Author: AffiliateMentor

Looking for an affiliate marketing mentor near me, or you?! I was in the same boat several years ago; looking for someone to help and advise me with my affiliate business. I wanted an affiliate marketing mentor near me; someone real who wasn’t hiding behind their computer!

It took me several years of searching to find someone real, but eventually I managed to find a business community of like minded entrepreneurs who helped me earn online through affiliate marketing.

Affiliate Marketing Mentor Near Me

I might not be an affiliate marketing mentor near you, but I can help you. I can also suggest the same online community which has helped me. Over several years I took many courses in the search to find a way to legitimately earn from my laptop. Before stumbling onto affiliate marketing I tried Forex Marketing, eBay – buying and selling and even created my own ebooks. Here’s a short video explaining my story.

The main problem I found with learning from the internet was trust. I just didn’t know who to trust and I found myself jumping from one online course to another. Each one promised an easier path that the last!

When I found the community I now am a part of, I took another leap of faith. I was pretty desperate, in heaps of debt and trying to build a career as a stunt performer. But it wasn’t working and mostly I was out of work and filling in with whatever jobs I could get hold of.

After attempting affiliate marketing for several years without much success, I joined Stuart and Jay’s community in the SFM (Six Figure Mentors). Despite my initial scepticism, I was able to meet other affiliates in the UK, where I live. This was unusual since most companies I’d previously found were in the US. I was also able to meet people in person and I joined a number of seminars and get togethers.

Affiliate Marketing Mentor Near Me – Where Are You?

The SFM Mentors run workshops globally, so yes, there is an affiliate marketing mentor near you. The community has been growing since 2012 too so there will be people near you who you can meet up with, wherever you are in the world. I’m based in the UK and recently met up with other affiliates in Chester. Here’s a picture of the meet up.

Why Meet-Ups?

For me the get togethers are of real value because they make an internet business seem real. Working on your own online is hard and its difficult to really commit to a path online when there are so many to choose from. When I started researching online businesses, my inbox became full very quickly with one scheme and then another.

I jumped from one course to another – shiny object syndrome and months passed before I found a suitable strategy and plan. It’s easy to lose hope or direction with an online business too. Other people who you can trust and rely on can help you and hold you accountable. This just wasn’t something I got from many of the previous courses I had taken.

Interactive webinars have been a massive support too. With question and answer webinars you can gain support in all aspects of your affiliate business.

Mentors Near You

Mentorship is about trust. Without trust it’s very difficult to maintain a path for very long. Another problem I had with my affiliate marketing was in choosing a strategy which was right for me. No one can tell you that, people can only advise. Paid marketing is great, if you have the money. Blogging is good, if you have the patience. But ultimately it’s up to you which direction you take with your affiliate marketing business. It’s your responsibility.

With affiliate marketing too there are no guarantees. “Do this and that will happen” doesn’t always translate because everyone is different. Everyone has a different approach, different knowledge and a different work ethic. Unless you take full responsibility for the results in your affiliate business you’re putting the outcome onto someone else.

Making someone else responsible for your outcomes is a bad idea. It lets you off the hook but also disempowers you.

Affiliate Marketing And Mindset

I always thought mindset in affiliate marketing was a little bit of a red herring. But I was soo wrong! When I first started out learning affiliate marketing, I just wanted a formula – do this and make money. But what I didn’t realise is there’s lots of mistakes to make along the journey. Mistakes which either cost money or time. Here’s a few of the affiliate marketing mistakes newbie affiliates should avoid.

But once you’ve been through all of that, the other side is worth the struggle. You’ll know exactly which actions generate the best results for you. But most quit on that journey because they don’t see the bigger picture. They fail a couple of times and throw it all away. The affiliates who succeed realise this and use each failure as a stepping stone to success.

