Break The Chains Of Your 9 to 5
You have done well in your career, made a good life for you and your family. It may be the case that you have started your own business and things are going great. Then one day to take a step back and realise that’s all you do. Your work is your life. When am I actually going to be in a position to live a little. This was me at the age of 37 working as an electrician running my own business. Busy all the time, constantly answering calls and booking in work. Makes you sound very successful right? I QUIT! Folded the electrical business and chose a different path. A path where I could have more time and freedom to live the life I wanted, not the life I had become comfortable with. This podcast describes all the challenges I faced in doing so. With interviews of other people who have done the same. My name is Ben Poulter and this is Break The Chains Of Your 9 to 5. Helping Blokes Who want to get off the tools and have more time for themselves. Follow 🔽 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BenjaminsDrive
Episodes
Monday Dec 05, 2022
Monday Dec 05, 2022
Some Extra Money Would Be Good Right NOW
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Everyone is feeling the pinch right now all over the world. Some extra money supply would be welcome.
For the people who do still have a job, they need to make more money.
There are a few ways that you can increase your money supply in your current position.
With some simple ideas that you probably never even thought of right under your nose.
I am about to tell you 5 simple ideas.
Number 1 – Ask For More
It’s as simple as putting your prices up or just go to your boss and ask for more.
Number 2 – Extra Money Supply From Things You Already Have
Being a tradesman you understand the value of quality.
Those drills you buy for $100 that wouldn’t dill a hole in butter are useless!
They may be good for putting your Ikea furniture together.
Number 3 – Create A You Tube Channel
This one can not only pay you, it can be fun too.
Create a you tube channel or short form videos.
Number 4 – Use A Credit Card That Pays You
As a tradesman running your own business, you spend a fortune!
I used to spend over 10k a month at the wholesales for years. It wasn’t until the last few years I started to use a credit card.
Number 5 – Plan Jobs For Other Tradesmen
When you start a new job, you plan on what your going to do and how your going to do it, basically design the install.
As you know some tradesmen haven’t got a clue, and make it up as they go along only to mess the whole job up.
Friday Dec 02, 2022
Friday Dec 02, 2022
It was a great pleasure to have Chris Nixon - Productivity Coach and Strategist on the podcast.
He helps clients whose stressful chaotic lives have overwhelmed them, and robbed them of motivation, accountability, and reaching their goals.Chris believes that no two people think the same or work the same so that means no two productivity systems can be the same. He developed The Productivity Master Method™ to find the right productivity solutions, tools, and tactics for each client. These systems fit the client’s needs, reduce their stress and overwhelm and allow them to be creative again. Chris developed his first system more than 25 years ago and since then has developed hundreds more. He has also become a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, an Erickson Professional Coach, a Continuous Improvement Specialist, and a Full Focus Planner Certified Pro. Known for having an open mind and being a good listener, Chris pairs these with his critical thinking skills making problem-solving one of his best-used skills. If you need help taming your busy life go to chrisnixon.com to learn more.
In the podcast Chris explains that coming from a farming background he is familiar to hard work.
Having changed his career every 3 years in pursuit of a new challenge, that's what led Chris to the online world. So many people these days are looking to upgrade their lifestyle to a career online.
You could do the same by joining them in a community Break The Chains.
Monday Nov 28, 2022
Monday Nov 28, 2022
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Are We Doomed In The UK?
The UK is facing the biggest fall in living standards, down to the government’s actions.
In fact, the biggest since 1952!
As you can imagine – its going to take some time to recover!
How did the UK get to be in this position and what does the future look like for the UK?
Here I will go into detail what happened and I will also let you know how to recover faster than everyone else.
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This may get a little complicated – so stick with me. I’m going to explain it all, just as I understand it.
RHDI ( Real Household disposable Income)
It all boils down to the RHDI which stands for the Real Household disposable Income.
Which is used to measure the living standards of people living in a country.
The UK living standard in 2023 and 2024 are going to decrease by 4.3%.
4.3% may seem like a small number, but it’s the biggest fall since 1956 – which was when they started to track the living standards.
