Make Money Online Your Way

I think, the biggest mistake people make in looking to learn or succeed in anything is that they think if they fail or make mistakes, they can’t be good at it. That is just not true. Most of the things I am the best at, or have become good at is by making mistakes or failing at them! I think this is true in most areas of life. No one I know learned how to walk without falling down. But we all end up learning how to walk. I even learned how to run! This principle has been especially true for me online.

I look at those failures or mistakes as opportunites to learn and improve. Some of the lessons I learned online about free advertising, paid advertising, investment opportunities, Network Marketing, MLM, and starting and building a successful online business cost me thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours. I will share a number of my failures with you that I have found very educational, so that you can avoid losing money and time like I did learning those same lessons.

The first one I will tell you about is my experiences with Referralware. Referralware is a great idea! The problem with it is that it did not work out for me, and I WORKED AT IT! I was with Referralware for about a year and a half. Basically, Referralware combines an integrated marketing system with multiple income streams. Huh? Did I lose you yet? Hang in there, As I will explain and share with you what I learned and how I used that to make money online and work from home.

Problem #1 for Referralware = people have trouble understanding what the heck it is. Some people think it is software (because of the “ware” in it’s name).

Problem #2 with Referralware = To get to the top levels, and qualify for the maximum commissions, it has a high monthly cost. I was spending more than $300 just to maintain my position and get the guaranteed signups packages. That does not even include what it cost to join and maintain membership in the business opportunities that were to be my income streams. They were just expense streams to me.
Problem #3 in Referralware = I did recruit and start to grow a downline there, but ran into the same problems as I had in many other systems. My new members were not able to duplicate in the system and would end up quitting.
Problem #4 with Referralware = Overwhelming variety of online business opportunities to choose from and even though they supposedly had been “pre-screened” for a higher probability for success, most of them were NOT working and you would end up joining a online business opportunity to promote that people were not succeeding at.

What the heck are multiple income streams? Think of it this way: if you work at a job, that is one income stream. If you owned a apartment that you rented out to others, that would be yor second income stream.

Lesson #1 I learned from Referralware = The appeal is to develop multiple income streams online as a way to grow a larger income. It is also a more reliable way to develop an income you can depend on. This is a smart idea as instead of promoting a single thing with your advertising dollar, you can advertise multiple things with the same advertising budget. Also, you would not have all your eggs in one basket. If you ran into problems with one business or opportunity, you could rely on the other income streams to provide for you while you worked on replacing that one. I think of it this way. Lets say I develop a small successful website that makes me $20 per day with ads or sales. That may not seem like a lot. What if I did that 9 more times. Now I am making $200 per day from my websites - all are easy to maintain and if one runs out of business, or has problems - instead of losing my daily income, I still make $180 per day and only need to replace that portion of my income. Is your job that reliable?

Lesson #2 I learned from Referralware = Use the power of the internet and an automated system to get more done in less time. I think the benefits of this are obvious, but I had never thought about this before then. If you can set up an automated system to do 95% of the work for you, it also means any work you have to do will go farther! This way, I also only end up spending my time with task that require my attention and effort, rather than presenting and explaining the same things over and over. If you have used an online business to purchase anything, you know what I mean. You can choose, pay for and sometimes even receive what you were looking for and the whole process was completely automated. Using this automated system, your online business can get that much more done without you. You can set up other things like the marketing system to even bring in people automatically and do the sales, collect the money, and put the money in your account, all while you are doing something else.

Lesson #3 I learned from Referralware = Whatever your offer or system is, it needs to be easy to explain. This means that it would be easy to understand and more people would be interested in it.

Lesson #4 I learned from Referralware = Because of some of the problems I outlined above, 2 guys who were having success started an add-on program to Referralware called Coaching to Profits. First of all, this added to the cost of joining and the monthly expense. What they did right, was to explain to people what the heck Referralware was, streamlined the income streams to a few, and best of all - had a step-by-step plan for how to succeed in your Referralware business. You can easily see that these ideas heavily infuenced my http://www.nutronixhelp.com/ site.

Lesson #5 I learned from Referralware = The main aspect that initially appealed to me was the idea that I could develop a residual income. I could work at something smart and hard once, and get paid for it for years after that. One of the main obstacles to that is if you are involved in something that you need to perpetually re-qualify for, or keep recruiting for. Those kind of things keep it from being residual. That is one of the things I love about the Nutronix payplan. I will never have to recruit another person or re-qualify above my $100 autoship to reach the top levels in the payplan and enjoy my monthly income from that.

