Tim Halloran, Six Figure Mentors Review - What Does It Take To Succeed?

I joined the SFM back in 2014. At the time it had only been running for four years. I didn't know what to expect but I had been burned a few times online with a number of business type courses promising to help me earn money. My lack of experience back then and my desperation was partly responsible for some of my failures. But also, many courses taught tactics which were already becoming out of date. Some of the courses I bought taught how to get your website up in the Google rankings. If you've ever tried this, you'll know it isn't easy. It was far easier 20 years ago admittedly. But now, getting ranked for your website is becoming much more difficult. So back to The SFM. When I joined I decided I needed to start afresh and although I had learned a number of skills, I still hadn't really made any money on the internet. With the exception of buying and selling on eBay, the other strategies I had tried just didn't get any traction. After joining, I was immediately impressed with the information I was getting. The "over-deliver" strategy clearly worked on me! I also benefitted by joining under someone who helped me make my first couple of high ticket sales. This happened within a few months. However, I didn't fully understand the business system or what was involved. Although I'd made a couple of quick sales, for not much work, I hadn't entirely been responsible for those sales. The affiliate who referred me had set up a Facebook advertising "co-op" and helped a number of people get some traction. After my first sales, I stopped advertising and simply took the money! This seemed like a lot of money to me back then. It was a couple of thousand pounds. I now realise that I should have re-invested it back into the advertising, which is what I am doing now, now I understand the business better. Having made an 'early win' gave me confidence in the business system which is one of the main selling points of what The SFM offers. It also offers top-notch training too - more so now than back in 2014 when I joined. Now, I am a member of a number of Facebook private groups which I can sit in on, and watch 'over the shoulder' of those who are succeeding in this business. Don't get me wrong, this isn't an easy business to learn. Some of my main problems have been my 'grab it and run' mindset and scarcity mindset which has stopped me from taking some important action steps. The SFM training program caters very well for this. In fact, one of their main strengths is undoubtably their ability to install an ideology of personal growth. Without this, you really will be fighting some internal battles as I have definitely done. This will hold you back if you don't overcome your mental barriers to success. It's not for everyone either, admittedly. The business system itself is expensive and for some prohibitively so. But for anyone wanting to make full time living from the internet, I'd say The SFM is a good place to go. You'll need to work hard and invest though, and it's no easy ride. But it does offer something which many want - a digital business system which can be run from anywhere. The possibility of financial freedom, however far away you believe it to be. If you only want the training, I'd say that was worth the money at the lower levels too. I had a failing kung fu school running when I joined and now it's doing really well. I attribute that to much of the learning and understanding I have picked up from the SFM training and education platform. You can't really expect to earn a living though if you only join at basic level. Only by at least getting to Elite level will you be able to access the higher ticket product commissions. But if you want to learn some digital marketing and mindset skills, it's worth the training and community even if you don't want to make a full time career out of it. The community on its own is a hugely powerful resource and has benefitted me both personally and professionally. After my first couple of high ticket sales, I decided to focus on blogging and the cheaper strategies of generating traffic. I simply didn't have a budget to risk on advertising. I decided that if I got free traffic, the sales would be worth more in profit, which is true. The problem is, the strategy I used (blogging) isn't the best one, particularly in a very competitive niche like affiliate marketing and "money-making online". I know there are people doing well with social media marketing and other free strategies, but I didn't go down this route. The people who are making the real money with The SFM are those who go all in. They position themselves at the very top tier of the business system and promote the SFM themselves as partner level affiliates. This means they can earn the highest possible commissions from the business. Some products are sold at $35,000. Those at the top level can earn 40% of this in commissions, but they need to purchase the product themselves in order to have it in their 'online store'. There's a lot of learning to be done too. I thought I'd make it work very quickly and be sitting on a beach counting my money. But as I persevered through the difficulties, I have changed and understood that it's a business like anything else. It's no magic bullet to instant riches. Just a business model with products within it that anyone can sell. In order to put the most expensive items in your own personal online 'shop', you need to purchase them yourself. Reading the reviews today that I've found about the SFM I see a lot of scepticism. Many say it's a scam. Well, it's not a scam, it's real. But it's easier to say it's a scam and not have to do all the work involved in making it happen. There's plenty of people who are making it work for them, and creating amazing lifestyle businesses of their choosing. The SFM started in 2010 and have recently partnered with Microsoft Lynda (Under the LInkedIn umbrella of companies). Microsoft Lynda now offer their own 6,500 training courses as part of the SFM curriculum. DigitalMarketer (The world's longest standing and most highly respected B2B and B2C marketing training company) also partnered with SFM and now offer their own training as part of the SFM curriculum. I don't think these companies would partner with any organisation that wasn't providing huge value, was well established, and wasn't 100% above board. Since joining The SFM in 2014, I've seen some huge changes in myself. I've had to face myself and see my own limitations as stopping me move forwards within the business. Your thinking and mindset have a huge amount to do with whether you can make a success out of entrepreneurship. It's much, much easier to discount something as a scam, than it is to look within and grow yourself alongside a business. If I had quit on my journey, I would have missed out on a greater opportunity than I could fathom at the time. I struggled and struggled, but much of my struggle was with my lack of understanding of the business model and of my own limitations. I was programmed with a poverty mindset which viciously fought against spending money. To get into the space of knowing that I need to spend in order to earn was a huge shift in my mindset. I'm far from the best performer in The SFM, at this time, but what I've learned about myself and about my inner limitations is invaluable for the rest of my life. I will continue to learn and never quit, so watch this space, you doubting sceptics out there! For those who are thinking about joining The SFM and to do so would mean severe poverty, I'd suggest to get in a better financial position first. I scraped by and took some chances, but it's not easy. If you are determined in this business though, there's no reason you can't make it happen. But if you can't afford it, I'd suggest another program if it's going to put you in debt. The SFM program is more than just a sales funnel with digital products in it. It's an "all-in-one digital business system and training platform. The goal is to make long term digital entrepreneurs who can sustain an income and thrive from the sale of products over the internet. That means there's a whole lot of work to be done, if you're going to make this a full time living. It's definitely not for the timid. Expect to be pushed, and expect some discomfort if you're going to do what you need to make it work. Remember too that affiliate marketing is performance related. No one owes you a living! You need to take charge of yourself and your business in order to make it work! Good luck! Tim Halloran is a stuntman, martial artist and online entrepreneur. To learn how to build your own online business see his site here: tim-halloran.com Article Source: https://EzineArticles.com/expert/Tim_Halloran/488644 Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10010861

