Hello Friends,
Is your ultimate goal to create a full time income online?
About 6 years back that is exactly what my goal was. I started part time while also working in the truck driving / moving industry. I told myself that I would go to bed 1 hour later & get up 1 hour earlier giving myself at least 2 hours a day to devote to my online business.
I also made an agreement with myself that I wouldn't quit my full time job until my online income matched my full time job's income. There have been many ups and downs throughout the past 6 years and I have learned so much about online marketing as well as about myself and people in general.
I learned not to take things personal and that not everyone that I love and respect will agree with my choices and path that I have chosen. The simple truth is – Most people do fail at internet marketing, network marketing, affiliate marketing etc. because they do take things personally.
So back to the earning an income on a 2 hour a day 5 day a week schedule (Back when I also had a 50+ hour a week salaried job I also said that I wouldn't work weekends as weekends are for Family) There were many times that I thought I was on my way and ended up crashing back to earth. There were also many times that I thought I was ready to give up and something Awesome happened giving me the courage, motivation and inspiration to keep working. A little while back I actually achieved on a consistent basis the matching income of my full time job with my “Hobby & Internet Playing” as so many of my Family & Friends referred to my internet work. Since then I have not maintained that income level, I have blasted past it and now am very close to double what I used to make at my salaried job.
The biggest change now is that I don't work 10 hours a week online and 50+ hours a week at a salaried job. I work in the morning for about 1/2 an hour (While Vance is in the shower) then I drive Him to School at 6:30am and work until about 2:30pm when I pick Him up from School. Some nights He has band or baseball and I am active with both (I'm not very musical so with the band I load the instruments, chaperone 1 of the buses and whatever else the Band Instructor asks of me) (With the baseball team however I am His coach and besides fishing, baseball is my next favorite thing to enjoy with Vance)
The weekends depend much on what Vance and I have going on as to when I work or when I don't work. Most Friday nights I am with Vance at the football games for marching band. Most Saturdays Vance and I do Family stuff (I have 4 younger Sisters here in Michigan and between them I have 9 Nieces & Nephews ranging in ages from 9 – 26 as well as 4 Great Nieces & Nephews ages 6 months to 6 years old) Normally we stay busy playing sports, fishing, video gaming etc. On Sunday we attend Church then have Dinner as a Family (One Sunday per month everyone who can attend, we all meet at an all You can eat buffet) They shiver when they see us walking thru the door as we are not little people and we have huge appetites.
So when it is all said and done I work somewhere between 40-50 hours a week online compared to 60+ hours when I worked a full time salaried job and online from home on my internet business. The biggest difference is that with my full time salaried 50+ hour a week job that I used to dread I wasn't able to be with Vance and my Sisters, Nieces & Nephews like I am now.
(Oh, I forgot to mention. I do also have a younger Brother as well, He lives with His Family Southeast of Houston Texas) I must mention that my Mom, God Bless Her Soul in Heaven had me when She was almost 19, then year after year for the next 4 years my other Siblings. She was 24 years old and had a 4 year old, a 3 year old, a 2 year old, a 1 year old and a newborn. (5 Children 4 & younger) My youngest Sister who was born 5 years later wasn't supposed to be possible as my Mom had surgery to prevent pregnancy after my second to the youngest Sister.
The past 6 years has been an Awesome Journey and I don't plan to stop now.
The main difference about how I spend my time working online now versus back when I first started is that now I am able to also help Friends to earn an income online from anywhere in the World. That is where my greatest joy comes from as I am so excited and happy when a Friend who I am helping calls, emails, messages or texts me when they get their 1st sale or when they reach a goal and get to set new goals.
I am honored and humbled that God has gifted me with the ability to help Friends. I am just an old country boy who joined the United States Army upon graduating from High School because I didn't know what I wanted to be. Then I wore myself out in the moving industry performing duties first as a driver/mover then dispatcher then quality control and regional manager / move consultant and never earning over $100,000 even though I worked many hours and left much blood, sweat & tears along the way.
Now that I am much older & wiser it is nice to use my mind and knowledge instead of my body to earn a living full time on the internet.
On a personal note – below is a little bit about myself and my personal life.
I was born in Kentucky but raised in Michigan and have lived here my whole life except for my 7 years that I served in the Army (1984-1991)when I lived in Germany, Georgia, Missouri, Indiana and Kansas.
I have an awesome teenaged Son named Vance (His Mom is in Heaven, She died of cancer right before his 12th Birthday) (Vance is the handsome young man with me in my profile picture) His Mom and I adopted Him at His birth – I have always referred to Him as my “Favorite Best Buddy in the Whole Wide World”
I love fishing, baseball, affiliate marketing, Social Media, Internet Marketing, Wealthy Affiliate, Jesus, God, Family & Friends. Not necessarily in that order.
Prior to being an Internet Affiliate Marketing Professional I was a mover/driver – I have driven in and moved Families to all of the 48 Continental States, Mexico & Canada. I have also been to France, Germany & Portugal while in the United States Army.
If you are on Facebook – View my groups – Internet Affiliate Marketing Friends & Friends Sharing Inspiration – All Positive Friends Welcome.
Thank you Friends,
Tony Lee Hamilton
Hey Tony lee Hamilton,thank you for sharing this your life story as i found it very interesting and also very inspiring. As a novice in digital marketing, it hit me differently and also showed me that the future is bright if I put in enough work like you did. I have gone through your website and profile, and I see you as a mentor in this field
You take a moment to reflect on how far you have come and where you want to go. You think about the fact that you would like to make your internet marketing business full time and enjoy the benefits that come with it: No More Commuting, no more office politics, no more relying on a job for income (With Benefits), keeping your weekends free etc.
The only thing is, you’ve been through this many times before and failed many times before.
It is so cool to hear your whole success story. You are seriously someone I wholeheartedly look up to in this business. The hard work you put in from the beginning has totally paid off and you are a mentor to so many. I bet all those friends who gauffed at you when you started out, have learned to keep their mouth shut now! Congrats on everything and your son must be beaming with pride, just as you are about him, which is totally evident by you involvement with his activities!
Hi Tony, thanks for this review of what it takes for an online business. Affiliate Marketing s a very good thing since it allows you to work from home on your own terms which is phenomenal. Work in the comfort of your home, what else can anyone wants. Thank you for helping people who are at the beginning of their online career. This text will help me a lot.
My alternate goal is to become a full time affiliate marketer. I want to be able to do my own business at my own time without having to leave my house and this will give me the opportunity to spend time with my family and build a particular bond with them, also I want to leave my enemies wondering what I really do that earns me the kind of money I make.
The freedom of spending time with your family that is my ultimate goal with affiliate marketing.
I think being a disciplined person, I have fixed myself some goals and I am working towards meeting them. But I have to say that affiliate marketing involves work. People should not think that it just happens. It is a beautiful thing to enjoy passive income but you need to lay the foundations before enjoying anything.
You did a great job!
Thanks
I’m so motivated on reading your biography. If you can pass through all this hurdle and now become a successful affiliate marketer, I believe I can too. I have a job that is given me a bit of tightness .i.e. not being able to have time for the Internet. I’ll try my best to squeeze out time no matter what. I’ll take this as a challenge.
