hansen and I've have been feeling a little sentimental since the launch of Firepow.
Thinking back to how it all started… how I’ve come to be where I am today.
I thought I’d recount to you a couple of stories today, to both comfort and inspire you.
These are some parts of my online business story that I don’t usually talk about. These are some of the ones I wouldn’t write about in sales letters… the ones that make me look stupid 
Like I mentioned in my last post, I see people too often giving up on web business because they don’t get the results they think they should be getting, at the time they think they should be getting them.
I started thinking the other day about all the ways that I’ve failed online - the stuff ups that I’ve made - the times I’ve wasted money, missed opportunities, complete F ups that when I look back on them I can’t believe I did…
So I thought I’d share some of them with you today…
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The first thing I tried to do online was sell a niche ebook - underachievers style!
I picked the niche “Origami” … got a book written, wrote a sales letter, the works.
I actually made some money on it, but the conversions were low - like sub 1%.
But for some reason, I was CONVINCED that if I could rewrite this sales letter to convert at a higher rate, I’d be rich.
I spent about 10 months rewriting that damn sales letter! I must have done it 20 times, AND without split testing it properly - just making a rough guess at whether it was converting well…
OH, and I also spent 2k on a copywriting course to try and make this happen.
What an IDIOT! But yes I did that. I lost money on the project, gave up on it, and started looking for something else.
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Failure 2: My Spam Blogging Foray…
The next method I came across was making the now affectionately called “splogs”
I used this small piece of software to crank out spam blogs. I’d spend about 6 hours a day after I came home from my day job, crankin these sites out like mad…
And it actually worked… pretty soon I was doin about $100 a day from Adsense!
Man, I thought I was the KING - 18 years old, $700 a week passive income - that sh$% was TOO easy!
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Until I woke one morning to find that my splogs had been promptly delisted and my adsense income had dropped to 0!
Depite this wake up call, I persisted with my splogging for several months after that and seeing the same results…
Yep, what an IDIOT! But I did that, wasted a lot of time - came away with a small profit but wasted a whoole lot of time and experienced a whole lot of frustration.
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Failure 3:
During and after failure 2, I started getting desperate and looking for other ways to make money.
I made some money again, thought I was the king again, before realizing what I was doing was in violation of some agreements I’d made.
It was promptly brought to my attention, I got into big trouble and had to return all that money.
Massive failure, lost contacts over it, and lost what was for me at the time, a lot of money.
That’s when I had the unfortunate KFC lunch incident where my bank card was declined. A real low in my life.
Again, what an IDIOT…
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At this low point, I was actually taking ARTICLE WRITING jobs for $6 an article to make money…
Yep, true story!
It was not long after this that I made some realizations and things started to pick up for me…
But the failures didn’t stop there!
Even right up until today with Firepow I continue to fail, almost daily…
1. I made the enormous mistake of not split testing properly on my niche marketing on crack launch - AND the mistake of not building a list from the start - lost who knows how many thousands there.
2. Last year I spent a few thousand dollars trying to rank a niche site for a keyword that when I look back at now, was never going to bring me quality traffic - few grand lost there.
3. We spent a few grand developing a certain aspect of Firepow that now I wish we hadn’t - losses there too.
4. Even just last week week we failed to back up a massive site we had, and lost (fortunately we’ve found a way to rectify it now) thousands of pages of content and a years worth of Elysia’s work.
And you know what?
This isn’t even HALF the failures I’ve had - I just can’t handle repeating any more to you because it’s making me sad!
But you know what??
That’s how it is!!
That’s how business is, and that’s how life is!
Today I don’t feel a shred of dissent for any one of these failures, because they have brought me to exactly where I am today… They’ve provided lessons I wouldn’t have learned any other way.
So what’s today look like?
Right now, we have a company that employs 12 staff from 6 different countries.
As I mentioned in the Firepow letter, I’ve taken 9 vacations in the last year and had the privilege of meeting incredible people from all walks of life.
Oh and I didn’t mention it yet but: Elysia and I will be moving to Canada next year to keep connecting with other business owners, and keep pushing this company forward. If all goes according to plan, we hope to have a multimillion dollar operation within the next two years.
But perhaps best of all, is that we’re helping so many people each day to move that little bit closer to having a story like this of their own.
The bottom line of all this?
Is keep failing.
Keep failing, but never lose the resolve that no matter WHAT you have to do, no matter how many times you have to fail, you’re gonna be one of the ones who makes it!
To quote a hero of mine Tony Robbins, you’ll succeed when your success is a MUST. When you will refuse with every fiber of your being anything less than the success you desire - that’s when you’ll succeed.
All the best to you.
Andrew
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