Its not predicted to increase for at least 2 years after that.
This long term decrease has happened before in 2008 but not as much.
In effect its like turning back time to 2013 to how the standard of living was back then.
Losing 8 years of the economy growth.
The bank of England has released a statement expecting the longest recession the UK has ever seen.
Predicting that Europe could possibly follow.
What about the rest of the world? The UK being one of the big players as the 6th largest economy in the world behind –
India
Germany
Japan
China
And the biggest The United States.
UK cant be the only one in trouble with living standards right now?
The UK has always been know as expensive, with how much it costs to own a property in the middle of London.
The pound sterling has always been pretty strong against other currencies all over the world.
Has been in the past! Currently its became a lot weaker.
In the nest 2 years its predicted that 500,000 people will lose their jobs. Then the people who do actually have a job, the income wont stretch as far as it used to.
With less people buying less houses the value of property will also come down.
This could be seen as a good thing for people who can afford the interest rates that have also gone up on barrowing.
But this is why the RHDI (Real Household disposable Income) is going down, because the income people with a job do earn – its buying them a lot less, pushing the living standards down.
To fight the rising cost of inflation in the UK, the Bank Of England raised its interest rate from 0.75% TO 3% - The biggest rise in 33 years.
So how did the UK get to be in this terrible situation?
Its no surprise it has something to do with Brexit, the UK voted to exit the European union.
The EU or European union was formed in 1992 that was an agreement between countries, so that they can all trade with each other without expensive taxes.
Also to let each other travel in the Europe without and special visas.
In addition the euro was born. Witch gave the European union stability in the financial markets.
However the UK decided to opt out of the euro currency to be completely independent.
With what happened in Greece in 2009, this proved to be a good move.
When the UK existed the European union it made it a lot more expensive for the UK to do business.
This is another reason the pound sterling is becoming weaker due to instability in the market.
Not Only Brexit To Blame For the Decline
Another reason is due to Liz Truss announcement out of nowhere that the UK was going to cut taxes on the rich!
No explanation on how the plan was going to work or be funded to benefit the UK economy.
Costing the government Liz was in charge of, £45 billion.
The banks saw this as a crazy move and hiked up interest rates to cover themselves.
When the Prime – minister of the UK realized it wasn’t a good idea, there was no other option but to quit.
Breaking a 300 year old record of the shortest time serving the UK government.
What Are YOU Going To Do To Improve Your Living Standards?
Inflation and the UK economy is in a terrible state right now.
So how are you going to make sure it has less of an impact on you?
By working on a business that can operate worldwide internationally!
This isn’t investing 1000 of pounds in foreign currencies or real estate in the US.
Its building an online business through the power of the internet in order to sell products to customers world wide in every economy.
When you rely on the UK economy to get better, it may take around 2 years before we see any real growth.
This can be initially started as a side hustle and easily grow into a full time job.
Instead of detailing all the opportunities here, I have a community online where there is a number of guides that will help you get started.
Head over the Break The Chains Group on Facebook or go to www.breakthechains.uk/listen to get an invite.
You could hang tight and sit around waiting or give yourself a head start.
Thursday Nov 24, 2022
Thursday Nov 24, 2022
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We all have dreams as a kid, the fast cars and the amazing lifestyle. Why did we give up on out dream for the future. What stopped us making that plan to make more money in have everything we ever wanted?
I'm here to remind you of those dreams from your past and let you know that you future is about to get a lot better.
That's a closed mindset. Sometimes you need to look towards the future and figure out where its going. If its not where you want to be – do something about it.
Monday Nov 21, 2022
Monday Nov 21, 2022
Get a trade they said – you will have work for life then. Also feel stuck with work for life!
That may be true, but you will also be working for life too.
Come over the www.breakthechains.uk/listen and I would be happy to show you where to grab a copy.
Unless you figure out another way to make money whiles your not at work, your going to doing that same job until your dying day.
Making sure that doesn’t happen is easy.
Create another stream of income along side the job you do.
That’s what you are about to find out.
Programed To Feel Stuck
You parents and society advice you to get a trade under your belt.
