Want More Success? Here’s the Exact Formula to Follow

If you’ve wanted to make a full-time income with your creative skills but haven’t found the success the gurus have promised you, you’re not alone.

If you’re like all the other creatives out there wanting to follow their passion and go pro, you might be asking yourself:

“How do you become successful in such a saturated industry?”

In Icelandic, there’s a saying that goes, “margt smátt gerir eitt stórt,” or “many small things make one big thing.”

In my case, my first “small thing” was earning €0.34 online.

Back in 2009, in the stone-age years of the internet, I had been writing my little blog for a few months, publishing what I was learning as an audio engineering student at the SAE Institute campus in Madrid.

On the side, I had enrolled in an “online business” course and one of their income-generating strategies was to earn money from Google ads. This sounded promising to me — so I added some to my site.

Then I waited.

Alone in my dimly lit basement apartment, I refreshed the Google Ads dashboard waiting for the big clicks to come in.

All I got were crickets.