Have you seen most sales funnels are made with the author, or the sales person shoot on video and trying to tell you his story-hook-offer? Well I'm at that stage of creating my first funnel for selling an affiliate program. Although I have worked on the offer, and had some kind of story to tell, well, I don't feel comfortable enough to get on camera and try to sell it :-) (that's also one of the reasons why I chose podcast over video) 

I know I have to get out of my comfort zone, since I have deadline.

Talking about failure, this is one. Clickfunnels, the program I'm promoting as an affiliate, has announced that they will decrease the affiliate commision percentage for those who don't make $100 sales by october 31st. Today is November 1st, and ... I didn't make it.

As most affiliates do, I posted my affiliate links on my social media hoping that someone would click and buy the course. As you can imagine, that didn;t happen.

So I setup an offer for malagasy diaspora, where I'll trade $100 worth of Madagascar-based products and cover the shipping anywhere in the world, but in exchange, they have to buy the course through my link. I was willing to pay the shipping costs, since I knew that if I made any sale, I'll recover the $100, so as long ad the shipping costs doesn't go up to $100, I lose nothing.

I thought that was a great plan. But I have a psychological issue when it comes to promoting on social media: I don't feel comfortable selling something from my personal social media accounts. I only had on person interested, but finally he didn't make the sale.

As part of the One Funnel Away challenge, a training I'm going through, I want to tell you a bit more about me, about my persona experiences. Quite frankly, I scarcely open myself to people about my feelings, especially when I don't know who's listening ont the other end. But, I guess this is what it takes to bring some positive change into my life. I hope as we look back, after episode 200 or 1000, I'll be that successful guy who achieved his goals, and who's setting bigger goals that will have more impact to other people's live.

As a parent of a special need kid (autist), why do I chose affiliate marketing for generating enough monthly recurring revenue?

On this episode, I'm sharing the different programs that I tried when trying to make money online. This is a "condensé" of almost ten years of challenges/experiences. Blogging, google Adsense, Amazon FBA, Amazon Merch, Dropshipping, Affiliate marketing, Social Media Marketing: I've tried them all, with no success since I didn't really put all the efforts that was needed at that time. In fact, I bought into the "shiny object" issue where I couldn't really focus on one program and make it work.

My name is Hery Zo. I am a dad of a boy under the autism spectrum. I started this podcast as a way to help other parent (single, couple, grand-parent, ...) coping with one aspect of raising those kids with special needs: financing the activities. This means, generating revenue. This podcast is about tips and plans for generating revenue (mostly online).

Oh, and by the way, I'm just starting out with this podcast thing, so I guess there need to be some learning curve on my side. Please bear with me :-)