Dart Board Analogy

Let’s look at a simple analogy. You have a dart board which has a prize for hitting the bulls eye. The prize is $1000. Each dart costs you $200 to throw. The darts represent your advertising campaign and the prize represents an affiliate sale. You miss the first 10 times but then you hit the bulls eye! It costs you $2200 and you only make $1000. Most would consider this a complete failure. But if you take a longer term view, it’s actually a success. You now know which dart to throw (which advert to run) to make $1000 and only spend $200.

You can use the same analogy for any affiliate strategy providing you track all your sales. Pareto’s principle states that around 80% of your results will come from only 20% of your activities. So initially as an affiliate you’ll spend time on many things which amount to nothing. At this point most will quit. If you understand the graph below though it may give you some hope.

The “valley of disappointment” is where most affiliates quit! It’s where they try and try to no avail. They decide that “affiliate marketing just doesn’t work”. But they don’t ask themselves why affiliate marketing does not work. It’s because they haven’t yet hit upon a strategy they can rinse and repeat to generate a profit. Once they do, they are free! So it’s worth enduring the difficulties for the end goal.

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Thinking entrepreneurially doesn’t come naturally to most people. Entrepreneurs must challenge their thinking processes in order to grow and attain the results they want to create.

The level of thinking you bring to any business will affect the ceiling limit of how much that business will grow. This is what many business owners get wrong – the work hard in their business, being “busy”, but neglect to work hard on themselves, growing their thinking. What psychological factors limit the growth of a business?

A business will never outgrow the level of thinking through which it is created and developed. So wise entrepreneurs spend time and invest in being around others who have reached higher levels of success than they have.

Thinking Entrepreneurially – Cause and Effect

There’s a cause and effect relationship between what you do (behaviour) and the results you enjoy in your life. Behaviour is affected by your beliefs and attitudes which are effected by your consistent thinking processes.

AUTOSUGGESTION is the agency of control through which an individual may voluntarily feed his subconscious mind on thoughts of a creative nature, or, by neglect, permit thoughts of a destructive nature to find their way into this rich garden of the mind. – Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

The chapter on autosuggestion (in Think and Grow Rich) is an important one and talks into our thinking processes as being the cause of our subconscious beliefs. So it is our thinking we should aim to improve if we are to become better entrepreneurs and create better results in our lives.

Thinking Entrepreneurially – Unconscious Beliefs

An unconscious belief might stem from childhood, where everything was absorbed without a conscious filter (the conscious mind) deciding which attitudes and ideas to absorb.

What makes children such awesome learners who can pick up language, learn to walk and talk within such a short time, is the ability to absorb without conscious reasoning. In the early stage of a child’s life, information is taken in without critical thinking and although this makes us amazing learners, we also collect information which isn’t useful.

Some of the obstacles which entrepreneurs will encounter relate to unconscious beliefs which are hidden in the subconscious mind.

What You Believe About Yourself

How you see yourself has a huge amount to do with your unconscious programming you received as a child too. Your unconscious mind controls a lot of what you believe about life, yourself, how much money you can make, your earning potential and how to live your life.

Without an awareness of this vast storage of all the information of your life, you’ll continue to repeat patterns and behaviours which don’t serve you or your highest potential. Once you get clearer about what it is you want, and what is holding you back, you’ll be able to take more steps towards the purpose driven life you’re really wanting to live into.

Unconscious Success Blockers

Here’s an example. Lets say Sam wants to earn more money and is attempting to build an online business. However, he keeps hitting a brick wall and doesn’t seem to be able to earn beyond a certain point. He keeps taking action but it’s like there’s an invisible wall holding him back. What is it?

There could be many reasons for this. Perhaps he just hasn’t done the required work, or he’s lazy or inept. Maybe he’s too entitled and believes it’s easier than it actually is. These assumptions aside, lets assume he is holding himself back due to an unconscious reason he’s currently unaware of.

