Hey and thanks for checking out my about me page. My name’s Tim Halloran and in the early 2000’s I decided to look for a means to earn an income online. After buying an ebook from eBay (about earning from eBay), I realised what a great business model it was selling digital products. There’s no postage or delivery costs, the sale is automated and the product is delivered online over the internet! It seemed like the perfect little “business in a box” which was globally scalable.
So I decided to create my own ebook to get on the other side of this online sales process. After building a website to sell my own ebook from, I struggled to actually get people to it. So I put myself on a marketing course to learn how to generate website traffic.
The first course I took was in the early 2000’s and I immediately saw the huge potential of a business model called affiliate marketing. I ditched the ebook and became an affiliate for an online business course. The ebook was worth about $10 per book. It was a little book on how to become a stuntman. But the course I bought was sold at $100 and I could make 40% of the sale. So I decided to sell that instead.
Struggles
After a couple of sales I got my advertising platform shut down by Google. It was a big deal back then and I couldn’t reinstate it. So I changed tactics to organic marketing and became a builder of niche websites. This website is an example of a niche website.
The way I build niche websites is through the targeting of a specific keyword. This website’s keywords digital marketing mentors.
I built hundreds of websites and some of them did better than others! Mostly I failed over and over again. Eventually I found an online mentorship program in 2014 which was to change my trajectory online. I realised the potential of high ticket and subscription affiliate products. With high ticket items you can make much larger commissions and subscription products pay out recurring commissions on third party sales.
Before this I had tried many affiliate programs and chose to sell items from eBay and Amazon in order to earn commissions selling products online. What I didn’t know was that Amazon’s and eBay’s commission structure was pretty poor. They paid very low levels of commission so even when I did finally make an online sale, it was for peanuts.
With high ticket products I could earn much more, so my efforts were multiplied.
A Marketer
I didn’t see myself as a marketer and it was only after a long time that I realised I had become one! I’m not “salesy” and a sales job was always the last thing I wanted to do. In my 20’s I was determined to become a stuntman and in 2002 I joined The British Equity Stunt Register in the UK. After years of struggles with getting work and being constantly broke financially, I knew I needed something different. This was a turning point for me and I had a huge motivation to turn my life around and make some changes.
I’m grateful for my struggles today because they allowed me to find a way to help others build an income online through learning marketing. Even with no products or services of your own, anyone can learn how to earn online. All you need is some time and patience and you can do it too!
