Stephan Miller
Building Websites, Traffic, and Income
Lessons Learned at Low Paying Jobs
I didn’t quit a cush job to start making money online. I did it while I was making $12 an
hour and realized the ceiling was right around $16. I am a lazy person. I refuse to work that hard for that much pay. Of course, I couldn’t refuse right away. It took two years before my efforts here started paying bills. It took the same amount of time to realize it was possible.
Now I think it’s easy. Well, maybe not easy, but achievable. And that’s all I really need to know. Just one chard of light at the end of the tunnel.
Adjusting to Sporadic Cash
This is a good year. Affiliate marketing is recession proof. If Americans are broke, I can sell in Australia, England, Canada and other English speaking countries. But I really haven’t had to. By focusing my efforts with techniques I learned from Zen to Done and other books, I have steadily been increasing my online income. In fact, if I take one of the last few months and compare it to last year, I have replaced by day job’s income.
A Constant Brain Change
After I finished high school I made it a goal of mine not to ever stop learning. I wasn’t going to be able to afford the college degree, but I was willing to take the risk that learning itself would have value even if I didn’t have the official paperwork to prove I learned something.
At first, I wasn’t picky. I had a lot of time and no social life. I read whatever I felt like. Sometimes a subject would interest me to the point that I exhausted every book I found that referenced the field. Other times I would not finish the first book.
Zen to Done – Finished
I like the concept of big rocks. I have a lot of project lists, but very limited time to do them. But cutting the active projects down to two or three, everything else just gets filed for a while. I keep a checklist of daily blogging, research, and social networking tasks. I add to lists in my moleskine. And I have limited my projects to three I work on in a week. It is helping me get more done by focusing more.
Leave Me the F*** Alone
You have to learn this phrase. Some people won’t hear kindness. Some people won’t let you do your own thing. Some people don’t know if they would just give you more time, you could be working for yourself.
This was one of my biggest stumbling blocks in trying to get the money rolling in through affiliate marketing. You have to be dedicated, especially if your time is limited. No one is going to give you this. You have to learn to say no and get your priorities straight. Maybe making money online isn’t a priority in your book. If not, don’t even get started.
Money Lubricates the Mind
I thought of this post while taking a shower. Then I thought I wouldn’t post it. It goes totally against the background I come from as a child. "Money is the root of all evil". But I have only made it to the place I have in life my tearing apart those long held beliefs that were drilled into my living in a strictly religious house when I was a kid. And this is one that is hard to break. There is a little guilt. And maybe still some fear. But living back in the area I grew up in after not being here for many years, I have to break it to survive.
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