Perhaps, he received many unconscious ideas as a child about money and how bad it is. Or about self worth and doesn’t believe he is worth it. Perhaps a sibling is struggling with money and he can’t accept being much more successful than his brother/sister. What relationships or meanings could you attribute your lack of success to?

Limiting Beliefs

Some people unconsciously hold themselves apart from success due to a relationship they had with their parents. They don’t see themselves as successful, or they attribute a negative connotation with monetary success.

Think about some of the following beliefs/ideas:

• Money is the route of all evil
• Monetary success is only for greedy people
• I’m not worthy of success, more than I need
• You should only want “enough” and no more
• Life is a struggle
• I don’t deserve it
• Rich people are greedy
• I can’t outgrow my parents in terms of financial success
• Money brings more problems with it

Which statements chimed with you most? What areas of your past are holding you in your current situation and stunting your growth?

Until your make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you’ll call it fate. – Carl Jung

Clear Goals Aligned With Action Steps

You can’t train your mind to focus on something if you don’t give your mind a target. If you’re unclear in your thinking about what it is you want, you’re unlikely to achieve it.

Entrepreneurial thinking therefore demands a certain clarity. With confusion, you create chaos. With clarity you can attain an plan and take daily action steps towards your target.

Most people are unclear about what it is they want. So they create something in-between their idea of success and what they believe they are capable of or willing to do.

To gain clarity over what you want to accomplish, you must set specific measurable goals. Then you can train your unconscious mind to flag up your target so that it continually thinks about it and plans for its execution.

Stuart Lichman’s book on Cybernetic Transposition is the best resource I have found on this topic. In it, he uses what he calls the Cybernetic transposition three step process to specify your most attractive goal and create a “meta-story” around it to flag it up to your unconscious mind.

Thinking entrepreneurially means more than just thinking on a surface level. It means to look within at the unconscious ideas which are blocking your success through limiting thinking too.

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Setting small goals to achieve big ones is the key to self mastery. Some even go so far as to say don’t set goals at all; instead create processes which lead naturally to where you want to go.

A goal projects into the future the person you want to be, the lifestyle you want to live and so on and so on. It carries with it the idea that you’re not enough right now, in this moment. So be careful with goals because once you achieve one, you’re on to the next. Where do your goals lead you?

If you’re carrying the feeling of never being enough, having enough or doing enough, you may be very goal oriented. But will achieving your goals make you happy, or will you need more goals to really feel fulfilled, happy and content?

So start out with being enough, feeling like you are enough and being happy right now, in this moment.

Setting Small Goals To Achieve Big Goals

In my 20’s I met a stuntman and knew this was what I wanted to pursue. I had a big goal ahead of me – to become a stuntman. To me, a stuntman represented something I thought I wanted: self employed, self assured, confident, purposeful, and so on. It just felt right in every way.

I had a number of tasks to complete which can be summed up briefly as:

• 30 weeks work under an Equity contract
• 6 instructor skills in various activities

I choose to do martial arts, trampolining, SCUBA diving, fencing, swimming and rock climbing. It took me 3-4 years to complete everything. I did it and joined the British Stunt Register in 2002 because I was setting small goals to achieve big ones.

If I had looked at the mountain of things in front of me to do, I would have felt overwhelmed and never even tried. But instead I wrote everything down and made large steps into small achievable goals. Getting a qualification in fencing for example, became “find a fencing school and contact them”. Then turning up for my first lesson. Getting 30 weeks’ work under Equity became finding my first TV extras job – which meant finding an Extras agency. Each large goal was broken down into many small achievable steps.

Setting Small Goals To Achieve Big Goals – Overwhelm

There will be times when you feel overwhelm, whatever you’re attempting. Learn to rest but not to quit. Some days you’ll struggle and others you’ll be flying! But large goals take time so you need to be patient with yourself.

Later on when the stunt work became more of a burden than a joy, I looked to the internet as a means to earn an income. This was another mountain I found to climb! The internet offers a means to earn an income to whoever pursues it for long enough and with enough dedication.