Weather it be –
Electrician
Plumber
Hairdresser
Accountant
Builder
Its common knowledge that people will always need this type of skilled workers.
There are too many pros to learning a trade to see any of the cons.
That is until you have done the job for a number of years.
Being a tradesman your always looking to make more money, or to better your circumstances in life.
After being employed for a few years, the next best thing is to start up your own business – then your trapped.
The moneys good, you have a big network of customers to keep happy, because you want to keep the constant work coming in.
That’s just it, being a tradesperson isn’t easy.
It also isn’t something you can make money out of if your not physically there doing the job.
Trying Different Things......
You could have a membership that you offer to customers, where if they get a problem, you will be there within 24 hours.
Then you have a 24 hour call out service and need to be ready all the time.
However you look at building a passive income as a tradesman, its comes at a cost of your time.
Then there is the fear of change. Keeping you feeling stuck.
How the hell can you do something different after being the same person for so many years.
Its not only the fear, its other peoples opinion and what they think of you.
When I left schools I started a mechanic apprenticeship.
I lasted a year getting covered in oil and grease before thinking – this isn’t for me, I didn't feel stuck back then.
So when I got my apprenticeship as an electrician, I went back to the same collage.
Saw the same tutors and they said to me “what’s next year Ben, you going to come back and do painting?”
I did finish the apprenticeship as an electrician, just quit that too 20 years later.
Who actually makes the decision that you can't change your mind, you can’t give something else a try?
We know it should be us, its just the outside influences that stop us.
How many times have you missed out on trying something because you were worried what others would say?
Its time to stop all that. Think about you and what you want in your life.
What advice would you give your child if they were you?
Make a plan and quit!
Make a plan first you don’t want to become a bum.😀
You need to think about what you want for your future. If your happy with what your doing then others around you will be happy too.
When you feel stuck you lose interest in what your currently doing, you not as enthusiastic as when you first started.
Don’t you want that exciting feeling back again?
You can get this by giving yourself a challenge, something completely out your comfort zone.
If you got the looks you could start an only fans page, unfortunately for me that wasn’t an option.
Outside being a tradesman there is a whole world of opportunities.
Opportunities that will enable you to make money 24 hours a day.
It does sound too good to be true when you first think about it, but how do you think so many people are able to manage just that?
Some at the age of 20 straight out of collage!
They don’t go out and charge £1000 an hour for working in someone’s garden.
They have created a system that pays them over and over even whiles they sleep.
Waking up to being paid, I never even knew this was a thing until a few years ago.
So I dived into it myself.
I tried me hand at affiliate marketing.
If you don’t know what affiliate marketing is, simply put its where you recommend products to people who are looking for a solution to a problem.
If someone didn’t have a clue what affiliate marketing was I would recommend a book that not only details how it all works, but how you can scale an affiliate marketing business to over 7 figures.
When I recommend that book and someone buys it for $7.95 – I make $1 commission.
$1 isn’t going to help you replace your job as a tradesman I know.
That’s only the beginning.
To find out the rest your going to have to read the book
Come over the www.breakthechains.uk/listen and I would be happy to show you where to grab a copy.
Remember time is the only thing money cant buy – make the most of it.
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
I talk about this in the previous episode on the podcast here - The Time Is Now To Value Your Time While Alive
You should check it out.
Are You Good With Money?
Trying to keep control of your budget on what your spending, can be a challenge.
You work hard – earned some good money.
But never had any spare – never had any savings for a rainy day.
It took me a little while – but I found out why.
So I’m here today to help you do the same with an option to make those savings grow a lot quicker.
Few years ago my main source of income was an electrician, I ran my own electrical business and it was going pretty well.
It had to really I had been in the trade for over 20 years, starting up on your own was a natural thing for a lot of tradesmen to do.
The reason I did was because I wanted more of the pie.
Planning
Running
Completing jobs
All for other people who too the lions share of the profits seemed a waste of time after a while.
Of course there was also the money. I wanted to make more money to have a nicer car and a bigger house.
That Was The Plan Anyway.
