Are you looking to escape the hamster wheel of a 9 to 5 job? Most people are trading time for money; working 40+hours a week for 2 weeks off a year! Most are trapped in this cycle for 40+ years so they can retire eventually.
A recent Gallup poll showed that 85% of workers are dissatisfied in their employment; perhaps you can relate? How can you escape this time for money working trap?
Well one way is through finding work you enjoy. As the saying goes, “if you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life”. Working doing something which isn’t satisfying is incredibly tiresome, especially if you start to feel trapped and resentful of it.
Even in a job you love initially, things can change over time. As the trappings of your hard won gains take over, you can find yourself wanting more time with friends and family. But the mortgage, kids and bills won’t allow it! So what’s the answer?
Escape The Hamster Wheel – Change The Time/Money Relationship
To change the relationship you have with time and money – that is, trading time for money, you can learn to earn in a different way. Instead of trading your time for money in the conventional working sense, you can use the internet to generate an income.
This can be done with products and services – selling them online rather than working for hours on end as an employee – which will always limit what you can earn. By selling products and services online, you can generate an automated income with no earnings cap.
Products can be sold online globally which means you can sell an unlimited number of products.
One of the simplest ways to make an income online is through the sale of other people’s products and service. This is a business model known as affiliate marketing.
Escape The Hamster Wheel – Use Affiliate Marketing?
Affiliate marketing is one of the simplest business models you can use to escape the 9 to five and generate an income online. By doing so you also create time freedom because you can use automation to sell affiliate products. This simply can’t be done when you’re trading your time for money in a job.
There’s also a huge choice in terms of what products you can sell. Once you’ve learned how to sell one product, you can use that knowledge to sell almost anything online to an audience worldwide.
Affiliate marketing allows anyone to sell any product (connected to an affiliate program) through their unique identifying link (affiliate link).
Time Versus Income
In a job, the time/income relationship stays the same (barring any promotions you might receive where it goes up incrementally). With an online business (affiliate marketing) there’s a lot to be done initially, without much of a tangible outcome. You’ll learn the basic set up of your website and/or sales funnel and start a marketing method. Learn more here with a free video series.
Over time in a job, you must continue to turn up to get paid. However, as things start to move in an affiliate business, you have the benefit of automation. So sales you generate can continue from advertising you’ve already created, for example. Subscription sales (for example) continue to come in, month after month, without any more expenditure of your time/effort.
Growing Resentment of Working A Job
In your later years, you are predisposed to value time at a greater rate than you might in your younger years. As you age, you realise how valuable time is compared to money (because time is running out at an exponential rate the more you age)!
Therefore, you value your work less and less as time goes on – even in a job you enjoy! You would (perhaps) much rather spend time with your friends and family, than in your job, earning money!
One answer to this dilemma is to build an online affiliate business alongside your job so that you can replace your income over time.
Little Steps Big Results
To build an affiliate business can take some time. However, over time small baby steps can amount to large results due to the scalable nature of an online business.
In a job, you’ll always need to keep turning up to make money. However, with an affiliate business there’s a point whereby your business can largely run by itself.
Because websites and email marketing campaigns can run automatically 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, it allows you to sell products are services without physically being there. Once you get to the stage of making this profitable, through selling products and services which are valuable to people, you can change the way you earn a living for good.
Affiliate marketing can ultimately give you both time and money simultaneously because automation is built in. With a job, the “model” requires you to always keep turning up, so you’ll never be free of trading your time in employment, however well it pays.
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