Momtrepreneur Life—Setbacks And Motivation In Business

Why am I begging for pennies? I spent last week asking myself this question over and over again.  For this coffee chat we are going to talk about setbacks and motivation in business.

Coffee chats are a more relaxed show where I pull back the curtain on the momtrepreneur life and give you a glimpse of  how the all the magic happens. I share the reality of what it means to be a homeschooling mom of 6 and momtrepreneur. Grab your coffee and let’s get started.

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There will Always be Setbacks in Business

It doesn’t matter how many books you read. How prepared you are to launch your business. Or how much research you’ve done. You will always encounter setbacks in your business. I like to try to prepare for everything, but it is just not reality that I will have prepared for everything.

This past week, I hit, what seems like a really big setback with my blog. I started this blog as a business. The idea is for it to generate income. And I get to share content on a topic that I know very well—homeschool mom and momtrepreneur. When you start a blog, the idea is to monetize it with multiple streams of income—advertising, affiliate marketing, creating products to sell, getting sponsors—there are multiple streams of income that one blog will generate. It can’t really be done with just one stream.

My Amazon Affiliate Account was Closed without Notification

This past week my Amazon affiliate account was shut down. It took them 4 days to finally notify me of why they did it. They said I didn’t follow the operating agreement. I did appeal the reason. But they emailed again and said we are correct. So I responded to that email letting them know that they were very incorrect. The reply to this email was an incredibly curt email.

As a new content creator, I felt like a huge failure. I got kicked out of the affiliate program that all the veteran bloggers say you have to join. I felt like a failure and then I was mad. Then I started thinking. Why am I begging for pennies? I really didn’t make any money, but the reality is I didn’t make any money.

I decided I didn’t want feel like I was held hostage by one company. Amazon affiliate links are really easy to monetize every posts. You grab a few affiliate links and every post has the potential to make money. It is low hanging fruit. I didn’t want to build an income stream that could be closed at the whim of a faceless company.

Here’s where the setback comes in. I need to go through all my posts and change them all. There are 87 posts, more than 150 videos because I am on YouTube and Rumble, and 80 podcasts. All of this content needs to be updated. So major setback.

Let Your Emotions Shift to Motivation in Business

After working through all the feelings. I was mad. I was really mad. But I was mad at the amount of work that I would need to do to change all the links. It started me thinking that I need to create my own products. I’ve started with notebooks and journals, and also fun mom boss swag.

I have these products created, but I also have other ideas for books and courses that I want to create. But these are really big ideas and using affiliate links was an easy way to monetize every post. The reality is that I am not making any money though.

So I let the anger motivate me to start these projects. Anger is a real emotion that can be used for good. I let it motivate me and reinvigorate me to start working on this really big ideas.

Watch the video below to hear my takeaways.