It didn’t work out like that and its not until I look back years later I actually figured out why.
When employed or self-employed working for a company you are paid a wage.
Near enough the same wage every week.
That’s pretty easy to budget around.
It’s a set amount every week – pay your bills and the rest is yours to spend.
But there something more appealing to being your own boss.
Make a lot more money
Take time off when you like
Work whenever you like
That’s the idea we have in your head from the beginning, and dam its exciting.
After completing a few jobs things are going well.
Keeping An Eye On the Budget
How long does it take before your budgeting goes out the window?
There a fancy new bit of kit at the wholesales – that will make your life so much easier on site.
It’s a grand, that’s in your back pocket from the last job…
So you treat yourself.
There £100 in your pocket left over – may as well have a few beers with the other lads from site.
This quickly becomes a lifestyle.
The only problem is all outgoing like
Insurance
Wholesale invoices
Tax
Credit card
They all come out monthly.
When you have been living weekly.
It can go on for a while until the work dries up a little and that back pocket feels a little lighter then it normally is.
There only a few options left at the stage.
Fold the business – go bankrupt
Get a job as employed again
Pretend everything’s going to be ok and barrow money from your mates.
Where The Hell Did The Budget All Go Wrong!
The end or year finances that your account does, says you doubled your income.
So why is there noting left?
Money management! Not only did you not keep an eye on what you were spending.
The things you were spending them on were far beyond what you could afford.
It was inevitable going to come crashing down.
Of course we don’t want to make the same mistake twice!
Learn the skill of money management.
Its hard when you get paid 5k one week and noting for the next 2 weeks.
Its easy to get carried away and spend way beyond your means, then look back and wonder how it happened when it catches up with you.
A lesson that has always stuck with me is Fail to plan – plan to fail.
That’s so true in business.
Even if it’s a 12 month plan, its better then no plan at all.
The first thing you want to do is give yourself a day to do this.
When a task is rushed, its never don’t properly.
So book yourself a day off to get things in order.
Open up a spread sheet and detail all your outgoings.
The best way is to check your bank statements from the last month.
Then it depends how far you can go back also list the money coming in to your business.
This way you can see where all the money is going and what you need to cut back on.
When I first started doing this, I realized I wasn’t charging near enough for a call out.
I may have been pocketing an extra £50 but with the time and cost of materials I was making the same money as I was working in the day.
When you write it all down on a spreadsheet you can see how mush your spending socializing after works too.
And to be honest.
The time spend in the pub and the money spent drinking could have covered a week snowboarding in France.
Knowing how much spare money you have is going to help you budget for the future.
Weather you invest in advertising or just have a good pot of savings for a rainy day.
The options will be there for you to do what you want and make good use of your time.
Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
Will you challenge yourself today to check out a book?
In the book is a detailed description of how you can not only start making money online, but scale too.
Only One Way To Find Out - Grab a copy of the book here
If you never try – you will never know🤔
Time is the only thing in the world that money cant buy!
When we have around 80 years to make the most of the time we have, we want to spent it wisely right?
When living your life seems a bit like groundhog day with the same routine and the same old thing happening every single day.
That’s a sign to make a change.
Make you life a little bit more exciting with a challenge that will result in a better future for you.
Here will I not only explain why, but will give you and idea you can start right away.
The Circle Of Life….
Work
Eat
Sleep
Repeat.
I think I have felt like my life was getting into this boring cycle a few times.
I’m not the only one too, so many people all over the world are in the same position.
This is probably why I left school to become a mechanic – quit
When back to college to do accountancy – quit
Then became an electrician for 25 years, I would say quit, but once your good at something there are plenty of people who ask you to help them out all the time – with electrical problems.
I am one of those people who have my fingers in a number of business opportunities these days, and that makes my life a little more exciting.
You have to roll with the punches, it’s a huge learning curve and it was a tough pill to swallow that those get rich quick schemes promoted online.
Are actually a scam!
You Have The Time To Work On Your Dreams
But you cant give up on the dreams you have or had once.
There’s so many ways to make money without having to trade your time continually.
You just need to find a way that suits you.