My own personal journey online has had many ups and downs. I’m still on the journey but have learned to celebrate the small wins. When I look to other entrepreneurs who have achieved huge financial success online, I ofter get demoralised because I compare myself to them!

This, I have learned is a mistake. I become disempowered and disillusioned. Thoughts like “I’ll never get to where they are”, “Why bother it never seems to work” and other self defeating expressions surface in my mind. But these kinds of thoughts seldom lead to any inspirational activities!

Small Thoughts Lead To Big Thoughts Too

From a demoralised state of mind to productive and inspirational action is a huge leap. It’s pretty much impossible. So a small step towards a more productive and happy state of mind is always a good thing.

As an affiliate marketer, I sell and promote other people’s products on the internet. I joined an online community who have helped me to earn an income from the internet. But one of the biggest hurdles I’ve found with building my online business is keeping focused on the small actions which I can control and not focusing on the things I don’t have yet!

You can get excited about the first hit you get on your website, for example. You can focus on your first lead. But when your mind is looking for results before you have done the work, you’re creating a mindset of entitlement. Entitlement is wanting things to be different to what they actually are. You want results before you do the work. Here’s a few examples of the mindsets which can work against you with an online business:

• “I should be there by now I’ve been doing this for ages” – Where is “there” and what have you specifically been doing for “ages” – and for how long exactly? Maybe try another strategy?
• “I’ll wait to see if it works first before I commit to it”– another counterproductive mentality which expects results to show without belief and hard work.
• “I can’t in good conscience promote something as a successful model, when I haven’t achieved that success yet.” – I definitely experienced this mind trap. But without promoting something as an affiliate, you can’t make money from it! Belief must be there for success to happen.

Blogging And Big Goals

I started out online thinking I could write a few blog posts and make hundreds of millions from them! While it’s true that a blog post can go viral, and this can lead to many sales, my expectations weren’t a good match for reality. But also, because I expected so much from such little work, I was always disappointed!

As I stuck with it and over time, I realised how my expectations were based on many of the “get rich quick” schemes I had seen over the years. They promised loads of easy money but never delivered. I nearly quit many times just because of the continual disappointments that I had online.

But slowly and surely things got better as I kept going.

Big goals don’t come true without processes which are followed day after day. Unless you put the effort in with an online business, you’ll never see any results. With blogging, results are hard won. It’s far easier and quicker to use paid marketing. However, when I started out online I didn’t have the funds to use paid marketing. So I blogged.

What happens with blogging is nothing for a very long time. Eventually you see your traffic rise steadily and then boom! – If you get to the “boom” stage, you’ve probably been blogging for a very long time. It’s where your traffic goes from a trickle, to a stream to a flood. All of a sudden, you’re making sales and it’s like Christmas! Your sales come in whether you work or not! That’s always been my goal. The hard part is keeping going through the desert when nothing seems to happen.

Daily Processes Instead Of Goals

When your long term goals/desires line up with your daily habits, you know you are on track. Everything feels right and you know you can just keep going, following your daily habits and things will eventually transpire the way you want them to.

Having a set of daily processes you can follow almost without thinking, is key. To get to this point you need to clearly identify your long term plan. Write down what you want you life to look like in every area 10 years from now. Then ask yourself whether your daily actions will take you there. If the answer is no, you need to create some new daily habits and actions steps which will lead you to a better future.

When you align your values, goals and daily action steps, you get to work in a way which is conducive to your daily happiness and your long term goals.

Although a blog post won’t make my online business by itself, as I build more and more content online, my leads and sales come in at a greater pace over time; simply due to the volume of content I have out there in the online world.

Setting Small Goals To Achieve Big Goals – Aligning Who You Are

Have you ever given up on a goal mid way through? Or have you achieved something only to find out that it didn’t give you lasting happiness and fulfilment. Are you chasing goals because there’s a void in your life and you never quite feel fulling aligned with your purpose or reason for being? That’s why it’s a good idea to ask yourself to start with “why”?

