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I want to preface this by stating that this is absolutely not intended as a pity post or negativity. I'm in a very difficult spot at the moment, and I feel like this community is one of the few that would fully understand my situation.
I started an online marketing business in 2013 with the intention of making it big and taking over the world, with all the enthusiasm of someone who was wet behind the ears in the entrepreneurial world. I sold almost every possession I have to fund my start up and even got a job so that I could continue to fund my venture.
Two years later, I am still very far from success. I've made some money online (I'd estimate around £2500) but spent closer to £20,000 (yeah really stupid, I don't need reminding of this). Anyway, it leaves me in a really tough position where I'm leaking money through expenses to do what I do at a rate of knots but not really bringing anything in.
The majority of the £2500 I have made was from banner ads about a year ago (may I add that this was revenue and I was never profitable with the ads I made), and had not made money for a while until recently making a pitiful £25 through a website.
When my banner ads proved to be fruitless I changed my focus to SEO, first starting to get clients which I struggled with so I switched to building "pay per lead" sites with the aim to rank highly on google and sell the leads to local businesses. I've learned to be ok at SEO but the process is very slow and I've not made much money from my websites, still very much unprofitable.
All of this would be well and good in a different scenario. If I had started building "pay per lead" sites back when I first started building the business I may not be as pessimistic as I am now, but I just feel like the cold harsh truth is that I'm going to find it very difficult to make this business work now, if it does work I'll be waiting a long time.
My personal life has taken a real hit and I'm losing the will to live any more. I've given up a lot; my social life and all of this money, to try and make things work, I still live at home with my parents and I detest the slow lane job which I work at.
I wouldn't mind working a slow lane job along side my business if it was something I enjoyed and which allowed me to move out, meet women etc. I've even got a degree so feel I should be able to get something I don't hate so much but it seems the only jobs around where I live are call centre customer service jobs, just utter rubbish.
I'm losing my train of thought a little now and not sure where I'm going with this post, but the bottom line of it is that my unsuccessful business has turned me into a manic depressive with nothing to live for and I just don't know what to do anymore.
Sorry if that was a bit heavy, here is a cute kitten to lighten the mood
I started an online marketing business in 2013 with the intention of making it big and taking over the world, with all the enthusiasm of someone who was wet behind the ears in the entrepreneurial world. I sold almost every possession I have to fund my start up and even got a job so that I could continue to fund my venture.
Two years later, I am still very far from success. I've made some money online (I'd estimate around £2500) but spent closer to £20,000 (yeah really stupid, I don't need reminding of this). Anyway, it leaves me in a really tough position where I'm leaking money through expenses to do what I do at a rate of knots but not really bringing anything in.
The majority of the £2500 I have made was from banner ads about a year ago (may I add that this was revenue and I was never profitable with the ads I made), and had not made money for a while until recently making a pitiful £25 through a website.
When my banner ads proved to be fruitless I changed my focus to SEO, first starting to get clients which I struggled with so I switched to building "pay per lead" sites with the aim to rank highly on google and sell the leads to local businesses. I've learned to be ok at SEO but the process is very slow and I've not made much money from my websites, still very much unprofitable.
All of this would be well and good in a different scenario. If I had started building "pay per lead" sites back when I first started building the business I may not be as pessimistic as I am now, but I just feel like the cold harsh truth is that I'm going to find it very difficult to make this business work now, if it does work I'll be waiting a long time.
My personal life has taken a real hit and I'm losing the will to live any more. I've given up a lot; my social life and all of this money, to try and make things work, I still live at home with my parents and I detest the slow lane job which I work at.
I wouldn't mind working a slow lane job along side my business if it was something I enjoyed and which allowed me to move out, meet women etc. I've even got a degree so feel I should be able to get something I don't hate so much but it seems the only jobs around where I live are call centre customer service jobs, just utter rubbish.
I'm losing my train of thought a little now and not sure where I'm going with this post, but the bottom line of it is that my unsuccessful business has turned me into a manic depressive with nothing to live for and I just don't know what to do anymore.
Sorry if that was a bit heavy, here is a cute kitten to lighten the mood
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