It brings it home when you look at someone in your life that’s passed away.
My dad was a really hard working bloke.
From the age of 12 he had a job, I don’t think it was through choice, I think his dad made him.
He worked nearly every day of his life until he was 65. That’s 53 years.
19350 days
It wasn’t until my dad retired at the age of 65 that he did something he enjoyed.
That was grow flowers and vegetable in an allotment, along with a few chickens.
The amount he harvested it would of easily made a good living.
I would love to be able to ask him today if we went back 30 years would you have done things differently?
I cant, its too late.
When my dad passed in 2020 it made me question my own life and what I was doing with it.
Making My Time Alive Count
I was successful as an electrician with a very busy electrical business.
However I never had the time to enjoy life.
I was always working and my head was filled with tasks I had to do all the time.
This stressed me out.
When most of my friends were self employed tradesmen they were all in the same position – so I assumed it was normal.
Well that was my normal for 20 years.
Growing a business as self employed all by myself.
The quotes
Invoices
And accounts!!!
What do you do to relax when your always working?
You sleep or head down the pub to drown your sorrows.
Meet up with a bunch of guys you call your best friends because they all know whet your going through.
Because they do you the same as you!
I will admit, back in my 20 it was fun.
You work hard and you play dam hard – too hard for some of us that carried on playing hard to this day.
Yesterday Is History - The Best Time Is Today
What if I tried to do something that could run on auto 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
Where would you be now in life?
What do you think your life would look like?
You do know there is something better then yesterday, its called today.
You can make a plan now to be able to have more time in the future.
Trust me your cant keep on at the same pace forever, I started to become more of a light weight in my 30 and have to sleep in the van sometimes outside the pub.
Not only have I managed to free up loads of time by starting to work online, the protentional of the amount of money I can make is a lot more then being an electrician.
The question is – could you do the same?
Will you challenge yourself today to check out a book?
In the book is a detailed description of how you can not only start making money online, but scale too.
Only One Way To Find Out - Grab a copy of the book here
If you never try – you will never know
Until next time.👍
Monday Nov 14, 2022
Monday Nov 14, 2022
From all the dreams you had as a kid, when did it become Combatable To Be Poor?
There is no reason you have you live in poverty in this day and age if your prepared to do something about it. Being skint is just another word for poor.
With reading a free book for 2 hours, you can figure out a way to start to make all your dreams come true.
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Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Everyone in the world could do with help with energy bills right now. The question is how did we get there in the first place?
Create an income online where you can take advantage of every economy in the world.
Break the chains to being employed and join the break the chains community.
Take a look around at different opportunities online and if your still stuck.
Reach out send me a message.
I love a challenge and I'm here to help
Why Have The Worldwide Governments Got Into This Mess?
Who makes all the decisions all over the world? When every person needs help with energy bills, somebody is to blame for getting in this position in the first place.
The government continue to make a mess of things.
Not just over in the UK too. It’s a world wide problem.
The UK currency is about to collapse.
The US Dollar is in Danger
Along with the Chinese housing market about to collapse the economy.
How will this effect us – The tax payer.
The Global Recession
The whole world is heading into recession, why?
Lets start with the UK.
Being in the UK myself and knowing some of the people who have to choose between eating or heating there home….
How did we get here? Who is to blame?
Is it Putin for starting the war?
Or the UK people wanting us to exit the European union?
Both of them and more. But who was in charge of all this? Who can give us the help with energy bills? The government.
With out last Prime Minister lasting as long as 45 days it seems even the government don’t know what to do.
What Happened to The £
The value of the pound falling to its lowest level ever against the US dollar due to Liz Truss decisions when in power.
This has a huge knock on effect forcing the bank of England to intervene and raise interest rates, even more than it was planning.
Shooting up the interest on mortgages, where many people wont even be able to afford.
This effects everyone, even if you already have a mortgage.
I have a friend who rents a property, the property has a mortgage on it.
Recently they has to renew their mortgage, this would cost them and extra £200 on the mortgage payments.
The options they has was to increase the rent of the tenants, passing on the burden of the interest increase or pay the mortgage off.
