So it’s day 31 of this challenge (if you don’t know about it read day 0) and as you can see above I am currently in debt. I’ve decided to update this in real-time in case you’re wondering and that’s why it’s day 31 and not day 15. So the whole affiliate marketing thing I did earlier didn’t go so much as expected since I just got a couple of reads and no sale (56 clicks and 22 reads) for $10 in 8 days. Although I suspect quite a bit of that number must have come from you reading it (I’m kidding nobody reads this blog [laughs in sadness]). I’m thinking this is not really the way for me even though it got me to take the first action. You might be thinking, why would I quit when I just started. Well the reason for this is because, you see how nobody gets rich working for someone else? (actually I’m wrong a lot of people have gotten rich working for others). That’s exactly why I won’t do it.
Don’t get me wrong here, the mission is still to hit that jackpot but not at the expense of myself. I don’t fancy working for someone else and if I did I would’t do a really good job (hope none of my former employers reads this). I’ve always felt like I was made for more, like I deserved better. Employment for me always seemed like a vehicle to get me to my ultimate destination. Employment itself never felt like the end goal. I always felt like I was being taken advantage of or used this way and so I quit. And boy did I make a grave decision. You see if I can keep a job then I can pump as much as I earn into my business and as it eventually gets better, then and only then can I quit.
Enough of me ranting, let’s breakdown the rest of the debt that I have. So as you know I’m currently a big fan of dropshipping and have been binging videos on end about the topic day in day out. I know most people are screaming ‘that line of business is dead’, but why not find out for myself. So I came about a gentleman called Mohamed Camara on YouTube and he was actually the last push into me making the decision to finally do it. I went and opened a shopify account and purchased a dormain at $12 and a business email for $6 which set me back $18 total. Of course I borrowed this and I’m gonna have to pay it back but the good thing is, shopify has extended their trial period for 90 days amidst this whole global crisis. This is potentially enough time to get me testing out different products until I find the winning one.
I don’t expect to make money in my first 2 months, although it would be nice, but I will be fine in month 3. I have already set up a store and it is up and running as of yesterday. The only things remaining are: creating a video ad, setting up facebook ads and I’m also still waiting on my supplier on cjdropshipping to confirm my sourcing. I’m pretty excited about this and I know you are too.
By the way, I also realized something yesterday. It’s kind of embarrassing and I know you can relate. I wasn’t afraid of failure, I was afraid of success. I mean let’s face it I’m practically broke now, how much worse can it get. And I know how failure tastes, I live it everyday, so I thought to myself what have I got to loose? Nothing! I mean I’ll be in debt if it doesn’t work out but then again I’m already in debt. I will also have learnt alot and quit frankly I don’t think I’m gonna give up that easily. If worse comes to worst, then I’d probably get a job then do it all over again. How’s that for determination. But also what if it works out?
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