Yes I’m a Six Figure Mentors affiliate. I will earn commissions should you purchase something from my website. I started learning about affiliate marketing before stumbling across the SFM, though.

My main reason to learn how to earn from the internet was that my financial life was a complete mess! I was struggling building a career as a stunt performer and had to juggle a number of jobs around the work; which was very sporadic.

So I had multiple jobs including HGV driving, office work and several other low paid jobs. In my late 30’s I was still doing crummy jobs which paid next to nothing and often didn’t get stunt work for sometimes years at a time. I realised something had to change or I’d be stuck in this situation for the next ten years. That was unbearable to me so I looked online for courses about making money.

Six Figure Mentors Affiliate

I tried all kinds of strategies to earn online including Forex marketing, building an eBay business and even writing my own ebooks to sell. But I faced one problem after another. Jumping from course to course trying to learn how to sell my ebooks, I realised there was a better business model than selling my ebooks. It was called affiliate marketing. Here was a strategy which required no products of my own and I didn’t even need to directly speak to customers or handle products.

So I ploughed hours, weeks and months into learning affiliate marketing and trying to make money from it. I was still juggling HGV work and the stunt work at this time, so it was full tilt ahead.

After a lot of failure and some small successes I found a video of a guy on a pedalo. He claimed to have the knowledge I was searching for and despite having spent money already on a number of other such claims I knew I had to keep going. Otherwise I’d be right where I was and things would never change.

Six Figure Mentors Affiliate

I took the plunge and became a Six Figure Mentors affiliate in 2014. I was sceptical for sure and had already put loads of time and energy into affiliate marketing – with little in the way of results. But Stuart seemed genuine to me and I needed to make an online income work.

I was able to attend a local meet up at first in the North of England near where I lived. At the time, meeting anyone who made money from the internet was pretty impossible. The owners of the courses I had done previously were phantoms!

They were nowhere to be seen and I never actually met any of them in “real life”. But at one of the first meetings I attended in London with the SFM I was pleasantly surprised to find both the co-founders there together with a lot of other members – many of whom had made the SFM their sole source of income.

Six Figure Mentors Affiliate – A Genuine Business

So I figured by this point the business was genuine. However I was still sceptical and anyone I spoke to about the online business at the time was extremely scathing of it; despite them knowing less than me!

My sponsor ( the person who brought me in through their affiliate link) was running an advertising pool. This meant he ran advertising campaign on behalf of his members. We paid in to a cooperative and Oliver ran adverts on Facebook. Of course this took a massive amount of trust on my part.

But I didn’t know how to advertise myself, so trusted him with some advertising budget. He came through and I made my first high ticket sale; earning $1000 in commissions. It was a massive first for me to make this kind of money from the internet.

Fear & Uncertainty

The money I made went straight towards my debt, as was my usual habit. My fear and uncertainty kept me where I was for some time and I nearly dropped out too. My advertising strategy was just free (blogging) from here on for some time. I made a couple more high ticket sales from my articles and then ran some paid marketing to them; making a couple more.

There were some problems I encountered with Google’s Adwords at this time and I lost faith in what I was doing. I hadn’t realised but I had become pretty depressed at this time; having lost a long term relationship. Everything had become about money and work and I hadn’t got a life! Small negative emails or doubt from friends affected me greatly too – so I’d shut myself away as a protection strategy.

I looked at my outgoings for the online business fees and panic set in! Had I really spent all that money, I thought? I reached out to the customer service team and asked about closing my account. Luckily I was put in touch with the support of Frank and Jill who met me regularly in several online meetings one to one. Without their help and support I would likely have dropped out at this point. They gave me some resources to work through and set me back on track – putting me in touch with a mentor and I became a member of his group.

Bouncing Back – SFM Affiliate Marketing

I had been focused on blogging for much of this time in efforts to gaining free traffic from Google and the other search engines. However, this was a flawed strategy because it took so long and was incredibly difficult. Although I was getting some traffic, there were only a few leads and sales coming in; and sales were very sporadic.

But what I didn’t realise was it was my mindset which was all wrong! I was scared to spend money because my income was so sporadic. Other people in the groups and leaderboard were gaining traction with far less time within the business. That was because they used paid marketing! I was still juggling stunt work and I had also built a kung fu school up – a long term passion I decided to turn into a business. I used the marketing strategies I had learned through the SFM to market my school and this was giving me more of an income over time.

Scarcity Mindset

Despite having done a huge amount of work on my blog, I was still carrying a scarcity mindset. I didn’t want to pay for marketing because I was afraid of losing money I didn’t have. My income was still low so I didn’t have much to put into paid marketing. However, the people who were succeeding were mostly using paid marketing – so I changed gear.

I upgraded to the top level of the business which took some courage! I had to get a loan to do this but it put me at a higher earning potential. (see below).

Once I recovered from the stress and shock of having made such a decision, I went to work modelling success. The most successful people in the business were all on the leaderboard in the back office. This showed who was making the most sales, had the most members and so on. I could find those people and model what they were doing.

It’s worth mentioning at this point that there’s many ways to succeed online using the SFM training. You don’t have to use the SFM to sell the SFM’s product range. Some Six Figure Mentors affiliate’s build their own digital marketing agencies. Others use just organic marketing and some decide to sell physical products and learn through their “Import Exports” training resource. I used the training to help me build my kung fu school.

After my school got shut down due to Covid-19 in March 2020, I had more time (and space) to concentrate on promoting and selling the SFM digital business system.

A Final Push

It’s worth sticking at some things and The SFM most definitely falls into this category. It’s not been as easy as I thought when I joined in 2014 – although I did made some fairly easy sales. But now looking back, I’m so glad I joined and became a Six Figure Mentor affiliate and stuck with it.

After spending many weeks plugged in to the recommended groups, I started doing video. I wasn’t keen and really wanted to hide behind my blog posts. But I realised that I was trying to work within my comfort zones and that this was holding back the growth of my business (and myself).

I did some soul searching and deep digging into the route causes of my thinking, with the help of the many mentors who I was able to reach for personal 1 on 1 affiliate marketing coaching. Many of these thinking patterns were rooted in fear and of old scars which didn’t serve me any more. Once I became more aware of my limiting beliefs, I was able to take bolder steps and I made my first DEA sale in June 2020. This has been a complete game changer! I’m super grateful for all the mentors who have worked with me and for this amazing community. Thanks Stuart Ross and Jay Kubassek for building this awesome resource.

When I began this business in 2014, I would never have believed I could earn this kind of money in one month! Stick at it, ignore the naysayers, do the work and you can too. Access The SFM here to get started.