Wealthy Affiliate 3.0

Hello everyone!

My name is Chad, and I am an internet marketing-aholic.

Seriously though, I apologize for the long email, but I would like to share my one-year Wealthy Affiliate story and some of my recent success with those new and old to Wealthy Affiliate. I actually debated for a long time whether or not I would, or should, write this post. In the end, I decided that it would be beneficial for those thinking about joining Wealthy Affiliate, those just joining Wealthy Affiliate, or those who have been with Wealthy Affiliate for a while now and who may be struggling or getting frustrated. My hesitancy in writing this post was that I do not want to come across as bragging or that I know more than the next person, because I honestly don't, and still consider myself a very, very beginner, amateur internet marketer. In no particular order, I believe my success has been a combination of luck, hard-work, patience, and research, though I'm leaning toward luck. Without a doubt, though, any success that I've had to date is directly related and should be credited to Wealthy Affiliate and the guys behind it, Kyle and Carson.

For those that don't know me (which is everyone), here is a little bit about myself. I'm a 31-year-old attorney living in Florida, recently married, and even more recently with a little girl on the way. I love to play golf, drink beer, gamble, play poker, watch college football and basketball, and follow the Florida Gators. I'm obsessed with fantasy football, and I'd say overall, I have an obsessive-compulsive personality when it comes to most things I put my mind to.

In any event, I joined Wealthy Affiliate almost 1 year ago. As I write this, I can't even remember how I came to find Wealthy Affiliate, but I'm pretty sure it had something to do with sitting in my office researching something
about some law that I didn't care about. What I can tell you is that prior to joining, I had absolutely no experience with internet/affiliate marketing - didn't even know what it was. I guess you could say I was an internet marketing virgin.

Without writing pages and pages, what I hope this post accomplishes is that it shows everyone here what is possible if you not only trust what is offered to you here by Wealthy Affiliate and Kyle and Carson, but that you actually put into motion the skills you learn. By no means is it easy. Like a lot of us here, I was grabbing ankles after the last main Google slap, and I got very frustrated. I even wrote it off for a couple of weeks. One day, though, I sat down in front of my computer and told myself that failure is not an option and that success is inevitable. I scrapped everything I had done to date and started over - new campaigns, new account, new website, new everything. I think I may have even started using a new computer b/c I thought my old one was bad luck. I don't recommend this.

Bottom line - for a beginner (I still consider myself a beginner), and those more experienced, it is my opinion that you do not need anything else but this website. Internet marketing is ever-changing, something you must keep at daily. I learn something everyday here. I also screw up something everyday. But, you learn, correct your mistakes, and move on. Anyone can do this - but you actually have to do it.

Well, that really is all I wanted to say. Just don't half-ass your approach to this, and expect anything more than half-ass results.

Just so everyone doesn't think I'm full of s&$t, I have posted some of my sales from the last week or so. Again, please, I really do not want everyone to think badly of my posting this, but please use it as inspiration, motivation, etc...

Thanks! I'm glad to be here!

Chad

PAYPERIOD SALES SUBTOTALS:
Period ending 2006-12-01: $32,888.01
Period ending 2006-11-16: $26,778.18

DAILY SALES SUBTOTALS:

Tue Nov 28
$2,721.74

Mon Nov 27
$2,365.52

Sun Nov 26
$3,082.03

Sat Nov 25
$3,261.98

Fri Nov 24
$3,468.33

Thu Nov 23
$2,661.40

Wed Nov 22
$2,719.20

Tue Nov 21
$2,394.33

Mon Nov 20
$1,878.72

Sun Nov 19
$2,874.97

Sat Nov 18
$2,362.02


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Hey

Thanks for posting that - that is absolutely fantastic!

Well done and you have inspired me no end to master this once and for all!

Off with a spring in my step now

Cheers

Stu!

WOW!

Amazing post Chad. Thanks for sharing.

John

I WILL make a simalar post next year this time

Thanks for sharing Chad.

cheers
Marco

Chad,

That's awesome mate well done! A real inspiration to us all.

Cheers! Dave B

PS. Hope to see you in here more often

Hi Chad!

Let me congratulate you on the success that you've been able to achieve over the past year. Question for you. When you joined Wealthy Affiliate last year, did you think that you'd be earning and extra $50,000 a month? I bet you didn't! It goes to show that Internet Marketing is not an overnight success thing. It's like any business, it takes time to grow. You're tuition to WA for the past year = $359

Your last two paychecks = $59,666.19

Not bad!




This was your first post almost a year ago Chad! Compare this to how you are doing now!

Thanks for the motivation and congrats on your success thus far!

Carson

great inspiration! thanks!

wow, sweet results! and after just one year! And you still consider yourself a beginner?! I don't dare to think about the gurus..

haha, one of your days and i would have enough to survive for a month



Good Luck to you! (everyone else to, of course!)
John

Excellent post Chad. Thanks for the inspiration and congratulations on your success.

I'm speechless!

Chad,

Your post is really an inspiration for newbies like me.

Regards

Chad,

You should truly be proud of yourself and this just goes to show that perseverence and hard work pay off. It seems as though you have create a model that you can duplicate over and over to continue building yoru success. You are an inspiration to fellow WA'ers.

Please keep us updated!

Cheers,

Kyle

THAT's what you call a Merry Christmas!!!!

I think this is the first post that gave me goosebumps!

Awesome, dude...just awesome!

Thad

I just said "Holy S*&^%" 2 seconds ago...

Thanks for your post Chad.



Rento

I just,...I'm speechless...talk about being modest...

Chad, you're not a beginner, you're a Wealthy Affiliate, congratulations!

belgian

Super Congrats Chad! It really helps allot when folks post about success' It's a pure motivator for me! Great Work!

Regards,

Chris