 How I sold my first million dollars online in only 24 months. Hey guys, you want to make money online, right? I would suggest, I would suggest you listen to people who've already made money online. I've been selling online for 10 years. I'm not bragging. It's just a fact. Actually, it's over 10 years. We're like 11, 12 years now. But the point is I've been doing this for a long time. So you want to listen to people who've already done what you want to accomplish. I know when I first got started, I had a lot of people telling me I couldn't do things. And it generally came from people. Matter of fact, it always came from people who hadn't done anything. In this video, I'm going to share with you exactly what I did, what transpired, and how I hit a million dollars in only 24 months. Now, I want to prefix this with the fact that I was not technologically advanced. So you don't have to be technologically advanced. I think a lot of people think they have to be some kind of computer genius to make money online. And nothing could be further from the truth. Nowadays, there's so many automations. As a matter of fact, I'll tell you the software that I use at the end of this video to do a lot of these things. And it wasn't even around when I got started. But it is there now, and you should take advantage of it. So let me start off by saying, you know, you've got to have some type of motivation. To make money online, you've got to have motivation. It's not difficult, but it's not easy. And what I mean by that is if you follow certain things online, certain rules online, if you use certain methods, certain softwares, you can make money online. But I will tell you it's hard work. But I will tell you it's hard work. And I think a lot of the people out there that are trying to teach people how to make money online are telling everybody it's not hard work. You don't have to work hard. You can just work a couple hours a day and you can make a million dollars a year. It's not true. It's not true. And, you know, a lot of people are going to stop watching this video right now because they were looking for a video that told them that everything was going to be easy and everything was going to be simple. It's not true. Okay? You can keep looking and you can keep watching videos that tell you that, but you're never going to make money. If you want to make money online, you're going to want to watch this video to the very end because I'm going to point out what really works and what doesn't work. So, let's get started on my story. I was working a job I didn't like. I didn't like my boss. I didn't like the hours. I wanted more money. We all want more money, right? I want more money right now and I've made millions online. But we always want more money. And I just decided that I wasn't going to do it anymore. Now, I couldn't just quit my job. And you may be in that position too where you can't just quit your job because you have to have an income. So, what I did in the evening, and I say the evening, I would get off work at 8 or 9 o'clock at night sometimes, get my kids in bed. I was a single dad. And then I would work from, you know, like 10 o'clock to midnight or 10 o'clock to 1 a.m. And then I had to be back at my job at, you know, 7, 30 or 8 in the morning the next day. And that was wearing on me, okay, after many years of doing that. Maybe you're in a position like that now. Maybe you have a job that you don't like or maybe you have a boss you don't like. Maybe you want more free time. I wouldn't say in the beginning you're going to have more free time because you won't, okay? In the beginning you got to work your butt off. And I had to work my butt off. That's just the way it is. But on down the road, you can earn yourself more free time. I knew if I stayed in my job, I would never have more free time. It just wasn't going to happen because the job required a certain number of hours. I initially started off selling cell phone cases. Now, cell phone cases I had figured, well, that would be a good product because that's the number one product or more of those are sold on eBay than anything else. And at the time, eBay was huge. They were really big. They're nothing like what they used to be back then. So I started selling these cell phone cases. I didn't make any money. Just didn't. But it taught me how to put a listing on eBay. It taught me how to do credit card transactions on a website. It taught me how to email some people. So it taught me things. You're not initially going to just knock it out of the park and make a ton of money. Usually not going to happen. I mean, some people do, but that's pretty rare. But you need to get started with something. Quit waiting for the perfect product. So I didn't do well with that. And then I started selling some camping gear and that type of stuff. And, you know, I would make two, three, four hundred dollars a month, something like that. And I was putting in a lot of hours to do that. A lot of hours. Some of you may be saying, well, gee, I don't want to work, you know, another 20 or 30 hours a month and only make two or 300 bucks. Sometimes that's what you got to do. So that's what I did. I started selling this camping gear. And I had a company contact me one day. And that particular company had what they called freeze-dried food. They were long-term food storage. And I could add that to my website and start selling some of these products. And I started doing well. I started selling some of these products. And then it kind of took off. And I was making four or five thousand dollars a month extra off selling these products, which was pretty good. And some of you may be saying, well, gee, I would be happy with that. I wasn't happy with that. I wanted more. I wanted more. And I finally got it up. And keep in mind, I was still working my job. Still working my job. I was still working there six, seven days a week, early morning to late nights. But one month I did $80,000 in sales. Now this wasn't profit. This was sales. Okay. So I probably made 25% of that, which wasn't bad. I made $20,000 that month. Roughly. I don't remember the exact numbers. But I remember it was over 80,000. And when I saw that and I saw what I could do selling this company's products, I quit my job. I just quit. I said, I'm not doing this anymore. I've made enough money this month. I can go out and make that money every single month. That's what I'm going to do. Little did I know that sales can go up and down. And things can happen. And things did happen. And what happened was those survival foods were selling really well. The company that I was buying them from could no longer ship them on time. They were like three days behind. Then they were a week behind. Then they were two weeks behind. And lo and behold, eBay didn't like that. They took down all my listings on eBay, of which I think I had over 300 at that time. They took $20,000 out of my bank account because they said I had too many refunds because people were refunding because they weren't getting their products. So I was out of luck. I had no money. I had no product. And I wasn't doing