Thank you for sharing your experience with us. Learning from you keeps me moving knowing if you can do it,then I can also do it. Success is for the determined mind. No retreat no surrender. I will keep working until I get what I wanted and until I can thankfully share my experience with others for encouragement. This is helpful
Affiliate marketing is a great online business that we all can partake and make our own money, it is based on how much efforts you apply and how well you communicate, you don’t need to leave the comfort of your house and you don’t need to do things that’ll inconvenience you. thanks for putting up this article.
Affiliate marketing is a great online business that we all can partake and make our own money, it is based on how much efforts you apply and how well you communicate, you don’t need to leave the comfort of your house and you don’t need to do things that’ll inconvenience you. thanks for putting up this article.
Tony,I read almost all of your articles and I love them.Earning a full time income online is something that a lot of people should be looking to do.I must say i really did enjoyed going through this article.Being full time into the business of affiliate marketing is very productive for me and I’m recommending it. I really appreciate all that you have shared and it makes a lot of sense. I am inspired by your write up.Keep up the great job!
Hello Tony! Thanks a lot for dropping this article. Earning a full time income online is something that a lot of people should be looking to do. I like that you share useful information that comes in very handy for beginners as it creates an avenue for them to learn a lot about digital marketing from your experience. Thank you very much
Hello there Tony, thanks a lot for sharing this wonderful piece of information here with us. I must say i really did enjoyed going through this article. Being into the online business world made me realize that you need to put in as much effort as you want your output to be in your business, this is why I was able to make my own money. Thanks for sharing this content
Hello tony lee,thank you for sharing this article on full time internet affiliate marketing veterian.Earning online especially during this pandemic is what most people should look into.I see no reason why no one wont want to go into full time affiliate marketitng considering all the benefits from itI am happy to hear your success story
Hello Tony Lee Hamilton, my goal has always been to create a full time income online , and I’m not planning to quit my daily full time job not untill it matches my full time income online , and I do have a strong believe not to take things personal that not everyone will agree to my chioce and decisions, I’m really glad I came across this great affiliate marketing platform, it’s far the best I have come across.
Earning a full time income online is something that a lot of people should be looking to do. I like that you share useful information that comes in very handy for beginners as it creates an avenue for them to learn a lot about digital marketing from your experience. Having an online business is surely profitable and makes one able to live their dream.
Its really good to be here and we all have to see how good it is to learn from you and its really good for real. It seems awesome. I love it and it’s the reason why I follow so much of what you say, I want to live that life too and in order to do that, I need to follow someone who has already made it there. Great article
My mum says that anything worth doing is worth doing well so why wouldn’t anyone want to go in to become a full-time affiliate marketer instead if starting off as a sort time. Like you showed here, it is a good way for one to go in for it. Really good explanation here too. Good stuff!
Being into the online business world made me realize that you need to put in as much effort as you want your output to be in your business, this is why I was able to make my own money. Being full time into the business of affiliate marketing is very productive for me and I’m recommending it.
Good to see here that you are fully into this affiliate marketing job and it has been paying all the bills for quite well. What has been shared is both great and awesome to see here. I really appreciate all that you have shared and it makes a lot of sense. Seeing this here gingers me to go for the very best there is to be out there. Thanks.you here
It seems like the life of a full time affiliate marketer is the dream life. Working from home, not having to answer to anyong except yourself. Making your own schedule. It seems awesome. I love it and it’s the reason why I follow so much of what you say, I want to live that life too and in order to do that, I need to follow someone who has already made it there
Hey Tony, you just don’t miss man, great job on the article. I am so happy for you and your family, i realize that the amount of stress and turmoil that you had to endeavor couldn’t have been easy at all and i can only imagine how that would feel. But look at you now! You have your own success story and you sharing your story to thousands that can only be inspired from it. Keep up the great job!
Earning a full time income online is something that a lot of people are looking to do. It’s great to hear that you have been successful. You get to spend a lot of time with your son, watching him grow up and being able to take him to school and enjoying sport with him. You are a great ambassador for the online world and I wish you continued success with it all.
Tony,
I read almost all of your articles and I love them. I have to say that I did not know any of this about you and I am so grateful that you have shared this! Before you were obviously a successful affiliate marketer and I took what you wrote to heart and tried to implement many of your practices or ideas into my own online presence.
However, after reading this article I am so touched by your story! I love that you are a dad first and that working online has allowed you to connect with your family! That is the stage that I am in as well. I also need to just buckle down and figure out those 3-4 hrs a day that I put into this business (I don’t have a full time job I have a part time job and I’m a single mom which is basically an unpaid full time job)! You are an inspiration! I will continue to follow your site and take your advice even more to heart!
Thank you for such honesty and giving us all a look at your wonderful family! It really humanizes you advice!
KARA
Tony thank you for sharing this information with us. I have one question, how satisfied were you with the financial inflow in the truck driving industry? I’m sorry that you suffered losses in your private life, but I think that only strengthened you. The great thing is that you help all those people who want to invest in their education and financial stability.
Thank you and I think many things can be learned from this post
Hi, Tony,
In your review being a full time internet affiliate marketer as been my dream job and finally am getting closer to it because as a member of wealthy affiliate, devoting my time, resources to be a full time internet affiliate marketer will really go a long way for me to be independent and achieve more. I am inspired by your write up.
Thank you.
Aluko.
This is really an encouragement to me as I’m new to affiliate marketing. One thing I’ve learnt from your bio is to never give up or take heed to the thoughts and pressure from people while doing what we taught right. Indeed, making money online comes with patience, and it definitely pays off in the long run.
It is not easy for people to begin to believe that they can earn much more on the Internet than a regular job that lasts from 9 to 5, and it sounds completely unreal to them that this online job can one day lead to the dismissal of a boss who annoys them and to leave everything they don’t like to do and move into the realm of online business.
Hi Tony!
Thank you so much for sharing, I really enjoyed reading your ongoing story with building your internet business, you really inspired me to never retire, 6 years is a long time!
Either way, I think not only me, but many more people loved reading your post content, looking forward to see more!
Thanks,
Edi.
I admire the success that you achieved. It’s something that I am actively aiming for right now, and since you have laid out the requirements for achieving the same, the ball rests on my hand now, so I have to work harder while building my online business, wake up earlier like you did, and not quit my current source of income until my online income supersede that present income. It’s just a matter of time until I enjoy the freedom that you enjoy right now. This story of yours is synonymous to the saying “No guts, no glory”.
From time to time, I will try to contact you to seek your assistance in implementing the same in my business, maybe you can help me like giving me advice of “what to do” and “what not to do” in my own online business. Soon, I will become a full time internet affiliate marketer like you.
Thank you so much for writing about the life story of an internet affiliate marketing veteran. To be a full-time internet affiliate marketer you need to build yourself up slowly which requires patience and practice. That’s exactly what Tony Lee Hamilton showed in his life and he’s successful today. We too will learn a lot from his life story and build ourselves as a full-time internet marketer.
Great to hear more about you Tony. I had asked for your story while reading your blog article on someone else, so it’s great that we get to hear more about you and how you got into affiliate marketing. I am an avid follower of your blog and your story is as usual an inspiration! Thanks for sharing.
