10-29-2018, 06:46 PM
I was hoping for a home run with my new product... There is a bit of disappointment in its performance. It is doing well but not well enough to be life changing as my partner and I were thinking it could be... We were thinking making $20K in a week. Repay some debt... Meet at a summit in San Diego this winter...
None of that will happen. The same freaking grinding will need to be continued for some time... Don't get me wrong... I love to work hard... It is just that I decided to jump in business for the Freedom.. I want to work hard because I want to... Not because I need to...
Yeah it is pretty exciting to make $600-$700 per day but when you account for all the expenses that was required to develop the marketing material and launch the product and basically 4 days out of 7 of our affiliate event to sell the product serve only to payback the expenses... At the end of the day, not much is left in our pocket...
This realization did sink in yesterday evening... and to top it off... an affiliate did report that his commission rate that he did receive was the standard 75% instead of the advertised 85% for the event... That was due to configuration error on my side. He was right and I calculated all the extra money that we were owing to our affiliates. This was an extra $500 out of our already thin profit margin....
I did announce the bad news to my partner through chat... I went to bed... and he started to reply back in panic... He was devastated by what was happening...
At that point, I felt like submarine captain. I have seen it in old WW movie. In doubt, the crew always check how the captain react... If he keeps his calm and appears to know what to do... This reassure the crew and they keep working...
This kinda made me realize that I was like the captain of my business... No matter what... I need to stay calm or at least display that way.... That is what the others are expecting of me... This is what is expected of an alpha male...
None of that will happen. The same freaking grinding will need to be continued for some time... Don't get me wrong... I love to work hard... It is just that I decided to jump in business for the Freedom.. I want to work hard because I want to... Not because I need to...
Yeah it is pretty exciting to make $600-$700 per day but when you account for all the expenses that was required to develop the marketing material and launch the product and basically 4 days out of 7 of our affiliate event to sell the product serve only to payback the expenses... At the end of the day, not much is left in our pocket...
This realization did sink in yesterday evening... and to top it off... an affiliate did report that his commission rate that he did receive was the standard 75% instead of the advertised 85% for the event... That was due to configuration error on my side. He was right and I calculated all the extra money that we were owing to our affiliates. This was an extra $500 out of our already thin profit margin....
I did announce the bad news to my partner through chat... I went to bed... and he started to reply back in panic... He was devastated by what was happening...
At that point, I felt like submarine captain. I have seen it in old WW movie. In doubt, the crew always check how the captain react... If he keeps his calm and appears to know what to do... This reassure the crew and they keep working...
This kinda made me realize that I was like the captain of my business... No matter what... I need to stay calm or at least display that way.... That is what the others are expecting of me... This is what is expected of an alpha male...