What Are The Main Problems For Affiliate Marketers?

What's at stake for affiliate marketers is the ability to work for themselves, quit their jobs and earn, potentially, a huge amount of money. But this all doesn't come easily. There's a few problems which present themselves to affiliates who are serious about making a full-time living from the internet. One of the first of these is knowing who to trust. There's many so-called get rich quick schemes, which surprisingly enough, don't get you rich quick. Quite the contrary, they quickly remove your cash. The programs which offer quick riches don't last long. But they're a good source of income for their owners! The next problems you'll definitely face if you're starting an internet business using affiliate marketing is that of belief. All your friends and family are likely to discredit it as an impossible dream. There a couple of reasons why they'll do this. One is that most people shun a new idea like the plague. The other is that, if it's possible to earn money from the internet, they face the possible repercussions of not having taken any action. Facing the fact that they would also have to do something if it were true, is not so easy. Most people would rather complain about their own situation, rather than taking action, even if they are not happy. The general consensus is that you need to work in a job in order to be a relevant member of society. Swimming against the tide can be tiring too. If your friends and family aren't behind you, it's even more difficult, even if they don't actually say anything outright, there's a subtle dissuasion tactic going on and they may secretly hope you'll fail. Then they can be right in the end! If all this isn't enough to dissuade your from building your own internet business, there's the technical aspect of building a legitimate online business. This requires patience and trust. If you don't have both of these, you'll probably give up too early. You can't expect to suddenly be making money based on a little work. It takes time and effort. You don't 'deserve' anything in terms of results until you've actually earned it! So an entitlement attitude can work against you. This is especially true if you're coming from an employee mindset. If you've been an employee, but not a business owner, it's difficult to change your focus from that of a 'worker bee'. Workers in a job role get paid no matter what they accomplish. Owners of a business get nothing unless they can make it work. It's a performance related pay, rather than a monthly wage. Shiny object syndrome was another barrier to my success in the early days too. There's so many courses offering instant results out there, why would you stick with something which takes time? Because it's more genuine than the shiny new one which promises but never delivers! I jumped around many times from course to course, following to the letter the instructions to build an income online. Time after time I was disappointed. I got accounts shut down, my results dropped off Google, my products didn't sell and I wanted to throw my laptop through the window on countless occasions. These are just a few of the problems you'll face as an affiliate marketer. Depending on the route you take, you might also be limited by funds too. I found many cheaper courses back when I had huge debt and not a penny to my name. I concentrated on free tactics. They were much slower than paid advertising and I was always frustrated by my results. If I had found a good mentor back then, I would have saved a whole heap of time. Not knowing which direction to paddle as an affiliate marketer is probably the biggest challenge. I must had paddled in the wrong direction for years. I tried everything. Over time though, and if you stick with it for long enough, you'll start seeing some results. They won't be huge, but they are the light at the end of the tunnel. Watch out for the results. One you see them, you can back track to what you did to achieve them. Then, concentrate on those activities and drop the others which produce nothing. It's a long road to affiliate marketing success. I haven't arrived yet but I'm much further along than I was. Finding the right people and training is probably the best tip I can give. Without the right direction, you are aimless as an affiliate and you'll probably give up, thinking that 'it' doesn't work. But with the right attitude, direction and guidance, you can make affiliate marketing work for you and create a full-time income from it. Keep focusing on your "why?" My "why" kept me going through all the problems I found in my journey as an affiliate marketer. Nowhere else can you earn the kind of money affiliates earn and have a lifestyle which you can choose. But it definitely isn't easy. If you're looking for the 'quick buck', I wouldn't bother with affiliate marketing! But it can work if you do and if you're prepared to trust the process and keep going for the duration. Good luck! Tim Halloran is a stuntman, martial artist and online entrepreneur. To learn how to build your own online business see his site here: www.tim-halloran.com Article Source: https://EzineArticles.com/expert/Tim_Halloran/488644 Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10014695