Entouka Hamilton tu a raison il faut du courage vraiment pour faire des grand chose tes exploits son très bien tu a réussi a devenir un marketeur en ligne seulement en persévérance. actuellement je suis dans le même cas je veux faire du marketing en ligne mon travail a temps plein et je vais mettre beaucoup de courage et d’abnégation pour réussir
It seems like the two of us have a little bit in common. I served in the navy from 1986- 1989 the first 2yrs. Were on the USS MIDWAY where I was stationed in yokuska Japan. The second ship was the USS Bellauwood where I was stationed at SanDiego California. Both were aircraft carriers, and I worked my buy off as an aircraft handler. Once getting out of the service I worked whatever job that I could to support my wife and kids. Now I am on disability and working part-time as a security guard, just to help my wife make ends meet. That’s the main reason I am trying to succeed at affiliate marketing. Have a blessed weekend my friend. Sincerely John D.
Hello Tony! Your story is inspiring and I am sure it will be a great help and motivation for any newbie like me who come across it. I really haven’t thought of adding my time spent online to my schedule; I visit my website at my spare time. However, I will do that from tomorrow. Thanks!
This was a heart warming letter/article. It is a great testimony to your perseverance and work ethic as well as your devotion to your family. I think people can write details about programs that can be very helpful, but a personal testimony to changes in your life is a very powerful things.
Hey Tony,
First, as a fellow American I’d like to thank you for your service. Also, thank you for providing such a detailed and poignant personal history. I ‘m currently still in school, but definitely want to be my own boss someday, possibly travel the world working from my laptop. That’s the dream.
Glad you’ve had success in your life. And, on a side not, sounds like you’re a great Dad.
All the very best,
Murph
Your article gives me hope, for all the sacrifices I endured, one day i will be proud of it. just Like you, I have been working all day even at my spare time, Just to make sure my online business is at its peak.
Despite everything i have achieved so far i still have a long way to go. I am searching for, however perusing your article it makes me drive myself to work more diligently for my online business.
Thanks for sharing your story Tony. When I first started out I was also working 48 to 60 hours a week and cramming whatever time I had when I was off to work on my training and website building. Now I’m focusing on my website full time and my fiance and I are living off of his income for the time being. I’m glad you get to spend more time with your family now since you earn full time income online. That was one of my biggest reasons to get into affiliate marketing was to spend more time with my family and to have more time to pursue the hobbies that I love.
Thanks for sharing your story with us Tony. It is a very honest account of all the ups and downs involved in building an online business that can not only match a full time salary, but go on to double it. You are demonstrating here the kind of mentality required to really succeed in this business. It would have been easy to simply give up and conclude that you can’t make good money online. By refusing to give up you are now reaping the rewards, and I’m sure your story will be inspiring to others.
Hi. It is nice to hear your story about how you got into internet marketing. It is cool to see a story about yourself in the midst of all those content-rich reviews. Keep posting more posts like these. Helping others is one of the great ways people can find happiness. That is so true, keep helping and keep having fun.
If so good to have someone to put you through your online business and this is good because it’ll help you with a lot of things you are kit exposed to like the advanced and easy ways of doing things. I’m into affiliate marketing and this will be of help to me, thanks for your help Tony as it is very nice.
We’ll, going into something like affiliate marketing full-time is not something that anybody could call easy but it is however something that I could want to give a try and also see how I would be able to make money from it too. You’ve really done well to explain everything very well. Thanks a lot.
Hi, Tony. Thanks for sharing your story. I also want to make a full-time income from online work such as affiliate marketing, so your story has been inspiring me to continue work as a blogger and affiliate marketer. Six years is quite a long journey, but I’m sure you can achieve more if you’re willing to continue. I hope we can achieve our dreams someday 🙂
This is truly inspirational, thank you for sharing your story. I am so happy that you have achieved your goal of being free and having control over your time and money. I am on my way to achieving that as well.
I do believe, like you said, many people give up to early when they are about to have a breakthrough and achieve greatness.
It reminds me of the story, 3 feet from gold. The guy, in the story, was working hard and digging away to find gold and he finally gave up when he was 3 feet from hitting and finding gold.
I believe with personal development, we can all achieve our goals and dreams. Thank you again for your servant leadership.
Such a touching story. This is really an encouragement to me as I’m new to affiliate marketing. One thing I’ve learnt from your bio is to never give up or take heed to the thoughts and pressure from people while doing what we taught right. Indeed, making money online comes with patience, and it definitely pays off in the long run.
Hello Tony Lee Hamilton,
It is nice to meet you and thank you for telling us some more about you and your personal life, it is always nice to see who is behind the screens of a successful internet marketeer.
I wish you and your family all the best in life and further successful career. And please, keep those great blogpost comming, I love to read them!
best regards,
Lizzy
Hey there Tony
I have been working a 9-5 job for the past 5 years as I am still young and have some more youthful years ahead, God willing. I got married when I was 26 years old and it has been nothing but a blessing, no kids just yet.
I recently quit my job because I felt like I was sinning against God by being there. This made my daily life at home and work a living hell until I decided that I had suffered enough and just quit.
The reason why I mention this is because I also had plans to build my online business while I was still employed and then quit after. Family is extremely important to me too and what I was becoming because of my work adversely affected my family life.
I couldn’t wait any longer and one day I woke up in the morning and my wife and I were complaining about my work as usual and right there and then, we decided I should quit and until today I haven’t set foot at work.
My online business is nowhere near where I need it to be but now I get to focus on it more and take my time which is a breath of fresh air. Some people can wait and others can’t. What we all can agree on is that quitting our jobs for the sake of ourselves, our families, and our sanity because we can make a living online has been nothing but a blessing!
Solomon & Selina
Affiliate marketing is a wonderful business and has been a privilege to make a lot of money from it when you go through the process required and hard work is essential if you want to grow. Patience is key when it comes to succeeding in the online business industry.I think it’s good that you put a lot of time and effort into your articles as they always turn out to be comprehensive and very interesting reads that one can learn a lot from
Thank you for your introduction. I just know that you are a internet veteran and pay little attention to your family life. You are a big family man. It seems that you started your online business with attention to take good care of your family.
I can see that you devote a lot of time to Vance, driving him to school, picking up him from school, and then there are band or baseball after school. You are fully occupied with your baby. I know partly why you want to make the internet business working so that you have the freedom to spend time with your family.
I have two kids and they are grow-up now. I remember that it was so hard to have 9-5 job and took care of my kids in the same time. I wish I have my own internet business back then.
Tony, you have an amazing story. Your bio is so rich and inspiring. Men like you are not common in today’s society. Men who have love and time for family, God, and business. I’m so sorry to hear about your wife being late. What a painful huge loss! Thank God if she believed in Jesus, she has the hope of internal life. And for your favorite son Venace, he is a blessed child. I think, that you discovered your passion to be online marketing, and followed it with enthusiasm. And your vision has paid off.
Another interesting point to note is how you handled your full-time job, and gradually transitioned into full-time online marketing. You started it as a hobby and part-time side business. I can only imagine, how tedious your truck and moving job was, and always being on the road, it is a risky job but with a good salary. You must be a man of destiny, considering all you’ve been through.
And it is equally, interesting to learn that you have been helping hundreds of online marketers to earn income online. That’s a rewarding experience. Keep up the good job!
Favorme.