I was first exposed to Network Marketing/MLM when the Amway business was presented to me years ago when I was in college. The business presentation and some of the ideas really made sense to me. The idea that I was not going to get ahead trading time for money (as I only had so much time) and that one of the few ways get beyond that was to own a lot of land, own my own business or inherit a lot of money.
Since I was not planning on getting any kind of inheritance, owning my own business made the most sense to me, and so I proceeded to work hard at building my Amway business for 2 years. I was successful at recruiting some people, but they could never duplicate that success and my business went nowhere so I ended up dropping out.
I still held on to that dream of finding a way to get ahead. I did go onto start my own business with my uncle. I worked with him in getting a small tile installation business off the ground and grew it to over 12 employees. It was a lot of work and investment. Even as hard as we were working, after all our expenses and overhead, I ended up making only slightly more than I did if I was doing the work myself. This got me to reconsider what kind of business I wanted to own.
I knew that what I was doing would not get me into the lifestyle of time freedom and money that I wanted, and that I would have a tough time getting enough money to pay down my debts and even to retire. Reading the news and seeing stories of how many pension funds were going under, and I knew how I did not want to HAVE to be working into my later years. It is different if you have a hobby or a business you do because you want to, versus, working at something because you have to. I wanted to work at something that I liked to do that would pay me for years.
This got me looking online for businesses and opportunities to make money from home as I was really sick of driving around all day, and really getting nowhere. I would get home tired, after a long day, and did not have the time, money, or energy to do the things I really wanted to do with my life. I researched and tried many online businesses, and I kept returning to network marketing/ MLM as the business to have, as that approach has created more millionaires than any other business method, along with being able to offer residual income with a successful business. It also used the advantages of leverage, which meant the bigger my business got, I would get paid more and more, even though I was working the same amount. Also the idea that I could work hard at a business for a couple of years, and then enjoy the results of my efforts for many more years really appealed to me.
As I worked at some of the businesses I found, I had success with some, but mostly failure. The weak link for any of these businesses was their marketing and presentation system, and not having a proven way for duplicating their business. They had plenty of “ideas” but none of them worked for my downline. I had been involved with a couple businesses that I found I could grow – in one I helped build a downline of over 10,000 people. It quickly fell apart and most people had quit in 3 months as no one could duplicate the recruiting I was. In the other, I had basically the same problem, I was able to recruit people and new members were not able to repeat that and duplicate, so another downline faded away. That business is where I met my sponsor Shane Woods.
Shane was in another downline than me, and we were both actively looking to find something that worked for the new person. He called me one night and invited me to join with him in this business. (We called ourselves the Success Team). One of the most interesting aspects that he told me about AutomaticBuilder/Nutronix was that they had an automated presentation system with many proven methods of advertising. Listening to the excitement in his voice got me excited, so I gave him my credit card over the phone and had him get my business going that night. Just the idea that they had paid advertising and free advertising that actually worked was exciting! I listened in on some conference calls and after listening to multiple success stories and the kind of leadership and team atmosphere that was in place, I had hope again that I found a business that could work.
I started out slow and skeptical though, as I had been disappointed so many times before. Especially after my last failure in the business before, my wife also felt very cautious and skeptical. The other thing that was attractive to me about this business was that I could work at it very part time. I was in the process of starting a retail business online (http://www.why-buy-dinar.com)and did not have much free time to spend working my AutomaticBuilder/Nutronix business. The slow but steady progress this business made was one of the things that kept me coming back to this business time and time again. Success did not happen overnight for me.
I had been in the business for a few months and basically had just used the GTT’s to bring in new members and about 11 of them upgraded. (GTT’s are Guaranteed Tour Takers). GTT’s are a premier lead that is exclusive to our business. This was very encouraging, but no one was duplicating yet. I was watching to see how much the system would do on it’s own, as I needed to know that it did not depend on my personal skills to succeed.
I listened to a conference call and a member who was having success was talking about the personal welcome email he sent to members and the kind of responses he was getting. Even though the system sends out follow-up and welcome emails for you, nothing beats the personal touch. I decided to give it one more go, bought another set of GTT’s and sent welcome emails to any members who joined, and sent emails to anyone who watched the presentation more than twice to encourage them to let me know if they had any questions, I would be happy to help get them answers.
One of the members who joined from that set and responded to my welcome email was Thom Gruber. He has gone onto to build a downline that makes up the majority of my business. When I first contacted Thom, he was excited and getting going, but he was frustrated as he thought he put his username wrong in a URL that he was sending out in an email campaign he had just bought. He was concerned that if he got any leads from that, they were going to end up at someone else’s site – instead of his. He also told me he had ordered a set of GTT’s. I said that was great, and to help make up for any people he could have lost from the mistake in his ad, that I would buy him a set of GTT’s to make up for it.
Let’s just say that when those 2 sets of GTT’s came in for Thom, he saw the real power and potential of this business and got really enthusiastic about what he could achieve with this business and went about achieving it. I won’t tell you Thom’s story here, I will let him tell you that. I just want to point out that Thom came from another Network Marketing company where he was not finding the success or duplication he was looking for to succeed. As you will see, one of your best tools in this business is helping your new members see that for themselves. Once they see the power and potential of this system, and they know you are behind them, they will be the driving force behind your success.
I feel very blessed and honored to be a part of this business and to work with the leaders I do. Being a part of the Advanced Training calls and hearing the success stories and results people have had from the strategies and training we have covered there has been really gratifying. It is really a rare thing to find an online business that you can work from home and find online success that you can start for as little as $2.95 If you would have told me that one of the best investment opportunities I would find that would help me make money online would be so inexpensive to start my work from home business - I would have told you that you were crazy. I am just glad I was crazy enough to hold onto that dream, and did not stop trying to reach it.