Your reason for doing something can often be the reason why you give up, re-direct or stay the course. Once you know your “why”, you can determine whether your path is aligned with your highest values. Knowing your values will save you heaps of time and wasted energy too. Your “why” is the reason you decide on a particular path or journey.

It’s easy to forget that we can achieve pretty much anything we set out minds to. Instead though, most of us get caught up in repeating patterns and habits which don’t lead us to our ideal lives.

Can you really learn entrepreneurship online? Back in 1995 I began my online journey when eBay opened its doors. I sold a few things from around the house but years later started using the platform to buy and sell. Originally I found the strategy from an ebook I bought from the site.

I considered the ebook purchase for some time. Despite being able to make a profit using the strategy in the ebook, I thought the ebook was a better strategy. The idea wouldn’t go out of my mind that this simple transaction was automated. I wanted to get on the other side of the digital download business, and make money on autopilot. I started to learn entrepreneurship online, although I never really considered that was what I was doing.

Learn Entrepreneurship Online

I began to create my own ebooks. At the time I was working as a stunt performer in the UK and thought it a good idea to write a short “how to” book about it. I also did one about becoming a TV extra too and attempted to sell them. Unfortunately I was lost and hadn’t a clue about selling anything online back then. I thought I could just put up a website and people would come.

But little did I know back then, I may as well have put up a restaurant in the middle of the dessert. Nobody saw my website and I never made any sales. So I bought a few online courses which claimed to teach me how to make money on the internet. See my digital profit course review for some of the courses I took.

Learn Entrepreneurship Online

The courses I took led me down several paths and I tried many strategies of making money online. The two main ones I attempted were using Google Adsense and affiliate marketing. With Adsense you get paid when people click on your adverts and encourage people to visit your website/YouTube channel by creating lots of content.

I did made some small trickles with this strategy but nothing really substantial. To make a lot of money with this strategy you need a lot of content. Plus, Google can pull the plug any time they want and did for many who had worked really hard towards building a living like this.

My first real success was selling a digital product from a review I had written of it. I used the site Hubpages and didn’t even have my own website. You can read about this strategy in my article “get paid for advertising online without a website“.

Struggling Affiliate

I became a “struggling” affiliate and despite making a huge number of mistakes with affiliate marketing I kept going. This, perhaps is the key to success – simply never quit! Jumping from strategy to strategy and course to course for a number of years, eventually I found mentors – an online business “all in one” training resource and community of entrepreneurs.

Before finding the community I didn’t even realise that I needed an affiliate marketing mentor. The previous courses I took only offers recordings and no actual personal help. This is the key to learning how to earn online. It’s simply too difficult to do it alone. You can find yourself chasing your tail for years, without ever getting anywhere.

Finding Help

I joined with the same mentality I brought to previous courses. I had scepticism and doubt and this held me back for sure. It wasn’t that I was lazy, just not very directed. So I spent months and eventually years focused on either learning continually (and never applying), or working on the wrong actions which didn’t move things forwards.

Money was a problem when I started out and so I focused on the free strategies. This is far harder than using paid marketing. With paid marketing you can build an online business very quickly. But without it, you need traffic and free traffic is usually hard-won traffic.

But what I really learned (from personal help) was how to get out of my own way and to think differently. I learned how to transition from an employee mindset to an entrepreneurial one.

The invisible enemy to making money from the internet is yourself. An online business can’t grow beyond the thinking you bring to it.

How Your Thinking Needs To Shift

As an employee you are trained to work a set shift and work in a certain way. You’re not taught to think and you’re basically a “technician” working a role in a wider company. Bring this same mindset to an entrepreneurial role and you’re likely to get nowhere, like I did for several years.

