Gary's Blog

I have become desperate to get paying, action oriented customers to my websites because I have not been having any success with what I thought was the best and right way to find happy, action oriented people.  It all started 23 months ago.

 

I was sitting at my desk doing super boring mundane work for a supervisor who did not know how to manage people.  Being over 59 with the years to retire early, I began to dream again.

 

I told myself, “Yes, I can work from home and make a very good living.”  I just needed enough money to last me a year so that I could establish myself and put all of my systems into place.

 

I had two websites that contained great products.  I had ideas for a service website and I was looking for a really good MLM company for my residual income.

 

So finally 19 months ago I retired from a job I hated (actually I liked it for over 10 years until I was put in a position that gave me zero satisfaction doing work for a director that had zero people skills and who only wanted me to help him look good for the commissioner).  The unfortunate part was that I was making over $81,000 a year while doing fairly easy work, yet unrewarding both mentally and emotionally.

 

So now I had just over 14 months, the amount of time I figured I could stretch my life savings, to make my Internet business a success.  I am now into my 19^th month and no Internet income to speak of and living off of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.  Luckily I am very good as a handy man and I have been able to earn some extra money doing manual labor.  Now don’t get me wrong, I love doing that kind of work, usually.  I just finished painting one side of a very large barn and my body aches.  It was great to have people walk by and say what a great job I did and it will be great to have an extra $800 in my pocket, but I don’t want to do that kind of work on a regular basis.

 

Yes, I did enjoy the challenge of figuring out how to repair a stall wall that a horse moved one foot and almost caused to collapse but I would rather have been working on my land.

 

What I like most and what I did for over 10 years working for the state was helping others.  That is what gives me my greatest joy.  That is what I would rather be doing, hence my desperation in getting something to work for my Internet business.

 

I tried PPC and lost $100 quickly.  I bought products which I couldn’t sell because I couldn’t get people to even look at my website.  I joined several MLM companies because my upline promised to help me build a $10,000 a month business.  They lied.  All I did was help them build their $10,000 business.  I joined inexpensive programs (only $5) with the anticipation of leveraging it into thousands.  I could not get people to invest even $5 in themselves.  They preferred to spend $20 on the lottery and give the state more income.   I bought a group of products worth over $213,997 for less than dinner for two at an inexpensive restaurant with the idea that I can give some away as bonuses and even have other people buy the package for their own Internet business.

 

I have joined traffic exchanges and surfed countless hours.  I have joined lists where I am sent emails to click on to be taken to websites in return for credits to use for advertising.  Now my inboxes are full of email that I feel obliged to click on so I can get more points to use for advertising.  But to advertise for what?  Nothing I do seems to attract buying customers.

 

Well, I have been making several mistakes in my process.  I have not been tracking my results.  I have not been selling the right products to the right people.  I have not been focused in using one strategy and sticking to it.

 

Well, in the past several days I have read two reports and am reading one book that I feel will put me on the right path to success at last.  If my new learning and actions work like I feel they will, then I will be on the right path, finally.  After all living on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches isn’t the greatest diet, even though I love peanut and jelly sandwiches.

 

I will keep you updated on my progress on my blog at http://BlogByGary.com

 

 

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