In this week’s Podcast episode, I highlight the success stories of two folks in our Private FB Mastermind Group, Ryan and Christopher.
Over this past week, each of them had their first affiliate sales! I was super excited to see that and I’m thankful to them for sharing their stories with us here today.
In the Podcast, I highlight the key points and point out key factors that I think contribute to continued success over the long haul.
The full text of their stories is included here below as well. The intent was to highlight their great stories and provide continued motivation for anyone else out there pursing a similar path, to achieve success through online niche site projects.
Thank you to Ryan and Christopher for sharing your stories here for the community to read. Much appreciated!
Ryan’s Story
So in a nutshell here’s my story.
I’ve been Podcasting/Internet Radio and blogging since 2005, but never had any serious thought on monetization. I was doing them for fun and to help out my fellow indie musicians.
Although I am no longer Podcasting/Broadcasting or am a musician, I started a new radio station back in January, which also has a blog.
The site gets a new post at 3am Monday-Saturday, highlighting a new upcoming artist. The radio station never got any traction, but the blog has started to skyrocket.
The site gets 100-200 hits per day. After joining an affiliate training program and listening to your podcast for a few weeks, I figured I would join up with the Amazon and iTunes affiliate programs, since nearly all the artists can be found on both of them.
Within a week, I logged into my Amazon account and there was $3.18. Surprisingly to me, but probably not anybody else, that came from other purchases and not the sale of the music. But my point is that it worked!
I also want to throw out to anybody in the FB Mastermind Group that I used to create podcast artwork on Fiverr. While I no longer have the time to dedicate to the amount of orders I did on Fiverr, I am willing to help out anybody in the group with artwork or graphics that they may need. Providing they can deal with the work schedule of a truck driver. 😉 Its my small way of helping while I learn how to do this IM thing right.
I already have two niches picked out and am working on some pillar articles for them. I even have an idea for a digital product(s). It may take me years to get this all going, but I have a feeling it will be worth it in the long run. If it will let me be home to watch my daughter grow up, its definitely worth every sweat, tear and penny.
Keep it rolling!
Christopher’s Story
My IM Journey for 2015
I decided to learn about IM right before Thanksgiving 2014. Holiday times had made me realize that my current sales job wasn’t going to cut it. I was just going to try and earn money on the side, while I worked at my regular job.
That soon changed when my job slowed to a crawl, as people spent their money elsewhere.
So I sat there one day trying to figure out what I should be doing to make money. I could use my IT skills to do tech support. Nah, I’d been there, done that.
I could find a product and sell it online. No, can’t do that, have to have money first.
I could do online surveys for cash. After 5 minutes I never wanted to see a survey again.
I researched them all: MTurk, Surveys, Fiverr, Paid to Search, Fat Wallet, Textbook Arbitrage, Mystery shopping, YouTube vlogger. I even tried a few of these methods.