Hi Tony,
I’m great reading about how you got started. I start in the online affiliate marketing industry and thanks to the pandemic I have a lot of time to devote to it. However, I have no intention of quitting my day job until I have a security blanket in the form of a good savings account and a steady income twice what I am earning now.
I don’t expect to be an overnight success but your story gives me much courage. My greatest wish in starting my internet business is to have more time for family. I hope I hope I will be in a position to quit my job someday soon.
Cheers,
Candy Benn
It was very nice to read your story, I have a feeling I have known you for some time. I’ve read a few of your articles now, and I’m excited about each one. I like that you share useful information that comes in very handy for beginners like me. I will be happy to continue to follow your content.
I wish you and your family all the best,
Nina
Hello there Tony, your article ‘Full Time Internet Affiliate Marketing Veteran’ really left an impression on me. I think it’s great that you put a lot of time and effort into your articles as they always turn out to be comprehensive and such interesting reads that one can learn a lot from. Thank you for sharing this wonderful and insightful article
Everything can really be what we want it to be if we focus more on actually making it worthy to be what it is. I like all.you have shared her and seriously, it makes a ton of sense being able to know what is and what can be in a long while. Being a full time Internet marketer is all about making it all big and bigger. thanks
Great Story Tony,
In this technology and internet era, we can not afford not to look the possibility of earning income from the internet.
As you mentioned in your story, you should have goal and determination. Working from home is our goal, not that we do not like to meet people, but we want to have choices. But the downsize you got to decide and motivate your selves.
This is why we choose to work and learn with Wealthy Affiliate, there are great and successful affiliate marketer such you that motivate us, and show the best path to take.
Thank you Tony
Kalle And Marie
Patience is key when it comes to succeeding in the online business industry. With one setting simple daily goals that are easily attainable, one will surely see results, stay motivated and keep pushing. Congrats on your success in the past six years. You are paving the way for many. Having an online business is surely profitable and makes one able to live their dream.
Affiliate marketing is a great business and many have been a privilege to make a lot of money firm it when you go through the process required and hard work is really essential if you want to grown. It’s nice learning about your son and I hope he for the best for him and you too as time goes on. Better days ahead.
hi Tony, thank you so much for such an amazing article with some interesting life experiences. This is actually a motivation to myself that anything you set yourself to achieve it can be attainable if you keep your focus and determination. Also hard work is forever rewarding. I am working myself up step by step and l am looking forward to achieve my own success story and share it as you did to uplift others. Thank you Tony.
Affiliate marketing is very good business that we all can go into and make our own cool cash, it is based on how well you can work and how well you interact, you don’t need to leave the comfort of your house you don’t need to do anything that’ll inconvenient you, this article will be very helpful.
To be a full time internet marketer and resever everything else on it, one must have gone through the orocess of building it all and actually becoming the very best that there is. I really value all the information you have shared here and it honestly makes a whole lot of sense. Thank you so much for sharing this information here
Hi Tony, thank you for sharing your story. I am keen to have a full time business. I turn 70 this month have sold my own business. Why, you may ask? It is important to remain young and stimulated, I have 4 children and 6 grandchildren. I am challenged with IT due to my age but getting better day by day. Your lifestyle/work ethic is similar to what I would like to provide once I am up and running. Thank you for confirming it can all be done.
Hi Tony, thank you for sharing your story. I am keen to have a full time business. I turn 70 this month have sold my own business. Why, you may ask? It is important to remain young and stimulated, and as Clint Eastwood said when he turned 90, “My goal is to keep the old man out”. I have 4 children and 6 grandchildren. I am challenged with IT due to my age but getting better day by day. Your lifestyle/work ethic is similar to what I would like to provide once I am up and running. Thank you for confirming it can all be done.
Hello Tony, what a delight to peruse your article! Much obliged to you for sharing your excursion from being in the shipping/moving industry to turning into a full time web advertiser – what an extraordinary change! I respect that you have turned your vocation around by 360 degrees a couple of times throughout your life – it is surely rousing to every one of us who are to start with a despite everything working that full-time salaried occupation :). This is the thing that life is about: family, companions, quality time and accomplishing something you appreciate doing – you are experiencing the fantasy and I am certain your story will rouse heaps of individuals around the globe. You have absolutely propelled me, much obliged!
I enjoyed reading your life story, Tony, it’s always interesting to read about people who achieved something or made their dream come true etc. Having a laptop life style is a dream of many and it requires some diligent work in the first year or two (not saying it’s only that). You are a great example of a common guy who climbed his ways up to success. Very inspirational!
Great, this is the joy of living the laptop life style and doing what you love doing best. Although many think it is about doing nothing, but from your schedule it shows it is about doing the hard work and still have time for your family.
6.30a.m after dropping your son you are back to your desk. To work till 2.30pm that is 8 hrs of work. I am following your que
Hello Tony, it’s very motive story. Thank you for sharing your personal life story in last six years with us. My life goal is the same as you, to make money online. I really love the flexibility and the most important thing is, I can spend more time with my family and beloved one. There are also up and downs, it’s like how your life goes. And one more thing that people always forget, is patient. It always leads you success. Affiliate marketing is the key and let me being able to do that, and it helps me to achieve my goal as my wish when I was a kid – To have my own Business.
Appreciate you very much for that information and how a driver can certainly work as an affiliate marker and earn income online. This is the best option for a lot of people to start earning an alternative option to earning other then working a salaried or hourly question. This is a great way add income or make up for income lost in difficult times.
Two years in and about to throw in the towel myself many times over. After reading your story though it has given me new found hope and conviction. When I started I wrote down never give up no matter what. Well even in the darkest when living out of my car LOL I have held to it. Stories such as yours is what motivates me forward. Thank you my friend for being you.
Hello Tony, I would first like to congratulate you on your achievements so far. it is indeed not easy but you have seen it through. your story is inspiring. and i believe that sharing this will be of help to a lot of individuals. thank you very much for this article. i love it.
This gives me hope that I if I keep up what I’m doing it’ll pay off and I can earn some passive income whilst also helping others, just like you do, and did whilst working a full time job plus family!
I tend to do a few hours each evening for 3 or 4 evenings a week and some each weekend if there’s time, so I need to remind myself that when I “let it slide” I have already put some work in lol.
When I started trading I had a similar response from people regarding the attitude of “he’s doing his internet stuff,” and only a couple of people were interested in trying it for themselves. Others just seemed to think it was scammy or a waste of time. One person I helped get started is making more profit and learning more than me, so I think that’s paid off already and hopefully when I get going on the affiliate stuff I can then help others again.
I like with your stuff that helping people goes hand in hand with making an income, it really shows and puts you well ahead of the scammers and “course providers.”
One thing I haven’t been able to do is find your groups on Facebook. I’ve copied both and pasted them direct but they won’t come up (individually, of course). Are they still live?
Keep up the good work!
Tony
A great story! I really envy your achievement. I know that you have paid for a huge of patience and effort into your online business. As I also participate in online business. It is really difficult when you start. Therefore, I agree with your idea. First, state the online business as a part-time job before you have a stable audience and income.
Thanks for sharing about your family. I guess that you have a more great time with your family due to the online business. I wish one day I am the same as you. Participate in different interests and gain a stable and free income.
What a great story, Tony! Thank you so much for sharing a bit of your personal side.
