But the daily trudge of working the business was taking a real toll on me – mentally. And due to massive debts I was stuck in between a rock and a hard place. What more motivation do you need to really try hard to work a business than to pay off huge debt?? But the mental side of things eventually got the better of me, and I got back to my old line of landscaping and set up a business in that instead.
I landed a couple of fairly large hedge trimming jobs early on and so all was well with the world! Anyhow, when I did begin my internet marketing journey (call it what you will) I simply believed that one day it would all come together, all this learning and doing, doing and learning.
Helpless! But I kept on plodding along, spending too much money on shiny new glossy products – one after the other, and making no money with any of them .
I never had sensed this before. As it happens, I suspect the journey since then to now – some 7 years later (if you wanna count the initial forays), has been more of a roller coaster ride than I would dared to have imagined.
I initially approached my Klenezee customers to inform them that I would no longer be delivering catalogues, but instead would be doing gardening/landscaping.
I remember trudging the streets with 50 cataglogues in a bag slung around my shoulder in the freezing cold weather on that very first day wondering if I’d actually make any sales at all.
Ouch! I still get commissions even to this day from that though. Totally passive income! That was back in 2004. Then a few years later, I tried out Kleeneze (early 2007) – selling door to door again but this time via product catalogues.
Within 7 months I’d got my income up from zero to £1400 a month (about $2,200 US) and the accolades were high for such an achievement.
And that went well for a while. It was fairly cheap to set up – I had some basic equipment already from previous years, and then ventured online to eBay to purchase some other items – hedge trimmer, strimmer, chain saws, rotary mower etc.
I regularly had people come to me in the monthly meetings asking me what my secret was. I was often asked on-stage to be presented with a plaque or whatever, to commemorate my achievements. At the very first of those monthly meetings I attended in Nottingham, in central England, I was treated like a small king by the guys who were head of my upline.
Oh dear, does this sound familiar? You did this too, huh? But do I view this as wasted money? Has it been a waste of my time (I often would work a 60 – 70 hour week in addition to a part time job (my landscaping business, which by then had gone part time for various un-toward reasons), which paid my relatively meagre weekly bills and also paid for my online pursuits too (thinking back, my monthly internet bills would be around an average of $400 US, and sometimes quite a bit more).
The highs – ranking a site in top 30 in Google was a high for me back then! The lows, watching my 2 sites drift away from sight (not that they were ever truly in sight) and I was helpless to do anything about it.
Some day, it would fit just like a jigsaw and I would indeed reap the just rewards! Additionally, this internet thing really suited my own character – finally, at the age of 40, I felt comfortable doing something every day of my life, and did not even tire of it once! Damn, what a feeling! I finally felt I had found my inner self – something clicked with me and working online.
If You Want To Learn More About SEO or Internet Marketing Then Follow Joseph At His Blog: JosephArchibald.com All that part was real nice! And the promise of a bonus car (Mini Cooper convertible right on up to BMW M5 Series) and a few holidays each year once certain further levels of achievement were gained, was always going to be a great motivator to keep on going.