Afraid of spending money, I worked really hard at the things which didn’t matter. I spent far too long in the wrong activities and didn’t get the help I needed. Once my thinking changed, so did my success online. Getting the help I needed was the best money I could have spent. But before I took that step, nothing changed.

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What psychological factors limit the growth of a business? For a while now I’ve been contemplating an article on the psychology of business growth and factors which stand in its way. I’ve been involved in online business for a while now and have had a fair share of struggle too. Plus, I’ve always had an interest in self development for a number of years, and of psychology.

So it seemed a good idea to combine two of my favourite topics: affiliate marketing (online business) and psychology. So what psychological factors limit the growth of a business? Here’s a few of the things which I have personally discovered regarding my own personal journey.

What Psychological Factors Limit The Growth Of A Business? Needing To Be “Right”

You’ve probably seen the TV program which is hosted by Gordon Ramsey “Hotel Hell”. If not, it’s a very telling overview of this topic. Gordon comes into a hotel or restaurant establishment where the person in charge is ‘stuck in their ways’. They have become so stubborn and ‘set’ that they refuse to see the light even when a top chef and hotelier is telling them as it is. Swearing and abuse aside, it’s a very good watch, or maybe that’s because of the swearing!

Wanting to be “right” is definitely something I’ve personally experienced in my online business journey too. In fact, I have become so stuck in doing things “my way” that I suffered for it for several years. In my defence, I was attempting to build an online business by blogging which I knew was a long term strategy. But when I was able to let go of “being right” about my strategy, I was able to apply other, more effective strategies and get faster results.

However, nothing is guaranteed in the online world. It is after all a business and not a hobby. Which leads nicely to another subject – mindset. Knowing when you have lost your way is a good thing, even if it hurts your pride. And taking advise it tough for entrepreneurs who want to be “the boss”. However, if your need to be right outweighs your desire to succeed, you have a problem, especially when you don’t recognise it.

What Psychological Factors Limit The Growth Of A Business? How You “See” Your Business

Whether you think of your business as a job, hobby or passion will have an effect on its outcome. Do you see yourself as “playing” in your business to keep yourself entertained? Or are you serious about using it as a tool for financial and time freedom? What does your business mean to you, really? If you’re using it to keep busy and “buoy up” your self image to “show off” or big up your ego to your friends, you’re probably seeing the results on your bottom line as a reflection of this.

A business owner must have a long term view of their business and be able to see a ‘vision’ of where it is going. If they don’t, they will likely get caught up in low impact actions which don’t drive their business forwards. Often this might be things they enjoy rather than are really needed. I’ve definitely fallen into this trap. This happens especially if someone is transitioning from an employment into a business. In employment, you’re paid the same amount however productive you are. In business this isn’t the case. So habits you take from a job don’t necessarily apply to an online business for instance.

Dwell in the long term outcome you want from your business and then use the outcome to inspire a daily plan which is aligned with that goal. If you haven’t set a goal for your business, it’s likely you won’t hit it!

Psychology And Your Business – Self Image

Yes self image is massive in your business growth. Unless you’re growing, chances are good that your business isn’t either. Your business can’t outgrow the thinking you are bringing to it. So you will always be the glass ceiling of a business you own and run.

Are you putting yourself in the company of other more successful business owners? Or are you struggling on alone amidst the complainers and moaners who secretly want you to quit (more on this later). How do you see yourself, honestly? Are you secretly quitting in your mind, or do you see yourself as a success? What tired thoughts dominate your mind when you are feeling up against it? Do they outnumber the positive encouraging ones?

How do you feel in groups of people and how do you talk about yourself when meeting new people? All of these interactions can say something about how you perceive yourself, which in turn is going to, in some way, determine your results in life.

See Psycho-Cybernetics for a good resource on developing the self image.

Psychology In Business – You And Your Peer Group

Peer groups are another useful indicator for your business. Ideally, you would surround yourself with a number of positive people who are doing much better than you are in business. They would be encouraging and helpful and give you something to aspire to. But in reality, we often have a mix of people around us who offer differing levels of help and support.

