#97 – Should You Quit Your Job Today And Concentrate On Building Authority Sites?

What you will learn

* Why Perrin still works despite owning successful authority sites
* What is ‘input lag’ and how understanding it can keep you motivated
* Why we can’t tell you how long it will be before you can quit your job
* When it doesn’t make sense to quit your job at all
* When and why real AH Pro members quit their jobs

One of the most attractive things about making money online is the freedom it gives you. The freedom to work when you want, where you want, and to be in control of your own destiny.

In today’s podcast, I’m joined by Perrin about when to quit your job to become a full-time, internet marketer.
How Did We Start Doing Marketing Full Time?
For me, things started pretty quickly after leaving college.

I got a place on a grad scheme working for a large, respectable, faceless multinational doing boring and menial jobs. I hated it from day one. I wanted out.

I didn’t necessarily care what I was going to do because I viewed anything as an improvement.

So, I saved some money, quit my job and went traveling. During this process, I started a site that started making a couple of hundred dollars per month but abandoned it thinking it was a failure.

Soon after, I met Gael. We decided to start a digital marketing agency together, do a but more travelling and learn by working on clients projects. At this point, I was working full-time + in internet marketing, but it felt more like a job rather than my own thing.

At this point, Gael and I decided to launch Health Ambition so that we were spending our time growing our own businesses rather than growing other peoples.

For Perrin, he had been doing a few jobs that weren’t paying all that well or not very fulfilling. Eventually, he got a ‘good’ job as a consultant for a blue chip company. It paid well, but he knew it wasn’t what he wanted to do.

He started building sites on the side. Four site failures later, he had a site that was matching his salary from his ‘real job.

Perrin didn’t outright quit his job though. He’s more risk-averse when it comes to personal finance.

Perrin eventually quit his job when his friend Spencer Haws from Niche Pursuits hired him to work on building sites.

Perrin thinks it took so long for him to quit his steady job because he is:

* Risk-averse with life decisions and personal finance
* Doesn’t like to rely on a single source of income

Perrin and I are on the two extremes of the spectrum:

* I quit my job with some savings and believed I could make it work
* Perrin was making more money from his site than his job but wanted additional financial security

Then, in the middle, you have a full range of people who will quit their jobs at different stages. That may be when their site can replace their income. It may be when their site starts making a little bit of money, and they believe they are going to be successful.
What Held You Back From Getting Into Internet Marketing Sooner?
For a lot of people, making money online seems too good to be true. They don’t believe you can make money from a website, work for yourself and travel the world if you want to.

And, if I’m honest, I have to admit that some of the online courses from back in the day reinforced these ideas.

The long sales pages that looked like they were selling get rich quick schemes look cheesy and a bit fake. It all looked like a scam.

I think if I wasn't so cynical, I would’ve got into internet marketing a lot quicker.

From Perrin’s perspective, there were also family members who were naysayers. It is hard for people who have been conditioned for years to...