Vance is very fortunate to have you in his life. He may never know the “normal” path of school to college to 9-5 job. Although he might, of course, choose that, I’m guessing he will see the benefits of your life choices and make his from there.
But many more than just Vance are benefitting from your story. You inspire so many who want to make a bit more of their own lives while finding more time to share with family.
Hi Tony, What an amazing story! Thanks for sharing with us! You are the living proof of if you really believe in your dreams, then your dreams will come alive. By putting lots of work and effort, anybody can succeed, you are the prime example! Never give up! By the way, is there any specific platform you can suggest to start an online business?
Thanks so much Tony for sharing your story, I’ve been following your for a couple of years now, and I know how hard you’ve worked to get your online business going and making a full income for you.
As I read your article, it is clear for me, how clear you had set up your goals from the beginning, I know it wasn’t easy for you to work 10 hours every week on your online business when you had a 50 hours per week regular job, plus you have to take care of your son, house and a few more things. But by sharing how hard you worked from the beginning to create your own online business, it will help many to take a look about what is needed to get success on an online business. I’m sure that you will be a great help to anyone who is interested to start working on a website to make money from it, you are always looking to help as many as you can!
Yes, It is my life goal to make money online.
I just love the flexibility of not having to commute as long as I have the access to internet and I can work. I do not mind working hard but I find commute to be a waste of my time. That mean instead of commuting to work, I will get to use that time to spend with my loved ones. I love your time management tip. I think it is best for all beginners to have some sort of stable income and slowly build the online business, once it take off you can quit your job. I am actually doing that right now, I also invest some of my money in stocks as well.
Thank you for sharing your story with us. Hopefully, I can have freedom with my time soon. For now I just have to work harder to get there.
Dear Sir, first of all, thank you for your service to this great country.
I appreciate everything you did to make this the greatest country in the world. Now you are giving in another way that is just fantastic sir. I felt your story and now I want to be like you, sir. I will check into that Wealthy Affiliate program and begin making my story as you have.
Thank you again Tony for the inspiration and courage to be all I can be.
hello tony, thanks alot for sharing such an amazing content with us all, i was actually doing some research online when i saw your post and i really want to commend your effort in bringing up these site together,, i see you have written a thorough article here, these has been one of the most thorough and laid down article i’ve read so far
Tony,
I am kind of new to online marketing and affiliate marketing and have lots to learn. I enjoyed looking through your site with lots of suggestions, videos, and multiple links to get information. I will be reviewing lots of those links and hope to get an ever better understanding of what you have to offer.
Very helpful site!
You have a very impressive and inspiring story. You gave me the chance to read an encouraging post about online business which is an amazing one indeed, but also challenging whenever we must experience ups and downs and the temptation to give up. I want to thank you for sharing your personal experience which has a strong and positive impact due to its obvious honesty and originality.
Hello there Tony, I think this article will be particularly useful for anyone interested in affiliate marketing and doesn’t know the works yet as I’m assuming it is the reason you wrote it. Affiliate marketing really is one of the sure and trusted ways to earn money these as an alternative source of income and I appreciate you writing this article about it.
Thanks for sharing your experience in life for the past six years here on internet affiliate marketing, your so blessed with Vance. You didn’t give up and that’s the best choice you’ve ever made. I admire those people taking other opportunity and didn’t stop finding a solution. Some say, if someone have still life, then there is hope. Congrats to your full time job at home you made it and even helping friends too building online business
Hi Tony, you are indeed blessed and have a wonderful life story. Thank you for sharing and inspiring a lot of people who are trying to venture in this online affiliate marketing opportunity. Your story shows the plain truth and not just empty promises of success. I appreciate you sharing your journey, struggles, experiences, and everything else.
I have also been in this same journey of building an online business for myself and my family. Similar to yours there have been ups and downs and I just find it awesome that it’s all part of the journey. It’s just a matter of staying the course. And also having a good business opportunity of course for not all opportunities are created equal.
Thanks again for sharing and God bless you and your family!
Hi Tony,
Thank you for sharing your experience and your last 6 years journey. Sometimes we start a project and after a few weeks, we already want to see results (this is what happens with me as well). I always want to see quick results and forgot that patience can definitively lead to a bigger success.
Reading about your story reminded me of the right path.
Thanks for sharing,
Andrea
Hi Tony,
thanks for sharing your experience in life for the past six years here on internet affiliate marketing, your so blessed with Vance. You didn’t give up and that’s the best choice you’ve ever made. I admire those people taking other opportunity and didn’t stop finding a solution. Some say, if someone have still life, then there is hope. Congrats to your full time job at home you made it and even helping friends too building online business. I wish also to be full time at home while running my online business with my family.
Thanks Tony 🙂
Ed
Hi Tony,
I enjoyed reading your story and how you have really been persistent and determined to be successful.
You inspire us to go on and be patient and consistent until we reach our goal.
I also honor you for being a loyal and responsible family man, especially to your son, including your extended family.
Truly, love for family can keep you grounded and happy.
Marita
Hello Tony,
A great article showing the type of person that you are and how you have done so well as an affiliate marketer which is an inspiration to us all.
I like you want to have that great work life balance and affiliate marketing is the key to me being able to do that. Hopefully all the hard work like yourself will pay off.
Keep you information coming as I am learning lots.
Thank you
Imelda
Awesome Tony,
Internet marketing is a great business to do and it is not that everyone who gets into online business gets the opportunity to grow and stay. Luckily making room for the persistent ones and sadly the quitters lose it all. Becoming a veteran in online marketing is what we all want and I am happy you have become one. Thank you for being our mentor by sharing your experiences.
Cheers!
Juma
Indeed Tony, my ambition is to create a full time income. I want to be working from the comfort of my home.Travelling wherever I want. 2 hours a day is a good goal. I believe I will quit my job soon as well and devote myself fully to earning my income online. Thank you for the insight Tony
You story is very interesting and it fully stress what is the difference between a ‘traditional’ job and an online job. And the best one is that you don’t have a boss. Then, you can decide how much time to work, where to work, when to take a break, you can really help others and so on. Online jobs have a lot of positive aspects!
Hello Tony, Internet marketing is a great business and not everyone who gets into it gets the opportunity to grow and that is what we all want, growth. Becoming a veteran in it is what we all want and I am happy for you. I too have been going through series of training and that would help me along with the exposure I get from reading about the business. Cheers
Wow!
You know this is the dream life I want too. Being able to just do the things I want by focusing in what I really what is a great thing to see here. Thank you so much for sharing here with us all. I love the information shared here and it is well worthy enough for me to get into.
Thumbs up to you
Hi Tony,
I just wanted to thank you so much for your inspirational post. I am also a successful affiliate marketer and have been in business for over 25+ years. I am also looking for new and creative ways to market my business and I stumbled upon your site. You really have got this down and I can see that you love sharing your information and helping others. Thanks again and wishing you all the best. I will continue to follow your journey. I am sorry about your wife, that really sucks. Hope you find love again. Stay safe and well. You can follow me too if you like as we all need to stick together right? All my best, @lisabrando
I have to ask you, what is the most difficult thing you had to overcome while creating your business and ultimately a steady income? I’m finding some things quite frustrating from time to time. Right now, its all the effort and time I have put in and I haven’t seen much return back. I completely understand that this is business, but how did you get through all this?
I’m always delighted when I see your articles and I always know that I have a lot learn from it. I enjoy reading about you and it’s very good that your zeal for helping others is really strong , it gives the opportunity to so many people to be a better person in online business and for safe investment by reading your reviews.
You have shared with us here a very great story about your rise to success online and honestly, it just makes me feel very inspired that I too can make it while working online. I also have a day job too and I am hoping that maybe someday I will be able to become just as successful as you too are.
What an amazing journey it has been for you, Tony, and your story is so inspiring for those who want to embark on the same entrepreneurial path. Your success is perhaps a testament to the number of people you’ve helped, and hopefully, you continue to inspire more entrepreneurs. I also love the fact that, at the end of the day, what matters to you is your family.
This is a really inspiring article. I liked the flow, wished I was longer as I was enjoying the inspiration. I concur with you nobody should quit their jobs until can replace their income. I learned that a hard way. I also love how your work is centered around your young man. I am passionate about grooming boys. Thanks again.
The article about email auto respondents came at the perfect time for me. I have been looking for the best program to use and with all the different providers, I was finding it difficult to pick which one would be the best suited for my current needs. Not to mention finding one that is indeed free! Thanks for doing all the research for us and taking the time to share! Your site is full of super useful content! I will be back!
Great! Your story is very inspiring. This reminds me of the story of when I started to do affiliate marketing. The opposition of my parents and the incomprehension of the other half made me very stressed. But fortunately, everything was fine in the end. I believe that affiliate marketing can change life. As long as you do it in the right way and work hard, you will succeed. Keep going!
Hi Tony, this was one of your most engaging posts. You told an honest story about how you made affiliate marketing work for you. The biggest point was how hard you work at it even now. 40-50 hours a week is a lot. Hence I am amazed you were able to replace your salary working 10 hours a week when you had a full time job.
My only conclusion is you enjoy affiliate marketing so much you spend your time willingly even though you many be able to get away with 10 hours a week. Am I right?
So glad that you are able to spend so much time with your family, especially with your son, Vance. He looks like a joy to you. My wife and I also adopted our son because we couldn’t have natural born kids. He is grown up now and has his own family.
Thanks for sharing your affiliate marketing journey with us. You very clearly debunked the get rich quick scheme
Tony, today I have commented several posts of you as a professional on affiliate programs. Each dealing with different aspects of online business. You have taught very valuable information about digital marketing. Your journey is so interesting and I am super happy for you that you achieved your goals to replace your everyday job with the online job.
Keep up the good work.
Tony, I’m thankful to have read your story. I was also in the Army for 32 years and I deployed to Europe, Asia and Latin America. Tony you are a normal guy, I love it that you speak your heart out and enjoy family like I do. I want now to get my online business going so I’m doing a lot of things to see it thru. It’s been tough but we must work hard and do all the things that needs to be done so we can succeed. Vance is a good looking boy, may God bless him. Enjoy being a dad, no experience like it can match it. It’s all about the family.
Tony; What a great story; It gave me a boost; As I am a ‘Newbie’; To tell the truth; I do not know what I am doing, But have given myself two years of genuine commitment to WA; I do have a great job, and I earn good money; I am my boss, and can start work at any time;
I drive a London Black Taxi; Living in the UK;
However, my end goal is to work from the Caribbean; Where I have a lovely house; Working from the Caribbean; Even earning a little less, would not bother me; As I would spend a lot less on; Clothes, Electricity, Fuel; Plus all year sunshine. Tony; where you are in your life; Is where I want to be in maybe two years from now;
But as I stated earlier; I do not exactly know what I am doing at present;
I am applying and doing what I am required; following direction; I do not understand SEO, but as I go along; I hope it all becomes more transparent in the future. I am giving myself two years from now; I started in March 2020.
Good luck Tony; And thank you for the boost!
Hi there,
Your article gives me hope that all the sacrifices I make, one day will make me happy. Like you, I have full-time work and all my free time I have I am trying to work on my online business.
I still have a long way to the success I am looking for, but reading your article it makes me push myself to work harder for my online business.
Thank you
Tony it is amazing reading of your success and your journey online. I’ve started placing limitations on my work hours in the last year and oh my word has it made such a positive impact on my life! I am so much happier and enjoying being with my family. Yes I work from home so I am always with my family, but being home while working is not the same as being present and spending time with my kids.
Your story is so inspirational, I hope many more people follow you and sign up for your offers to see how their lives can be changed too.
Tony, today I have commented several post of you as a professional on affiliate programs. Each dealing with different aspects of online business. You have taught very valuable information about digital marketing.
I was expecting another important information about how to work on investment.
This is the most valuable information of all. It is the man behind a job. Thank you so much for sharing the beginnings of your journey. I can’t tell you how inspiring is this post to me.
The best part of it, is that your ups and downs has helped so many people around the world. That is ultimately what counts.
Blessings
Transparency creates trust. This was my experience when I was reading your about me page. As a reader I really want to know the creator of the website and all the posts in there. I want to feel his authenticity. I want to know his experience that molded him to become the person that he is now. This added inspiration to keep on devouring the content generated by the author. Thank you for providing these valuable information. You just gained an avid fan.
Your story reveals that you are truly one of the most successful online entrepreneurs that I have come across. I wish I had found your site years earlier. I love the fact that you write with such simplicity and yet with such authority. You prove that with dedication and persistence, success in inevitable. You constantly remind us that working online to generate income will not happen overnight. One takeaway from this article is how your learned not to take things personal. It reminds me of something I heard, it would be good if everybody liked me, but it is not necessary for me to succeed.
You are such an inspiration Tony. I love reading your posts. You bring that faith on the whole new level that online business success is possible to achieve and keep up on a great level. Your journey is so interesting and I am super happy for you that you achieved your goals to replace your everyday job with the online job. I can’t wait to share my success with you! I am grateful that I got to follow and learn from you. Each of your advice is so useful and welcomed. But more than that, your spirit is so uplifting that is a true blessing having you around like some kind of a guide.
Blessed! Thank you!
Thank you for inspiring me to continue on my affiliate marketing journey. It is always reassuring to find confirmation that it is possible to make a living from affiliate marketing.
It is the perfect solution to work from home and spend valuable time with your family as well. How great for you that you can spend time with your son and extended family, while also enjoying being an affiliate marketer.
Internet have been really beneficial to so many businesses and it’s really nice to see affiliate marketing as one for the businesses that are making wave in the internet today. Going up the chart and becoming a veteran is not easy and I really celebrate anyone that attain such position because I also want to get there and make the most of the privilege
I always enjoy reading your articles. It is as if you are reading a story, it makes the reader feel involved and relate to what you are saying. You put the information across in a way motivate people to want to change and start something new. I prefer to hear about real people and real stories. There isn’t a lot I can say other than that. You say it how it is and in a real way. I see so many articles for that have a couple of sentences saying “I was drowning in credit card debt then I found this…… Sign up here and all your problems will be solved.” Instead you speak to the individual as a friend, many people could learn from this.
Hello Tony, Just went thru your article “Full Time Internet Affiliate Marketing Veteran”. You have written an honest lovely story about yourself. I wish that i could understand what to concentrate on and how to get
ahead. I hope you will be able to guide us all to do the
right thing and take the right steps in my online journey.
Regards
Rajesh
I’m really impressed with your journey, Tony. It seems like your life has been full of ups and downs and still you manage to make the best of it regardless of the circumstances. I like that you have everything scheduled, from work to family time so you can track what you do on a daily basis and also measure if you’re giving enough time to your online business (which I really need to start doing too). I’m so glad to see that you have managed to stay on the top of your game for the past few years. Can’t wait to see what you’ll do next.
I love this article Tony, it is full of great advice. I have made some of the same agreements with myself, being that I am the breadwinner of the family there is now way i could quit my job until my marketing business exceeds my current income. With that being said I put in a lot of work online and offline which causes me to be tired at times. Many of my friends and family don’t respect my online business, they think that you really cant make a living online. Us marketers know that’s not true and you and many other marketers are living proof that you can make a living online! Thank you Tony for your encouraging advice!
Great that you have worked online for six years now as an affiliate marketer and your hard work as paid off. Many fail within months and do not continue what they started as they do not see huge profits within days or just a few months. To be successful like you mentioned here on your site, you need to have a plan, dedication, and lots of time. Your website offers a lot of detailed information and I will be sharing on social media.
Good one to see that your life is scheduled around your affiliate marketing business and that you do it on a fill time scale. Not very many people can really quit their jobs and focus solely on affiliate makretingnto feed them. You must hasve really attained a certain level of authority in this foed and this is really good to see here. Thank.you for sharing with us about you
Nice post and a change of pace. You’re telling us a piece of your life, which I have done myself on one of my posts. I never would have guessed the things you have done in the past. You always seemed to me to be a hard core tech man. I will look at your posts in a different light now. For myself, it’s all I can do to do Wealthy Affiliate, I don’t have the time to do the bunch of things you do. You are very dedicated in what you do, at work, and away from work.
Hi Tony!
Wow! What a journey! It is clear for me that you are right now really expert on the topic and I am really happy for you! You have a great story and I am really inspired by all of your work! I hope I can also begin my business and be successful like you!
Thanks for such an amazing story!
Hello there! this is an amazing review you have got here. I must commend your consistency in providing your audience with quality opportunity and facts about them. good Job! What surprises me most is the fact that despise your age you still make such impart to everyone who came across your post.
The online business is pretty amazing and I don’t think that you can find many jobs like this that offer so much including the freedom to work from your home. This business is so great and I would tell anyone to really consider also getting involved in this kind of work. There is a lot to learn and so much you have to do but at the end of the day the rewards are there and you will reap from the time and the money that you invested. Thanks so much for sharing and telling your story to show that anyone can do it once they put in the work.
Thank you for making my day with your incredibly inspiring article. What a moving life story. Especially that you managed to gain strength to keep fighting after losing your wife – although just temporarily, as I believe in other realities and dimensions as well. Your professional story is also super-motivating. I was laughing when I read how your friends referred to your internet work as “Hobby & Internet Playing”. And what a triumph that you have managed to almost double the amount of your salaried job. What a testimony of a true warrior! Your post will help many others who need moral and spiritual encouragement.
Thank you for sharing this awesome story. Your story has inspired me to continue on this wealthy affiliate platform as long as possible. I have learnt that giving up is not an option. Glad you are enjoying life with your son! Your wife in heaven would be so proud of you. Thank you for this article. Take care and God bless
Hello Tony,
Your Post truly shows us, beginners in this field, that really anybody could start with Affiliate Marketing. This wasn’t a negative remark, maybe some of your visitors could think that :O
I think using your creative genes and really everybody has them, is the light in the future. Some can write better text and others are better with the graphic thing. You, Tony, are a Master in writing as if you’re talking. I’m Dutch, so in English you’d say it differently, I guess.
Tony, my friend, I wish you a bright future, for you and your family 🙂
Farid
I’m happy to be able to get an insight into your life and into how it all works out. I have been a big fan of you and I hope that someday maybe I too can become a veteran just like you in the internet marketing works. Thank you so much for inspiring me with your story Every time am telling us about your small family.
Love this! I always wanted to know more about who Tony Lee Hamilton is. My husband says I reference your name like I know who you are…I always tell him you’re the affiliate marketing veteran genius:)
Thank you for sharing your wonderful story! You give me hope and inspiration to continue on this WA journey. You made a plan and despite of all of life’s struggles, you stuck to it and became successful. Glad you are enjoying life with your son! Your wife in heaven would be so proud of you. Take care and God bless you always!
Hello Tony,
Your post is truly inspiring. It appears that you have had life deal every card possible your way – yet you get the bigger picture. I can only thank you for sharing such a personal and intimate evaluation of your life.
Your journey with Affiliate Marketing is one to watch as you stay grounded with your family by your side.
Thanks again.
Wow!!Thats very encouraging testimony, I’m also on a full-time job at the moment and find it hard to balance, online business, family and work both at the same time.Normally, when I come from work it’s straight to the kitchen, shower, social media browsing for an hour then bed. So how do you motivate your self to maintain the momentum?
I must say Tony that I’ve been so busy reading this article of yours, it’s very interesting and it nice to know about your journey, how you made your way into full time internet marketing and how you’ve gone through it. I’ve been inspired by your story and I’m also hope I can make it in online business.
Tony, you have such a powerful story. Thank you for taking the long journey to better you and your family. While I don’t have a family right now, I’m making this journey to better myself as I know I have a bumpy financial road ahead. What an interesting life you’ve had. I hope to get some good experiences out of affiliate marketing as well.
Hey Tony, what a joy to read your article! Thank you for sharing your journey from being in the trucking / moving industry to becoming a full time internet marketer – what a great transformation! I admire how you have turned your career around by 360 degrees a few times in your life – it is certainly inspirational to us all who are in the beginning an still working that full-time salaried job :). This is what life is all about: family, friends, quality time and doing something you enjoy doing – you are living the dream and I am sure your story will inspire loads of people around the world. You have certainly inspired me, thank you!
Thank you so much for sharing a beautiful and insightful article with us. The prime element of this article is a full-Time Internet Affiliate Marketing Veteran. It is truly impressive that you covered this subject so well in your post. I’ve learned a lot from reading your article and developed a lot of knowledge about Tony Lee Hamilton’s affiliate marketing life story. I like the personal life of the points mentioned in your article.
I’ve read your article and enjoyed it so I’d like to share it with my friends by sharing it in the Facebook community so that everyone knows about your article and gets to know about your affiliate life.
Hi Tony and thanks for the honest and open introduction to your family and to your history. Well some of it I guess, I’m sure there is much more you could tell. When I look back, particularly on my work career it is so interesting to think about how I have played such different roles for different people. I sometimes wonder if you were to put them all in the same room whether they would all recognize me. Reading your story though is a reminder of what is important. What we do is important especially when we are really helping people, as you do with the resources on your site, but what is more important is why we do it. You have very clearly discovered the why of what you do and that gives you energy and joy. Thanks for sharing, best regards, Andy
While reading your post, I felt like I was getting reacquainted with an old friend.
I am currently putting in 2-3 hours a day on my website work, training, etc. I am putting in around 20 hours a week on my day job as with COVID-19 my hours have been slashed. I am putting in more hours per week into my blogs and businesses than I am in my 9 to ? job now! And I love it. The income has been very sporadic, but I am working towards the day when my online income exceeds my day job income! Thank you for sharing your inspirational story!
Hey Tony. Thank you for that great article. I am really inspired by your article. I hit 40 this year, and I decided to go into Affiliate Marketing, as it’s something that has always interested me. Reading your article has reaffirmed that I made the right choice. Like you, I will continue to work hard and ensure my dreams become a reality. Thanks again.
Hi Tony,
Thanks for pouring your heart out in this article! So sorry to hear about your beloved wife; MHSRIP!
I can relate with many of the points you raised in the article. You said, “I also made an agreement with myself that I wouldn’t quit my full time job until my online income matched my full time job’s income.” That to me is definitely the MINIMUM we should be aiming for when we work full time online. And probably we should aim to equal and surpass the IDEAL salary we should have been getting in our paid jobs (far too often we are far from the ideal!)
I also how you put it, “using our wisdom and mental skills, and not our bodies to make a living”. I recommend this even to younger people – if they feel a certain job is giving their bodies too much of a bashing, they should learn new skills (such as Online Entrepreneurship) sooner than later, while continuing their jobs as safely as possible (because jobs are getting harder and harder to get). And if it should seem to be heading towards being unbearable, then they should look to relying on their newly found skills.
So good to read about you and everything that you are really up about to be honest, making a living out of affiliate marketing alone is really difficult because it takes a lot of time to yield result but you have really done it and I can only give you my respect nor wand more too. This is really great to see about you and the fact that you have really become a top notch veteran affiliate marketer
You seem to have come a long way. It is no easy task trying to balance work-life with family life but if one is really looking to build a business online then it is something they are going to have to try and figure out. It is also best that before one fully dives into an online business to make sure they keep their day time job because to be successful online takes quite some time and you would not be too pressured if you already earn money. That is very important and not a lot of people know that. They believe to just start an online business and expect it to start making money immediately and when it doesn’t they become discouraged and endup quitting.
Kia Ora Tony,
Hi there, I could relate to some of your post, like deciding to stay up an extra hour at night or get up an hour earlier in the morning to devote some time to working on your online business. Thats exactly what I have been doing for the past week, just to get some research, reading and writing time in as I build my own online business.
You also mentioned that you wouldn’t quit your fulltime job until your online income matched your fulltime job income which is understandable because it is about having peace of mind that you know there is going to be a steady income to sustain your household living needs, so I could understand that decision. I agree with you saying you learnt more about yourself and others, we all can learn more about ourselves and other people during this journey of building an online business. Do you think that with all the world events going on in 2020 that now is a good time to start building an affiliate marketing business, and why do you think that?
You have written such an honest lovely story about yourself. I am in the army too. Married to a Brigadier. And we have a lovely family, a son and a daughter.
I wish that i could understand what to concentrate on and how to get ahead. I wish to be successful like you and i want you to be my mentor Tony. I love your work. I hope you will be able to guide me to do the right thing and take the right steps in my online journey.
Deep Regards,
Aparna
Interesting, this is nice, it is amazing our long you have been doing online stuff and how you teach lots of people through your posts and reviews, you are an inspiration to many and your story is awesome, your post are always comprehensive, with your information i think i will go a long way with them..Thanks a lot
Inspiring story for people who are just starting out. It is all about commitment. And you do have a strong commitment to what you do. I have followed your Website and I always find your posts very informative and a great way to learn about the industry and different opportunities. Thank you for sharing so people can know it is possible to become a full time online marketer.
Wow, that was an interesting read and great to see how far you have come. The internet lifestyle is something we should all work to achieve, as having that extra time to do the things that matter in life is what makes life worth living. Working 50 hours a week at a job you hate is not going to make anybody happy.
Since we all have to work and earn a living, why not try to do something that you enjoy at least, and you have achieved that in your life so congratulations to you.
Hi Tony, It has been very interesting to read your story. Thank you for sharing it with us. I’m grateful I found your site. And I also like the natural way you connect with us.
I’m also the oldest among my siblings and have 4 brothers and sisters.
But in contrast with you, I’m just starting online. But I’m glad I found the best mentor.
You really sound like my kind of guy. Thank you for sharing all this and learn a bit more about you. But more importantly I feel, you definitely helped me to see the bigger picture. And be a bit more optimistic.
You see, I recently took a pretty big fall. Just when things started to align up so nicely to say I came crashing down back to earth would be an understatement. I came crashing down and dug at least a few miles deep. Since then I’ve been able to rebuild but it’s nowhere near what it used to be. Will have to keep on working. Will have to keep not giving up.
God bless, Tony! Cheers.
Hi Tony, I am thinking of coming on board with affiliate marketing. Thank you for the detailed reviews and the loads of information based on your experience and research. I used to be heavily involved with multilevel marketing but I got tired of the action so I am moving out of that. Thanks for sharing your personal stories. Very inspiring.
Interesting enough to read in details about you and how you became an internet veteran and your journey in affiliate marketing. Good one here. Well! To be indeed honest, I will try all my possible best to ensure that I can reach the tops too because I really wan to be a veteran in my chosen field too. Thumbs up to you
Hi, Tony — it’s really nice to get the background info on you. I seem to keep commenting on your posts, so now you’ve made things a bit more personal by giving us info about you and your life.
You’ve had quite a journey, thus far, but it looks like you are reaching your goals. You are therefore a great inspiration for the rest of us who are still struggling to get there.
I completely agree with you that it is nice to use the mind instead of the body to do our daily work. As I am 81, soon to be 82, I have a great appreciation of that circumstance. It’s nice that the mind still works, and sometimes better than ever, when you get older.
Best of luck to you as you continue your journey. I wish you all the success you want.
Thank you Tony for being around. I have been around Wealthy Affiliate for quite a while and it feels like I have kind of grown up with you guys and many others.
This truly is an inspirational article. It is great that you were able to change things in your life so that life rules instead of our jobs.
You are still one of the leaders in the Wealthy Affiliate and the affiliate marketing world.
Thank you once again for reminding us how important family time is.
Hey Tony, thanks for sharing a piece of you with us, including your affiliate marketing journey. I am encouraged by the method that you used to acheive your goals and your frankness that it didn’t all come together immediately. Balancing family and online work is also a challenge I have come to learn in my two years of affiliate marketing. At times, you are led to think that all you need to do is build that website and the money will come rolling in. Your post has debunked that myth. Thank you for your honesty.
Hello Tony, thanks for sharing your inspirational story. I definitely want to build a massive passive income online. I have tried other business opportunities in the past with little to no financial gain. However, all my past experiences and my desire to grow and improve as a human being have brought me a long way. I know that if I work at learning and applying what I learn my persistence will eventually payoff. I also know what it is like to have friends and family not believe in me and what I am trying to do. In the end all that really matters is that I believe in myself. I want to set the best possible example for my son as well.
Cheers,
David
Thank you for such nice and motivational words. I’m also trying to make my part-time online business a full-time income and quit working in a factory. It is a great feeling when you can help someone who is starting the same journey as you are on. I think you did a great thing with so little time as two hours daily, I’m very interested in how you managed that? How long did it take you to start earning the same amount of money online as you did on your previous job?