OMG – If there is a mistake that you can make, then I’ve made it!

No pretty pictures with this post but just a story ....

I recently started in affiliate marketing and love it! BUT it's been a learning experience and I guess I'm a pro at learning the hard way.

I use Click Funnels and it's great, BUT I "accidentally" redirected my current web site hosted with Go Daddy to Click Funnels and a funnel I made. When I went to my site (here - pawsitivelywell.dog) it was re-directed to my click funnels page and funnel - ooops.

I am guessing my web site was redirected to Click Funnels for about a week. This weekend when I tried to update my site, I noticed it was WRONG (LOL to say the least!). I called Go Daddy and they fixed it! (only took 2 hours on the phone on the eve of New Year's Eve)

In the process ... when my site was redirected to Click Funnels, I lost my SSL certificate. So when it was redirected back to Go Daddy, after 2 calls (on New Year's Eve), I got my SSL certificate back. Then ... I discovered my funnels on Click Funnels NO longer worked. Ugh.

I started to create a sub-domain on my site (pawsitivelywell.dog) but that proved complicated because of needing to create the sub domain, redirect it to Click Funnels and get an SSL (the support person at Go Daddy said I would need a "wilcard" SSL costing $1400 - Yikes!) ....

So back to Click Banks ... I bought a new domain through them ... pawzitivelywell.com ... had to go in and update all my funnels AND got them working ... YAY! Progress ...

I had 1 ad running on Facebook - so I went in and shut that down - since my funnel was broken - no leads were generated and I paid for clicks that took prospects to an "error" page and was basically me throwing cash out the window.

I created a new Facebook ad with the updated info THEN got an email I was charged $50 - for the ad that was turned off yesterday and another that was rejected for not meeting community standard ... (that's another story). I deleted the ads that were generating charges that shouldn't have been ... maybe a mistake on my part ... I don't know yet but it was the quickest solution I could think of to stop the charges ... LOL Facebook charged me $50 for the day, running ads that shouldn't be running.

So now, after reaching out to Facebook, they are "looking into" the charges and it will be 24-48 hours ... but they reassured me, I only have 1 ad running now ... LOL, which is good, since I deleted the others.

Anyway, the lesson learned ... starting your own business and making your dreams come true is not easy ... but if you want it bad enough, you'll roll with the punches, figure it out, fix it and keep charging full steam ahead.

Don't let anything get in your way when you want it bad enough! There are solutions, you just have to find them. And try not to make stupid mistakes, they may cost you money you don't have but if you make those mistakes, chalk it up as a lesson learned and proceed full charge ahead.

Just saying ... my mistakes, my lessons and my story.