foreign job I had four kids super busy I was just I didn't have the time but I knew if I didn't make the time I was going to be stuck doing the same thing day after day after day so I made the time [Music] there's really this breakthrough of realizing I could make way more than I was making at a job by doing these things by doing an affiliate marketing by getting started and clipping by becoming a vendor I didn't watch TV for a whole year when I first started doing ClickBank I wake up a
little earlier I'm gonna work up during my lunch time instead of going out with the guys for lunch and I just sacrificed a little bit of that time and it paid off tremendously because now I own my life I started making more in a month than I was making in a year at my job I feel like I retired 20 years ago now it's just just life [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] I grew up in a family I'm the oldest of seven boys and one girl and so we grew up pretty poor we had some
years where we ate cracked wheat for a whole year every morning I just thought everyone did that you know we didn't have a lot of money as time went on I went to college I did the whole thing you know go to college and get a degree and I didn't I dropped out a couple years into college and decided to go kind of do my own things and I found myself failing at some of those things and realizing I wasn't making any money and one day I had to put my tail between my legs and
I went and got a job and in a chemical Factory and literally I had to take this mylar balloon go up walk up think of stairs and hold my breath take the sample of cyanide gas and my boss would say just don't breathe or you could die and I'd be like you know so I'm doing that for like nine bucks an hour and not even paid the bills you know kind of thing so I I started realizing man I got to do something different in my life foreign selling on eBay just trying to make things
work and then one day I was talking to a friend I'd heard he was making money selling eBooks and I was like the heck's an ebook you know and I heard he was making like ten thousand dollars a month and I was like 10 selling a digital book and what the heck you know so I started looking into it and I found ClickBank then I realized that you could be an affiliate so you could go promote these things and get paid an affiliate commission I'll never forget the first time I started promoting things as an
affiliate I woke up one morning and I got three cells affiliate cells from these products oh my gosh this is cool I actually made money while I was sleeping I actually made money while I was thinking I didn't have to go wear a hard hat and take poisonous cyanide gas and that no and the funny thing about this is like I set my computer up every time I got a ClickBank cell I made my computer make a sound it would go you know so I'm still working at my job and so the computer's in the
living room I'd keep the sound up meet here oh there's 37 you know and my kids would little kids would hear that and they'd hear the you know we've eaten dinner and they'd hear the sound oh Dad just made 37 you know so it was like crazy it was like kind of fun we just you hear that little sound go off and go check my email and I had another sale one day I woke up and I was getting ready to go to to work but I could hear my computer in the other room going
it was like on like ballistic I was like what that I went over the computer and it was like six in the morning and I had already made like ten thousand dollars that day from like midnight to like four or five in the morning why not so I called in sick because like what I gotta figure out what's going on but I found out my product had the link I was doing some paid ads and I had ended up on the home page of AOL then and I think I made forty thousand dollars a day
my profit that day I was like forget going into work man you know like that's how much I was making at my job in a year and I I made it one day and I'm saying everyone can go do that but that's what like I did it I did it and it kind of like opened my eyes I'm like oh man there is something to this within nine months I had pretty much tripled my income that I was making at my job and I quit my job that's been 20 20 years ago 21 years ago
actually Falls when I quit my job and I've done my own thing ever since and ClickBank is where I got my start I love it every time I tell someone like where'd you get your stuff ClickBank I always turn on ClickBank [Music] I love being an affiliate I'm still an affiliate but I started realizing like hey I'm selling this program for someone else and I'm making my commission I'm like I think I could sell my own program sell a lot of my own on the front end and get other Affiliates out there pushing for me
and that was my biggest thing why I started creating my own programs one of our most successful products has been our program called the crypto code and you know there's a lot of misconceptions about what crypto is crypto really is a new technology so we've been able to help a lot of people get into the world of crypto in this whole new technology and and it's been really well it's been our actually most successful product on ClickBank the reason why I love affiliate traffic is it's the lowest risk type of traffic that you can do
I just tend to keep gravitating back to Affiliates and affiliate traffic it just seems to be just so consistent for us if you're not having Affiliates go promote your program why not why would you not want a whole bunch of people to go promote your program especially if it's digital your costs are so low on a digital program I look at it as like free money or bonus money but the other reason is ClickBank makes it so easy to pay those Affiliates for you so you don't have to go spend the time to go you
know buy some complicated software hire people to run that worry about fraud ClickBank has a handle on that they've been in this business for a long time no question about it I would go with ClickBank because they know what they're doing and make it easier for you and you're going to get a lot more sales here's my 2023 Platinum award I look forward to this every year when this thing shows up in the mail it really means a lot to me because I'm like hey we worked really hard this year to achieve this it just
shows that like hey we've accomplished something it shows that ClickBank cares about us and along with it is a lot of other benefits that we get so it's really really helped me right here we have 20 23 2022 2021 and 2020 Platinum Awards so yeah we hang these up these are right behind my desk and I love it my kids come up and say Dad what is that I say that's Freedom guys that is freedom is it worth getting Platinum heck yes it's worth getting fun go out and do it get it [Music] my life
is completely different completely different and I I almost started to forget what it was like 20 plus years ago I can't imagine doing anything different I remember not being where I wanted to be [Music] I think there's so much to life than just driving in your car sitting in a cubicle every day and if you don't do something different with your life you don't make some changes you'll just do that and then you'll get old and retire and then you won't have the money to do the things you wanted to do when you retire either
it's not like money is going to make you happy but it's money can can buy you some freedom and can buy you time with your loved ones as well I'm so glad I made the decision that I took some action that's all I can say work and learn and do and take action and don't quit because you will be successful if you do that if you stick with it you will be successful [Music]