well. Okay. So this is like the first, oh, four months of my business. And I had quit my job. So you can imagine it was a little, a little disturbing, a little disturbing. And I decided that I would just get my own product. And I would build a website and I had my own products. And I came out with the name Survival Cave Food. You can search that now and you will find Survival Cave Food out there. We do millions of dollars of Survival Cave Food in addition to my other businesses. So I started that company. I put a website up and I sat and I waited and I looked at my website and nobody came to the website. Nobody. Crickets. No sales. So then I said, well, the problem is I don't have enough traffic. So I started trying to drive traffic to my website. I tried to learn SEO. I tried running ads. I tried everything I could to get people to come to my website. And I really wasn't making any headway. And then one day I was sitting there and I was looking at some other sites that had a lot of traffic. They had like millions of visitors and they were survival sites or camping sites or whatever, which would have been perfect for my product. And then it struck me, well, that would be perfect for my product. What if my product was on that website? So I got on the phone and I was making about 200 phone calls a day. I was sending out hundreds of emails a day, trying to get other people to put my product on their site. And the deal was if they put it on their site and they sold it, I would ship it out and all they had to do was pay me for it when they sold it so they got the money up front. I didn't do too well. But I did finally get one guy who said he was going to build a site and put it on there. I made a little folder and I put it in a file cabinet and I'm like, look, I've got one retailer, one distributor, one seller of my product, whatever you want to call them. And that was enough to encourage me to stay on the phone, doing my 200 phone calls a day, sending out my hundreds of emails a day to get more people. And I did. I got a few more. And then I got a whole lot more. Then I got hundreds more. Then I got thousands more. Before I knew it, I had quite a network of people that were selling my products. Now, this network I wanted to listen to and the one thing they were telling me is these freeze-dried foods that I had come up with, my own brand of foods, that they wanted protein. They wanted meats. And I looked at freeze-dried meats and that just didn't look good. I decided I need to come up with some type of canned meat. And we came up with a process of canning meats that would give it a long shelf life. And we started selling that and it took off. And to this day, it's done incredibly well. As a matter of fact, we had a sale today for $59,000. One sale for $59,000. We have had many days where we go over $100,000 in sales in a single day, which is really, really nice. But I will tell you that that wouldn't have happened if I had quit at all those obstacles. So if you're looking for something out of this video that's going to help you make that million dollars that first 24 months, which is what I did with my products, it is, I would say, tenacity and hard work. And you can't always see the finish line. That's the thing that scares a lot of people. They can't see the finish line. When I started selling cell phone cases, I didn't see the finish line as canned meats. I didn't. I just started working and learning along the way. And as you work and learn along the way, doors open up for you. When you get out there and you put yourself out there and you try different things, doors will open up for you. Other doors will slam in your face. eBay slammed in my face. The money coming out of my account slammed in my face. But I just chose to find another door. And that's what you've got to do. I would suggest you watch more of my videos on this channel. Sure, I'll get more views. But I also know that if you watch more videos on this channel, you're going to hear more of this message, more of these things that work, more of these techniques that work. And you'll learn. And as you learn, it's going to open new doors for you. It's going to take you to places that you didn't know you even wanted to go. I didn't know what the finish line was. In the finish line, I have not even reached it yet. I did well with my survival foods. But then I started doing courses. Now I teach people. I have a whole bunch of different courses about selling online. And these courses have made me a whole lot more money. So guys, I'll tell you. And then it started me doing, you know, my videos. And I get ads that run on my videos now. And I make money off that. So I'll tell you that tenacity, that hard work, that ignoring the fact that a door gets slammed in your face and going for the next door and the next door and the next door because some of them will open up. Some will. But none of them will. None of them will if you keep doing what you've been doing and you don't change. You got to get out there. You got to look for opportunities. You got to try things. Don't be afraid to fail. You will fail. I had a lot of failures. I still have failures. But I don't quit because I know overall, overall, I'm going to win. I'm going to win because I keep trying things. And if you try enough things that don't work, eventually you stumble on things that do work. That's basically how it works. People try to avoid failures and I look for them. I look for failures because I know if I find enough failures, I'll find enough winners too. Finding failures is just erasing the things that don't work. You're getting those out of your way. That's a good thing. That's a good thing. You got to change your way of thinking and you too can sell millions of dollars online. Anybody can do this, guys. I'm not technologically advanced. I didn't start at a young age. None of those things. I didn't have any of those advantages. All you got to do is put forth the effort. Learn how to do this stuff. I will tell you, I wanted to share with you that software I use. That software I use is called Cartra. And if you look down in the description, there's a free video that goes all through Cartra and shows you all the things you want to do online to be successful. I use that software every single day. If you use my link below and you click on it, you can actually get a trial of that software for $1. It's the only piece of software you're going to need to market online. So check that out. Check out Cartra. I also have a free course below. It's a $97 course. You can click on that course and there's no credit card required. Just click and learn. So check out those two things. I've got my other courses down there if you want to look at those. And I also want to get your comments. Don't forget to comment below. Let me know what you thought of this video. Let me know what you got for those problems. If you have questions, if you need solutions, put those comments below and I'll be happy to come back and answer them for you. Don't forget to give me a thumbs up. Don't forget to subscribe. 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