So I had made an affiliate page. I had succeeded in pushing through without giving up.

What Next?
During this time I had been dabbling in social media. I had this feeling we should be using it at work but not how! I had also had a 20 year reunion some months before and was the only person not on Facebook or so it felt. I reconnected with a guy I went to school with and entered into a joint venture.

OK so honestly it was all a bit more complex and to and fro than that! But basically I had an idea that I would do what I did at work – solutions – and help businesses create healthy growth.

His ideas steered my direction. Our knowledge was not aligned and I wasn’t strong enough in mine so I allowed myself to be lead. I took the easy path.

Progress Was Slow
Because I was learning and not necessarily going exactly where I had been planning progess was slow.

It was fast enough to have got a client with a website contract worth ten grand within a month of James’ course but slow if you know what I mean.

Issues
My quick sale spurred my partner but what I didn’t handle well was my mix of a full time job, mixed roles and loyalties with the client and lack of knowledge about the site we were building.

My partner was good at becoming obsessive and so I found it easier to allow him to knowing that eventually we would come back to the same point! Either way I am sure we both blamed each other for things. He would have blamed me for being too slow to make more sales and I didn’t trust him to complete work or to follow directions in projects which limited my ability to sell.

As with many JV’s in life we were spiraling into a dissolution through mutual satisfaction.

The Breakdown
He left me with an incomplete handover and an unfinished site on a template I neither liked nor knew how to use! The best things about this was that I proved to myself I could do this stuff because I had to. I built a WordPress site and solved issues like adding images to the header all by myself.

I again tasted those feelings of extreme stress and success!

Burning Out
At the same time I was burning out with legal issues at work, full time work, travel for work and trying to make my own stuff happen.

I’m sure no super women reading this can relate to the experience of doing too much at once and putting ridiculous pressure on yourself in the process!!!

Christmas
That was when I finished up work! I had plans and ideas and things I was going to do. I was tired but ready to take on the world. So stay tuned to hear how I went!

PS if you want to get access to the sneaky tools I was able to use to build landing pages for my affiliate marketing you can check it out here.

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