That’s what this whole journey is about, success through failure. I’m still plugging away at various projects and campaigns with minimal success so far. Here’s a quote by Brian Tracy I found quite helpful today:

Every single peak performing human being, every single high achieving man or woman, has been a person who has thrown off the natural tendency to play it safe and stay within the comfort zone, and has continually tried to exceed their previous levels of accomplishment, has continually moved forward into the risk zone, to try something more and bigger and better and more important. Every single accomplishment in the history of man, has come from men and women who have had the courage to take the risks, to step out even though they had no guarantee or assurance of success…

In studying the lives and stories of the most outstanding men and women of all of history, we find that every single one of them has been a great failure. People do not understand the importance of failure in achievement. The fact is that it is impossible to succeed without failing, that failure is an indispensable prerequisite for success, and that all great success is proceeded by great failure. Every single person who has tried to accomplish something outside the ordinary has suffered setback and obstacle and defeat and adversity and disappointment and heartache over and over again as they have moved toward their goal. There is no record of anybody ever having achieved any kind of success without having failed over and over again. The only difference is that the winners continually pick themselves up and carry on knowing that ultimate success is inevitable as long as they keep on going on.

If you’re thinking about using Facebook to send some traffic to a well known affiliate-friendly company such as Amazon, let me save you from spending your hard-earned cash.

Max CPC: $0.26

Clicks: 495

Total ad cost: $121.59

Conversions: 2

Revenue: under $5

The figures speak for themselves. The lesson here is this - failure isn’t something to be avoided. It’s to be rejoiced over, not that we should parade our faults for the world to see, and not that we should be proud of falling short.

But we rejoice in the fact that we put in the effort, we ran the race. And believe me, this is a race that can be won. I don’t advocate putting effort into something that isn’t viable, but this “internet marketing” lark is certainly doable.

I see my failure as one little step towards success, I heard someone once call it “failing upwards”. I’ve spent years looking, and reading - I know a lot about internet marketing and yet I’m the first to admit I’ve never really got stuck in there.

I never tried. Well now I’m trying.

I’m letting the failures be my motivation, pushing me on, further and further into my full potential.

I know I have it in me. And I will work for all I’ve got to see this through. So I’ll leave you with a quote from a guy called Randy Pausch which my mentor often likes to use:

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want something badly enough.