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I’ve hit a mental block

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I’ve hit a mental block. There are so many different things that I want to do and I’m second guessing whether affiliate marketing is right for me.

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I’ve hit a mental block.

Maybe this has happened to you recently, you feel paralyzed by indecision.

I can’t tell if I’m trying to make a smart, well thought out decision about continuing or if I’m self-sabotaging.

Been working in affiliate marketing and studying it for most of my free time for the last 4 months and nothing is happening.

I haven’t seen any results yet and I’m struggling with the idea if this is what I actually want to do, or if I’m just wasting my time.

If you’ve had thoughts similar to those last 3 sentences, you’re not alone.

Everyone thinks that entrepreneurship is an easy, fast and simple way to replace your day job and you’ll never hit a mental block.

Regardless of where you are in your journey.

The reality is that you will have to train your mind so you can handle anything that comes your way.

Every step I take I “hit a mental block” figuratively speaking.

Some days nothing can hold me back. I may get mad, turn green and double in size, but I always bounce back.

I have a LOT of four letter words in my vocabulary and QUIT isn’t one of them.

Being an employee for many years conditions people to think…”I did 8 hours of work I get 8 hours of pay.”

As an entrepreneur you put in a lot of upfront work to get things off the ground before you see money coming in.

Just like each person is unique, so is everyone’s learning curve.

Each person IS different and when they hit a mental block, they compare themselves to other people which is not a good habit to ever get into.

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Being Optimistic

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If there’s one thing I’m being optimistic about, its affiliate marketing. Especially when new marketers complain about how hard it is, how they’re about to give up, how they cannot do this or that task.

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Forget the obstacles.

When you’re being optimistic, you don’t think in terms of obstacles. You think in terms of opportunity and how you can overcome those obstacles.

When starting your business, don’t get discouraged if you don’t see results fast.

If you’re serious, remember that all successful people put in the work.

Sure, it’s easy to think that someone is lucky, really smart or just gifted.

There’s no doubt that they put in the work early on to reach their level of success.

I had more failures before I started gaining momentum.

As you learn from each failure, you’ll get better over time.

It’s important being optimistic from the start and really define why you’re starting this business in the first place.

I see people complaining on Facebook how they spent money and didn’t get results right away! Funny, this business doesn’t always work that way.

You will hit obstacles during your journey, but if you really want this bad enough, you’ll stay the course and keep going until you make this work.

People go to college for years and then have to spend years working their way up to make a decent living and pay off their student loans.

With an online business for example, you can put in a couple years worth of work and have life changing income in 1 year that most people spend 20 years to earn.

That’s a small price to pay to learn a few skills and to remain consistent during your pursuit to reach your goals.

Don’t give up on your dreams before you ever get any real results.

Just pick a business, don’t allow yourself to be easily distracted and remain consistent everyday until you get there.

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What is a Super Affiliate?

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A super affiliate is always a top earner in whatever program they join. They usually are the 10% who make 90% of the sales in the marketplace.

These top 10% super affiliates are not only making the sales, but simply using some basic strategies that all marketers use.

With marketing strategies that are well defined, a super affiliate will push their limits, and believes in the product or tools of the trade.

So, what makes person so special? It’s all in the mindset.

The Mindset of a Super Affiliate

The top super affiliates in the industry didn’t just wake up one morning, decide they must be the best and have everything ready to go.

They literally spent years working on it, making mistakes, and developing their mindset to take full advantage of their time each day.

Super affiliates never quit. They eventually develop a special mindset that allows them to approach anything with crystal clear vision.

They never stop taking action towards their goals. The number one thing the top affiliate marketers never do is procrastinate.

This used to be me.

I’d read some slick sales page about a new product on how to make $10,000 a week in 6 weeks or less?

Man, I gotta pick it up.

This product has a single tool that will triple your conversions!

C’mon Sheldon, what are you waiting for? BUY it now!

These were my reactions, I was too busy learning and looking for the next big thing that would help me understand everything about this business.

I’ll tell you a little secret that will help you understand everything you need to know about affiliate marketing? Ready?

Experience.

And the only way to get that experience is to keep going.

Keep making and learning from those mistakes on your way to understanding this business.

The only way to ever truly understand what you are doing is to fail often.

I can outline every little tip I’ve ever learned, but you still need to learn it for yourself.

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Are you an affiliate marketer?

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It’s been said that a good affiliate marketer will constantly help their customers first, and that’s how you make your money.

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So why is it that the vast majority of newcomers fail when they first get into the business of affiliate marketing?

Affiliate marketing is also a business where a truck driver (and a high school dropout) can start making money with no special education or training.

If you’ve been giving affiliate marketing some serious thought lately, there’s a perfect opportunity right in front of you.

The first thing you want to do is join the program of your choice, and get to know the people and system as soon as possible.

Are you going to become the next super affiliate marketer?

They’re the affiliates who turns everything they market, whether it’s an evergreen offer or a new product launch, into sales.

It’s not enough to just learn the basics of affiliate marketing.

You need to focus your efforts on helping others first and have a strong desire to succeed.

You must have the tools and system to achieve that level of success.

In the next few blog posts, I’m going to discuss what an affiliate marketer does.

You probably know quite a bit about that already.

We’re going to talk about how you can not only make a sale, but produce like the biggest and best marketers out there.

It’s time to learn what the very best are doing every day.

And turn each of their business prospects into customers.

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Are You Overwhelmed?

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So what I want to talk about is if you ever get overwhelmed, it’s because you’re just consuming information and then doing nothing with it.

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That’s why you get overwhelmed.

If you keep learning something and then do nothing with that information, that makes you feel overwhelmed. But, when you take action, you get your own personal experience that you can share.

That means you’re constantly focusing on getting better. When someone focuses on their niche, they become more valuable to their audience. They’re constantly sharing their ideas that you can use in your niche too.

Now here’s what I think overwhelm is.

When most people go through any kind of training for example and then they’ll say…

“I’m overwhelmed, I don’t know what to do and I can’t figure it out.”

It’s a great start in basically take action on learning, then they don’t act on what they learned.

And overwhelm happens when you keep studying and you do nothing with that information.

You keep studying more and then you find another “easier” method and now you’re taking all this different information in and of course, this person has their own way of doing things.

Now you’re like AHHH…this person says this and this person says that, I don’t know who to trust.

That’s why you have to choose one person to follow, you got to listen to them and you got to implement it, that’s how you’re going to get results.

You can’t pick 5 different people to learn from all at once, because all 5 of those people realistically are going to have their own way of doing things.

So for me I got one mentor and I really just immerse myself in what he teaches me

And I rarely get overwhelmed.

Realize this, you don’t go into Barnes and Noble and think…

“Oh my god there are so many books and I just I don’t know where to start, I am overwhelmed.”

You usually walk to the section that you want you scroll through, go down the aisle until you find a book on whatever topic you searching for.

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