There’s a common thread which says you can tell how much someone earns by the average income of their closest circle of friends. “Birds of a feather, flock together”.

Your group of friends is therefore pretty important to the success, or lack of, of your business. If you are surrounded with others who don’t want you to succeed, your journey will be that much harder. Why don’t your friends and family want you to succeed? For a few reasons. Often your success will change the status quo and your status among your friendship group. This will be felt by those around you not as something to celebrate, but as a sign they are falling backwards! So even if on the surface they are with you, secretly they can be trying to undermine your efforts and get you to quit. That way, it’s much easier for them.

Ideally, find a group of people who want the same as you and hang around them; not the doubters and haters who want you to quit. If you’re worried about losing friends if your business succeeds, consider what kind of friends they actually are if they don’t continue to support you!

Childhood And Your “Money Blueprint”

A list of limiting factors in creating more abundance and wealth wouldn’t be complete without a mention of your childhood and “money blueprint”. Everyone has a past which isn’t necessarily supportive of their new goals. Particularly if someone has never had much success before, it can be difficult to overcome the many internal conversations which don’t support your new outlook towards money, income and wealth.

Just think back to the many discussions, arguments or conflicts which you may have been privy to as a child. What did your parents think about money, spending and saving, for example? How did they talk to you about money? Did they agree about money issues or was there a conflict between them? It’s possible your life is a result of attempting to resolve your parents’ conflicts around money, particularly if you’re struggling yourself in this regard.

It’s also possible to take unhelpful behaviour patterns from childhood which once worked to gain attention from a parent, but which no longer work as an adult in business. One example of this is a “poor me” control drama which works as a child but as an adult it stifles your growth. You’ll actively create problems and limitation to give more weight to your “oh dear poor me” persona. Look for ways you relate to others and how much you complain to notice this trait.

Unconscious Beliefs Around Success

As a child, you don’t get to stand up for what you believe in. All that information just goes straight in to your subconscious mind and this becomes your money “blueprint”. So if your parents had beliefs about money and income which were not very supportive, this could have affected your subconscious beliefs about money and income.

For example, many people pick up beliefs such as:

• Money doesn’t grow on trees
• Rich people are greedy
• You just need ‘enough’ to get buy
• Money isn’t important
• Work for love and not money

If a parent has “installed” an idea in your mind about money, it’s very difficult to get past it if you don’t want to be judged (in their mind) as “greedy”, for example. Trying to please a parent might just be the barrier to your business growth if this is going on.

What Psychological Factors Limit The Growth Of A Business? – Fear Of Success

Fear of success is a big factor in curbing your own business unconsciously. Perhaps you’re worried about a large tax bill? More money equals more worries? Or maybe you’re thinking about all the responsibilities you’re projecting into the future if you start doing really well? I was definitely worried about tax implications until I started learning about tax laws and caught up with by book keeping.

If you’re anything like I was, the thought of more tax dealings and keeping up with added book-keeping was a huge factor which kept me from moving forwards with my online business. I got some good advice from the online community I am part of and also spoke to my accountant who gave me some great advice. Just having some more information gave me the confidence to overcome a lot of fears around this subject. (You can join an online business community by signing up on this site for the free video series. See affiliate marketing mentors for more info.)

Internal Conflicts Around Money And Success

Here’s another very subtle key to why your business might not be growing at the rate you truly desire. If you in any way are envious or disparaging towards those with money, or wealth, you could be sabotaging your own success.

If you’ve never had money or success, you can carry some negative ideas about those who have had and particularly those who display their success. The first time I owned a BMW car I noticed quite a lot of anger and resentment coming my way. It was harder getting out of junctions and I received some unpleasant attention. I had only bought the thing second hand and it soon dawned on me how expensive it was to run! But it was a glimpse into some people’s attitude towards those with money. I have to say I’ve had my moments of envying those who have done well too.

