Are you looking for an online business mentor? An online business mentor can help you build a long term, sustainable business from the internet. Ultimately though it comes down to you doing the work. A mentor can help you by giving you the tools and direction, and helping you uncover your own mental and psychological blocks to success.
In this article, I’m going to share some of my own journey to building an online business; and the insights I learned through finding an online business mentor of my own!
Online Business Mentor – Finding A Path
It took me a long time to find a path for a legitimate online business. I started out looking at Forex marketing and spent 2 years studying it.
Eventually I abandoned this and found an eBay business strategy which involved finding low cost items and selling them for profit. After a while of this I realised that it wasn’t going anywhere. I was spending a lot of time stuck to the computer and I decided there must be a better solution for an online business.
I turned back to the eBay business idea which I had found through purchasing an eBook from eBay. After writing a couple of my own ebooks I learned how to list an ebook on my own website but struggled selling any. So I looked for a marketing course and found affiliate marketing.
What Is Affiliate Marketing?
Affiliate marketing is a business model which lets anyone earn commissions selling other people’s products online. I jumped from course to course with affiliate marketing looking for the easiest path. What I didn’t realise was that affiliate marketing isn’t easy! I needed an online business mentor, but instead got sucked into the frenzy there was over easy online cash back in the early 2000’s.
I spent a lot of time finding a path because there were so many. So many courses promised the world and didn’t deliver. But I was so busy jumping from one course to another, there was never any consistency in my actions.
It was nearly 5 years later when I actually found an online business mentor who gave me 1 on 1 affiliate marketing coaching.
Different Routes For Affiliate Marketing/Online Business
There’s many paths for online business. You can build a Shopify store, become an affiliate for Amazon or a million other affiliate programs. There’s plenty of ways to promote affiliate products too. You can become a blogger, create videos for YouTube or become a social media “influencer”.
Each course I bought into taught a different strategy and this was part of the problem.
Eventually I found a company called SFM mentors which is a company founded by affiliate marketers Jay Kubassek and Stuart Ross. Their company was different because I could actually meet the founders Stuart and Jay and met many of their members too. Previous companies and courses I took were not so accessible.
Digital Business System
The SFM Mentors offers a different business model than what most online business courses offer. The SFM digital business system has multiple earning strategies for their members:
- Subscription commissions – continue to earn from ongoing subscriptions from each of your referrals
- A range of products not just one – Having a number of products in a range and a built in sales team means you’ll be able to earn from the lifetime value of your referrals – both recurring membership commissions and “up-sells” – later purchases made by your existing referrals/customers.
- High value commissions – with digital products within the SFM digital product range you can benefit from high levels of commissions – up to 101% commission on the All-In-One at the time of writing.
- High ticket digital products – high value products give you multiple advantages over low value items.
- Multi-tier sales – allow you to earn commissions based on sales made by your referrals.
Online Business Mentor – Why You Need One
Despite having access to the digital business system listed above, I still had doubts and fears which held back my growth and that of my online business. Ultimately you are the vision and driver for your online business. Once you get stuck, it can be hard to overcome your own mental, emotional and psychological barriers to success. What psychological factors limit the growth of your business? And more importantly how can you overcome them?
A business can never outgrow the level of thinking a business owner brings to it. therefore if you have limiting beliefs about yourself or your business, it will undoubtably surface in some form within your business growth, or lack of it; or even in your personal life.
An online business mentor can help you become more aware of your limiting beliefs and psychological makeup which prevents you from moving forwards.
Here’s a few of my limiting ideas around this online business which stopped me from growing and growing my business:
- What if it’s a scam – I would be promoting a scam?
- Do I really want more money? – more money brings more problems
- I’m comfortable being broke, maybe wealth isn’t for me?
- I don’t want to put myself out there and be vulnerable for criticism
- What if my work colleagues see me/my video?
- What if the business folds after all my hard work?
- Maybe I should focus on something else instead..
- An on an on…
Once you can identify your limiting ideas, a good question to ask yourself is whether they are helping you build a profitable business or not. If the answer is no, you can be pretty sure that they are the main reason you’re not taking the right actions to move your business forward and become profitable. As you become more aware of your self talk, you’re in a better position to choose more empowering beliefs and thoughts and cast aside those which aren’t serving you or are sabotaging your success.
What A Mentor Can Help With
An online business mentor can help you see your own limitations and push you to grow both personally and professionally. one of the main problems with an online business is that it can be incredibly lonely. You’re mostly working alone and many well meaning friends and relatives would rather see you “safely” in a job which tortures your soul!
Your risk makes them feel uncomfortable and so they’ll try and bring you back into their safe version of the world. An online mentor knows what you’re striving for and why. They’ve already been through what you need to go through in order to grow and succeed.
Learn more about this online business system and mentorship program by meeting the founders. Click on the image below:
