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Christina
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6 min readJan 15, 2023

The most important lesson I learned from my failure.

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I still remember the moment I sold my very first product online.

It was in my summer holiday, and I was just walking back from the beach when the Etsy app on my phone pinged. Cha-ching! I’d made a sale!

It was a product priced at 3 dollars, and I had discounted it, so the total amount was $1.80 (minus fees).

But for me, it was a lot more than $1.80. It was a beginning.

Right now, I have three passive income streams that are working out for me:

I have an Etsy shop where I sell printables and make about $1000 per month. I write on Medium, where I made $2169 in the Partner Program in December. And I do affiliate marketing, where I made $4000 last month.

Learning from failures

That may sound like a great success story (and for me, it is — in fact, I am still pinching my arm!).

But as it often is, the road to success is paved with failures. Or learnings, as I like to think of them.

Every time I failed, I also learned something. And I hadn’t done those failures (or learnings), I would perhaps not had the successes either.

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Christina
Christina

Written by Christina

Passionate about passive income such as email marketing, affiliate marketing, e-books & Etsy printables. My homepage & newsletter: www.passiveincomejourneys.com

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