Which will add to them also needing help with energy bills.
There will be some people who haven’t got option one.
Therefore have to increase the rent £200.
So for a family who is renting, maybe trying to save to be able to afford to get their own mortgage – this pushes them back even further!
You can exactly go to your employer and say – my rents gone up, can I have a rise to cover it?
Even if you had a nice boss that would give you that rise, can they afford it?
Its Not Only People Who Need Help With Energy Bills
The fuel prices that are sky high, along with the energy prices.
Its not only a problem for the people, it’s a big problem for business too.
If you think of builders. The cost of materials went up a few years ago, they never came back down.
This put the cost of work up builders did for the customer.
With how scared people are with the way the economy is, many people are deciding to put the building work on hold.
Then the small business owners who have purchased equipment cant afford to keep up the payments – so sell it.
This makes it harder to keep the business going.
In the end the business closes, the owner has no choice but to claim benefits from the government.
All this is from the decisions of a Prime Minister of 45 days!
I’m interested to see how we can climb out of this hole the UK is in.
Needing Help With Energy Bills & Food
Lets move on to the US.
The inflation in the US is the highest its been in 40 years!😮
With gas prices and food prices in the supermarket shooting up.
Along with the same reasons in the UK.
The global pandemic and The war in Ukraine.
Again who is to blame?
This is a split opinion in the US between governments, However with Biden being in power, its where it all leads back to.
Among the rising inflation Biden is insisting that the US economy is stronger then ever!!!
Pure example of burying your head in the sand and pretending everything is ok.
When in reality its crumbling at your feet.
Look down Biden! You might see more.
The US being 40 times bigger then UK, I think the problems are on a larger scale.
Yes the UK economy is on the brink of collapse but until it does, our government will continue to give everyone (including refugees from other counties) money to help support them.
That money may get printed from thin air and they may say you have to pay it back in the future.
If there is no government to pay it back to, why would you care!
That’s 2 of the biggest countries in the western world in trouble.
Not Just The Western World Need Help With Energy Bills
What about the rest of the world? Say China?
In 2 decades China grew from a third world country to coming close to be the worlds super power.
Chinas wealth is led mainly by the property market. The government gave crazy loans to building companies to be able to construct affordable housing for the Chinese community.
This took off massively, and in true Chinese style the building contractors expanded rapidly.
To keep up with demand the building companies were able to sell a property even before it was build.
Because the demand was so high, a lot of the Chinese people put there hard earned savings into a second home.
Building developers were taking advantage of the system and using the money from an unfinished project to fund the start of a new one.
This is where they got too big for their boots, with not enough people buying the pre sale property’s.
Developers had to barrow money from the banks to keep the projects going.
It Was Destined To Fail
The building developers also took payments from investors of China. As any investment, they needed to pay profit.
When the developers got into trouble, the investors were the first to notice.
The people who had taken out mortgages to buy a property from the building developers stopped their payment to the bank.
This has a huge effect on the moral of the Chinese people.
Among the youth of China, a movement has been created Bai Lan – translated is “Let It Rot”.
These people have completely given up on the system and do the bare minimum to get by.
They see no benefits to climbing the corporate ladder or investing in a property that never gets built.
This is still happening today in 2022 along with the empty property’s that could house everyone in the UK.
In some ways looking at the Chinese economy makes me think things aren’t as bad as I thought in the UK.
However the UK, US and China all have one thing in common. It’s the governments fault they are in this situation.
The worlds a mess right now, being employed in any county seems to be a waste of time.
Then don’t be employed. Prepare yourself for the future wherever you live.
Create an income online where you can take advantage of every economy in the world.
Break the chains to being employed and join the break the chains community.
Take a look around at different opportunities online and if your still stuck.
Reach out send me a message.
I love a challenge and I'm here to help
Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
Affiliate marketing as a business model is becoming very popular all over the world.
1000s of people are starting to become affiliates for many different businesses.
But after a while, quit because they don’t get the results promised.
Here I will explain WHY that is and where so many people are going wrong in affiliate marketing.