Autopilot Money Making Software

Affiliate marketing is a business model in which the affiliate sells other people's products online and earns commissions based on those sales. Most affiliate marketers use digital technology including autoresponders, website building programs, landing page software and digital marketing platforms to build their businesses. These technologies are in fact "autopilot money making software", of a sort. Marketers usually build email lists and they start doing so by advertising to suitable customers who they find on the various advertising platforms. Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter, for example all offer paid marketing platforms to affiliate marketers who use them to find their target audience. They then direct their advertising to specific landing pages where they can collect subscriber's information in exchange for some legitimate bribe. This is usually in the form of a digital downloadable product, or some video or digital content. From there, the subscriber receives a series of automated emails which usually offer information, value and of course promote digital or physical products to those subscribers. All of these processes are automated of course and the affiliate marketer uses them to first test and measure their marketing to see if they can make a profit. Over time, and with considerable testing and measuring, marketers learn which strategies give them the largest profit. Once they get to this point (and if they do), they can cut back on those adverts which are underperforming, and scale up those which are working. With a marketing strategy which has a huge audience, and providing your products are available globally, you can start increasing sales just by 'turning up' the advertising given this situation. Digital products are particularly good for this because they don't require physically posting once someone buys them. Digital products can be accessed directly over the internet. Software products and membership products are two examples of digital products which affiliate marketers can sell online. They don't need to personally own a product because they can promote and sell any product online which has an affiliate program attached to it. The largest affiliate 'store' online is Amazon. Most people are comfortable with purchasing from Amazon by now. So this can be a good place to start. However, Amazon products are mostly physical products which pay out much less in commissions than digital products do. Since digital products carry much less costs in terms of postage, storage and manufacturing, they can pay affiliate marketers much larger commissions. Physical products on Amazon tend to pay between 3% and 10% commissions. Compare this with digital products which pay out 40% - 50% commissions on a sale. So you can see why digital products are a good way to go if you want to build an autopilot money making system. So how much of such a system is actually auto-pilot and how much work is involved? With an online business there is still a lot of work involved, besides the automation which can help your build and scale it. First, you need to generate an income in order to scale up your business. Although an online affiliate business is scalable, many affiliate fail and give up without even building an email list to 1000 subscribers. This can be for a number of reasons. For one, affiliate marketing is an open market; so anyone can 'give it a go'. The barriers to entry are pretty low for an internet business. There's fewer costs compared to a 'bricks and mortar' type of business. All you really need is a laptop and an internet connection. You don't need premises or staff to run your business and you can sell anything anywhere globally. But the smaller barriers to entry also means that many people try it and give up. It's certainly not an easy business to get started in. But if you are patient and have a strong enough desire, anyone can take advantage of the online business systems and strategies available online to sell other people's products. For the people who stick at affiliate marketing long enough to see a good return, there are large rewards. Ultimately it's a business model which can provide a full time income. You can also grow this income to surpass your current income, whatever it is you're doing. But don't have any illusions that an online business is a 'quick riches' type of business. It certainly isn't that! You still need to put the hours in and 'learn your trade' like any other business. The dream of working from home is a pretty strong pull to many people. But ultimately the discipline needed and the competition for attention online can stand in the way of online success for many. Tim Halloran is a stuntman, martial artist and online entrepreneur. Learn how to build your own affiliate business from scratch: autopilotmoneymakingsoftware.com/ Article Source: https://EzineArticles.com/expert/Tim_Halloran/488644 Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10091904