When I was young - about 8 I think - my first job was a paper route. It was a relatively small route that was in my neighborhood. I had to walk it by foot, and in the winter here in Minnesota, the Sunday edition was a real chore. I remember dragging a sled filled with Sunday papers down the streets, struggling to keep it level, and it kept falling over and I had to reload it. It took me about 6 hours to do my route that day and I was exhausted when I was done. Back then, I also had to collect the payments for my route and I used to dread going door to door and many times people were not home or they would complain about this or that. I did that route for about a year, then quit.
I have always been an avid reader and I used to read about people who had found success in business, or had risen to find a better life for themselves. When I was a teenager, I worked a variety of fast food jobs to make money and always hated how hard we worked and how little we got paid. When I graduated from high school I worked 2 jobs full time, and lived with my parents in an effort to save up money for a car and to save a little to get ahead so I could go to college. I worked at Perkins restaurant cooking during the day and was a cashier in a gas station for the night shift. There was only 1 day a week I did not work, and most other days I could only sleep about 6 hours between jobs. I had no social life and it was a sad existance for that year. When I got done - even though I did not have to pay rent - I had managed to pay for my old little car and had about $3000 in the bank. It was scary to me how fast that money went, once I moved into town and started college. I ended up selling the car, and riding my bike everywhere again to make ends meet as I went to school. It was a poor existance, and I remember always having a roommate and eating a lot of ramen. Any job I worked hard at in school, never got me ahead and I was pretty frugal at that time. I left school and was working a temp job. I had taken a break to attend my grandmothers funeral and saw my uncle there. I had worked in construction for him in high school and he was telling me how his tile business that I helped him with was doing, and offered that I come join him there as the money would be better than I was making.
I accepted. He had 3 employees, and through paid advertising and my help with sales and marketing, we grew the business to 11 employees. As large as that business got, we never seemed to make more than we would have made if we were just doing the jobs ourselves - but with the employees, it seemed all we ever did was drive around and fix problems. It seemed like no matter how hard I worked, or even being an owner of a business, that I could get ahead. That is some of the background of what drove me to try and find a better way to make a living. I have always read a lot and was introduced to the internet in college. I saw all the online success stories and how many online business owners were making money online. I saw many investment opportunites that I did not have the money to invest in at the time, and had a dream of working from home with an online business that would make money online. I knew I could not retire or get out of debt with the way I was working now and I was worried about having enough to retire. This motivated and led me to years of learning and trying different things to find online success and the freedom I hoped to find.

After 2 years of struggling to make a living working online - I have reached my goal and then some! I decided that with this site, I would start blogging about my failures and successes and the path I am walking and finally enjoying to share with others who would like to do the same. I just got my blog set up today and it is late, so I will write more tomorrow. I will be sharing my struggles, my rewards, thoughts on making money online, investment opportunities, free advertising, paid advertising and how to build a successful work from home online business. Stay tuned!

In the meantime - you can check out a few sites I am involved with if you want:

http://www.why-buy-dinar.com

http://www.exchangeyourdinar.com

http://www.investmentopportunityreport.com

http://www.nutronixhelp.com

http://www.time-for-plan-b.com

http://www.be-a-success-coach.com

http://www.yoursuccessguaranteed.com

Matthew Yonan