This Monday wasn't a pleasent experience. I wanted to make a Cow Pie as it was called on a recipe that I got for free from someone decluttering thier home. I was supposed to leave the beef in a beer overnight and I did just that.
Unfortunately I was supposed to be in a lecture on Monday and the progress went south as I wasn't being supervised and I lost track of time. This resulted in me missing out on a lecture and I was really upset. It didn't help that I wanted to do this pie for a family friend who has been with us for years and I wanted to showcase my cooking for her. This didn't happen sadly, as she wasn't feeling well and decided to leave.
But the real honest low point was confessing my desire to join an affiliate marketing idea again. In this case, it's called My Online Startup. My parents and I have had this discussion countless times. It really is tiring that I want to try again but I kinda want to do it with the support of my parents and it's anything but. It was during dinner I meltdowned and screamed and cried, I will not explain the snapping point. It was unpleasent, to say the least. It makes me feel like I should've never joined Exitus Elite.
I want to keep telling myself that it was because my mentor for that program just didn't give me the right stuff to use and didn't help me take advantage of what Exitus Elite could offer me, because there are a lot of people who do say that through Exitus Elite that they were successful. But my parents are firmly in the belief, rightly or wrongly, that it was a pyramid scheme, and they believe that all affiliate marketing schemes are pyramid schemes. I'm told that I'm too honest, that I would have a crisis of conscious if I try to persuade people to join say Exitus Elite, or My Online Startup or any other program for the record.
What is My Online Startup? Well it's a training program, created by Chuck Nguyen designed to teach you how to run a successful online business through affiliate marketing for whatever niche you want, and it tells you all the basics and what it is and what is isn't. I have looked deeply into affiliate marketing and I know that what it is that you advertise someone else's products or services and if people sign up or purchase the products, you get a commission. Chuck offers a partner program to recruit you into his membership where you get to meet the others and become an official member. If you sign people up to My Online Startup you get a commission.
To start My Online Startup you will need a Clickbank account, which is a real company that specialises in affiliate products. As I live in the UK, I can be a partner, no problem. To become a partner it costs $197, which is £163. Doesn't seem so expensive but it will also have a VAT cost to it raising it to over £200. Figures. The good news is that there should be no recurring cost and there is a refund policy for the program, so if I join and in 25 days, I make no money then I can get my money back. Not many courses offer this and I'm told over and over again that many courses are very expensive and my experience does confirm my concerns, although there are cheaper ones for various platforms, but I digress. Exitus Elite didn't offer a refund policy and it's Terms and Conditions made that clear.
My Online Startup has currently 8 modules to train you, ranging from your mindset to lead generating to Youtube marketing and so on. 50 lessons. It also has books to recommend to read and it offers 50+ income streams, according to Chuck Nyongen. How? If I join and become a lifetime partner, I can then share the course to various people online and if one signs up, I get a commission, that person decides to become a partner, I get a commission and any tools and/or software he purchases, I also get a commission. There maybe more ways, such as my own involvement with the programmes Chuck recommends such as Wealthy Affiliate and Clickbank but I can't go into detail, all I know is that Chuck claims there's a significant amount of money to be made once I become a member.
What's happening is that his lifetime opportunity, the $197 is going to end soon. It will be replaced with a $7 a week, to ultimately an annual cost which is around a couple hundred, as I recall watching his video. How long his $197 is going to be up for, I don't know. Either way the feeling I get is that if I join I would probably need to get at least three more people to become a partner to get a return on investment. This was never designed to be a get rich quick scheme, nor did I expect it to.
But my parents and my friends keep telling me that isn't my calling. If it isn't what is? What is my niche? What can I do to make money online? Am I ready to earn money online? If I do earn money online, what happens?
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