Dont stop. You only lose when you stop. I feel you. In 2010, I was making $1k daily from adsense and one morning I woke up with the email that says your accoun t has been terminated. And my daily income came from 1K to 0.
Can you imagine that ? But I never stopped and always make better and better! Just dont lose your motivation.
I won't stop.
Sorry to hear that man. I hope you're making that and much more by now
This is where the V2.0 market place came in place.
just provide your service and don't worry about payment processor
Yeah but, again you run into the same shit where you're at the mercy of the marketplace. I sell on Fiverr, I get it, I know how it goes. And also you lose 10-30% of the money on those marketplaces.
Doing it yourself, your own websites, you lose a few percentages on receiving money, but you keep most of it, and you get to play by your own rules. Of course on the other hand you have to deal with payment processors and all that shit yourself.
Make step by step videos how to use Crypto for noobs to deposit if you get the energy.
That's actually a good idea. I might do that. Show customers that want to pay with Paypal how to convert it into crypto.
But OUPS, Paypal doesn't like cryptos, even that they're gonna make difficult. Fucking assholes.
I am feeling sorry for you mate, but one question is crossing my mind. Why didn’t you registered an LLC when you started making some decent cash? I don’t agree witb people who say “Put it into bitcoin” it is literally money laundering.
Frankly, I've heard of "LLC" a thousand times, but I have no idea what that means. Limited L.. Company...
I could google it, but if we were talking face to face, I couldn't tell an LLC if it got on its knees and sucked my dick.
I don't know about money laundering. You just avoid paying taxes to the greedy ungrateful government who's gonna take your money, give you nothing in return, and waste the money. Hm...
Just here to say that PayPal sucks. I have a legit account for about 8 years, recently starting to sell on eBay. Guess what a 21 day "lock" on every fucking order i get.
Like i don't need that money to actually keep my stock up.. Gosh that pisses me off.
As for on-topic.
Been there done that.
Don't be afraid to walk away from it all for a while. If you are as hooked on IM as i am you will get back at it anyways ( forever it seems... ).
Yes i also went from xx.xxx to 0 overnight. Killed me every single time but in the end it did prove me that everything is possible. You just need some hard work, luck and most of all accept that life will fuck you over every single day when it can.
Keep it up.
Thanks man
Switch to other payment processors, it's that easy. You knew that PayPal is fucked up so you've been playing with fire for a while.
And yes, get out take some fresh air, be more social, it's really important to stay human, money isn't everything.
Yeah, that's what I'm doing. The more payment processors I use the better. I guess in time I'll have some customers pay with Payoneer, some with Skrill, some with cryptos, some with this method and that method, and then no matter what happens I'll never be busted up over night if Paypal or whoever Paypal suspends me or locks my money. That's it
As my mentor said to me when I had no desire to keep forth - Life is a boxing match, when you're down, you've got to get up. THERE'S NOTHING ELSE YOU CAN DO.
Your perception has collapsed, it's not as bad as you think it is. If you need somebody to talk to, just pm me, we'll get in touch.
You've got my support,
Ivo
Thanks Ivo. I'm a little beat up right now, but I'll get back up... not like there's much else I can do
You have accomplished and built bigger things than most in here do not let stress and paypal take over you.
If you've already made some solid money coming in why don't you register your business??
I know it sucks to pay taxes but it is stupid to risk something that is already steady going, goverments are paying more attention lately to IM since in the end it is consider a ''job'' and way of income just like anybody that is sitting in an office.
Well it's kinda fucked. Now I don't know if I should register a business, because, how can I get money in my business bank account?
My Paypal is gone, where most of my money came in. I can't make a new Paypal account. Even if I made a business Paypal for my registered company, I would have to give personal information. But personally I'm banned on Paypal, so how long before they ban my business account too?
I started using a family member's Paypal, now that's suspended too. And even if it wasn't, I would have to, I don't know, withdraw the money to my family member's account and then fake an invoice or something in order to have my family member send me the money to my company's bank account as a "payment" for something. And I would lose money on that transaction too.
The cryptos, I ain't paying taxes on cryptos.
The Payoneer money, well, never mind that.
I mean, to register a company now, I would actually have to jump through hoops and lose money just to manage to transfer my money in my company's bank account.... and then pay taxes on that too.
This uncertainty is fucking killing me...
PayPal is a real pain in Ass. I got my all 3 accounts locked up.
Yeah, it totally fucking is. I have 2 accounts locked now. I'm looking to get away from Paypal. Use every other payment processor available.
Take a break , go vacations think well your next step , i like your idea to do something offline i am tired too online business lot of energy gone of me
get over it
I am taking a little break. Not working 18 hours a day, working only 10 hours a day now
Paypal suspended my account for 6 month too, about 3k $
I have about $14k between 2 accounts now. Fuck me. 4 months and 6 months waiting..............
I know how difficult it can be to take a break in our line of business, but you won’t be any use to anyone until you get your head straight. I say you should hire someone capable to take over the brunt of your work, train them for a while, and wean yourself off of work. Then go take a vacation. Trust me, once you get a chance to clear your mind a bit, you’ll be ready to take over the world again.
No one can take over the brunt of my work. It's all so very... specific. At best someone could take over some minor peripheral things. But the main things, no way, it's all so very specific.
I don't know who said it, I think Warren Buffet, something along the line of, when I buy a business I make sure the systems are so simply that even an idiot could run them, because some day one will.
Well, my shit is complicated and "unique" at every turn, I couldn't possibly hire someone to take over the brunt of the work, there's just no way. Maybe I could hire a team of 5 people and train them for half a year, and then they could do it, sort of. But I don't make that kind of money. Plus, why should I share the spoils of war
Take a couple of days off. Tell yourself I am not clicking a single facking button on my computer for 3 days. Then come back and find a solution to your problem, as in find another way to accept money. There are thousands of other smm sellers out there who have overcome this, why can't you?
You've spent too much time building just to throw it all away because of paypal, that would be insanity.
Good luck my friend.
Thanks friend
Leave IM.
Hear me out. Internet marketing should never be an end, but simply a means to a next step. Nothing we are doing here is going to be permanent. Heck, I'd bet money that in five years, 95 percent of us will either be phased out of whatever profitable things we are doing, or we will burn out and do something different altogether.
IM is a fast-paced world where there is no downtime. It isn't the stock market or a 9-5 labor job. Things don't stop in the evening and pick back up in the morning. I would encourage anyone looking to start fresh or start over in this field to not. Do something tangible. Make something. Start a food truck. Hell, use that knowledge and capital to do anything here:
https://sweatystartup.com/.
I guarantee you that, at the end of the day, you will feel far more fulfilled than sitting around being a middleman for social media services. Consider this an expensive learning moment. 1) Don't put all your eggs in one basket (PayPal). 2) Don't put all your energy into something that is fleeting (IM).
You may have wasted some of the best years of your life chasing this dream. But does it make you happy? If not, what is stopping you from doing what does?
That website looks pretty fucking interesting. I'll check it out, looks like an amazing read. I just glanced at it now, but I'll read more. Thanks dude.
Well, I'm not a middle man for all the social media services. For many I'm a supplier. Not that that's something golden either, or cheap, or automated haha
Definitely not putting all my eggs in one basket. Diversifying my payment processors. Though even that is a bit discouraging because I come from a country where a lot of the up and coming payment processors are simply not available (e.g stripe).
That's a good question there. Making money makes me happy. So then, what do I do?