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What is Affiliate Marketing?
Online there are so many opportunities to enable you to be able to quit your 9 to 5 job, one of the easiest business models is affiliate marketing.
Done correct however.
Affiliate marketing is where you recommend somebody else’s product of service to an audience.
In return, the person who owns that product will pay you a commission.
These commission can be a set figure of anything between 10% - 90% depending on the product.
As the affiliate for that product, you don’t have to deal with returns of any of the customer support.
This is why affiliate marketing is so appealing.
Unfortunately, people enter into the world of affiliate marketing with very high expectations, then when they are not met – they quit.
Because of the opportunity to make so much money very quickly people are drawn towards shortcuts.
Shortcut To Affiliate Marketing
The biggest shortcut in affiliate marketing is high ticket.
This is where a person signed up to a training course at an average cost of 1k-10k and then have the option to be an affiliate for that training.
Its seen as a win win situation. You get the training on how affiliate marketing works and a product to sell as an affiliate.
This is where you jump in the training program for $5000.
The creator of the program gets $3000 and the person who told you about it gets $2000.
That’s you hooked, someone recommended it to you, so you could do the same right?
The training is all about how to become an affiliate for the training course you just invested in.
So every time you recommend that training to someone you get $2000.
The creator of the course has 100s of people doing this every day.
Each time making $3000 and paying the affiliates $2000.
The course has a number of recorded videos that the creator make a few years ago, they may add a new one every now and again.
But also you are invited to join a unique group on Facebook, where everyone who has invested 5k into the course can support each other.
Who Make The Most Money From The Training?
This is how I found out with research the truth!
With a program that’s been going for more than 3 years, lets say 36 months.
A group with 500 members. On average over a 12 month period there are 9 new members into the group a month.
Spending lets say 3k to join the training program.
The commission each person would be making a month is $18.
But lets say that its only 10 people out of the 500 having success.
That’s $900 a month.
However you look at it its not a lot of money in reality to really replace your 9 to 5.
There are a number of these high ticket training courses set up all over the world.
With the only person actually making money is The Creator.
So the next step to fix this and earn some good money is to become a coach yourself.
Becoming A Coach
Hang about, the course you invested in to begin with was all about affiliate marketing.
You need another course to teach you how to become a coach, so you sign up to that.
Then you also become an affiliate for the coaching program.
It all just becomes a huge mess leading you down a path that’s doomed to fail.
You quit your job only to find you have less time because now you are providing support to different students all over the world in different time zones.
So many people lose sight of just becoming an affiliate marketer, and get let into so many things to try and sell different products.
What is the answer? How do you become an affiliate marketer.
You make a plan and stick to it. There may be a few variations along the way, but always keep your goal in mind.
For gods sake don’t start with a product! Just because you can sell it for 3k and make a good commission.
Even if you do get lucky and manage to sell 1 or 2, your going to struggle to maintain that income.
Think of something you enjoy.
Just because you can make a commission of 1k on a product, but your not actually really interested in the product yourself – wont work out.
Lets say you enjoy gardening.
It’s a common interest and many people all over the works do it to relax.
But if they are like me, just because I enjoy something – doesn’t mean I’m any good at it.
However because you enjoy it, you wont mind learning more and becoming better.
Lets say you do some research into what are actual plants and what are weeds on your garden, something you find interesting and want the answer to.
Create content around that subject.
A website
Podcast
YouTube
Blog
Anything to document what you’re learning and how your learning it.
Publish what your leaning on the internet. After a while you will build up a following.
People will start to follow what your doing and naturally want to know more.
Where do you get your seeds?
What type of spade do you use?
Where can I get a green house like yours?
This is where you can make money becoming an affiliate marketer.
With links in your content to different products and services.
The best thing is that the content you create is evergreen and available on the internet for the whole wide world to see forever.
This is also how you start with affiliate marketing for free.
Don’t get wrapped up in the buying a course to sell a course business model.
I do agree with the best way to learn is to learn from someone who has done it before, but becoming a high ticket affiliate marketer isn’t a long tern business model in my opinion.
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