But by carrying resentment towards success, you set up a blockage towards your own success. How can you strive towards attaining something you despise?

General Outlook on Life

What’s your general outlook on life and the world? Do you have an optimistic outlook? Or do you see the world as doomed to self destruction. This is something I recently uncovered about my own personality. I had a fatalist personality in that, I pretty much expected bad things to happen not good. This trait isn’t great for a business because you can’t fail to include your overall outlook in the workings of your mind. And if you mind is somehow involved in your business (which it is), you’ll create what you expect.

Two attractive forces which are mentioned in several books on the law of attraction (see law of attraction pdf for a few of my favourite books on this subject) are that which we expect and that which we desire. If these two forces aren’t aligned, and if we really want to succeed, but really expect to fail, we’ll work against our best efforts to prove our deep seated view and model of the world.

Old 9 To 5 Mentality

Many would-be entrepreneurs look to building an online business as a means to escape 9 to 5 life. Unfortunately many of them bring their 9 to 5 mentality with them. With a regular job you get paid for just turning up. A 9 to 5 can teach you a number of bad habits. For example, on the tough days in a 9 to 5 job you can avoid work as much as possible. You still get paid even for a sloppy job. So long as you don’t get caught slacking off it’s no big deal. This can train you to be unproductive and take your pay check for granted. An online business requires a different approach.

With an online business your earnings are in your hands. You must take full responsibility for your income or lack of it. If you don’t accomplish much your pay reflects this. So check your mindset when it comes to working. You’ve got to be far more productive in an online business or you won’t get paid at all. Make sure you are focused on money producing activities and not being a busy fool: working on actions which you prefer rather than those which pay.

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What is six figure mentors? The Six Figure Mentors is a company built by Stuart Ross and Jay Kubassek which helps people learn the skills to build online businesses, even without any experience.

Stuart and Jay have created an online community of mentors who help others learn the digital skills to build either an online digital business, or use those skills to build other businesses.

What Is Six Figure Mentors? My Story

When I joined the Six Figure Mentors, I had my own business and I wanted some help with my marketing. I also was intrigued by the online business system which is offered through the SFM.

The Six Figure Mentors offers a range of digital business services, software and training, including one to one tuition and mentorship at the higher levels of membership.

At the basic level membership, you can earn commissions from promoting The SFM itself, or benefit from the online community and support network that Stuart and Jay have built. This can be useful for business owners and budding entrepreneurs. For me, it helped me understand and build my fledgling martial arts school with various online marketing techniques.

Since then, I’ve also been able to make a number of high ticket sales through promoting The SFM program itself, something which I was unable to do for a number of years attempting affiliate marketing with low value products.

What Is The Six Figure Mentors? The Community

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Unlike the many other affiliate courses I had taken previously, The Six Figure Mentors are actually a real company and run real live seminars throughout the world.

I met Stuart and Jay on a training event in London and they’re real people!

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Who Are The Six Figure Mentors For?

The Six Figure Mentors are definitely not for those who want to ‘give it a go’! If you think you’re in this camp, this company is most definitely not for you. More than 90% of business owners fail and quit within the first year of their online business. Only something like 3% actually make it through and build a successful online business.

The Six Figure Mentors offer the software, training and support to make this a real opportunity for those who have no idea how to start an online business, but want to escape their current lives through earning online.

Even with no technical experience, or business experience, anyone can be successful online if they have the desire to succeed and the right mental attitude. Previously, building an online business has been out of the remit of most people. 20 years ago you needed more technical experience and know-how for it to be even a possibility.

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One of the main things that attracted me to The SFM was the ability to work under my own steam and in my own way. An online business gives you the ability to work in many different ways, and operate your business from anywhere, while working around current commitments.

You can also build your business around existing employment too, which makes it an attractive proposition to those who are unhappy in their work or worried about retirement.

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